directly result from the investigation that he s conducted. and so that is what he is doing. he is going after every possible indication that there is a potential either crime or collusion or obstruction of justice that might be involved. i think looking at that meeting, looking at what went on in that meeting and what the results of that meeting were is part and parcel of his broader investigation. i think he is doing the right thing. federal investigators have also seized on donald trump and his associate s financial ties to russia as one of the most fertile avenues for moving their probe forward. president trump had said looking into his finances could be a red line for him. do you think this could cause him to go ahead and fire robert mueller? you know, i can t understand
now controls is quickly shrinking. at its peak in 2015, isis controlled around 35,000 miles of syria and iraq, nearly the size of california. the latest map obtained by cnn shows they have now lost almost 80% of it. and nearly a third of that entire loss has happened in the last six months. well, it has accelerated. president trump, a significant decision he made was to delegate really tactical authority to decision makers on the ground. so the decision-making cycle has been rapidly shortened and we have been able to really act to surprise isis. special envoy to the coalition against isis, who began his role on the front lines of coordinating the effort under president obama says bold operations now can be put together and executed in a matter of days. a big change from obama s highly
pushed time and again. not just a wall on the border with mexico but a wall that mexico that fully fund. we will build a big beautiful wall, a big beautiful wall and we will have a door in the wall and people are going to come into our country. what are they going to do? nay a they are going to come in legally. who is going to pay for the wall? who s going to pay for that wall? mexico. in transcripts of president trump s january phone call with mexican president obtained by the washington post it is clear there are cracks in that promise of a wall. in the call mr. trump says if you say mexico will not pay for the wall then i donot want to meet with you anymore. i am willing to say we will work it out. believe it or not this is the least important thing that we are talking about but
lying and his spokesperson also says there is no collusion with the russians. the focus for investigators is whether manafort was involved in money laundering or tax violations in his business dealings and he has been drawn to a related investigation of son-in-law s real estate business dealings. he has not been accused of wrong doing. tell us how investigators are gathering sensitive financial information involving finances of the president. sources tell us that the fbi team doing this investigation has gathered financial records related to the trump organization as well as donald trump himself and those of his family members including donald trump jr. and those campaign associates that we have heard so much about. they come through the list of special companies and buyers of trump branded real estate companies and scrutinize the roster of tenants. going back to more than a dozen years and looked at the back
special council to look at those kinds of conversations and to determine whether or not they lead to evidence of collusion. close relationships with pro russian elements in neighboring ukraine. cnn could not determine if this new review includes donald trump s tax returns. do you think that it is possible that the feds could get access to the president s taxes actually without his knowledge? i think there is no question at some point. i don t know when that point arrives but that having convened a grand jury and the grand jury has the power to subpoena and the power to get testimony on a number of issues associated with this investigation that at some point the issue of donald trump s tax reports are going to be looked at one way or the