Ill speak with congressman of the Armed Services committee. And our correspondents and specialists are all standing by with full coverage. Lets begin with jim acosta covering the president in new jersey. The president still hasnt made up his mind apparently about talking to mueller. What is the latest . Reporter thats right. It doesnt sound like it. He just wrapped up a Round Table Discussion on the issue of Prison Reform over at his golf club in new jersey. He didnt take questions from reporters about subjects like the mueller investigation. So what we have now here is the latest reality tv cliff hanger from President Trump. The president is keeping the country in response. Will he or wont he sit down with Robert Mueller in the Russia Investigation . Its the question of the moment for President Trump. The president Isnt Signaling to reporters which way he is leaning on whether to tell what he knows about the Russia Probe ToSpecial Counsel robert
mueller. Instead he is letting the response Build Tweeting this is an illegally brought rigged witch hunt. Stay tuned. I think the tweets are ad nauseam. He obviously likes to suck all the oxygen out of the room. Reporter Rudy Giuliani says an answer to the Mueller Question is coming soon but he is dropping hints that the legal team is worried a trap is being set. He knows the answers to every question that he wants to ask. He is going to ask them. Did you tell Comey To Go Easy On Flynn . The president will say no i didnt. Why do you want to get him under oath . You want to trap him into perjury. We are not going to let you do that. Reporter giuliani told fox mueller shouldnt
to protect the president. Its like a classic catch 22 situation where we are the process is such a tough spot. We have to keep the majority. If we do not keep the majority all of this goes away. Reporter cnn has learned the president is expected to have dinner with his outside attorney Rudy Giuliani at his golf club later on this evening, another sign the Trump Legal Team is closing in on a decision whether to give mueller one of the final pieces he needs. It seems the president and his legal team are trying to have it both ways both complaining that the investigation is taking too long. One thing he needs to wrap up the investigation is an
A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. Thanks very much helping us better appreciate what is going on. Lets get more from a member of the Armed Services committee. Do you think it is the job of lawmakers, members of the House Of Representatives to, quote, protect president s from their own party . Thats the suggestion that we heard from devon nunez. Absolutely not. When we swore our oath it was not to protect the president. It was rather to protect america, the constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic. Nowhere did it say protect the president. That is not our job. We are equal and opposite an opposing branch of government. Our job is to make sure that we are protecting america from enemies within and without. That is not to say the president is an enemy. It is simply to say that is not our job. We do have some very, very serious issues. Law, hacking into and stealing information not only from the Democratic National committee, but also from the Democratic CongressionalCampaign Committee as well as john podesta. Those are crimes that russians have been indicted for taking part in. Lets turn to Rudy Giulianis latest comments to our own dana bash. He says he doesnt mind dragging out this Russia Investigation because it might actually help fire up the Republican Base before the Mid Term Elections in november. Is the president s legal Team Negotiating in good or bad faith . Bad faith. Rudy giuliani throughout this entire process that he has come back as the personal attorney to the president has been dissimilating, changing his story every other day and putting up false flags for one thing or another. Frankly, i dont believe for a moment that he is telling the truth about anything that he says. He is about as disreputable as the president when it comes to truth telling. Should Robert Mueller take the timing of the Mid Term Elections into consideration as far as his decisions are concerned in the coming weeks . We have already seen what happens when the fbi tries to play it politically. That happened in the Hillary Campaign and it was a major problem for her campaign when mr. Comey tried to take into account the political import of what was going on with regard to the investigation of her emails and her computer systems. The result of that was a very bad thing. The answer to your question is no, he should not play politics. He should be straight up and down on the issue of the investigation and let it go
where it may go. Would it influence the election . Perhaps it would. His job is to investigate what happened. Cephallet cephallets lets turn to the devastating wildfires. Give us the latest on efforts to contain the blazes and how the people of your district are coping with this disaster. First of all, the largest fire which is in my district, The Ranch Fire together with the adjacent fire is huge. When they get to be that big we do not have enough equipment and personnel to surround that fire. So it continues to burn into the federal forest and into area fortunately that is not much habitation. There are few People Living in that area. About 115 homes presently burned in those fires. They are just two of the many,
