state antony blinken made two unannounced stops in the middle east. he met with palestinian president mahmoud abbas in the west bank and traveled to bagdad for high-stakes talk with iraq s prime minister. blinken has held a series of top-level talks with arab leaders as israel intensifies its attacks against hamas. cnn s jim sciutto is in northern israel. you have new reporting that secretary blinken is not the only u.s. official visiting that region. reporter: that s right, cia director bill burns is traveling to the mid east as well. a u.s. officials tells me the following, that burns is traveling to several countries in the middle east where he s meeting with multiple intelligence counterparts and country leaders. the u.s. official said they ll discuss support for hostages negotiations and u.s. commitment to continuing to deter state and non-state actors from widening the conflict. that particular message has been a consistent one from when president biden first commente
Lets get after it. We have a new investigation by the New York Times, telling me to rush over, i cant with my neck. The investigation takes a look at how much fred trump loved his song donald and his other children and hated paying taxes. It is a granular probe, 100,000 pages of filings, documents, depositions, experts, insiders all coming together to paint a picture of outright fraud according to the paper, in part allowing President Trump to increase the massive fortune he received from his father fred. Whats the headline for the president , selfmade my eye. Trump says he hit a home run in business. He wasnt just born on second base as we all know. His father carried him around third and threw him toward home. Trump has long insisted that his father provided almost no financial help, and a small loan of 1 million. Take a listen. My father gave me a small loan of 1 million. I came into manhattan, i had to pay him back with interest. I started with a 1 million loan, i built it into a b
If you had been on these phone calls, don, you would have your head would have fallen off from laughling. Id call him up, tim obrien and i, our producers have been through all this stuff. Heres the best number that we have. This is what youre worth. He would double it every time. No matter what the number was. You report that. We would have to negotiate amongst ourselves to low ball him just to hope that when he doubled the number it was closer to what our reporting was and he would never show us anything. Like an idiot, i threw out the letter that he sent that was clearly written by him, although on legal stationery. At the time, where am i going to keep this . Who knew he was going to be president . My producer at the time, big shot guy in charge of all investigative reporting at abc, remembers the same thing. Hes about the sell. Its the same thing writers and people who work with fortunate, the richest people, they tell the exact or similar stories that you tell. But youre right. He
Rosenstein discussed wearing a wire around President Trump, remember that . When he was talking with top officials at the fbi, they said it was a joke. Well, according to cnn sources, it happened, and then came an even bigger development. Sure to enrage the right, but very important to process, Andrew Mccabe, then the acting director at the fbi, took the extraordinary step of opening an obstruction of justice investigation, even before bob mueller was brought into the picture. Now, tomorrow the mueller team is expected to reveal more of what it knows about Paul Manafort and michael cohen. So lets gavel cuomos court. It is in session with laura coats and ken cuccinelli. Its good to have you here. Lets start with the rosenstein information, really Andrew Mccabe, laura. Our sources say that rosenstein was kidding, not kidding about the need to surveiler. That is backed up that Andrew Mccabe felt, after everything that involved comeys dismissal by the president , an obstruction of justice
We have breaking news on the eve of what is already a big day in the Mueller Investigation. New reporting tonight on the investigation we didnt know much about, an investigation launched in the days after fbi director james comey was fired, but before Robert Mueller was named as special counsel. Were getting new details on the frantic few days that led to that and muellers appointment. Pamela brown joins us now. Explain what is this other investigation . Reporter anderson, we have learned that in the days after President Trump fired fbi director james comey, Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein and top fbi officials viewed trump as a leader that needed to be reined in. They discussed a range of options. Options, and they took the step of opening an obstruction of justice investigation on donald trump, even before special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed. This is according to multiple sources, and it was an idea were told the fbi has previously considered. But the probe wasnt open