of the larger story of what was going on in the fbi and justice department in that period of time between the comey firing and the appointment of mueller. and it s just a few days in there. but it really had a unnerved the investigators, the firing of comey. they did not understand why the president was doing this. you need to put this development that we re learning tonight into context with the other things that we know about this period of time. rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general offering to wear a wire and go and record his con vversations with the president. talking to other justice department officials at the time about invoking the 25th amendment and prospects of doing that. now we know this that they opened the counterintelligence investigation. this tells us what was going inside the justice department after the firing. what they, how scared they were. what really unnerved them and what they were willing to do to try to get to the bottom of it! so you mentioned the ro
no one ever says anything foul or crude at internal meetings. it happens all the time. unfortunately. and it shouldn t but it does. and the reality is that the perscription who leaked it took something that was a private thing that would never have gotten out and put it out there in the public stage. and so yes, i think they are very, very culpable in this situation. they ve added fuel to the fire. joan? well, i think we ve learned two things about this white house. or maybe we ve had two things confirmed, kate. one is the president is a nasty man. he sets the tone at the top. he has mocked the the disabled. you mean this confirms he s a nasty man? yes, i do think it s on him. he has set a tone where somebody would be setting in a meeting and say, ha, this is funny. we can mock john mccain. our bosses mocked him repeatedly. no problem. there s that. the other side of it and i m not going to agree with senator santorum, but this white house is a snake pit. people are leaking con
have tapes of conversations between these two lawyers. let me give you an example of something investigators will be very interested in. which is cohen has said that the reason he made daniels out of his own money was that he wanted to protect the trump family. he said it had nothing to do with the campaign. even though it was october 28th when the deal was struck. right before the election. if there are tapes of him talking to stormy s lawyer about the election and say weg got to get this done before the election, then it puts cohen in more jeopardy of a campaign finance violation because it looks like the money is unlawful campaign contribution. one thing the investigators will be listening for is any references to the campaign in those con vversations. you know, it also begs the question, steve, of why michael
this is called a the march for trump demonstration. pro trump supporters gathered today and will march to lafayette park, just across from the white house. we ll continue to monitor the event as people gather there and bring you developments. president trump is accusing democrats o f a witch hunt amid revelations that more of his key advisers met with russia s ambassador to the united states and u.s. attorney general jeff sessions says he will now revise his testimony about his contact with russia on monday. cnn s brian todd explains the contacts between trump s campaign and the russian ambassador go back almost a year. zble for months, the denials has been emphatic and definitive. can you say with 100% confidence that mr. trump or anybody in this campaign had no con vversations with anybody in