general barr would do much to halt that. but of course he s also good friends with the current white house counsel, which could be an interesting relationship. that could also, you know, maybe worry some people who already have concerns about the closeness between the white house and the justice department and how trump has kind of tried to weaponize the doj to go after his political enemies. i don t think barr would do that because as has been said he seems to be a mainstream republican. he is familiar with the ins and outs of the justice department, so it doesn t seem like he would be in a position to kind of make that inappropriate contact, but he is good friends with the white house counsel, so that is definitely a dynamic to watch in the coming months. daniel, we were talking before the broadcast about these memos set to be released before 5:00 eastern, and you will likely learn more from the manafort memo than the cohen memo. why is that? cohen s are due at 5:00. manaforts ar
time period they didn t allow us to do that. there is still a lot of questions whether he was acting at the direction of candidate trump and going overseas, meeting with foreign nationals seeking to meet with the president. you have questions, but no hard evidence he lied about other topics? just to be clear here. we also, as it relates to the june 9 meeting, we have strong evidence that trump and cohen talked almost daily about campaign stuff and so, again, when you take circumstantially what we know about that relationship and how close trump s office was to cohen s i understand what you think. just asking, do you have hard evidence michael cohen lied to your committee about anything else? hard evidence right now? circle evidence. treated the same in the law as direct evidence. finally, government needs to get funded pretty darn soon. are you willing to shut down the government if legislation to
cohens campaign. we are told the president s former attorney is ready and willing to step against mr. trump and republicans after flipping in the russia investigation. will michael cohen be a political fixer for the democrats? rising death toll. a disturbing new increase tonight in the number of storm-related fatalities as crews continue to search the devastation left by hurricane michael. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room . this is cnn breaking news. we re following breaking news on the growing evidence that a missing journalist was killed inside the saudi cans lat in turkey, even as saudi realers t rulers try to convince president trump they have no clue about what happened. tonight mr. trump says it would
i hope it s not true, you can t let that happen. the majority leader, mitch mcconnell, called it, quote, sad news for our country. is this purely about judges? mcgahn of course has been central to the many, many appointments that trump has made to the federal bench. is that it? or are they concerned about what follows? i think they re concerned about both. certainly the work he s done with the judiciary as has been pointed out has been a remarkable track record. the white house counsel does a lot more than just defend on this one case. i think they re concerned other balls are going to drop at this point. to the earlier points, that 30 hours of interviewing, it s just impossible for the trump legal team to know what was covered in that. no amount of debriefing could do that unless you were there taking notes or having it transcribed. so he also leaves them really completely in the dark about what happened there. shan, april and mark, thanks very much. thank you. outfront next,
the coverage. in the time of investigations, you might expect some of that. but when a member of the media, we all make mistakes. when there is a mistake of the story of this magnitude. claiming advanced knowledge of trump tower meeting. suddenly you won t see see the zeal to correct. lannyt. davis, cohen s has saide was an energy mouse serve. believingou he was itrying to waive the network off story. cnn should talk about that and say we retract the story. no public comment from the network. jason: lanny davis, not cohen. he is supposed to represent him as the s attorney. and not clear it is sort of black andnd white this this situation. i want to go back to one that always bothered me. i ve always wanted to ask you this. way back when in the day, look at this time magazine cover. it is a red-handed with donald trump jr. making him look really