The idea of possibliy resigning. Whats unclear is how serious that was. Whether he said Something Like i am willing to resign if the president wants me to or whether he said i intend to resign and im going to do it on monday. We dont know the exact nature of those conversations. Eli, i want to hear about your reporting. I want to show our viewers what phil rucker is talking about. Lets watch. I have a message for the president tonight. Under zero circumstances should the president fire anybody. If you are laying a trap for donald trump, this might be exactly how youd do it. Okay, professor, what will President Trump do now . Well, if hes smart, hell take advantage of this and not fire either any of these people, not mueller, not rosenstein, and not sessions. So this is important point because i think a lot of people are really scared after the
rosensteins people to come out and say, he expects to be fired. His people were putting that out to what end, we dont know at this point but cer
The most delegates is denied the nomination. I dont know whats going to happen. But ill say this. You will have a lot of unhappy people. For the republicans to disenfranchise all those people, if that happens, they are not voting and the republicans lose. Will you tell your supporters not to riot if you dont win the Convention Fair and square . I would certainly tell them that. But they want to see positive things for our country. I dont want to see riots. Bill do the basic facts on this meeting today. Whats it all about . After a couple rowdy rallies in arizona which votes tomorrow, trump is coming to washington, doing a lot of president ial things. He will be meeting with some lawmakers. We dont have a good list of who they are. There are reports senator tom cotton will be there. We know senator Jeff Sessions who endorsed trump will be helping to organize this. But he will have this meeting with lawmakers and other officials. Then he will go to a press conference, then he will give a
Members approaching the senators casket. A private Memorial Service being held inside the Capitol Rotunda where his body is lying in state for the rest of the day. The junior senator from arizona, jeff flake. Were grateful for his life and for his sacrifice. Gathered in this spot we are especially grateful that john made arizona his home. Dana were live in phoenix with more. A ceremony about the late senators service to arizona. Absolutely, dana. All branches of the military and Law Enforcement were represented here for the services and the ceremony. I have to tell you watching the folks watching this unfold it was right behind us here you saw people getting teared up. It was hard not to especially when the Arizona National guard casket team retrieved the senator and went into the rotunda. Everyone saluted this man who represented service to country. In a private ceremony that we the public were allowed to watch and listen his friend, former arizona senator john kyle spoke of the dedic
Accomplish great things for this state and well keep florida great and make it even greater. I sincerely believe what will deliver us to victory in november is the fact that there are everyday, hardworking people in this state who believe they deserve a voice in our government, too. Were going to give it to them. Eric President Trump doubling down on his support of desantis this morning. Not only did congressman desantis win the primary but his opponent in november is his biggest dream, a failed socialist mayor named Andrew Gillum who has allowed crime and other things to flourish in his city. Not what florida wants or need. Sandra lets go to orlando and phil keating. Talk about a come from behind wind for gillum. A month or so ago the littleknown mayor was fourth place in the polls facing a billionaire, millionaire and the woman in the race who had the most name recognition. But in a shocker of a primary night in the state of florida progressive democrat Andrew Gillum beat them all. H
As his own spokesperson, and thats something that he will have to do more of, with Sarah Sanders leaving her post. So we expect to hear from the president any moment about these topics and more. We have it all covered for you. First to Michelle Kosinski in our Washington Bureau with more on the top story. Michelle. Reporter if you remember weeks ago when other ships were attacked in the persian gulf, it was more than a week later and the secretary of state was saying, well maybe iran could have been behind this. Well, this time, you see the administration waste zero time, in getting out and very publicly definitively calling out iran for it. The pentagon even releasing some evidence. This dramatic new video released overnight shows a small boat approaching the tanker. You can see an individual removing an object from the tankers hull. U. S. Military Officials Say that object is likely an unexploded mine. Removed by iranians, just hours after the initial explosion. Secretary of state mi