The Attorney General was questioned for several hours by muellers Team Last Week on wednesday, according to a source close to sessions. Former fbi director comey, he spoke with investigators last year. The interviews, we know, focused on two things. First, russias meddling in the election. And second, whether or not President Trump obstructed justice since taking office, especially as it concerns his firing of james comey in may. Jeff sessions and james comey, they are of key interest. Sessions for his meetings with the Russian Ambassador during the campaign, and of course the fact that he was involved in the firing of james comey. Of course, as for former fbi director james comey, he took many notes that hes talked about, about his interactions with the president , and of course the Special Counsel will be interested in comey expanding upon those. The president weighed in on sessions interview on tuesday. Are you concerned about what the Attorney General told the Special Counsel . Not
Good evening, im ali velshi sitting in for lawrence odonnell. We have a very good last word for you. Trumps tangled web. From russia collusion, to the president s tortured relationship with the truth. Well look at it all over the course of this hour. The day began as a growing web of deceit between president and shifting stories between the president and Rudy Giuliani to clean up Rudy Giulianis nowinfamous fox news appearances. Youll remember he revealed that the president reimbursed Michael Cohen for the 130,000 Hush Money Payment. There are new details that just broke within the last half an hour about when the president learned of that payment to Stormy Daniels. According to the New York Times President Trump knew about a sixfigure payment that michael d. Cohen, his personal lawyer, made to a Pornographic Film Actress several months before he denied any knowledge of it to reporters aboard Air Force One in april, according to two people familiar with the
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comments after the court hearing today, is the same message he would give on the stump here in iowa. it gets better coverage when he does it in d.c., when he goes to court. they are doubling down on that strategy. what i found from talking to his supporters is, they very much believe that donald trump is right about this. he doesn t necessarily need to be here, and that he is fighting on their behalf on this issue. listen to some of what iowa voters have been telling me over the last couple of days. all this legal stuff with trump, the charges against him in d.c. and in florida and new york, how do you view all that? it s just crap. reporter: you don t buy it? i don t buy any of it. looking at these cases, they are all fraudulent. in our system, it s now guilty until proven innocent. an example i always give, i say when jesus died, he died for
that he defamed two georgia election workers. will that have any impact on multiple investigations of 2020 presidential election interference? welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. we begin this hour with all the tension and the drama during hunter biden s court hearing today and the surprise twist at the end, his plea deal put on hold. cnn s kara scannell and marshal cohen were both in the room as the agreement unraveled. they re now outside the courthouse in wilmington, lakara, let me start with you. after everything that happened today, where do things stand for hunter biden tonight? reporter: wolf, as you said, this plea deal that he came into court today thinking he was going to enter into is now on hold. and the first snag emerged when
most cases defendantss are required to stand up and address the judge. and say for themselves that they are pleading not guilty. his co-defendant walt nauta is going to have to come back because he didn t have a lawyer present who could operate here at the federal courthouse in miami. one of the interesting developments in the court hearing today was the judge ordering the former president to not discuss the charges with walt nauta his co-defendant or with any other witness, which is of course an interesting restriction. the former president is facing the fact that lot of the people who work for him at the trump organization, at mar-a-lago, were witnesses in this case. and his attorneys raised some concerns about that of course, the former president thousand r now running for office again. the justice department promised to produce a list of witnesses that the former president is not allowed to discuss the case with