does and how it impacts the investigation. that is very true. let me play for you both another moment in the 60 minutes interview where mccabe describes a story when president trump said that he believed vladimir putin over u.s. intelligence about a north korean missile launch. let me play it for you. the president launched into several unrelated diatribes. one of those was commenting on the recent missile launches by the government of north korea. essentially, the president said he did not believe that the north koreans had the capability to hit us here with ballistic missiles in the united states. he didn t believe that because president putin told him they did not. and u.s. intelligence was telling the president what? intelligence officials in the
in response, the president took to twitter accusing them of treason. laura jarrett is at the justice department with more. mccabe talked about why he and rosenstein launched the counter intelligence and obstruction investigations into the president. can you lay that out for us? reporter: in his own words mccabe describes for the first time how he personally initiated the investigations into president trump as officials were concerned and they were trying to answer two big questions. did the president fire former fbi director james comey in order to impede the russia investigation in some way? and if he did, did he do it on behalf of the russian government. mccabe goes on to explain it wasn t just the firing of comey that had the bureau s antennas raised but it was also the president s behavior. the president had gone to jim comey and specifically asked him
country. the government has presented an invitation for universities and businesses to open up tomorrow. many businesses were ransacked during the protests. it s not clear if the protesters will be placated by what the prime minister has proposed. there s still nothing specific on the table. until they can see and know that something is being done here, it will be very hard to tell that the protesters will be going back to their normal lives. all sectors of society, from the middle class to the extremely poor here survives on nothing more than 2 or $3 a day. they are fed up. they are sick and tired of seeing certain people get way with everything and others just left with absolutely nothing. and it has really reached a boiling point here. we ll see in the next couple of days whether people will buy it. miguel marquez, thank you for that reporting. do stay safe.
the constitution has provisions to deal with these sorts of things. whether it s the 25th amendment, should a president be deemed unfit, or impeachment, should it be deemed he committed high crimes and misdemeanors. i think it is entirely appropriate and, frankly, constitutional, for people to be having these kind of discussions at the highest levels of our government. natasha, again, not to reveal your entire conversation, i know you re working on a piece, as well, what were your major takeaways from your conversation with mr. mccabe? yeah, i mean, obviously, i m limited in what i can say before our interview runs tomorrow morning, but i think it is really important to understand that, you know, we need to have more of a discussion about not just the fact that the 25th amendment discussion was kind of thrown out there, or the fact that wearing a wire was thrown out there, but why the top brass of the fbi and doj were so
in fact, i think i can say this. prime minister abe of japan gave me the most beautiful copy of a letter that he sent to the people who give out a thing called the nobel prize. he said i have nominated you or respectfully on behalf of japan, i am asking them to give you the nobel peace prize. i said thank you, many other people feel that way, too. that was one of several claims president trump made during his national emergency news conference last week. a japanese newspaper confirmed the president s statement, prime minister shinzo abe nominated president trump for a nobel peace prize but only after the u.s. government asked. the request was informal according to japanese officials familiar with the matter.