Administration, and tonight President Trumps lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, is taking new aim at the russia investigation, telling the Associated Press that trumps legal team, quote, wants a briefing on the classified information shared with lawmakers about the origins of the fbi investigation into russias meddling in the 2016 election. Trumps lawyers may take the information to the Justice Department as part of an effort to scuttle the ongoing special counsel probe. Also that, quote, the white house hopes to get a readout of the materials next week. Giuliani telling the a. P. He wants to know about the use of a longtime government informant who approached members of Trumps Campaign about russian efforts. He says that if it was inappropriate, special counsel Robert Muellers entire probe may be illegitimate. Giuliani added the white house may press the Justice Department to, quote, reevaluate the investigation. Yesterday lawmakers received classified briefings with intelligence and Law Enforcem
Basically as security, telling the government he wont flee the country, he wont flee prosecution. Hes wearing ankle bracelets heng one or two ankle bracelets and hes promised to put up millions of dollars in property and cash to say that he can be left at home rather than in jail while he awaits these charges. The special counsels Office Tonight has said that while hes been out on bail, while hes been on pretrial release Paul Manafort has been tampering with witnesses in his case and he should therefore effectively be jailed, and theyre demanding that from a judge this evening. That news is just breaking tonight. Were just getting in that filing. I in fact just read it as i was getting makeup put on just moments ago. Were going to have some expert help in terms of figuring out what that means and how serious this is for the president s Campaign Chair, potentially for the president coming up in just a moment. Stay tuned for that. In the meantime, though, this did not age well. This was
Administration, and the president said today the june 12th north Korea Nuclear summit is back on. He had canceled it just a few days back, and theres more. The wall street journal reports tonight the white house is planning for yet another potential summit, this one between trump and russian president vladimir putin. But more on that in just a moment. First, todays announcement on the Nuclear Summit came after the president met with a top north korean official for over an hour in the oval office, something historic in and of itself. Kim yongchol is the north korean leaders righthand man, former intel chief and top Nuclear Weapons negotiator. And as the New York Times points out, hes the first north korean official to set foot in the white house since the year 2000, only the second ever to meet with a sitting american president. After the meeting, President Trump spoke to reporters about denuclearization, but listen carefully as he also here sets expectations. Mr. President , whats your
I think it will be very successful. What left wing groups and their democratic allies have done to judge kavanaugh is nothing short monstrous. I hope we can say no to mob rule by voting to confirm judge kavanaugh. Miss murkowski. Murkowski is a no. I am being told shes not voting to move forward. On this vote, the yeas are 51, the noes are 49. The motion is agreed to. I did not come to a decision on this until walking into the floor this morning. I believe Brett Kavanaugh is a good man. I believe hes a good man. It just may be that in my view hes not the right man for the court at this time. You are planning to vote yes tomorrow . Unless Something Big changed. I dont see what would. But this is a difficult decision for everybody. It really is. So anyway, did our best. Do you think hell get confirmed tomorrow . I would think so. The facts presented do not mean that professor ford was not sexually assaulted that night or at some other time but they do lead me to conclude that the allegat
Country. And the president s hasty uturn is causing confusion at the federal level. Ill read a quote from the washington post. After cbp officials said there would be no referrals to the Justice Department of adults with children caught crossing the border, Justice Department officials became irate because that is want how they understood the policy, according to people familiar with the matter. Lets go to my partner, cal perry from tornillo, texas, what is a tent city. Whats happening behind that barbed wire, in that socalled tent city behind you . Reporter we had clarification yesterday because senator blumenthal and a couple others were able to get on the compound. They were not able to get to where the tents are housing those unaccompanied minors. They were taken into a control room and shown cctv footage. We did learn theyre between 200 and 270 young males between the age of 14 and 18. While that is helpful and clarifying, it does not answer the question as to where are the toddle