President obama said no white house official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the department of justice. As part of that practice, neither president obama nor any white house official ever ordered surveillance on any u. S. Citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false. White house correspondent athena jones joins me now live near maralago. Also with us, cnn crime and justice producer. Athena jones, start with you here. A Senior Administration official told cnn that white house staff didnt learn of the president s tweets until after he sent them. What else are you learning from inside the trump team . Were still awaiting official statement from the white house, from the president s press team. We also asked for evidence, any evidence they can offer to back up the president s explosive allegations, but my colleague, senior White House Correspondent did speak with the Senior Administration official who said as you noted that they werent surprised by the presid
For a fourth straight weekend, ordinary citizens are taking to the streets from coast to coast. Its a heightened level of activism seldom seen in this country in decades. Im Sheinelle Jones in new york city. Its 1 00 in the east, 10 00 out west. Another busy saturday. Well have more in just a moment on that. But nirs, republican lawmakers facing anger from constituents who are worried about how a repeal of obamacare would impact their lives. A town hall meeting just wrapping up a short time ago in newport richie. Tammy leitner is there for us. Tammy, talk about what people had to say today. Reporter hey, sheinelle, hundreds of people showed up, so many that couldnt even fit in this room. A lot of personal stories being shared today. Emotions were high as i mentioned. I want to give you a sense of what it was like in this room a short while ago. Lets listen to a little bit of sound from earlier. I am 77 years old, and i think its unconscionable for this politician to tell me that at 74
His decision to fire comey. Watch. I guess i was a little bit surprised because all of the democrats, i mean they hated jim comey. They didnt like him. They wanted him fired or, whatever. And then all of a sudden they come out with these glowing reports. Yeah, look. I thought that this would be a very popular thing that i did when i terminated comey because all of the democrats couldnt stand him. But because i terminated him, they said, ah, we get some political points, well go against trump. Democrats are now calling for a special prosecutor to take over the russia investigation. President trump says leave the probe to congress and the fbi. Meantime, a new nbc wall street journal poll shows in a highly divided america, nearly 80 of those polled would prefer an independent commission or a special prosecutor to oversee this probe. I want to bring in White House Correspondent athena jones. Athena, tell us the latest now in the search for a new fbi director. Hi, ana. As you mentioned, sev
He likes this, number one. Number two, this president really is not a president of governance. He is a president who goes with a kneejerk reaction in a lot of instances, but hes also a man who feels that his base is with him. He is not the establishment. He is pushing the envelope. And this might just push it too far, if he does indeed fire Robert Mueller as special counsel in this probe into the russia investigation, thats dealing with issues of obstruction of justice possibly as well as collusion. It seems like that all of this is making the president s own making, these problems. Because hes the one who started tweeting about these things. Rod rosenstein chose to, i guess, fire him. But to hire mueller after the president fired comey. This is the president s own making, crest. Right, it is. But the thing that i think we need to understand is that some of this continues to be within his power. The attorney general can, you know, and the Deputy Attorney general still report to the pre
President is disabled, every president , permanently, for making any nationality base distinctions under 1182f, reagan with the cubans, carter with the iranians. Unless you take that road, i dont think theres any way to read the statutes to provide the basis for the injunction we have here. If i could just reserve the remainder of my time. Thank you. Thank you, judge gould. May it please the court, the government would like to pretend that this courts decision in washington versus trump never happened. The government cant shut its eyes to t simple test. Ask yourself if you accept any of the arguments you just heard would it have altered washington versus trump if sn if the answer is yes, that settles it. Mandel applies even though washington said it didnt, when the government claims you cant look beyond the face of the order even though washington said you could, when they say the state doesnt have standing, all of these were things raised and decided by washington versus trump. If i c