different events in north carolina. the star reports that trump s comments were viewed by canadian negotiators as evidence for their suspicions that the u.s. was not making a legitimate effort to compromise. the star also reported that canadian officials confronted u.s. officials about the remarks during a meeting friday morning. they described that meeting as a high level meeting. thank you. arthel: there s a wave of speculation that a bombshell is coming before labor day in special counsel robert mueller s russia investigation. this as president trump ramps up attacks on the justice department and attorney general jeff sessions. our justice department and our fbi have to start doing their job and doing it right and doing it now. because people are angry.
oligarch, deripaska. you know, got a lot of money, lot of connections to vladimir putin, and it s interesting that now you have somebody inside the justice department in bruce ohr who was working with a man in deripaska who is known as putin s oligarch. so you hear the president saying there s collusion on the other side, yet it doesn t seem to get any traction. that s right. the longer this investigation goes on, the more that we find detrimental information about the doj and fbi in the way they handled the investigation and less detrimental information about the president. bruce ohr created a back channel with christopher steele who of course was compiling this dossier funded by the democrats. when the fbi had already said they didn t find steele to be credible in that he had had improper contact with the media. so everything in this investigation seems to be undermining the president s point that it s been biased against him from the start. bruce ohr s contacts, the peter strzok a
arthel: garrett has more from our washington bureau. reporter: president trump continues to go after the fbi and his own justice department for what he sees as political bias. today the president criticized the foreign intelligence surveillance courts which approved the warrants to surveil members of his campaign, tweeting a quote from judicial watch, ended saying you ve got corruption at the doj and fbi. the leadership of the doj and fbi are completely out to lunch in terms of exposing and holding those accountable who are responsible for that corruption. after several weeks of publicly blasting his attorney general and raising speculation he might be fired, on thursday, president trump said jeff sessions would not be fired before the midterm elections. but just a few hours later at a campaign rally in evansville, indiana, the president is once again taking aim at the agencies that sessions oversees. our justice department and our fbi have to start doing their job and doing it right