The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. Saw as obvious that he is all about protecting trump. Good afternoon, everyone. We begin with the politics lead. President trump seemingly signaling he could be taking some sort of move against the Special Counsel Investigation Tweeting out a series of debunked claims about the probe before writing quote stay tuned. It was eight days ago that the president tweeted that Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop the Mueller Investigation. Keep in mind this president did fire the then fbi director with the russia probe foremost on his mind. We could hear directly from the president as he is hosting a Round Table Event from new jersey and also possibly factoring in the stand off between him and mueller about whether the president will ever sit for an interview. Rudy giuliani saying the president will not answer muellers questions about his decision to fire comey or any e
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communicating for several years. that all cull miinated in the april of 2018 raid of michael cohen s hotel room, office and safety deposit box. ultimately michael cohen was charged with campaign finance violations. he pleaded guilty to those as well as lying to a bank and tax returns. we knew that the investigation encompassed potential foreign lobbying violations. and michael cohen pleaded guilty last august with the u.s. attorney s office in manhattan. he is expected to go to prison for three years in may. pretty big document you and your team unpacking it. thank you for bringing us the headlines. joining me now to talk about this, cnn political analyst, jennifer rogers, former federal prosecutor and cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez. i know you guys haven t had too long of a period of time to dig through this document. what stands out to you so far? one of the interesting things is the timeline of how quickly
the lead prosecutor on this matter eric rosen is up here with me today. i also want to thank the fbi and irs for their usual professionalism and skill. the take down today involved over 200 federal agents nationwide who arrested 50 people in 6 states and on both coasts. with that, i will hand things over to joe who is the special agent in charge of the boston office of the fbi. thank you. thank you, andy. once again, i am the special agent in charge of the fbi boston division. operation varsity blues cull miinated early this morning when approximately 300 special agents from the fbi and the irs criminal investigations set out to arrest 46 individuals across the country for their roles in an international college
either afraid they won t be able to vote on election day because of that or in the case of one person, his absentee ballot application as been denied. we learned from the attorneys they plan to file a temporary restraining order request to try to stop this state law from going into effect. here is what is difficult to determine. they don t have voter registration in the state of north dakota. if you show up for the polls on election day with an i.d., you should be able to vote. all of this is cull miinated in what is going to happen on election day is creating a lot of fear among native americans not only that they may not come out to vote because they are afraid of the new law, or because they are unsure that they are going to be able to vote because of the new law. lawsuits filed yesterday and temporary restraining order today. this law became hot and heavy
reason. if we have we have to keep the majority. if we do not keep the majority all of this goes away. > reporter: it is the latest controversy in nunez s tenure atop the powerful committee. last year he rushed to brief the president about his concern in secret intelligence reports. these intelligence reports are out there and i have a duty to tell him that. reporter: despite stepping aside from running the russia probe he continued to exert his influence. privately he mounted his own investigation into the justice department to sow doubt over the mueller probe. it s courageous. congressman devon nunez. reporter: it cull miinated in the release of the so-called