Situation room. Tonight, dramatic new turnover in the president s legal team as mr. Trump and the special Counsel Robert Mueller may be headed for an ugly highstakes showdown. The Top White House lawyer is calling it quits and an attorney who represented m eed president clinton during the impeachment process is being hired. Ill get reaction from leon panetta, the former defense secretary to president obama, former chief of staff to president clinton. And our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. First, lets go to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. Jim, this is another sign the Trump Legal Team is getting more combative. Reporter thats right, wolf. President trumps legal team is changing again. This time, its white house lawyer, ty cobb, who is stepping down. He had advocated caution on the trumps legal team, but a source tells cnn that cobb was clashing with the president over his attacks on the special counsels investigation. It could be the most ominous depa
In the phone call with mcgahn, sessions wanted details of a meeting trump and rosen style held at the white house on april 12 according to a person with knowledge of the call. Sessions expressed relief to learn that their meeting was largely cordial. Sessions said he would have to have had to consider leaving as the attorney general had trump ousted rosenstein this person said. Tonights story says the president has derisively nicknamed Jeff Sessions mr. Magoo and Rod Rosenstein mr. Peepers. And about sessions, the president has been famously willing to publicly thrash his attorney general ever since he recused himself from the russia investigation. And on the day of that raid involving trumps attorney, Michael Cohen, he went at him again. He should have certainly let us know if he was going to recuse himself, and we would have used a put a different attorney general in. So he made what i consider to be a very terrible mistake for the country, but youll figure that out. This new reporti
Most important interview of his life. When and if he sits down with Robert Mueller. Hes reportedly still going back and forth on whether hell talk to mueller at all. So it couldnt be more important for President Trump to have a legal team that can handle all of this. Yet more and more star lawyers are turning down offers to join the trump team, leaving the president with just one personal lawyer working fulltime on the response to the mueller investigation. And make no mistake, americans are watching all of this. Our new cnn poll out tonight shows six in ten think the investigation is serious. And most americans, 55 , say the president is not doing enough to cooperate with the investigation. And with all of this, the president is also struggling to make good on one of his Biggest Campaign promises, the wall. Build that wall. Since theres no money for a border wall in the spending bill the president signed last week, signed under protest, the one that some of his team members worked on,
Rudy knows its a witch hunt. He started yesterday. Ah hell get his facts straight. Hes a great guy. But what he does is he feels its a bad thing for our country and he happens to be right. Ill tell you this. I will tell you this. When rudy make the statement rudys great and he had just started and he wasnt totally familiar with everything. And rudy we love rudy. Hes a special guy. What he really understands, this is a witch hunt. Good morning and welcome to am joy. Donald trump declared it Small Business week and ended the week about a payoff to a porn star. Ten days into his new job as trumps attorney Rudy Giuliani made a surprising claim about Michael Cohens 130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels. That money was not campaign money. Sorry. Im giving you a fact now you dont know. Its not campaign money. No Campaign Finance violation. So they funneled it through the law firm . Funneled through a law firm and the president repaid it. Oh. I didnt know he did . Yep. No Campaign Finance law . Ze
Today and what they know about it publicly. The one thing that is of highest importance is the footprint of the attack definitely looked like in the beginning, the perpetrator is a 48yearold or 49yearold german man who lived in the city of muenster, who has no criminal background, who his neighbors describe as a completely unknown, someone who never was special, who never stood out. And so far, there are no clear motives, no clear indications why he carried out this attack today. And why are federal officials so confident this man has no extremist motivations or connections at this point . It is still so early in the investigation. Well, so far, they are only confident about they are newt ruling out a political background. Its still possible he had some sort of a political motive. There were reports today that a political demonstration was planned exactly in the spot where he carried out this attack today. There are speculations about the more extreme political background of this man.