it was interesting he waded in here. we ll see how republicans respond. i was struck by how chief justice roberts attacked trump. it certainly was questioning his intelligence, his mastery of the u.s. government, the tenets of our democracy, the three branches of government, and i think in large part that s why we saw president trump respond, because someone questioned his intelligence. it s something we all know he doesn t like. almost like a teacher schooling a child in a civics lesson. and laura jarrett, this comment the president makes about the ninth circuit, he does this a lot. when things don t go his way. we saw this with the travel ban. early on in his presidency. how difficult is that, potentially, for, you know, just judges out there trying to do as the chief justice was saying today, to do equal justice, to provide equal justice under the law? well, as you pointed out,
few moments. first, more on the russia investigation. let s bring in our crime and justice reporter, shimon. what happens now that the president s written responses have gone to the special counsel? what do they do? yeah, it s clearly the biggest question right now, what is mueller up to? what s next? and time and time again, any time there is some development, we always ask, what does this mean, what s next? we really don t know. look, i think from rudy guiliani s comments, they do perhaps expect that mueller will come back to them for followup. they have the questions now, the mueller team was in today. so they have been reviewing them. they probably started reviewing them the minute they got the questions. and, you know, there could likely be some followup. i think one of the or two important points in this is the two questions that mueller has asked, has sought answers for from the president in these written responses was about don jr., the russia meeting, obviously, with that
as trump opens his six-day holiday visit to his florida resort, guiliani s comments tonight signaled the russia probe and the president s role in it is very much alive. despite repeated attempts to diminish it, like yesterday while leaving the white house. the written answers to the witch hunt that s been going on forever, no collusion, no nothing, they have been finished. reporter: guiliani said any questions about trump s transition and actions during his time in office, including whether he obstructed justice firing fbi director, james comey, would violate the president s executive privilege. cnn has learned the president did answer mueller s questions about potential russian collusion, including what he knew at the time about his son, donald trump jr. s meeting with russians at trump tower. and whether he knew anything about russian s hacks when saying this about hillary clinton s e-mails in 2016. russia, if you re listening, i hope you re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that
john roberts said in this statement today. it s just extraordinary. we do not have obama judges or trump judges, bush judges or clinton judges. what we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing about of them. that independent judiciary is something we should be thankful for. and the president followed up on twitter with a number of tweets. sorry chief justice john roberts, but you do have indeed have obama judges, and they have a much different point of view than the people who are charged with the safety of our country. we should point out, sometimes trump judges go against trump. but susan hennessey, what do we make of this exchange here? first of all, it s pretty remarkable and it s remarkably petty to have the president of the united states tweeting insults, essentially at the chief justice. i think it s sort of worth noting that. there is nothing about justice roberts statement that is all that extraordinary