for conducting impeachment hearings. this development comes as democrats broaden their impeachment probe beyond president trump s potential obstruction of justice. cnn s joe johns is at the white house for us. so joe, you know, what do we know about these new developments and any response from the white house? okay. so you mentioned the beginning there, fred, the obstruction of justice questions. those are questions by and large that were raised in the investigation by robert mueller. but there are other things floating around as well, including whether the president enriched himself or has been enriched by things that have happened after he came into office in violation of the constitution s emoluments clause. there s a question of pardons and whether there might have been an abuse of power in the dangling of pardons to certain individuals. a lot of things to look into there, and what we know now from the reporting of manu raju up on capitol hill is that democrats are considering as
important to have competition, even if you have some embarrassing moments, you get to understand who your coalition is, and i think as someone who s running for president, that s a very important thing to understand. david, last word? no, fred, i would just say i think salena s right about primaries being good for campaigns in a certain way. i don t think that the trump campaign is interested in being challenged on certain issues on, let s say a debate stage or in a primary. it s clear on the one hand that congressman walsh or governor weld, the candidates that are running against president trump on the republican side have really no shot at beating him. at the same time it s ironic that a president who ran saying that the system was rigged is sort of sitting by as these state parties essentially rig these state primaries in his favor. all right, david swerdlick, salena zito thank you. thank you. thank you so much. we re live in north carolina after the storm ripped through
tweets we have been talking about. they are important. they are a series of tweets. i will read you a couple of them. as an active president with a lot of things happening. it is not possible for my surrogate to stand at the podium with perfect accuracy. maybe the best thing to do is cancel all future press briefings and hand out written responses of accuracy. can we believe the people who are speaking for the administration have the information and have the correct information to provide to the per press with the american peek. fred. all right, athena jones, with the white house, thank you very much. doubts and anger this week starting with the dismissal of james comey and ending with president trump threatening comey in a tweet. it w reporter: it was tuesday that
going into meeting the president and who may nominate him or her or a candidate for the fbi. these people are coming in and try to share their world view of seeing the president if he or she are on the same page with them. would they have to share their view with the investigation being led by the fbi on the white house. this goes to that point, fred, would president trump sit there and say what is your view on the russian investigation and how quickly would you want to get it wrapped up. would you ever come forward asking for resources. those are questions that one would think would lead a candidate to the fbi who cares about independence and putting the agency and the integrity of the agency ahead of any political concerns of a sitting president. you know that would patch them in advice, we know that president trump asked director comey for him of a pledge of loyalty sort of asking of the
the trump administration says all options are on the table with the president s proposed travel ban. athena jones is traveling with the president in palm beach, florida. athena, we know that one of his top advisers was more than just hinting but really delivering the message that all options are on the table, and they re going to continue moving forward on this travel ban. hi fred. that s right, the big question is, what is going to happen next? they re discussing all options. it s very clear that the president believes as he told us on the flight down here on friday, that his administration would ultimately win out on any court battle but also made the argument there is a sense of urgency here because he believes he feels the nation s security is at stake. it s clear they d like to take some actions rather quickly,