Controversies. Good thursday morning, everybody. It is february 13th. Im Yasmin Vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. We begin with the president lashing outth saying he did not interfere in the Justice Departments decision to overrule roger stones sentencing recommendation of up to nine years in prison. That move prompted all four prosecutors working on the case to abruptly resign. Now President Trump is declining to say whether or not hes considering a pardon for roger stone. Nbc News White House correspondent Peter Alexander has more on this. Reporter President Trump is seething,re insisting he did no interfere in the criminal prosecution of his long time ally roger stone. Isnt your tweet political interference. No, not at all. Reporter the president complained on twitter thatl. Career prosecutors recommended sentence of seven to nine years for stone wasf very unfair. You have murderers and drug addicts that dont get nine years. Nine years for doing something that nobody can define
Department cases which the president continued to do today concerning his friend and convicted felon roger stone. He appeared to suggest any connection between the president s tweeting and his own decisions, well, that would be just a coincidence. You know, the fact that the tweet tweets are out there and correspond to things were doing at the department sort of give grist to the mill. Thats why i think its time to stop the tweeting about department of justice criminal cases. He says it makes it i am possible to do his job, which, of course, raises the question, what job and for whom . Is he staking out his independence here or merely begging the president not to say the quiet part out loud or a Public Relations attempt to appear independent after actions put into question barrs handling of the role. Hes acting more like the accused attorney the countrys attorney general. There is new reporting in the New York Times raising serious questions about the work the attorney general is doing
Call for your free publisher kit today . This is a special edition of c nrks nr cnn tonight. Im don lemon. The call is higher for barr to step down. Officials signing a statement calling on him to resign accusing him of damaging the d. O. J. s reputation. John bolton speaking publicly tonight saying he hopes the white house wont move to sup press his book and saying he knew what he was getting into working for trump. Federal prosecutors considering a new round of charges against Rudy Giuliani and lev parnas turned on giuliani. What does it mean for President Trumps personal attorney . The state of the race, democrats battling it out ahead of saturdays caucuses and poll numbers are rising but can Michael Bloomberg get past his stop and frisk . Well get answers straight ahead. More than 300 americans quarantined for two weeks aboard a cruise ship in japan over the coronavirus are back on u. S. Soil tonight. When we landed and got off the plane last night, we were just greeted by a line o
Establishment tonight. Rod blagojevich no longer in federal custody and his family is preparing a big welcome home reception for him in chicago. We are examining trump justice as the president continues to talk tough against career doj officials while admitting his approach makes the job that much harder for his own team like william barr, the president want is a lot whether democratic senator broke the law by meeting with the Iranian Foreign minister over the weekend. Molly hemingway first broke the story a day ahead of senator Chris Murphys position. She has analysis on the breaking story tonight. Lets go straight to breaking news correspondent Tracy Gallagher on what is happening between the attorney general and the president. Multiple reports that william barr told people close to the president inside and outside the white house that he is considering quitting if the president does not stop tweeting about ongoing doj investigations. This is the second back and forth between william
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