Good evening once again from our headquarter heres in new york. Day 447 of the Trump Administration and we have breaking news tonight about onetime white house chief strategist steve bannon who was pushed out of the white house last summer. The Washington Post reports tonight, hes back and he has a plan to derail the Mueller Investigation and protect the president. Robert costa who joins us writes bannon is pitching a plan to west wing aides and congressional allies to cripple the federal probe into russian interference in the 2016 election. According to four people familiar with the discussions, the first step these people say would be for trump to fire Deputy Attorney general rod j. Rosen stein who oversees the work of Robert Mueller and in recent days signed off on a search warrant of trumps long time personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. Bannon is recommending they cease operation with mueller reversing the policy of trumps legal team. Also tonight, the infamous access Hollywood Tape is
York. Day 447 of the Trump Administration and we have breaking news tonight about onetime white house chief strategist steve bannon who was pushed out of the white house last summer. The Washington Post reports tonight, hes back and he has a plan to derail the Mueller Investigation and protect the president. Robert costa who joins us writes bannon is pitching a plan to west wing aides and congressional allies to cripple the federal probe into russian interference in the 2016 election. According to four people familiar with the discussions, the first step these people say would be for trump to fire Deputy Attorney general rod j. Rosen stein who oversees the work of Robert Mueller and in recent days signed off on a search warrant of trumps long time personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. Bannon is recommending they cease operation with mueller reversing the policy of trumps legal team. Also tonight, the infamous access Hollywood Tape is back in the headlines. The video that threatened to derail
Retroactively exert executive privilege, he should somehow go into the special counsels investigation and extract the old interviews that white house staffers did and make them null and void because hes going to exert its a weird theory steve bannon is pushing. Michael cohen went to what one legal blog is calling the Worst Law School in america, which at least he went to law school. Once the president starts taking legal advice from steve bannon, its going to be interesting to see. The best part is its free. Well, donald trump has destroyed paul ryans life. As paul ryan so clearly realizes, donald trump is on his way to destroying republican control of the house of representatives. The big blue wave is looking so big, so overwhelming to paul ryan that he has formally publically given up even pretending he might run for reelection to his wyomiisconsin house seat. So paul ryan will take his seat as simply the worst of this countrys speakers of the house of representatives. He has earned
Paul ryan is stepping down. Announcing his retirement from congress at the end of this year despite denying earlier reports that he was stepping down, strenuously denying those reports were totally wrong and off base. There he was today saying yes, indeed, im gone quickly followed by another gop retirement which brings the total of republican lawmakers walking away from elected office to a whopping and we believe record setting at least in the modern era, 25. Tonight, that same paul ryan, the speaker of the house for as long as he sticks around is also one of several republican leader who have gone to the white house to dine with with the president , the man there in the center of that picture as he faces down an increasingly threatening investigation by Robert Mueller, federal prosecutors in new york who raided the president s personal lawyers residence earlier this week in response, the president is by all accounts openly musing about firing his own Justice Department appointees to a