Headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. President trump reportedly wanted to fire special Counsel Robert Mueller and only backed down after a white house lawyer threatened to resign instead of carry out the order. This happened last june, according to the New York Times. Hena doba is here in new york with more on this story. Good morning, hena. Good morning, annemarie. According to the paper President Trump demanded muellers firing. The New York Times citing four people familiar with the request by the president. According to the New York Times President Trump ordered the Justice Department to fire special Counsel Robert Mueller last june. The president reportedly cited conflicts of interest, including that mueller had been interviewed to return as fbi director the day before he was appointed special counsel. The New York Times says President Trump only backed off when white House Counsel Donald Mcgahn threatened to quit. The president cannot directly re
Headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. President trump reportedly wanted to fire special Counsel Robert Mueller and only backed down after a white house lawyer threatened to resign instead of carry out the order. This happened last june, according to the New York Times. Hena doba has more on this story. Good morning, hena. Good morning, annemarie. According to the paper President Trump wanted him fired. The New York Times citing four people familiar with the request of the president. According to the New York Times President Trump ordered the firing of special Counsel Robert Mueller. He reportedly cited conflicts of interest. The New York Times says President Trump only backed off when white House Counsel Donald Mcgahn threatened to quit. The president cannot directly remove the special counsel. What he can do, however, is order Deputy Attorney general Rob Rosenstein to fire robert mueller. Congress has asked about this prospect several times. If you we
People ran from the homes and evacuated. There was one home lost but it was empty. It burned to the ground. It is burning if a rural area. It is moving east. It is nowhere near town. They evacuated the carnegie state vehicle Recreation Area. We are told 145 firefighters are here and are being aggressive in the windy and dry conditions. There are no injuries to report. They do not know what causes caused the fire that is 5 percent contained. The fire if livermore has many of you taking to social media to show us what you are seeing. You can see a few of the snapshots sent in to the newsroom. Use abc7now. We will find your photos. Check out our photos on instagram. Weather is expected to be a factor in the firefighting efforts fed. Mike . Good morning, gays. The Altamont Pass is notorious for wind and for being one of the dry of the areas which is group out there and everything will go up in flames if the is near this. 57 for the temperature but up high we have winds gusting up to 37. In
Manning won the battle of top quarterbacks. 3 3 3 all the hype coming in around the newly crowned mvp cam newton but during the game he against deveners defense. He was hit 13 times ; sacked seven. The dominating defensive ends in demcarcus ware and and super bowl mvp von miller terrorizing the panthers qb all night. Manning not exactly blowing the doors off carolina either. Threw for just 141 yards and a pick. Defense carrying the load for both teams. And naturally 2 differant feelings for the qbs after the game. The big question for manning, was this his last game . 3 3 3 3 dont make an emotional decision. This had been an emotional week, an emotionanl night and i got a couple of priorities in order. I want to go kiss my wife, kiss my kids, i want to go celebrate with my family and teammates 3 i mean peyton has to speak for himself. Ill just say this, hes been special for month. For him to fight his way back, for our Football Team to a championship, hes a tremendous player, hes a gre
3 happening today. Local Law Enforcement agencies will band together to hold a Public Meeting on how they use body cameras. News 13s Lauren Brigman is live from downtown asheville. Lauren,here is this meeting being held . In the highsmith auditorium at 6 pm, on the campus of unc asheville. It is free and open to the public. 3 the Buncombe County Sheriffs Office implemented body cams last year and currently, 70 sheriffs deputies are outfitted with them. They are also now consididing officers with body cams. Though a policy has been in place since the agency began using them, tonights forum is a chance to answer questions from the public. Buncombe county sheriff van duncan, Asheville Police chief tammy hooper and a local civil rights attorney are among those who will be in attendance. The Asheville Police Department Plans to implement body cameras for 60 officers as early as this summer. Officials with the Sheriffs Office say that is one of the many reasons they chose to organize this ev