Bias by sending antitrump Text Messages to a colleague and pastor robert jesses site religion and the bible and the immigration debate. There are reports the antitrump fbi agent handling the Hillary Clinton email probe and the beginning of the russia probe was escorted from the bureaus building tonight, the Justice Department watchdog Conferences Office is investigating if the agents bias played a factor in the launch of the russia investigation. Kristen fisher following the latest on immigration. We begin with chief National Correspondent ed henry with latebreaking details from the pres. s attorney. Reporter really giuliani has taken criticism as the president that lead attorney for democrats saying hes going off script and questioning his legal strategy. He was on with sean hannity saying he was not backing down. And james comey should be in jail is revelations about fbi abuses and biases, also told the daily beast pushed back on the incoming 20 20 Campaign Manager for the trump camp
Border. Thats just unjust. Thats unbiblical. Thats unamerican. Well go live to the Mexican Border with the democrat leading a fathers day march for families. And cult of personality . President trump lavishes praise on dictator kim jongun. He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same. As one of his biggest republican critics say his party lives in fear of trump. Not a great place for anybody to end up with a cultlike situation. Has loyalty to the President Trumped principle . Hello, im jake tapper in washington, where the state of our union is learning about another meeting between a Russian National and a member of the trump team. Trump associate, roger stone, now tells the Washington Post that in may 2016 he met with a Russian National who he says was offering dirt on Hillary Clinton in exchange for 2 million. Stone says he rejected the offer. The meeting was arranged by another member of the trump campaign, michael caputo, who followed up with stone
Im dave briggs. Im christine romans. It is 5 00 a. M. In the east. This is the big story. The white house and allies quick to seize on a report from the Justice Department watch dog on fbi actions before the 2016 election. The doj Inspector General calling former fbi director james comeys actions extraordinary and insubordinate. He was not politically motivated. The report details numerous failures by top officials heading the Hillary Clinton email probe. Concluding the fbi actions cast a cloud over the bureau. One of the ironic findings, comey used a personal Gmail Account for official government business. And in the other issue with the fbi, peter strzok and lisa page. The Inspector General did not rule out antitrump bias with strzok. He noted the russia investigation for a month instead of following up on a cache of clinton emails. This is tout by trump allies by deep state conspiracy to damage the president and using it as fodder to get rid of the russia probe. Trump lawyer Rudy Gi
Mueller. Trumps legal teams believes tonight they can challenge any subpoena by the special counsel. In order, no one can force President Trump to testify on obstruction of justice. Why . Well, the the president made it clear today. The inspector generals report find thag the former fbi director jim comey acting in an extraordinary insubordinate way. This means trump was justified in firing him and therefore, the whole special counsel investigation is moot. You have a tremendous animosity. Now heres the good news. I did not wrong. No collusion, no obstruction. The ig report yesterday went a long way to show that and i think that the Mueller Investigation has been totally discredited. Okay. The big problem with this is this trump himself has said clearly that this was not his reason for firing comey. It had nothing to do with being insubordinate. He gave his reason on camera. I said to myself, i said you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story. Well one person w
Several people in the hospital after a roller coaster derails in florida. Some victims falling more than 30 feet to the ground. Thats on my list of nightmares. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Note to self. Do not ride roller coasters. Im dave briggs. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. We waited months for the i. G. Report. Now we are waiting for the tweets from the president that did not come. Interesting. It is as one analyst called a choose your own adventure report. A lot in there that fits a lot of narratives. We will take the big view today. We will get to the truth of it with James Galiano in the 5 00 a. M. Hour. The white house seizing on the report from the Justice Department before the 2016 election. The doj calling former fbi director james comeys actions extraordinary and inn subordinate. Saying he was not motivated by political biabias. There were multiple failures in the Hillary Clinton email probe. This cast a cloud over the bureau. One of the findings is comey us