manager paul manafort also striking deals to be interviewed by the senate judiciary committee behind closed doors and avoiding being subpoenaed for a high-profile public hearing next week. they have also agreed to provide records to the panel and to be privately interviewed ahead of any public sessions. trump s son-in-law and presidential adviser, gerald kushner has agreed to be interviewed by the intel committee next week. expected to be asked about the secret meeting at trump tower with a russian lawyer. this as special counsel robert mueller turns his focus to the first family. here s cnn s diane gallagher. cnn has learned that special counsel robert mueller sent a letter this week telling the white house to preserve all documents related to the june 2016 meeting at trump tower between donald trump junior, jared kushner, paul manafort and
this gets back to the bottom line question that dana perino asked about ty cobb the new counsel come into white house. if donald trump as president of the united states says in the interview with the new york times, i have done nothing wrong. his son told sean hannity and others i have done nothing wrong. i wanted to hear these guys out and nothing came of it. if that is the truth, they need to tell that story quickly. as you suggest, there is nothing here for the special counsel there is no actual crime. the question is: is there something else we do not know tonight that the special counsel is looking at that goes beyond all of this? that s a question we can t answer tonight. it s interesting. we remember how good attorney general sessions did. he silenced a lot of critics and things calmed down and then other incidents came forward. didn t sessions offer his
this gets back to the bottom line question that dana perino asked about ty cobb the new counsel come into white house. if donald trump as president of the united states says in the interview with the new york times, i have done nothing wrong. his son told sean hannity and others i have done nothing wrong. i wanted to hear these guys out and nothing came of it. if that is the truth, they need to tell that story quickly. as you suggest, there is nothing here for the special counsel? there is no actual crime. the question is: is there something else we do not know tonight that the special counsel is looking at that goes beyond all of this? that s a question we can t answer tonight. it s interesting. we remember how good attorney general sessions did. he silenced a lot of critics and things calmed down and then other incidents came forward. didn t sessions offer his resignation and trump said no
this gets back to the bottom line question that dana perino asked about ty cobb the new counsel come into white house. if donald trump as president of the united states says in the interview with the new york times, i have done nothing wrong. his son told sean hannity and others i have done nothing wrong. i wanted to hear these guys out and nothing came of it. if that is the truth, they need to tell that story quickly. as you suggest, there is nothing here for the special counsel there is no actual crime. the question is: is there something else we do not know tonight that the special counsel is looking at that goes beyond all of this? that s a question we can t answer tonight. it s interesting. we remember how good attorney general sessions did. he silenced a lot of critics and things calmed down and then other incidents came forward. didn t sessions offer his
meeting with sessions, and that s where the conflict is. democrats saw this, were briefed on this in classified settings. i was a little surprised to see the senator there, acknowledge that it was actually intercepts that they had learned about it on. and they say, hey, what the heck, why didn t sessions disclose this when he came back and clarified his testimony? jonathan turley, talking about cleaning up the record, something bill clinton s lawyers did after his first testimony back about monica lewinsky, just trying to clear things up. it would be tough for an attorney general to come back, clean things up, asked about something, deny it, then have to come back again and clean it up a second time. a lot of this may boil down to semantics. you refer to the clinton era. it depends on what the definition of is is. this may depend on the definition of meeting is.