By now that the Department Of Justice is not going to be extorted. Doctors note. The president s former long time personal physician admits what many suspected at the time, the glowing medical report he issued during the campaign was dictated by his patient, donald j. Trump. That letter that showed up about his health rgs he wrote it state visit. President trump making his first trip to the State Department to swear in his top diplomat, mike pompeo. Ive absolute confidence he will do an incredible job as the nations 70th secretary of state. Good day. President trump is reacting to a strange of headlines about Robert Muellers tense negotiations with the president s legal team and the Deputy Attorney general overseeing the russia investigation. Tweeting the probe is a rigged system and then threatening that at some point i will have no choice but to use the powers granted to the presidency and get involved. Thats a clear response to Rod Rosensteins unambiguous push back against House Rep
Hes said the word spy 17 times since last friday. Adam schiff who was at the second meeting said he heard no evidence of a spy in the campaign today. There is no evidence to support any allegation that the fbi or any Intelligence Agency placed a spy in the Trump Campaign or otherwise failed to follow appropriate procedures and protocols. Well, cnns chief Political Correspondent dana bash joins us now. Shes got new reporting on Rudy Giulianis takes on the briefings today. I know you talked to giuliani about emmitt flood and how he ended up in the briefings. What did he say . Thats right. I talked to him a couple of times tonight before coming on. I did ask him if emmitt went to these meetings at the behest of the president or maybe under orders of the president . He says he hasnt told him the answer is yes, but Rudy Giuliani tells me he assumes that was the reason why flood went, because
the president , his client, and the person who emmitt flood now works for inside the white house wan
and interesting. i think the subject we have been seizing on, and sort of ruminating on here, is this apparent massive discrepancy canyon between what william barr testified and what mueller said today about this olc guidance piece of this. where it seems that they are at complete loggerheads on that question. i know a lot of people are wondering, was mueller coming out today and effectively accusing barr of lying about that exchange that they had in private? and that might be the case, except for the fact that mueller went out of his way to praise barr, to appreciate how he made his decisions in this, and to endorse his good faith. lisa: but barr was also not alone, as well. william barr said rod rosenstein was at that march 5th meeting. so i don t get rod rosenstein on the record of what was said? clearly bob mueller is saying something drastically different than what william barr has testified before congress. i would also say to robert mueller, if you want to slit his work st
mueller that that was not the case. only mueller now he is the last piece of this puzzle. he needs to be asked specifically, did those conversations happen question because the attorney general lying about them? i would be shocked if his answer was yes. katie: the dealer gsa it was never. but capitol hill and the politics, this is your area of expertise. how did they do with us now question rick will be the far left of the party, or is nancy pelosi really going to have a challenge trying to get the democrats in the middle of the road, so to speak? none aboard the impeachment train? lisa: two guys point, rod rosenstein was also in the meeting. i assume other officials as well who could testify as to what was actually said at that march 5th meeting. regarding capitol hill, up until last week, if you look to the democrats have been calling for impeachment or at least the start of the impeachment investigation it s been these democrats in really heavily-leading democratic distric
to have a summit between two leaders, between the president of the united states and the leader of north korea. do you think that played a big role? i mean in the administration, this was usually summits are started from the bottom up. there s a lot of groundwork that s done, a lot of meetings, weeks, months, if not years in some cases and the two leaders meet and shake hands and sign something. do you think it was partly that there were a lot of details to work out? certainly. we were not prepared to have this summit just a few weeks away. but i have to say i think kim jong-un was actually not planning to cancel the meeting by this statement that was made by his other deputy. they were actually trying to signal to washington they were very displeased about all this talk about libya which is nightmare scenario with libya. they didn t appreciate this talk, they weren t going to cave