many fires that are now burning in california. The carr fire has about 1,000 homes, seven deaths already there. We are short of personnel and equipment. Fortunately the mutual aid coming from other states and from australia and new zealand much appreciated, much needed. We do need a president ial disaster declaration for the ranch in river fire. You can merge that with the fires in carr and down in ferguson in the yosemite area. We are under attack in california. When the president says the problem is we are letting water flow out to the ocean, that is just foolishness. Lets just say it is foolish. What we do need is federal assistance in the president ial disaster declaration and we also need over time to manage our wild lands, our forests better than we have in the past. That will take federal money. So we will need that help from the president , as well. Have you been in contact with the white house to try to get a clear answer on exactly what the president means, what he is proposing when he says your environmental laws in california are preventing water from being used by the firefighters to end this . I wouldnt try to understand what the president is thinking. It looked to me like he wasnt thinking. The president really ought to ask a few people what is going on before he starts his finger on his tweet. The reality is it was just foolishness. The reality is we need federal help and water policy in california. That is one thing they can help with. In the area where the fire is burning we must build an offstream storage reservoir. We need federal help on that. Specifically we need 35 million right now so that the Bureau Of Reclamation can do its part of the environmental and Engineering Work for that reservoir. If that reservoir was in place it wouldnt have much to do with the fire except you certainly wouldnt have it burning where the reservoir is. It would be of enormous help in providing Environmental Water for our fish and into the delta as well as for our communities and for our agriculture. So mr. President there is a water issue and there is something you can do, help us with the reservoir. Thanks for joining us. Thank you. Good luck to all the folks in your district elsewhere in california, as well. This is a true disaster. Moscow is furious at new sanctions after a Nerve Agent Attack in britain. Will the kremlin retaliate . And President Trumps lawyers seem to be out to thwart an interview with Special CounselRobert Mueller. What is Rudy Giulianis strategy . This is your wakeup call. If you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, month after month, the clock is ticking on irreversible joint damage. Ongoing pain and stiffness are signs of joint erosion. Humira can help stop the clock. Prescribed for 15 years, humira targets and blocks a source of inflammation that contributes to joint pain and irreversible damage. Humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. Serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. Before treatment, get tested for tb. Tell your doctor if youve been to areas where certain fungal infections are common, and if youve had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have flulike symptoms or sores. Dont start humira if you have an infection. Help stop the clock on further irreversible joint damage. Talk to your rheumatologist. Right here. Right now. Humira. I love you, Basement Bathroom of solitude, but sometimes you stink. Febreze air effects doesnt just mask, it cleans away odors. Because the things you love can stink. You always get the lowest price on our rooms, guaranteed . Lets say it in a really low voice. Carl . Lowest price, guaranteed. Just stick with badda book. Badda boom. Book now at choicehotels. Com
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absolutely confused. It is quite interesting to see how they are sort of trying to come to grips with this. One of the things we have to keep in mind is that these sanctions were announced on the same day that rand paul announced he had carried a letter from President Trump to Vladimir Putin apparently offering some sort of negotiations or better relations on certain issues. The russians say those are pretty mixed messages there. One person on state tv came out and said he believes in the u. S. The lefthand doesnt know what the right hand is doing. At the same time it seems as though especially on russian state tv that there are still people who seem to believe that there might be some sort of master plan that President Trump has to maybe shame his critics in washington into supporting better relations with russia. Lets listen to what happened on russian state tv tonight. Translator if President Trump wants to have cooperation with russia this turmoil is
