and a texas showdown, a judge hearing arguments right now in the high-stakes lawsuit over abortion pills. this is what we re watching at this hour. thank you so much for being here. i m kate bolduan. the u.s. state department does not call in the russian ambassador every day, but that is what s happened. this is after the pentagon says a russian fighter jets forced down a u.s. spy drone in international waters in the black sea. according to u.s. officials the russians first dumped fuel on the drone similar to the one you see here and then hit its propeller forcing the u.s. then to bring the drone down. the defense secretary slamming the incident as reckless. this hazardous episode is a part of a pattern of aggressive and risky and unsafe actions by russian pilots in international airspace. so make no mistake, the united states will continue to fly and to operate wherever international law allows. orrin lieberman joins us from the pentagon. you have new reporting als
1st. Now, he is saying he doesnt know if it will be over by September The 1st but he thinks that Robert Mueller should be able to wrap it up by then. He told me if it goes much past the beginning of september then everybody who is involved in this investigation could be accused in interfering with the election. Because if this thing does drag on, it gets closer and closer to those all important mid terms. The response to mueller went out about an hour ago. We got two statements from the president s lead attorneys jay sekulow saying quote we have responded in writing to the Office Of Special Counsel regarding its request to interview the president. It not appropriate at this time to comment publicly about the content of that response. From Rudy Giuliani millions of pages of documents along with testimony from dozens of witnesses have been provided. Were restating what we have been stating for months it is time for the Office Of Special Counsel to conclude its inquiry without further del
A news and interview program, anchored by Erin Burnett. A news and interview program, anchored by Erin Burnett. Obtained by msnbc. If sessions wont unrecuse and Mueller Wont Clear the president , were the only ones, which is really the danger. Thats why, i keep and thank you for saying it, by the way. We have to keep all of these seats. We have to keep the majority. If we do note keep the majority, all of this goes away. Its an astonishing remark, because thats not the job of congress. Congress responsibility is to check the president , the special counsels job is to investigate him. Its supposed to be fair and unbiased. Congress job is not there to sit there and protect a sitting president. But this is the type of thing we have heard before, to try to rile up and motivate the trump basis, that the midterms are really all about protecting the president. This election is going to be about impeachment or no impeachment. Kaitlan collins is outfront live in berkeley heights, new jersey, th