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
Attorneys office for the Southern District of new york executed a series of search warrants and seized the Privileged Communications between my client Michael Cohen and his clients, said steven ryan, his lawyer. I have been advised by federal prosecutors that the new york action is, in part, a referral by the office of special Counsel Robert Mueller. Lets just remind our viewers again as we said at the top, cohen at the center of two political and legal storms for donald trump, both a payment to porn star Stormy Daniels and he is said to be of interest to special Counsel Robert Mueller for his dealings for Trump Organization and questions around any ties to russia. Peter baker, chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times is with us. Peter, i know this is your colleagues story, but any sense of, of from the white house that Something Like this could have been imminent after all of the headlines and after the president himself going to the back of air force one at the end of l
Press conference, the president was asked whether hell remove them. This is how his answer began. There was no collusion and thats been so found as you know by the house intelligence committee. There is no collusion. So thats how he began and went on for a while. Keep in mind as long as he keeps on saying that, well keep on saying this, the Mueller Investigation is not over. We dont know what theyll find. The republican control committee saying there was no collusion but the democrats say there was more work to do and chaired by nunez. T and to the president s response of firing rosenstein and mueller . They have been saying i am going the get rid of them for the last three or four or five months . They have still here. We twoowant the investigation o with and done with and put it behind us. It is true that mueller and rosenstein are still there. That does not answer whether he concluded to fire each of them. As we know fortunes and minds can change in a heartbeat in this white house.
Mueller, himself . Yeah. Fascinating day, gloria borger, appreciate it. More on the president s reaction tonight at the white house. Cnns jim acosta is there. Joins us now. Jim, just if you can just refresh our viewers on what the president said about these fbi raids. Reporter well, anderson, before i do that, i just want to tell you, i just got off the phone with a source familiar with everything thats been going on at the white house today who said that the president did not hear about this as we all heard about this earlier today when the news broke, that according to the source familiar with the situation over here, the president was informed of this raid on Michael Cohens offices by one of his aides earlier on in the day, and that these conversations as to what the president should do and how he should respond, that those conversations have been going on all day long. That we can tell you just some new information coming in to us here at cnn. Now, in terms of what the president sa
Have msnbc contributor, mike barnacicl barnicle, and frank figliuzzi, Senior Reporter at vanity fair hand msnbc contributor emily jane fox. She recently interviewed Michael Cohen and has new reporting on how the raid went down. New york times reporter matt apuzzo who first broke the news of the cohen raid. Columnist and associate editor for the Washington Post, David Ignatius and nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of kasie d. C. Kasie hunt. On siree, we have two top senators from the Armed Services committee joining us, plus a preview of Mark Zuckerbergs appearance today on capitol hill. How tough is that hearing going to get . North korea takes another real step toward sitting down at the negotiating table. While Sarah Huckabee sanders twists herself into knots to deflect, defend and dodge questions about the president s lies. But first, joe, the raid of Michael Cohens office. Thats not good. Like from a trump perspective, thats bad. Well, as many people have said, it is a r