After he gets the job he recuses himself. Was that a mistake . Sessions should never have recuses himself. And he should have told me before he took the job and i would have chosen somebody else. I dont know why dumping on sessions makes sense. He criticizes attorney general Jeff Sessions in such a way that in normal times we would expect an official criticized this way by the president the resign before the evening is over. We have one of the biggest investigation the justice investigation since watergate being run by somebody not appointed by the president of the United States. Thats his frustration and i understand that. Howie are the media painting him as going to war against Robert Mueller . The press goes hay eye over trump and putin having a secret meeting at the g20. But how can it be sinister when its in full view of everybody and their spouses. Nobody has ever accused me of pulling a weapon on anyone . Howie what . Are people going bonkers over simpson being paroled . This is
York times. After he gets the job he recuses himself. Was that a mistake . Sessions should never have recuses himself. And he should have told me before he took the job and i would have chosen somebody else. I dont know why dumping on sessions makes sense. He criticizes attorney general Jeff Sessions in such a way that in normal times we would expect an official criticized this way by the president the resign before the evening is over. We have one of the biggest investigation the justice investigation since watergate being run by somebody not appointed by the president of the United States. Thats his frustration and i understand that. Howie are the media painting him as going to war against Robert Mueller . The press goes hay eye over trump and putin having a secret meeting at the g20. But how can it be sinister when its in full view of everybody and their spouses. Nobody has ever accused me of pulling a weapon on anyone . Howie what . Are people going bonkers over simpson being parol
Analyst, and mark preston, laura coats, and michael zelden, cnn legal analyst and former special assistant to Robert Mueller at the justice department. Okay. I want to first ask you, Gloria Borger something that we managed fr heard from manager of donald trump. Hes saying now mueller investigation, special counsels investigation has moved well beyond the jurisdiction that he should be operating within. Do you think that this is just a one off . Do you think this could be a preview of something we may hear today at the briefing . You know, its hard to know specifically what he is referring to, if hes referring to questions, there have been stories about bank records being subpenaed. Thats right. I think thats probably what hes referring to. And i spoke with i heard from one of the president s attorneys who denies the story says its not true. Says its not happening. Says its not happening. But we have the wall street journal reporting it and bloomberg. But the point hes making is this ge
Good morning, im Rick Leventhal on this last friday of 2017. Well ring in the new year together. Good morning. President trump railing against north korea and china in a New York Times interview. The president sounding off in the special counsel investigation and indicating he has faith in Robert Mueller and the outcome saying lets just say i think that bob mueller will be fair and Everybody Knows that there was no collusion. Rich edson is traveling with the president live in West Palm Beach, florida. Hi, rich. Good morning, julie. He brought up that investigation and denied that there was any collusion between his campaign and the russian government during the 2016 election. Did so about a dozen times in a 30minute interview. He also then asked about former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and her deleted emails saying what ive done, i have absolute right to do. What i want to do with the Justice Department. But for the purposes of hopefully thinking im going to be treated fairly, i
Improperly coordinated with the doj to expedite the fisa warrant to spy on Trump Campaign associate carter page. Also breaking, a new memo is now showing the Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein in fact allowed Robert Mueller to go way beyond his mandate to investigate Paul Manafort. This includes using the phony clinton bought and paid for a dossier to go after the former Trump Campaign chairman. And also breaking, a brandnew poll showing 67 of you, the American People, want a special counsel to be appointed to investigate the severe fisa abuses against the Trump Campaign and 77 of americans see fake news for what it is. This of course after the attorney general Jeff Sessions appointed a utah prosecutor to do essentially a lot of the same things. Well explain. All that plus i have a special message for the destroyed trump media once again trying to twist and distort my words in their latest attempt to smear, slander, breath burned me. That is all happening in tonights opening monolo