Justice, the only way to set the record straight to make the transcript public. The founders of fusion gps warned in an oped last week that the dossier was being used for political purposes, writing, quote republicans have refused to release full transcripts of our firms testimony even as they selectively leak details from the far right. The transcripts released today by feinstein debunk the theory that the firm behind the dossier had a political agenda. In fa he said he was professionally obligated to do it. Like if youre a lawyer and you find out about a crime, in a lot of countries, you must reporter that. Also today were learning the transcript described a walk in whistle blow eer from the trump team who was sharing similar information with the fbi. Quote, my understanding was that the fbi believed chris at this point, that they believed chris might be credible because they had other intelligence that indicated the same thing and one of these pieces of intelligence was from inside
Credentials has said through an official statement that the fbi has grave concerns about the memos accuracy. The memo alleges that the fbi abused his surveillance power. Lets go straight to the man breaking the news here evan perez. Evan, beginning with you, tell me everything you know. Reporter brook, i think what is happening is that the white house folks are getting a sense of the frustration from chris wray the fbi director. He certainly made that abundantly clear in his meetings with white house officials and certainly with the Justice Department because he believes that he obviously was picked by the president and yet his advice to the president to not release this memo certainly not in the version that devin nunes has prepared shouldnt be done and he believes that that is that his advice is being disregarded. In fact, the republicans are sort of casting this as some kind of partisan fight including sort of tarring the reputation of Christopher Wray. He has not threatened to resi
As president of the United States, i will always put America First. But America First does not mean america alone. And back flip after ignoring or even covering up Larry Nassars abuse of young decades, the board of usa gymnastics is told youre fired. They put medals, reputation and money over the safety of athletes. Good day, everyone, im Andrea Mitchell in washington. President trumps outrage over Robert Muellers investigation reaching a boiling point back in june. Ordering don mcgann to have his Justice Department fire the special council. Mcgann refused. Joining me now, kristen welker, Nbc National Security and intelligence reporter ken dilanian, ari mel better, and former Obama White House council bob bower and Axios National political reporter jonathan swan. Kristen, set the table, you were reporting on this last night. A source familiar with the matter confirmed the report that this past june, President Trump ordered the firing of Robert Mueller, and that his council don mcgann r
Elements. Fruits and instrument talt of contact for which cohen is under criminal investigation. Department attorney general rob rosenstein, the point man at the Justice Department and the mueller probe, and as relearned this week, the senior Justice Department official signed off on that search warrant for cohen is telling confidantes he is prepared to be fired. He seemed fully aware he may soon lose his job and was at peace with the possibility, confident hed don his job with integrity. If rosenstein is fired that always remains a big if with this president , one of his enduring legacies will be the appointment of bob mueller. The other, the search warrant that may undermine the belly of trumps professional life. Lawyers for donald trump was in court today arguing donald trump has an acute interest in the proceedings surrounding the cohen raid. The Washington Post with a good hadnt on why that may be. Trump allies worry that the post report quotes, President Trumps attorney, Michael
I could be up there tonight smiling like i love it. Then im supposed to and, you know, you got to smile. If you dont smile, theyll say he was terrible. He couldnt take it and if you do smile, theyll say, what was he smiling about . Theres no win. Good morning and welcome to a. M. Joy. For the second year in a row, donald trump skipped the white house Correspondents Dinner. His last visit there apparently wasnt enjoyable. Remember those jokes barack obama told about him in 2011. But he didnt skip a beat when it came to attacking the media. Instead of going to washington, d. C. To do it in a hilarious monologue, trump went to washington township, michigan, rallying his base with his usual free willing rants. Perhaps its best that trump wasnt at the dinner because he probably would have been even angier than he was in 2011. After comedian Michelle Wolf unleashed 20 minutes of scorching riske comedy, sparing no one, mike pence, not members of trump cabinet and not the media either. Prompti