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foreign relations committees and kor responsibilities and specialists are standing by with full coverage. let s get to the breaking news much president trump still wants to meet with robert mueller as the russian probe legal team suffers a big shakeup. let s go to our legal correspondent, jeff, the latest? reporter: the revolve door extends to the legal team as well, raising serious issues he wants to have a more aggressive approach here in the russian investigation. all of that, one key question is hanging over this. will the president testify to the special counsel? i asked the president that directly today in the diplomatic reception room, he looked me square in the eye, and he said yes. president trump has spent months blasting the russian investigation. tonight, he insists he still wants to sit down and answer questions from special counsel robert mueller. mr. president, would you like would you like to testify to special counsel robert mueller, sir? thank you. you wou
where you should have. looking back, do you feel you should have turned over more stones? no, we don t. there are fishing expeditions available across a scope of things we do not believe are productive and getting to the answers we needed. we re not running a criminal investigation. reporter: why not hold bannon in contempt? that was an open question for today, and at this time, i don t think it s effective, and, you know, we held holder in contempt. he still doesn t appear to be too hamper by that, and so at this stage in the game, i m not sure what that proves. reporter: do you believe that clinton was hurt by the russians, by an active effort by putin? i don t think there s any question she was hurt. there s no question that putin does not like hillary clinton, and whether or not that transferred into her not to be
declined to allow it to happen in open session, the meeting today, and refused to hold former chief strategist in c contempt for refusing to answer questions, even though refusal frustrated republicans, themselves, threatened to hold him in contempt, but republicans instead push forward with their own report and findings from the investigation that s gone on for more than a year. in their report, they voted today, today along party lines to declassify a number of conclusions, including that there was no collusion between the trump campaign and russian officials, and they also disputed a key finding in the intelligence commute that vladimir putin directed a cyber campaign to help president trump. this is the republican conclusion, that democrats are furiously rejecting. i talked to the republican running the russian investigation about the democratic demands to reopen the investigation. democrats say you ignored so many areas in the investigation, not issues a number of subpoenas
whether he actually will. the president was not in the mood to take other questions. as he faced another major shakeup on the legal team. john dowd s lead lawyer on the investigation resigned today amid disagreements about the direction of trump s legal strategy. the departure is two days after the president fired long term attorn attorney. 11 days ago, the president wrote this i m very happy with my lawyers. they are doing a great job and shown conclusively there was no collusion with russia. as the investigation intensifies, cnn learned the president believes he needs to take the reigns of his own legal strategy. dowd resistant of the president sitting down with mueller. in a statement to cn n, dowd said, i love the president and wish him well. meanwhile, the president slapped tariffs to the tune of $50 billion for unfair trade