investigation. that s a lot different from what the president s lawyers and what the president has said. he wants this investigation ended but he wants it ended because he believes that there is no collusion to be found. clearly we are hearing from sources close to the president that they are not happy with this slipup on the part of john dowd. there s a new statement out here trying to clarify this is not a call for mueller to be fired or for this investigation to be ended abruptly, fred. all right, all fascinating. abby, thank you so much. we re going to talk more about those words. and from whom it comes. joining me right now, cnn political commentators ben ferguson and maria car donna. and cnn legal analyst joey jackson. good to see you all, joey, you re up at bat first. so john dowd is the president s personal attorney. and he says he is speaking on his own behalf in that second statement that came out. but his client has repeatedly called the mueller probe a hoax and a witch hu
investigation into the clinton foundation. president trump celebrated the move on twitter saying andrew mccabe fire d the hard working men and women of the fbi. saying comey was his boss and made mccabe look like a choir boy. he new all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the fbi. the former cia director responded to the president s tweet by tweeting this, when the full extent of your venn nallty and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. america will triumph over you. cnn s abby phillip it se white house. abby what exactly is trump s lawyer saying and on whose behalf is he saying it? there s been a lot of
fred, thank you so much. let s discuss this more. joining me now, cnn chief correspondent host of amman pour, christiane amanpour. horrific seems to be the status what s going on now in aleppo. images coming out, hard to imagine it could get worse, but seems it has. reporter: well, kate, indeed, the very, very worst is if there were to be continued mass executions of civilians, non-combatants, men, women and children which already, as you heard fred say, the u.n. is picking up reports, and we also have been talking to people who have been trapped behind the lines. as fred was following the advance of the syrian forces further and further into eastern aleppo, as they took it back from the rebels, after about four years, we were also talking by skype and telephone to people still trapped behind the lines waiting for the forces just to
the city. many people that are stuck there are simply saying good-bye, and the only way they can. sending out on social media. a tweet from a 7-year-old syrian girl saying last moment to live or die. an activist tweeted it is doomsday inside aleppo and says people are running, but don t they where to go. i want to bring in fred pleitgen right now. in aleppo, out now. fred, what are you hearing? what is happening there right now? things seem to have changed in just the last 24, 48 hours? reporter: yes. you know, they re changing by the minute there in aleppo. the reason, rebels have a very small territory left inside that city, besieged on all sides by the pro-governments fors, of course, also have much more fire power. you re right. the big concern at this point in time, the people still trapped inside those besieged areas. by all accounts seems though the rebels will only be able to hold
abby, manu s kind of laying out, he said very importantly, that amongth the leadership ranks, they seemed leadership is closing ranks around to support rex tillerson. do you see a confirmation battle coming for him? i see one regardless. step one is leadership surrounding him and supporting his nomination. i do think there are a lot of republicans out there who want to have a lot of conversations with the trump administration publicly about their positions toward russia, about the sort of broader questions of the direction of trump s foreign policy. tillers tillerson s nomination is going to be a proxy for that. that being said, there s never been a secretary of state nomination the senate has blocked or the president has revoked. so it would be extraordinary for this very important and very high-profile position to be blocked. i think that in and of itself. especially by his own party. i think it would be tough. alex, marco rubio, he s got concerned. he s been, you know, no