Discredit the russia investigation in general. The fbi in particular and a number of fbi officials by name including one assistant director Andrew Mccabe who he seems to be openly taunting. Here is the latest. Wow, fox and friends dossier is bogus. Clinton campaign, dnc funded dossier. Fbi cannot, after all of this time, verify claims in dossier of russia trump collusion. Fbi tainted. And they used this crooked hillary pile of garbage im quoting again, as the basis for going after the Trump Campaign this is, as we know, becoming something of a refrain for the president. Didnt she spent 12. 4 million on a dossier that was a total phony, right . I think its very sad what theyve done with this fake dossier. I think its a disgrace. Its just really very its a very sad its a very sad commentary on politics in this country. When you look at that horrible dossier, which is a total phony, fake deal, like so much of the news that i read, when you look at that and take a look at whats gone on wit
Tribute to his close friend. Lets go outfront. Good evening, im jim sciutto in for erin burnett. Out front a significant white house shakeup. In a surprise announcement on twitter, President Trump revealing that White House Counsel Don Mcgahn will be leaving his position in the fall. Now mcgahn may know better than anyone else whether the president obstructed justice. In fact it was just 11 days ago we learned mcgahn had been cooperating extensively with the special counsel. Three voluntary interviews lasting all told some 30 hours. Yet today trump telling reporters that hes not concerned. Very good man. Don, excellent guy. Yeah, don mcgahn is a really good guy. Been with me for a long time, privately before this he represented me. Hes been here now it will be almost two years. Any concern about what you said to the mueller team . No, not at all. Not at all. I knew he was going also. I had to approve it. So we didnt claim executive no, i dont have to be aware. We have we do everything
First, lets get to Laura Jarrett for more on what barr is saying. Is there any other way to interpret this talk about how well the prosecutor has to make a decision on obstruction as a shot directly at the special Counsel Robert Mueller . No, i think that shot is pretty clear. He took it actually weeks ago during his congressional testimony, making it clear that you really, prosecutors are supposed to make a binary choice, thumbs up or thumbs down, and Robert Mueller failed in that regard. The new news is the sort of questions barr is raising once again about the genesis of the russia investigation. He told the wall street journal today that hes actually interested in intelligence collection that happened before the fbi formally opened their counterintelligence probe back in july of 2016. Yet he went on fox and hes talking about the infamous steele dossier, the one compiled by the former British Intelligence agent raising questions about whether that was used and how odd it was. Take a