Violation of law by handing over the documents without a subpoena. But mueller says it acted properly securing the consent of the document holder, the gsa. How did the documents and materials they received. Do we know how they factor into the investigation . Reporter tens of thousands of emails along with the laptop, cell phones and other materials belonging to 13 top Transition Team members. This material comes from between the election and inauguration. This was provided by the special counsels office by the General Service administration. That agency is tapped with supplying Office Supplies and email services to the trump Transition Team. Instead of going through a subpoena, muellers office went straight to the gsa to request them. The transition claims career gsa staff working with an attorney at gsa and at the direction of the fbi immediately produced all the materials by the special counsels Office Without notifying trump for america pore without redacting privileged material. Th
Recognizing israels capital. Lets begin with the apparent disarray with the president s legal team right now as the russia investigation clearly intensifies. President trumps personal lawyer sparking a fierce debate after suggesting that the president cant obstruct justice because he is the president. A white house lawyer contradicting that statement saying that wouldnt be his defense and insisting they would be relying on the facts to defend the president of the United States. Clearly there are dramatic developments unfolding in this investigation. That has been very, very apparent for sometime. It appears to be escalating. Joining us with excellent reporting on all of this, whats the latest . Ty cobb, the president s lawyer who is dealing directly with the special counsels office is saying what john dowd is partner in this. Saying thats not a legal strategy. We are not relying on the notion that the president is in a sense, above the law and cant be prosecuted for this. We will rely
Independently confirm that Robert Mueller investigation has been exploring the Trumps Campaign connection to the uae and business dealings as early as november l. A. Year. The question focused on the crown prince and his associates including interaction with the president s soninlaw Jared Kushner and the president ial election. New york times reports that george nader was questioned about possible efforts by the gulf state to buy political influence through financial contributions. Critics of the special counsel say its more evidence that includes all communications for the president and his team that the Russia Special counsel probe has gone beyond its original and stated mandate of russian interference. Recent briefing the White House Press secretary put it this way. The president has said repeatedly there is no collusion. Well continue to cooperate. Reporter in december after it was confirmed trumps do dossier was funded by the dnc. The white house will be free of the mueller invest
Lady and it comes as kind of an interesting time for the Prime Minister politically because there are charges against him that included quid pro quo, possible corruption. The political importance of what is happening today is what we want to focus on. The situation in the middle east, where it is and the accused exclamation of america support in israel with our embassy moving to jerusalem. Remember the israeli government, the connection is there. They recognized to be the center of their country. As this happens we will bring it to you live, but we are going to move on with other news of the day. Special counsel investigation into Russian Election meddling. Robert muellers Team Reportedly sent a witness a subpoena seeking all documents involving President Trump and a number of his closest advisors. They reportedly want emails, text messages, court papers, phone logs going back all the way to november 1st, 4 and a half months after the president , then candidate, had launched his campai
Cant lose the trade war. Youve already lost it. All right, we begin today with an unfamiliar name. You see the face on the left there, jeffrey yohi. He is the exsoninlaw of President Trumps former Campaign Chair Paul Manafort. He is agreeing to plead guilty in connection with a criminal investigation in los angeles. Now, the key point of this plea requires him to cooperate with other criminal probes. We got a great panel here to discuss what that means. First, lets take a look at exactly who Jeffrey Yohai is. He is a real estate developer. He is also Paul Manaforts former business partner. The two of them worked together on four California Property deals that fail and were placed in bankruptcy. But he is not just another business partner, he was married to Paul Manaforts daughter jessica before the two divorced in august of last year. Yohai agreed to plead guilty in connection with a criminal investigation in los angeles. His indictment comes nearly seven months after manafort himself