Its thursday, may 31. Aim ayman mohyeldin. We begin with the russian investigation. The counsel has obtained more information about the potential obstruction of justice. Andrew mccabe provided Robert Muellers team with a secret memo he wrote, fearing a cover story had been hatched for the firing of comey. Mccabe attended a meeting in may of 2017 shortly after Deputy Attorney general Rob Rosenstein wrote his memo that claimed comey was fired for his handling of the Hillary Clinton investigation. Well, the times sources say in the meeting, rosenstein said that the president had originally asked him to reference russia in the memo. Rosenstein did not elaborate on what he wanted him to say. That seemed like the possible evidence that the firing was actually related to the fbis investigation into the Trump Campaign ties to russia and that rosenstein helped to provide a cover story by writing about the clinton investigation instead. The fbi fired mccabe in march after an internal report dete
Did pick someone other than Jeff Sessions. Hee conveniently ignored, though, trey gowdys other Statement Last night. President trump himself, in the comey memos said, if anyone connected with my campaign was working with russia, i want you to investigate it. And it sounds to me like that is exactly what the fbi did. A reminder, he has still offered no evidence the fbi spied on his campaign. Donald trump has not. But back to Jeff Sessions. The New York Times has the details of another controversy in the trump versus sessions sa saga. A march 2017 battle over trumps recusal from the trump investigation. Mr. Trump had told aides that he needed a loyalist overseeing the inventory berated mr. Sessions and told him he should reverse his decision. Sessions did not. This episode is being eyed by none other than robert mueller. It should not come as a surprise that the president does not want sessions as his ag, after all, he said out loud that he wants an attorney general who will protect him,
Diplomat into a very important meeting in new york. John roberts joins us from the north one. Reporter just moments ago the secretary of state mike pompeo issued a tweet saying, looking forward to meeting in new york. We are committed to the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the korean peninsula. They are proceeding as if it is in place for june 12th. President trump met with secretary of state mike pompeo today. A strategy session ahead of pompeos meetings in new york with north korean Vice President kim jongchul, a prelude to the possible summit with kim jong u kim jong un. We are continuing to prepare for the meeting between the president and the north korean leader. As the president says, if it happens, we will certainly be ready. The white house as both his teams dispatch to singapore and the dmz has been engaging with north korean delegation. The advance team led by deputy chief of staff joe hagan met with the north korean team in singapore earlier today.
Roseanne barr. Gee, he never called donald trump for the horrible statements made about me on abc. Maybe i didnt get account call. To follow up, White House Press secretary Sarah Sanders cited several examples of abc personalities criticizing trump. Meanwhile, roseanne spent the day tweeting out a bizarre series of messages suggesting she was a victim of a political double standard, attacking some of her former costars and blaming the medication ambien. Barr wrote guys, i did something unforgivable. Do not defend me. It was 2 00 in the morning and i was ambien tweeting and not giving excuses but ive done weird stuff while on ambien. She later deleted those tweets. The company that makes ambien responded racism is not a known side effect. Later in the day, barr said i never was a racist and never will be. A lifetime of fighting for civil rights at the expense of my nervous system, Family Wealth will never be taken from me and later added you guys make me feel Like Fighting back. I will
Lifesustaining medical care. So many of those deaths actually occurred months after the hurricane but would not have occurred were it not for the hurricane. Right. That is the way that death tolls from these sorts of things are supposed to be counted. Youre supposed to factor in things like loss of medical care, disruption of utilities and things caused directly by the storm as causing deaths related to the storm. So those things being counted months later, thats how its supposed to go. By any estimate, this is the deadliest storm in american history. And the president has given himself an a plus grade for the way the government responded to it. Yeah he gives himself an a plus on everything. Hes an easy grader for himself. Thank you, lawrence. Thank you, rachel. Two and a half weeks, june 15th. That is the new deadline for Donald Trumps lawyers and Michael Cohens lawyers to review all of the evidence obtained by the fbi in raids on Michael Cohens home, office, and hotel room. By june 1