I am Shannon Bream in washington. Its true if true, its a bombshell we are starting with. Rudy giuliani says special ponds or Robert Mueller is promising to follow Justice Department guidelines that a sitting president cannot be indicted. Has implications for the Russia Collusion probe and may come as a disappointing to the president s critics. Kristin fisher have the details. This is a Significant Development but it still doesnt mean that President Trump is unclear. What it means is that according to his attorney, the Special Convalesce concluded that he did not have the power to indict a sitting president. Robert mueller could recommend impeachment to the House Of Representatives but an indictment Rudy Giuliani said tonight that mueller told him two weeks ago that his team will follow the Department Of Justice guidelines which has a sitting president cannot be indicted. I think that they have the facts on which they can write their report. Going to write a fair report, write it. If y
With their actions described as conniving, four justice department employees based at the Gqeberha magistrate’s court have been convicted of theft after they pocketed the bail money paid by accused people.
going to give a speech directed to justice department employees, but also the wider public. it will be streamed on the justice department s website addressing where the department is at with the investigation and prosecution of those responsible. i think it s going to be most notable, frankly, not for what he s going to say, which is broad platitudes about protecting democracy and the rule of law, but for what he s not going to say. which is any sort of information on specific people or charges at issue. he is under a lot of pressure, intensifying pressure in recent weeks, to hold accountable not just those who breached the capitol sort of low-level trump supporters, members of maybe far-right groups but leaders and organizers up to and including president trump himself. so far the justice department, washington post review of all charges the justice department has brought, and there have been hundreds of them, found most of those being charged are jut low-level kind of one-off peopl
rudy giuliani claiming special counsel robert mueller has told him where the trump legal team that the president is immune from indictment. all right, let s turn to former deputy assistant attorney general under george w. bush tom dupree. great to have you with us. this sounds like he s following the path that most people would expect. what does it mean, what does that mean for the president? what it means this indictment is off the table. i think a lot of people anticipated this. there is a binding opinion from the office of legal counsel which is a component of the justice department that binds justice department employees, including bob mueller that is you cannot indict a sitting president. i think most people felt that mueller would adhere to that requirement and that decision. which he now apparently has said he will. but the important thing here i think it is that almost certainly after the president s opponents are disappointed that mueller has punctured the balloon and that t
time a lot here, not just our network but cable news. thanks for taking time with us this morning. i m joined by joe canson, the author of the great new book, man of the world the further endeavors of bill clinton, and curt iken wald, senior write for news week, and steve cortez, a power panel here to further discuss this. i m going to start with you on this, joe. sort of where matthew left off. which is the idea that there is protocol that there is a way that department of justice advises the fbi to deal with ongoing investigations. you wrote about that in the national memo this morning. elaborate, if you could. you know, joy, in the last election, attorney general holder put out a memo to all justice department employees that you can find on the internet, linked in my piece, which instructs them in months before the election in 2012, which instructed them in how to handle a situation like this. where they had to decide how to