Quickly. I was at the Justice Department yesterday afternoon. This is a significant move. This only happened once before in history. Without going into any of the recent events, the Deputy Attorney general really highlighted the unique circumstances we find ourselves in requiring the special counsel saying in part, my decision is not a finding that crimes have been committed or prosecution is warranted. I have made no such determination. What i have determined is based upon the unique circumstance and the Public Interest requires me to place this under investigation under the authority of a person who exercises a degree of independence from the normal chain of command. We heard from the white house last night and a short statement saying a thorough investigation will confirm what we already know. There was no collusion with my campaign and any foreign even i entity. I look forward to this matter ending quickly. Coming out strongly and this will now move forward. The white house is look
We lost Border Patrol officer just yesterday and another one was brutally beaten and badly hurt. It looks like hell make it. But a very badly hurt, a lot of things are happening along the border, the southern border and we are going to straighten it out. Melissa Casey Stegall is live from our Dallas Bureau with more. The Vice President of the u. S. Border patrol union is telling a local affiliate down in el paso that they believe rocks were used with this attack. However the fbi will not confirm that information for us, the feds did however give some clarification to early reports that the agents were shot at and to the agency said that those reports are untrue, that they did not come under fire. A spokesperson with the fbi office in el paso says they are currently working to piece together a timeline and thats about all we know. We can tell you the Customs Border protection Officials Say that martinez and his partner have responded to activity in an interstate area, big big ben dn tex
Cnn learned that President Trumps attorney told him in january that Michael Flynn who was at the time the president S National Security adviser misled the fbi. You are looking at live pictures of the president who just landed in salt lake city. He just got off air force 1. The latest revelation ties into the tweet over the weekend by the president on the president s account. This is what he tweeted. I had to fire general flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the fbi. He pled guilty to the lies. It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide. The president s attorney said he wrote that tweet for the president. In an interview he said he believes the president is safe from any obstruction of justice charge over the firing and the former fbi director james comey. The president cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief Law Enforcement officer and has every right to express his view of any case. This morning before leaving for
Here at the table with me to share their insights and reporting, cnn is breaking the story for us. Former assistant to robert muell mueller. Sarah murray. This is fascinating reporting and we should give the context that over the weekend the president tweeted that he fired his former National Security adviser Michael Flynn because he had lied to the fbi which of course raised the question we are talking about now. Did he know that flynn was being investigated . What are you hearing . We understand that doug mcgann spoke with sally yates in january. After that meeting he informed the president that he believed that Michael Flynn had misled the fbi and lied to the vice president. We understand that sally yates who was the acting attorney general never characterized flynns testimony and he never saw flynns testimony. This was his belief. He did not tell the president he believed flynn was under investigation or that he committed any crime. Thats the general essence of what we know. They l
Because that way you give it less oxygen to continue the news cycle. I think the other way you might want to talk about this is maybe just knock it down forcefully. Dismiss it out of hand as no merit. As i mentioned, it looks like the white house has decided to do the second option. That is simply ignore this. Dont give this as much oxygen perhaps as it would like to have in the news cycle. Although we did hear this from the president himself. Did you want to fire Robert Muleer . Fake news, folks. Typical New York Times fake stories. Did you ever want to fire Robert Mueller . Reporter there you go. Fake news. For the record, white house sources remind us that if the president wanted to fire bob mueller, he could. He has the right. The white house counsels, they do come and go, for that matter. They also point out he didnt fire mueller. Even if it was a conversation, it never happened so this is a nonstory being drummed up by the times about a conversation that happened seven months ago