Former special Counsel Robert Mueller was on capitol hill testifying before the intelligence committees, russia investigation. Well show the first hearing he appeared out. This is held by the house judiciary committee. [background noises] fiduciary Committee Welcome to order. Without objection, chair authorized to recess at anytime. We welcome everyone to todays hearing. Investigation into the russian president ial election. Thousand 16. A brief Opening Statement. Thank you for being here, doctor kohler. I would to say a few words about these things today. Responsible to, integrity and accountability. Your career is a model of responsibility. You are a decorated marine officer. He served as the department of justice and immediate estimate of 9 11 Service Director of the fbi. Two years ago, you return to Public Service into russian interference in 2616 election. Conducted the investigation with remarkable integrity. Twentytwo months, you never commented in public about the work even whe
Necessity for the entire Mueller Report to be revealed. It needs to be a transparent process. 80 of the American Public wants this to happen, including republicans. The u. S. House of representatives unanimously passed a resolution calling for the report to be released in its entirety. All right. Weve just lost our connection with denny heck, but a very Important Development unfolding right now. Wement we want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer in washington. Only moments ago President Trump reacted to the summary of Robert Muellers findings, claiming he was totally exonerated, calling it an illegal takedown, the entire russia investigation that failed. Thats from the president of the United States. Robert mueller did not find that President Trump, his campaign, or his associates conspired with russia according the Attorney General, william barr. Barr also says mueller did not have enough evidence to
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Will weigh in, only here tonight on the beat tonight. Were looking forward to what we think could be a newsworthy conversation. Later we take a turn as we often have done during this climate. Everyone is affected in different ways, and Actor Sean Penn, who has been on the beat before and is an interesting guest for sure, he is putting his money down now to try to help covid testing. He is here also live tonight later in the hour. We begin with a top story, a barrage of mixed messages and more chaos from inside the Trump Administrations coronavirus response. This deals with multiple topics that matter. Everything from the facts and the medical issues in the reopening, whatever your policy views of it. Do they even get the medical science right, as well as new wrangling over the very sad and tragic death toll and counting up those numbers accurately. Let me get into it. President trump contradicting fauci who in his testimony was cautious about reopening schools this fall without a vacci
On those of our allies will be met with unrelenting force. Bill that moving coming after a violent weekend in israel. 700 rockets fired across the border. Mike pompeo is in finland and set to speak. Here is what he said on the plane ride there about iran last night. We will hold the iranians accountable for attacks on american interests. Those actions take place if they do by some third party proxy, Shia Militia Group or hezbollah we will hold the iranian leadership directly accountable for that. Bill Lucas Tomlinson begins our coverage live at the pentagon. A move a lot of people didnt see coming. Whats it all about . Officials here at the pentagon say the iranian threat is very real based on new credible intelligence over the weekend about possible attacks against u. S. Forces in the region. Recall just a few days ago on friday the secretary of state and john bolton were in the pentagon going over military options for venezuela and now the same thing for iran. John bolton added to hi
Meanwhile the New York Times report sparking reaction on fox news sunday. It tells me a lot about the people running the fbi. Mccabe and that crowd. If this did happen Congress Needs to know about it. That was a concerning and alarming report. It suggests the Mueller Investigation needs to continue to its logical conclusion. Ellisson has the latest. Reporter yeah, two major reports in about as many days. President trump and Vladimir Putin met in the past. They met in finland and according to the new report in the Washington Post mr. Trump has gone through extraordinary links to conceal his conversations and once took possession of his interrupters notes telling him not to discuss the meeting with other officials. There is no detailed record even in classified files of facetoface interactions with the russian leader in the past two years. Sarah sanders called the story outrageously inaccurate. She said the liberal media waisted two years to manufacture a fake collusion scandal. Unlike p