rioters with the story we heard on tuesday. i informs the vicinity and they said something to the fact like i don t care that they have weapons, they re not here to hurt me, let me people in, they can march to the capital from here. president trump was aware that a number of the individuals in the crowd had weapons and were wearing body armor. and here is what president trump instructed the crowd to do. we re going to walk down, i ll be there with you. we re going to walk down to the capitol. former chief of staff said that was a claim changer. i have seen him try to bring violence with no violence at all. but after yesterday when he testified he knew there was guns on the property and he still encouraged people to go to the capitol that certainly changes my mind. so the question now is does that change other people s minds? or if they heard something in her testimony that might be a smoking gun. one of the key potential witnesses now is very clearly pat cipollone
Disciplined or removed from office only by the personal action of the Attorney General. But according to the white house, the president has been advised he, he can terminate Robert Mueller all by himself. Does he believe he has the power to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller . Certainly believes he has the power to do so. Most legal experts believe he would have to order Deputy Attorney general rosenstein to fire mueller and corefuse. I know a number of individuals in the Legal Community and including at the department of justice said he has the power to do so but i dont have any further announcements. They told me, ive asked. They said its rosenstein oversees is the Special Counsel and only he has the power to fire the Special Counsel. Again, weve been advised that the president certainly has the power to make that decision. I cant go anything beyond that. Weve been advised the president certainly has the power to make the decision. To be clear, the warrants that were executed agains
violence with no violence at all. but after yesterday when he testified he knew there was guns on the property and he still encouraged people to go to the capitol that certainly changes my mind. so the question now is does that change other people s minds? or if they heard something in her testimony that might be a smoking gun. one of the key potential witnesses now is very clearly pat cipollone, the former white house attorney who said they thought they would be charged with every crime imaginable. liz cheney said it is time for him to testify on the record. i want to bring in mike the schmidt. peter baker is the chief white house correspondent for the
bannon both ending up with white house jobs. trump praised manafort on the campaign trail in 2016 a number of times. i have fantastic people. paul manafort just came on. he s great. he doesn t have to do there. he wanted to. paul, cory, hope, i mean these people what we ve been doing has been incredible. and paul manafort has done an amazing job. he s here some place. where s paul? paul manafort. oh, good. you made it. and ken, is there any sense around the president, around his legal team how they look at manafort right now the? well, steve, you asked the question earlier what, could paul manafort give mueller. mike schmidt answered we don t know. informed speculation suggests he could be a crucial witness in this question of whether the trump campaign coordinated with the russian election interference. he came into the campaign with significant russian ties.
than 700 pages of messages sent using encrypted programs on phones seized from cohen. if reconstructed 16 pages from the contents of a shredding machine, comes as the wall street journal reports cohen is being investigated for positive illegal lobbying. there are signs he may be closer to cooperating with prosecutors. he believes the president and his allies are turning against him and he is increasingly feeling isolated from mr. trump. he has become irritated by statements made in the media by the president s lawyer rudy giuliani. here s how the president answered questions about cohen this morning. i always liked michael cohen. i haven t spoken to mike in a long time. is he still your lawyer. no, he s not my lawyer. but i always liked michael. he s a good person. excuse me, do you mind if i talk? you re asking me a question. i m trying to ask it. just want to know if you re worried he s going to cooperate with federal investigators.