President made good on his demand that, quote, the department of justice look into whether or not the fbi doj infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for political purposes. And if any such demands or requests were made by people within the obama administration, exclamation mark. The president wants his investigators to be investigated. And so to that end the white house says justice, fbi, and intelligence officials have agreed to meet with republican congressional leaders to, quote, review highly classified and other information that lawmakers have requested about the fbis use of an informant in the early months of the russia investigation. Chief of staff john kelly has been given the assignment of setting up that meeting. This agreement came after the president met today with Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein and fbi director christopher wray. And a day after the doj asked its Inspector General to please look into the president s claims that his campaign was essentially bei
Well talk about everything from the russia investigation to the health of his party when he joins me live onset. But first, the start of this week, believe it or not, marks 500 days of the trump administration, and the Mueller Investigation rolls on with it. This sunday morning we were presented with an evolving posture from the white house. There was the scripture of a secret legal memo that the New York Times revealed, and then there was the sermon of how Rudy Giuliani framed it on the sunday shows. The document written by john dowd and jay sekulow before giuliani joined the team asserts that the president could end the special counsel investigation, doesnt need to sit for an interview with robert mueller, could ignore a subpoena, and depending on how you interpret it, could potentially even pardon himself. But pressed to defend those claims, Rudy Giuliani was not exactly preaching fire and brim stone. Youre making a case that he didnt obstruct or are you making a case a president ca
Pardon ideas of Rod Blagojevich and Martha Stewart come up . Is it who can bend the president s here or is there an attorney through which requests are funneled through that make their way to the president . Theres a number of attorneys and they review the that was written no, that was written by donald trump jr. And im se in c with his lawyer. The president didnt sign off on anything. He was coming back from the g20. The statement was released by donald trump jr. In consultation with his lawyers. I do want to be clear, the president wasnt involved in the drafts of the statement. It came from donald trump jr. Thats what we know. Trump jr. Had said the same thing. It was from him and he believes his lawyer was in consultation. Sherd jay sekulow, the president s lawyer. Another lawyer for the president said sekulow was uninformed when he made those stateme that actually the president did indeed dictate the memo back in the day, just as they said in the memo to the special counsel in janu
It . This is Donald Trumps doing. What we are seeing is what he wanted people to see. When a desperate people in the other side of the border to see, wanted americans to see and democrats to see so they would build his wall. But is this a step too far . Donald trump said he can shoot someone on fifth avenue and get away with it. Is separating kids from their parents what he had in mind . Is this proof of what he can get away with . Or is it beyond even what his people will swallow . Good evening, im chris plaj mas in washington. President trump and his administration came under intense criticism for the socalled zero tolerance immigration policy. Resulting in forced family separations. Much of the mounting public outcry was sparkeded by images like these. Of small children looking on as u. S. Border patrol officers detained their parents. Then there are the newly released recordings sobbing children at a detention facility. Nbc news has not obtained the audio from a civil rights attorn
Democratic party in this country that want some of the exact same policies. There is plenty of money in the world. There is plenty of money in this nation. Its just in the wrong hands. Collin powell gets help changing a flat tire by a veteran who lost his leg in afghanistan. Ive been hoping one to love you let me go. Steve it is friday fox friends. Brian kilmeade is off today actually. Ed not completely. Steve off the couch and in the diner and well be going to him in a half an hour and ed henry is here. Ed good morning to both of you. We will get to brianful. He is down in texas. Town hall. Border crisis which continues. Ainsley the partial shutdown continues. The senate wasnt able to get those two bills passed. The government is still shut down. Steve today is day 35. The two proposals yesterday, one would have given the president 5. 7 billion to build the wall and whatnot. The other one would simply have reopened. Neither of them got to the 60 vote measure. And then a new plan was f