beneficial because he can say look what the washington swamp led us to. We are almost fighting with a Nuclear Armed country. Reporter that is russian state tv there. That was quite interesting to hear from the kremlin spokesperson because they werent willing to go as far as to completely criticize the United States. Saying despite new sanctions announced Vladimir Putin still very much committed to trying to improve relations between the u. S. And russia. He says that policy is nowhere near changing at this point. The sanctions go forward from the u. S. The president remains pretty much silent on these sensitive issues as far as russia is concerned. The top aides are not silent but he is. Thank you very much. Coming up, are the president s lawyers trying to foil an interview with Special Counsel by imposing tough conditions on Robert Mueller . And do they fear their client is simply unable to tell the truth . The g. O. P. Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is caught on a secret recording saying republicans need to keep their majority in the house to protect the president from Robert Mueller. Stay with us. Youre in the situation room. Anncr as you grow older, your brain naturally begins to change which may cause trouble with recall. Learning from him is great. When i can keep up anncr thankfully, prevagen helps your brain and improves memory. Dads got all the answers. Anncr prevagen is now the numberoneselling brain Health Supplement in drug stores nationwide. She outsmarts me every single time. Checkmate you wanna play again . Anncr prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. Its a revolution in sleep. The new sleep number 360 smart bed, from 999. Intelligently senses your movement and automatically adjusts on each side to keep you both comfortable. And snoring . How smart is that . Smarter sleep. To help you lose your dad bod, train for that marathon, and wake up with the
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candidates in the Mid Term Elections could benefit if negotiations drag on over a president ial interview with the Special Counsels team. Lets discuss this and more with our political and legal experts. Give us details of the most recent conversations you have had with giuliani on this. Where do you see this moving. We are awaiting a legal team to see what they come back with after the counteroffer was sent yesterday. We have seen and heard various things from Rudy Giuliani. He has done a media blitz over the past 24 hours. Sometimes he has said this is going to be probably our final offer. Other times he said differently. To me he seemed to suggest that he hopes that they are getting close but admitted they have no idea. They have no idea how Robert Mueller is going to react. The suspicion and hope inside
the president s legal team is that a subpoena is not something that Robert Mueller will do because it will make a Court Battle Last for months and months. We dont know what is in it. We suspect based on things that giuliani and other members of the president s legal team and the president has said that there is going to be not much on the table from the president s Point Of View that has to deal with possible obstruction of justice and it is hard to imagine that Robert Mueller will be okay with that. Is it appropriate for the attorney for the president of the United States to be making this kind of political calculation suggesting if there is no deal it might be good for republicans in the mid term
elections . I think appropriate is in the Rear View Mirror for Rudy Giuliani. He is the personal attorney for the president of the United States which makes people think he has a very different role. His role is to protect donald trump exclusively and to playoff of the court of Public Opinion in a way that he recognizes could be a Battle Of Impeachment and not in a court of law. For him to suggest that he has some ability to have leverage over the Special Counsel over a probe into collusion between a Foreign Government 90 days out from a mid term election when we are aware that there are further evidence and further attempts by russia to infiltrate is really inappropriate, arrogant and overly ambitious. Does he have a point that this will rile up the Republican Base, giuliani, going into the mid terms . Yes, he is right but it wont rile up necessarily the Republican Base but the 30 to 37 of people who are die hard
donald trump supporters. When we talk about polling right now we see donald trump has an Approval Rating of 85, 88, 90 among republicans. That is different than having the same republicans willing to vote for a candidate that donald trump says is a good candidate. The president tweeted today once again as usual this is illegally brought rigged witch hunt run by people who are totally corrupt and or corrup dont know what he is threatening. It is basically magnetic poetry at this point. It is same things in different terms. We dont know. The president does love these cliff hangers. He wants to keep people on his side and riled up before the
election. And they are making these accusations like mueller is going to do this and that. Its the iceberg effect. We can see there is a lot more under the surface. If you take a step back and We Dont Know WhatRobert Mueller has. The person in the driver seat is Robert Mueller. It is not donald trump and it isnt Rudy Giuliani who keeps changing his story to try to spin his way out of this. Clearly the president is deeply concerned about what is going on. He would like to know what mueller has, as well. Lets turn to another sensitive issue, devon nunes told republican donors that the republicans have to keep the majority in the house of
