Safety net is gone . Thats what were asking tonight following a major report at the New York Times. The president last spring wanted to order the Justice Department to prosecute two of his biggest political adversaries, Hillary Clinton and former fbi director james comey. Thats according to two people familiar with the conversation. Trump told this to his white House Counsel at the time, don mcgahn. The times reports that don mcgahn, quote, rebuffed the president , telling trump that he had no authority to order a prosecution. Mr. Mcgahn said that while he could request an investigation, that, too, could prompt accusations of abuse of power. To underscore his point, macon, georgia began had a 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 consequence including possible impeachment. Now, its not clear if President Trump read that memo, but according to the times, he has continued to privately su
Questions. Ive answered them very easily. Very easily. Im sure theyre tricked up because, you know, they like to catch people. Gee, was the weather sunny or rainy . He said it may have been a good day. It was rainy, therefore, he told a lie. He perjured himself. So you always have to be careful when you answer questions with people that probably have bad intentions, but, no, its the questions were very routinely answered by me. By me. And you submitted the answers . I havent submitted them. I just finished them. But if they were easy, and if theyre done, why hasnt he turned them turnover special Counsel Robert Mueller yet . The president s lawyer Rudy Giuliani offers this clue in an interview with the Washington Post saying about the questions, there are some that create more issues for us legally than others. And adding some were unnecessary. Some were possible traps. And we might consider some irrelevant. Now we dont know what questions the president and his lawyers chose to answer,
On stage. 141 victims of larry nassar unite to send the times up message to the world. What an emotional evening on stage. We will show the highlights. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. Im alison kosik. Thursday, july 19th. 5 00 a. M. In the east. We start with reporting from the New York Times. We learn that two weeks before the inauguration, President Trump was shown highly classified intelligence that Vladimir Putin ordered Cyber Attacks in efforts to sway the 2016 election. The report says evidence included texts and emails from Russian Military officers and information gleaned from the top secret source close to Vladimir Putin. James clapper, the former director of national intelligence, was at the meeting and confirmed that to cnn last night. This is his refusal to accept information that he doesnt want to hear. Clapper says his biggest fear in the wake of President Trumps summit performance is it essentially allows putin to do just about anything he wants. Af
Hear what the americans have to say. Your truth does matter. You matter and you are not alone. Some really powerful moments on stage. 141 victims of larry nassar unite to send the times up message to the world. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im alison kosik. Good to see you. Im dave briggs. Thursday, july 19th. 4 00 a. M. In the east. We start with reporting from the New York Times. We learn that two weeks before the inauguration, President Trump was shown highly classified intelligence that Vladimir Putin ordered Cyber Attacks in efforts to sway the 2016 election. The report says evidence included texts and emails from Russian Military officers and information gleaned from the top secret source close to Vladimir Putin. James clapper, the former director of national intelligence, was at the meeting and confirmed that to cnn last night. This is his refusal to accept information that he doesnt want to hear. Clapper says his biggest fear in the wake of President Trumps summit perfo
Even if youve ridden out storms before, this one is different. Dont bet your life on riding out a monster. This has the opportunity of being a very devastating storm. The power will be off for weeks. President trump they havent seen anything like whats coming at us in 25, 30 years, maybe ever. Its tremendously big and tremendously wet. Weve never had this on the east coast. I think were very well prepared. Bill team fox coverage leads our hour. Jonathan serrie in North Carolina. First to meteorologist janice dean for the latest on the track and numbers and what youre seeing. A lot different than yesterday. We definitely know what will happen in the next 48 hours and past that all eyes will be on the storm and getting into a now casting situation. Here is what we know. A very strong storm category 4. The last few frames of the satellite presentation are impressive. Well get a new advisory at 11 00 a. M. Complete with a new track. You can see the eye very well defined here. We have a win