Meeting. The director would be interested in seeing or having those notes described to him as well. In addition to Reince Priebus which you mentioned, we noted earlier Keefe Kellogg has been interviewed now but the special councils team. There are also developments in the senate, intelligence investigation involving carter page. Carter page being subpoenaed by the committee. Hes been the public face early on in this investigation because he was willing to spook publicly speak publicly about his role here. T not central how important the role was in the campaign. Early in the campaign, page was named as the advisory, although later it was described he was not as close to the center as described or clear to the center of the campaign. He did make trips to moscow and spoke there. Certainly questions to ask him during campaign about any communications he may have been aware of, particularly between the trump team and russian fishls which we know is an investigation of Mueller Investigation
Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Indeed, breg news here at cnn ton. Im don lemon, a little past 11 00 p. M. Op actually 11 00 p. M. On the dot here. We have breaking news about Andrew Mccabe the former fiv director fired tonight two days shy of his official retirement on sunday. Mccabe tells cnn he defies misleading the Inspector General in any way. He says the accusations against him fit into what he calls a pattern attacks against him, including by President Trump. And there is breaking news on Stormy Daniels tonight. Well bring you that later on in this program. First lets get to pamela brown, chris lizza and Juliette Kayyem, i want to bring you in. Another big huge story on a friday night. You spoke to mccabe, also its interesting that through your reporting or at least through your contacting him that is actually how he found out about his firing. Thats right. I contacted his representative as soon as the news came out just before 10 00. And they had not heard the news yet. An
Involved with it. Here is what trumps legal team says about that. Quote, it remains our position that the president s actions here by virtue of his position as the chief Law Enforcement officer could neither constitutionally nor legally constitute obstruction because that would amount to him obstructing himself, and that he could if he wished terminate the inquiry or even exercise his power to pardon if he so desired. The letter also acknowledges that trump did in fact dictate his sons misleading statement about that Infamous Trump tower meeting with the russians. Here is what they write. You have received all the notes, communications, and testimony indicating that the president dictated a short but accurate response to the New York Times article on behalf of his son donald trump jr. This is the first time the president s attorneys have acknowledged that trump dictated the statement. In fact they, along with press secretary Sarah Sanders, previously denied the president played any par