representatives in order to protect the president from mueller. Listen to this. We have to keep all of these seats. We have to keep the majority. If we do not keep the majority all of this goes away. Did he just say out loud something that members of congress are not supposed to say . Yeah. Absolutely. Look, he went into that fundraiser for a political reason which is okay, completely legal. And he is making a political argument. Also okay in the broad sense. But the fact of the matter is devon nunes, the argument he is making is members of congress dont work for the constituents that sent them. They work to protect the
president. Thats not democracy. That flies in the face complete ly with how the constitution is written. The congress isnt supposed to to whatever it takes to prop up the executive. And i get politically all the reasons why republicans want to have someone like donald trump in there, a lot of policy issues, fine. But to articulate it the way he did as if he and other republicans are the president s protector is really, really not okay. The thing that can hurt them in certain districts where they are looking at the republican agenda of voters saying i like that. I like what you are doing. Their job is just to protect the president that Undermineathize Republicundermineathize under mines the republicans in the districts struggling to
survive. And the memo and the probe that said they were investigating the matter as collusion on the parallel investigation along with Robert Mueller. So to have this be the incentive, not only for him to articulate it and voice it calls into question the basis of the memo and justifies the credibility of the other side saying you were never about trying to help the american people, just protecting one person. Congress is supposed to be a coequal branch of government and is not supposed to be part of the executive branch. They have a separate Oversight Role that they are supposed to engage in. As our colleagues are saying here, the investigators are not supposed to be sidled up with the investigates. Are we surprised . He went down to the white house to talk to him about what was being investigated on capitol
hill. There will be winners and losers in history when we look back on this. Its sad to say i think devon nunes will be a loser in this. There is more news we are following. An alarming claim by a United States senator that russians already have penetrated the states elections systems. Are other states at risk . And the Alzheimers Association is going to make it happen by funding scientific breakthroughs, advancing public policy, and providing local support to those living with the disease and their caregivers. But we wont get there without you. Join the fight with the Alzheimers Association. Deporting immigrants while fighting for the right to stay here in the United States, an order that means two are being brought back to the United States. Tell us more, laura. Reporter a dramatic scene unfolding today in the case of a mother and her young daughter from Elsal Vudoor Wvadoelsalvad it all started in Federal Court here in washington, d. C. When the aclu was trying to fight the Deportation Order and they found out that the family was already gone on a plane back, something which apparently came as a surprise to the Justice Department as well as to the court. He ordered the family immediately returned to the u. S. We are trying to find out why the family is at the moment. Officials told us that the family would not get off that
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they would be able to use those credentials as their own. Reporter then experts say they can inflict chaos at the polls. What kind of damage can they do . They can effect voter rolls and they can insert people, they can modify, they can deplelete, they can change information and make it more difficult for voters who come in and actually cast ballots. Reporter something Senator Nelson says hes worried about. You can imagine the chaos that would occur on election day when the voters get to the polls and they say, im sorry, mr. Smith, youre not registered. Reporter cyber Security Experts say some of those problems can be worked out at the polls, but the Russian Hackers could still create chaos by planting doubt in the minds of american voters. Certainly a big part of elections is how we trust the election process. And if theyre able to dedprad
that tru degrade that trust, that can affect things like voter turnout. Can Russian Hackers affect the vote counts . Experts say thats tougher to do because offend protections in place and paper ballots. State Election Officials in florida tell cnn theyre taking this threat seriously. Youre also hearing in a recent investigation florida didnt fare very well when it comes to election security. Thats right. The center for American Progress investigated all 50 states for election security. That firm gave florida a grade of f. The center said that florida officials didnt give them enough information on what they were doing to prevent and detect hacking and that their Auditing Systems to determine whether the votes were accurate arent good enough. Thank you very much. Coming up, while his lawyers work to thwart an interview with
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