story that were not completely accurate, the essence of it is true, which is that there were contacts with associates of the donald trump campaign, and people in russia, people in the u.s. intelligence community. and this is a very serious issue, because this was happening at a time when the russians were trying to interfear with the u.s. elections. that s the essence of what the noshlg times has reported, what cnn has reported and what other media outlets have reported. th not to mention the investigation is still going on, and the president, instead of assessing and talking about the substance of the reporting attacks, the leakers and the media. to the media, the reaction to the white house of this story, barring cnn and the remaining outlets in this gaggle. this happened just after cpac, doubling down on fake news,
president, to specific situations evolved. but criminality is a different thing, remember, these regulations are internal regulations, he would have to prove that there s an attempt to obstruct justice, and that an order was communicated to the fbi, with the intent of curbing an investigation that might lead to the white house. now that s a very serious allegation and i don t see that based on what we know so far. so we have to know exactly what was said, and the context in which it was said before we can make a judgment as to whether it s a criminal act. it s certainly raising more than just year brows. at best, it s a rookie political move for people operating at this level. paul callan, nice to have you, to you all, mark, evan, have a nice weekend. and up next, a toxic nerve agent that can kill within minutes took out the north korean big brother. also we take you to the
out kbeps a report about trump s associates and their contacts with russians, but it pushed back against any pressure put on the fbi to do so. this as we learn more about what fbi director james comey told senators on capitol hill about an active investigation among trump s associates and russia. today the white house is saying it did nothing wrong, after cnn s exclusive report that the fbi refused the white house s request to knock down media reports about contacts between donald trump associates and russians during the campaign. a senior administration official says the unusual white house request came only after the fbi approached white house chief of staff reince priebus, to say a story in the new york times was not true. the white house explained its actions by saying the conversations happened on february 15, after a 7:30 p.m.
mentioned, an act tifr investigation, andy mccabe is the deputy director, this is something he can t really defend himself against because this is ongoing. this is what nancy pelosi said in a same today, the trump white house has been caught undermining an fisher investigati fbi investigation. remember the president is the person who s in charge of the department of justice, and the fbi, he s actually the boss of these agencies, and this rigid protocol about the strictness about criminal investigations arose out of the watergate scandal, when believe it or not, richard nixon got the acting director of the fbi to destroy evidence in the case. and so, these protocols, limiting contact with the
sayisay saying they are the enemy of the u.s. people. we see cnn getting punished by evan s report on this meeting regarding the fbi talking about, you know, with mr. priebus, regarding the investigation, and what have you, we can also look at it as a very savvy media operation in some ways, certainly donald trump is, because he knows the media will chase this shiny object. we have seen since day one of the campaign, is that he has taken to twitter and he had put out statements that would force the narrative to change, from what the narrative is of that day. of course when you upset an entire press corps, from excluding some of their clearings from attending, basically a basic briefing, that does help tend to take your eyes off the ball, it could have been done intentionally, no question.