Bodyguard raided his office. We have all that breaking news breaking this hour. Lets go outfront. And good evening, im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, the breaking news. Bob muellers special counsels Office Asking to delay the sentencing of the president s former National Security advisor, Michael Flynn. Muellers team in court saying based on the special kocounsel investigation, they need more time. Flynn is a key figure and someone who is cooperating with the special counsel. This news comes as questions grow over who released the surprising list of more than 40 questions that mueller reportedly wants to ask the president of the United States. Five of those questions about flynn. Now, the list of 49 was leaked to the New York Times, the president calling the leak disgraceful. Hmm. Well, then who did it . Well, the New York Times reporter who received the questions seems to suggest it was team trump. What muellers investigators did is they had the president s lawyers come over to the s
Thanks to my colleagues and friends. Two weeks out, this is why i rushed back. I was getting a little concerned. We have Ohio Republican congressman and who knows, this could be the next speaker of the house. We will get the read on that. Always good to have you. Good to be here. Neil the president is busy on behalf of republicans. Our republicans posting a situation with congressman collins, and disarray, what you make of it . Not at all. I think we will keep the house. I think the campaigning president campaigning is a good thing. He was able to win tuesday. Troy was losing into the president came in for a big rally a week and a half ago. He was the one that put troy over the top. The president has had an amazing year and a half. I think he has helped. Im glad he is campaigning today. Neil in ohio, the president has blamed the governor for the tweeting that the very unpopular government of ohio hurt him in the recent win by tampering enthusiasm for a candidate. You agree with that .
Analyst ross garber and cnn chief National Security correspondent jim sciutto. This sounds like a pretty big deal. We know mueller is looking into obstruction of justice. If the president s tweets or public statements bolster that, it could be a problem. No question. If you look at those questions, they ask, for instance, what was the purpose of your july 17 criticism of mr. Sessions . What was the purpose of your september and october statements, including tweets regarding an investigation of mr. Comey . So whats happening here is the special counsel is looking at these tweets, which as you said, these are public statements by a u. S. President. And how they interact with private interactions with the individuals involved. For instance, james comey. He has a conversation with him, asks him questions about the investigation, et cetera, makes Public Comments as well. Do those Public Comments and those private meetings, whatever pressure was perceived to have been placed by the president
President trump finds himself today. Up to his elbows in alligators. After last weeks rebuke in the Midterm Elections, fears that special Counsel Robert Mueller could be closing in and the potential onslaught of subpoenas from the new democratic majority in the house, President Trump is angry and the bad optics of his recent european trip only added to his frustrations. The Washington Post reports now that trumps five days of fury, during his 43 hours in paris over the weekend, quote, trump brooded over the florida recounts and sulked over key races being called for democrats in the Midterm Elections, that he had claimed as a big victory. He erupted at his staff over Media Coverage to skip a ceremony honoring the military sacrifice of world war i. And while the l. A. Times reports that with the certainty that the Incoming Democratic House Majority will go after his tax returns and investigate his actions, and the likelihood of additional indictments by special Counsel Robert Mueller, t
Steve well, it was a busy night. Ainsley yes, it was. Steve u. S. Bank arena cincinnati. Stacked up as high as the fire marshall would allow. Ainsley he said must be democrats that are in office because there are a lot of people throughout in 100degree heat that want to come in and theyre not letting them. Steve rules are rules. Brian two nights of democrats dominating the rules. Time for the president to go into a battleground state saying okay, i have been watching the debates. The president could take notes from night two of debate 2 and know how to hit exactly Barack Obamas policies. Because it was the democrats hammering barack obama and it was the president just did the followup hitting last night. Ainsley he said i cant believe that they really bashed president obama last night and the night before. And then he also was talking about those four congresswomen. The freshman congresswomen and slamming them as well. Brian but not as much. The democrats spent more time attacking bara