Force one while on his way to florida. Times reporting is 12 work of Michael Schmidt and maggie hagerman. President trump told the white House Counsel in the explaining he wanted the Justice Department to investigate Hillary Clinton and james comey. The lawyer sewed while he could request an investigation, that, too, could prompt accusations of abuse of power. Mr. Mcgahn had white house lawyers write a memo for mr. Trump warning that if he asked Law Enforcement to investigate his rivals, he could face a range of consequences, including possible impeachment. Both the times and cnn report that trump replayedly pressed officials at the Justice Department including Matt Whitaker when he was chief of staff to Jeff Sessions about the status of clinton investigation es. Wh we go back to the second president ial debate in st. Louis. I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation. Its awfully good that someone with the temperament of donald tr
Were following multiple breaking stories including explosive New York Times report just out that says President Trump wanted to order the u. S. Justice department to prosecute former fib director james comey and Hillary Clinton. Also, the president s lawyers say theyve now turned over his answers to written questions from Robert Mueller from Robert Mueller to the special counsels team. I will talk about all of the breaking news with congressman jerry connelly. Our corner, analysts and specialists are standing by. First, lets get the very latest from our justice reporter laura jarrett. She is over at the Justice Department for more on this truly stunning New York Times report. So, laura, first of all, what are we learning . Reporter well, wolf, this remarkable new report really sheds light on just the extreme lengths that the president would go to try to go after and investigate and prosecute his political rivals, james comey and Hillary Clinton. According to this report from the New Yo
Two chairman, trey gowdy and Bob Goodlatte. But lets begin with catherine heritage at the Justice Department tonight. Lots to digest. The 500 page reports that it was 17 months in the macon addresses allegations of political bias and found that loretta lynn showed bad just dont make a judgment and fbi director james comey was insubordinate. No charges are appropriate in this case. When fbi director james comey gave his statement, the Inspector General found comey went outside the chain of command when he intentionally kept his boss, attorney general Loretta Lynch and her deputy, sally gates, in the dark. They found it was extra neri and insubordinate for him to do so, and we found no reason for the depressed weeks of basis for deviating from the established policy. In a tweet to, comey responded. I respect the doj ig office which is why i urge them to do the review. The conclusions are reasonable even though i disagree with him. People with good faith can see an unprecedented situation
Im Shannon Bream in washington. Yesterday pompeo announced a new special envoy to help with denuclearization talks in north korea. But tonight we are learning new details about why the president cancelled that trip today. Good evening, rich. And the president says north korea needs to move on dismantling its nuclear weapons. He also blames china for relaxing pressure on kim jongun. The president says, quote, because of our much tougher trading stance with china, i do not thinking theyre helping as they once were. Pompeo looks forward to going to north korea in the future, most likely after our trading relationship with china is resolved. In the meantime i would like to send my warmest regards and respect. I look forward to seeing him soon. The Treasury Department announced tuesday it had sanctioned Russian Shipping Companies for delivering oil. U. S. Officials say they were planning this visit into this afternoon and a senior u. S. Official says the president then consulted with the se
Against him. I dont want to blame donald trump because it was unseemly for the chief justice to go after the president in the first place which is what he did. A the president admit most judges usually vote in a partisan way . The media pounding the president over a New York Times report that he wanted to order the Justice Department to prosecute Hillary Clinton and jim comey. These are huge Banana Republic type territory. A defining moment in history of the trump presidency. This is a demonstration of his unfitness to be president of the United States, abuse of president ial power, embrace of authoritarianism. Does that sound like breaking news to you because it isnt, it shouldnt and because we know how the president feels about hillary and comey and we know hillary committed crimes. It is not even in dispute. Given the president took no action has coverage on overboard. Thunderous media condemnation for backing saudi arabia after his owns cia ordered the saver prince ordered the murd