Questions under oath, answering 100 . But what would his lawyers say now . Heres abcs chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl tonight. Reporter as the president traveled to nashville today to talk up his tax cut, a potentially Major Development in the russia investigation. Abc news has confirmed that special Counsel Robert Mueller met with the president s lawyers and told them he is likely to request an interview with the president himself. News of that december meeting was first reported by the washington post. In the past, the president sounded almost eager to tell mueller his side of the story. Would you be willing to speak under oath to give your version of the events . 100 . Reporter so if Robert Mueller wanted to speak with you about that, youd be willing to talk to him . Id be glad to tell you exactly what i just told you, jon. Reporter he was asked about it again just this weekend. If Robert Mueller asks you to come and speak with his committee personally, are you committ
Protected status for seven years under the Obama Administration, the leader finally getting answers, joins us live. Welcome to fox news night, im Shannon Bream in washington. New tonight, capping a week which began with the state of the Union Address and about to close with the release of that controversial surveillance memo, President Trump appears to be going on offense against his critics. These new comments coming in just a short while ago speaking at the Rnc Winter Meeting right here in washington. The name is resist, thats all they do is resist. I dont know if theyre good at, they cant be too good at because we are passing a lot of things. Shannon those comments directed at democrats but they white house is poised to further
infuriate its critics with the release of a memo of alleged surveillance. Ed henry joins us that story. Breaking tonight, two sr. Republicans are pushing back at reports that this republican memo will not live up to the hype that there are four separate explo
People do once they get here and people who are more likely to succeed will get preference and those who are less likely to succeed divulge. Whats wrong with that . Took a very important points. The first is that the United States is not a company, its not a school, its a nation. Second point, we want to make sure that we scrutinize every person coming here into the country, we want to make sure that they dont have any terrorist background, we want to make sure they dont have a violent criminal record. No one disputes that. Lets get to this point, very important, the United Nations ws created mainly in the declaration of independence because the kings restricted immigration, because the king of england said states, colonies, you can no longer bring people from other countries. What happened . American revolution, a beautiful idea of this nation came about. Tucker [laughs] the American Revolution was spurred okay. [laughs]
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Clear after the president spoke. But there is no doubt the president would like to see this summit get back on track at some point, but it wont be on june 12th. Jonathan karl starting us off tonight. Jon, thank you. Next, to that other major story were following, Breaking News about Harvey Weinstein. Sources tell abc news he will turn himself in to new York City Police tomorrow to Face Criminal Charges related to alleged Sexual Assault. A stunning fall, seven months after those first reports that unleashed a flood of accusations and sparked a movement. Heres abcs linsey davis. Reporter Former Hollywood Heavyweight turned poster child for the me too movement, Harvey Weinstein, will turn himself in tomorrow and Face Criminal Charges. Weinstein has been under investigation by the Manhattan District Attorneys Office for months, stemming from accusations of Sexual Misconduct by actresses lucia evans and paz de la huerta. Evans says in 2004 weinstein forced her to perform a sexual act on him
The New York Times reports this afternoon, was approved by Trump Appointee Rod Rosenstein. Quote, in addition to mr. Rosenstein, all of the top Law Enforcement officials involved in the raid are republicans. The times also offering more details this afternoon about what the fbi was looking for in that raid. Quote, the search arent carried out by The Public Corruption Unit of the manhattan federal Attorneys Office seeks information about Karen Mcdougal an ex Playboy Model. She was paid 150,000 by American Media inc. , the enquirers parent company, whose Chief Executive is a friend of mr. Trumps. Our friend joyce vance described the raid as a, quote, bomb, on trumps front porch. Been in agreement that if the president wanted to Fire Bob Mueller, if he wanted to change course here, then he had to essentially get somebody to do it for him. That somebody would have had to have been Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney general and for all intents and purposes, the Acting Attorney General in t