visibly possible to those watching. look at that embrace. the president of the university. unbelievable. you can imagine there were not dry eyes left. he had been the keynote speaker at graduation a year after his accident. the way he tackled what he dealt with is remarkable. lindsay czarniak will join us on instagram live after the show. don t go too far. thank you. the headlines fast and furious this morning. a second trump tower meeting and end date for the mueller investigation. the president demanding an investigation into whether or not the doj infiltrated his campaign. that s ahead on early start. at some point, we are going to be able to beat als. because life is amazing.
fbi because he is upset over reports that there was an informant, a source, attempting to gain information and access the trump campaign. he capped off the weekend of tweets with this tweet. calling out the department of justice saying, quote, i hereby demand and will do so officially tomorrow, that being monday, that the department of justice look into whether or not the fbi and doj infiltrated or surveilled the trump campaign for political purposes and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the obama administration. that tweet quickly got some results. the department of justice put out a statement not too long after where they would essentially expand the investigation that was already taking place. the deputy attorney general said if anyone did infiltrate or surveil participants in the campaign for inappropriate purposes, we need to know about it and take appropriate action.
shooting claims ten more lives at the texas school. lawmakers are searching for answers which has nothing to do with guns. we hear about school exits and ritalin. good morning. welcome to early start. i m dave briggs. christine romans has a case of the mondays for you office space fans. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east n. a in the east. in a few hours, president trump is demanding the justice department review itself and the fbi to determine if they spied on his presidential campaign for political purposes. now this development comes on the heels of reports last week that the fbi dispatched a confidential source to speak with aides to the campaign about the possible links to russia. officials confirmed to cnn no source was embedded in the campaign. in the interest of heading off a larger showdown, the doj is going along with the president s command. more now from ryan nobles at the
after another school shooting claims ten more lives at an american school. texas lawmakers are searching for answers that have nothing to do with guns. welcome back to early start. i m dave briggs. christine romans is off this morning. 5:32 eastern time. later today, president trump expected to formally demand the justice department review itself and the fbi to determine if they spied on his presidential campaign for political purposes. this comes on the heels of reports last week that the fbi dispatched a confidential source in the campaign. the u.s. owe feshfficials confi cnn no one was embedded in the campaign. more now from ryan nobles at the white house. reporter: no doubt the president was active on twitter this weekend taking aim at the department of justice and the
truth. i find it outrageous that the president s allies are playing fast and loose with confidential information. are they playing fast and loose with confidential information? there are legitimate concerns of what was done and why it was done? trump has long been paranoid about surveilled. remember he talked about whether the obama administration surveilled him at trump tower? we have to remember the use of informants is a long-time practice in investigations. so they were tying to protect trump from his foreign policy advisers at risk of getting influence by foreign powers. it doesn t seem like this was a case of doj trying to torpedo the trump campaign. so here is how the justice department reacted to the demand by the president.