Apparently wait. We learned trump is going ahead with his meeting with the New York Times. Just a few hours ago, he had canceled it. The headline so far today, the biggest headline i should say, is that the Trump White House will not pursue an investigation into Hillary Clintons emails. Thats despite months of candidate trump mocking crooked hillary and reveling in his supporters chants of lock her up. Cnns Jason Carroll live outside of trump tower, good morning. Reporter good morning. A number of reporters i spoke to over the past several months were really encouraged by the idea of donald trump going after Hillary Clinton clinton and this idea of him appointing a special prosecutor to do that, but it looks like now that is not going to happen. It was back in june that trump first mentioned this idea of Hillary Clinton going to jail and then it was in august at a rally where he brought up the idea of appointing a special prosecutor to do it, but now his Campaign Manager says that idea
And misdeamnor and thats a constitutional standard for impeachment of a u. S. President. This memo drafted by the now fired fbi director james comey asking him to shut down the investigation, heres the quote, we havent seen this memo yet. Heres the quote. I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. Hes a good guy. I hope you can let this go. This story first reported by New York Times. The president told comey that flynn did nothing wrong, were told despite the fact that he was fired for lying to the Vice President about his conversations with russian ambassador. Sources say this encounter happened after a briefing involving Vice President mike pence and attorney general Jeff Sessions who the president asked to leave the room, according to sources, so that he could speak privately with comey. Comey was reportedly so concerned by the president s comments that he documented the exchange in just one of a number of memos he wrote out of concern. The president
banana republic. the idea that the white house decides these things for the fbi is clarifying. this is the kind thing that went on in the nixon white house. we should all be aware that it s not his decision to run the fbi. interesting. patricia, just because donald trump says there s not going to be legal action pursued against hillary clinton, it doesn t mean lawmakers won t decide for themselveses es to do some sor congressional investigation, does it? i think that s exactly right. without this announcement, though, there was still a significant appetite among republican lawmakers to still continue to investigate hillary clinton. i think this is a signal from the white house to tell those republican lawmakers, particularly congressman chafe fe