Queen today. Were live in england with the final preparations. Im not really a monarchists. Americans are conflicted. Youre very excited. Its fun to watch an american marrying into the British Royal family but again we fought a war to end monarchy in this country. Set your alarm it will be early. Good morning, im Christine Romans. Im dave briggs. Breaking overnight Washington Post reporting President Trump and his allies are ramping up a campaign to undercut the russia investigation by exposing a top secret fbi source. That has the fbi scram scrambling to protect other live investigations and lessen iing e dangers they may face if the informants identity become known. An informant provided information early in the russian investigation. The president doing his part to discredit the special counsel, alleging that his 2016 campaign was spied on, even predicting that an ensuing scandal will be bigger than watergate. This highstakes standoff pitting President Trump and chair of the House I
It would be a major success for President Trump on trade if it happens. And the Royal Wedding, just a day away, Meghan Markles family meets the queen today. Were live in england with final preparations. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to early start. Im david briggs. And im christine romans. President trump and his allies are ramping up an Aggressive Campaign toundc unde the russia investigation. The fbi now taking steps to protect other live investigations and lessen the danger associates might face if the informants identity becomes known. An fbi informant had provided information early in the fbis russia investigation. The president doing his part to discredit the special counsel, where else, on twitter, alleging his 2016 campaign was spied on, even predicting an ensuing scandal be, quote, bigger than watergate. This highstakes standoff, pitting President Trump, the republican chair of the Intelligence House Committee devin nunes against the intelligence agencies. They warn publicly
More on that in just a moment. Were also learning about a new plea deal tonight. Paul manaforts former soninlaw reached a plea agreement with the u. S. Attorneys office in los angeles over real estate deals. Sources tell cnn hell be required to cooperate with other investigators and it comes as we mark one year since special Counsel Robert Mueller began investigating russias interference in the 2016 election. President trump today sarcastically tweeting congratulations, america and as he has tweeted 41 times over the past year, calling the investigation a witch hunt. A baseless charge the president returns to every chance he gets. Its a total witch hunt. Ive been saying it for a long time. They have this witch hunt. They have this witch hunt. Its a witch hunt. Thats all it is. They have phony witch hunts. Its like a witch hunt. Its like a witch hunt. Witch hunt continues. Entire thing has been a witch hunt. This is a pure and simple witch hunt. The Mueller Investigation isnt a witch hu
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