Hurricane is looming in the atlantic right now. Were tracking jose. And its potential threat to millions of people in the northeast. We want the welcome viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Breaking news tonight, britain is warning that a new terror attack may be immeant ins authorities track down those responsible for the bombing. The improvised device that went off this morning had a timer, thats raising fears that more explosives may have been planted and could go off at any time. At least 29 people were injured in todays blast on a very busy commuter line. The United States responding by beefing up subway security. New york citys Transit System is dploueploying additional officers, weapons teams and bombsniffing dogs. Prime minister theresa may is fuming at mr. Trump after he suggested the people behind the bombing were, quote, in the sights of scotland yard. May is dismissing that as pure specul
Mike flynn, who hes already got. A new cooperating witness from muellers team might be Trump Deputy Campaign manager rick gates. An eagleeyed cnn Legal Correspondent noticed a new lawyer, famous washington lawyer repeatedly appearing at Robert Muellers office to talk to his team about rick gates. Now, this is important and interesting for a few reasons. If mueller is about to get rick gates as a cooperating witness, that could be a really big deal. Rick gates was manaforts Business Partner for years, including in his business dealings with putinlinked oligarchs and politicians. He stayed on the campaign in a leadership role even after Paul Manafort got pushed out because of his russia ties. Rick gates was in the transition, he was deputy chair of the inauguration, seen frequently at the Trump White House in the early days of the administration, helping to start a protrump group where lots of people went after the election. He is a throughline, a potential gold mine if, in fact, he is f
President did commit a crime. Under Longstanding Department policy, a president can cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. That h is unconstitutional. Charging the president with a crime was, therefore, not an option we couldio consider. Paul james trusty is a former Justice Department prosecutor. To show, good to have you here. Sure, thanks, paul. Paul heres the larger question for me, what do you think he was trying to accomplish with this statement . Because if he only wanted to say, as he said he did, within the four corners of his report, then why issue a statement outside the four corners of that report . Ct thats exactly the right question. Whats interesting to keep in mind, hes not independent counsel, hes special counsel which means he still was operating within the chain of command of doj. So this is almost like a line prosecutor telling the boss, hey, by the way, im going to do a press conference and talk about my findings. Its a very unusual circumsta
Cnn Jessica Schneider joins us now. So the judge didnt hold back in his order against the Justice Departments request, heidnt say categorically it couldnt happen. What he basically said the explanation doesnt make any sense. Thats exactly right, anderson. This federal judge out of new york Jessie Forman is telling the doj it cant simply switch out the team of lawyers and thats why hes denying the dojs request to changeup lawyers until they can provide reasoning for doing so and remarkably here, anderson, the judge is really putting it on these individual lawyers at doj saying he wants sworn and signed affidavits from each of them explaining why they are withdrawing and also wants assurances that these lawyers will essentially be available as witnesses and any future proceedings dealing with sanctions because this new york judge will also be reviewing any requests to issue sanctions in this case if its determined that Administration Officials werent truthful when they gave their reasoni
Until they can provide reasoning for doing so and remarkably here, anderson, the judge is really putting it on these individual lawyers at doj saying he wants sworn and signed affidavits from each of them explaining why they are withdrawing and also wants assurances that these lawyers will essentially be available as witnesses and any future proceedings dealing with sanctions because this new york judge will also be reviewing any requests to issue sanctions in this case if its determined that Administration Officials werent truthful when they gave their reasoning for wanting this citizen ship question on the census. So anderson, this order from the judge really opens up a can of worms for the doj, which still hasnt publicly explained why it wants this change of lawyers and all the thoughts are you cant have the same team of lawyers that said the census needed to start printing on july 1st, now saying well, there is plenty of time to add this question. So its a big problem for the doj.