Did he just confirm hes under investigation for obstruction of justice . Plus, dazed and accused . The president attacks his Deputy Attorney general. Will Rod Rosenstein be the next to step aside . And the cure for cat scratch fever. While im obsessed with rocker ted nugents new political pitch. This is mtp daily and it starts right now. Good friday evening. Im chuck todd here in washington and welcome to mtp daily. The special counsels investigation is, indeed, expanding. And in response, the president has basically declared war on his own Justice Department. Or it looked that way this morning. Right now everyone in washington was waiting to see if Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein either recuses himself, resigns, or gets fired. This comes after the president seemingly targeted rosenstein personally today for the fallout after it was rosenstein, of course, who officially appointed bob mueller as a special counsel in reaction to the comey ouster. The president today tweeted, i am
The idea of firing the special counsel. In some trouble as mr. Trumps assessment of Steve Scalises condition. The republican undergoing a third surgery hours after he and other lawmakers were targeted. This hour, we have new video, new information on the investigation. And field of unity. Were standing by for the first pitch as members of Congress Play ball, both parties making a statement about bipartisanship, refusing to let deranged gunman call off their big game. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Breaking news this hour, President Trump back on twitter tonight blasting talk of obstruction. Vice president mike pence also hiring an outside attorney as the special counsels investigation widens and threatens to reach the oval office. The Washington Post is reporting that mueller is investigating the president for possible obstruction of justice. Cnn has learned tha
Ed, what do we say . Good evening, a pretty good day for President Trump because top intel officials testified as sort of a preamble to this on the hill and suggested the commander in chief did not improperly pressure them to interfere with this russian probe and the teaser we are getting of james comeys testimony tomorrow that is backing up the commander in chiefs account that he was not under investigation. And even when comey will detail his february Oval Office Meeting with the president , where mr. Trump asked him about the probe of Michael Flynn being let go, they did not share this with fbi agents. Comey says. Signaling even he admits its a high bar to prove obstruction of justice. Even so, there could be real political damage to this as they testify about the january dinner, for example. He will testify. A few minutes later, the president said, i need loyalty, i expect loyalty. I did not move or change my facial expression in any way. During the awkward silence that followed, w
What it does, and this is a classified report, dated just a few weeks ago, may, 2017. It gives more details of russian probing attacks of Voter Registration systems, even some election officials. We knew about some of this before the election in states you may remember. We reported this in arizona, in illinois, in florida. But this gives more details about that. The nsa has been looking into this. They found more information, and they compiled a report to say, heres where we saw attempts at penetration, rather, of these voting systems, registration systems, et cetera. Gives them more information, but it does not change their assessment that youll remember from january, anderson, that said that while they did steal emails, et cetera, they did an influence operation. The russians were not able and did not attempt, it appears, to change vote counts during the election. And in terms of the person accused of leaking the document, what else do we know, other than her name, which is apparentl
Tried to derail an investigation into his National Security adviser and preetdly lied in its aftermath. This morning well talk to two members of the Intel Committee who led that line of questioning, democrat joe manchin and republican Susan Collins. Good morning everyone. Its friday, june 9th, welcome to morning joe on capitol hill. With us we have columnist and associate editor for the Washington Post David Ignatius. Senior political analyst Mark Halperin and New York Times reporter michael schmidt. Good to have you all on board. What a fascinating day. It was fascinating. It seems like a bad day for the president , and the spinning by his lawyer and his press secretary or one of them was stunning to me, absolutely stunning. I said it all day yesterday. Ill say it all day today. If you want obstruction of justice you can look at what donald trump himself said to lester holt and what his spokesperson said, what he said to the russians, and then you can build around that if you want to