Exactly the president is thinking. White house lawyer ty cobb had to issue a statement over the weekend and he said media speculation, saying the white house yet again confirms that President Trump is not considering or discussing the firing of the special counsel Robert Mueller. But the only reason the media was speculating about the president potentially firing the special counsel is because of the president himself directly attacking Robert Mueller, first time hes done so by name on twitter. Thats the reason why the media was thinking it. Another reason it was on everyones mind is because the president s outside lawyer john dowd issued a statement saying that the Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein should follow in the steps of the attorney general Jeff Sessions after he fired Andrew Mccabe on friday night by ending the russia investigation and then he later said, john, he was not speaking on behalf of the president. Publicly, we saw the president going after Robert Mueller and t
And the 98 year old nun leading her team to the ncaa sweet 16. It was all this is the cbs weekend news. Quijano good evening, im Elaine Quijano. The weekend started with the dramatic friday night firing of the number two man at the fbi. Andrew mccabe was expected to retire today on his 50th birthday. The controversial firing could cost him hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost benefits. The weekend is closing with President Trump twitter bashing top former fbi officials including mccabe. Errol barnett is at the white house. President trump continues to express growing frustration at the special counsels investigation. Writing the Mueller Probe should never have been started, which hunt. He also cast doubt on report her doubts on reports Andrew Mccabe fired on friday took notes of conversations between the two. I dont believe he made memos except to help his own agenda, mr. Trump wrote today. The criticism comes alongside the president s personal lawyer john dowd publicly calling for
Door because pruitts security broke in to check on him after he didnt answer his phone. Cnns Abby Phillips joins us live from west palm beach, florida, where the president is spending the easter weekend there on palm beach island. Good morning to you. There is a lot going on. Thats right. Good morning. Just another day and another problem with one of the president s cabinet members. The Environmental Protection agency had scott pruitt as under fire today over his spending on a condo in washington, d. C. The fact that he paid what seems to be below market rate for that condo, about 50 a night. But only for the nights that he stayed there. As well below what people say you ought to be paying on capitol hill in that area for a nightly stay in a room there. But scott pruitt is just dealing with several of these issues with ethics. A couple of days ago there was some questions raised about his use of a 24 7 security detail not only when he is on official business but also whether he was on
The swamp won on this one. This president is very clear that he will not sign another bill like this but hes not going to leave our military, our troops unfunded. Robinson rebounded. Thats all she wrote. And the block. Count the basket. Thats it good sunday morning. How do you like waking up to that . I love you too. But come on. America loves her voice better. A ton of march madness going on, loyola, come on, sister jean dance in the final four. I love march madness. Theres so much spirit to it. You get behind the teams. Its different than the nba because you believe in the teams so much. You either went to the school or your kids did. I dont know theres something much more exciting. And you have michigan, which is massive, which is huge and a Loyola Chicago coming out of nowhere shaking up the cinderella and the big dogs. Never know whats going to map. I think we know who america is pulling for. Yesterday if you werent watching march madness, you might have been marching. The march f
The annual NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament is underway, and it turns out that the 103-year-old nun who’s become the tournament’s unofficial Cinderella-team mascot, Sister Jean Schmidt, grew up here in San Francisco.