The texas coast. Hurricane harvey is big. Its slowmoving. And it does have the potential to deliver epic amounts of storage surge and rain to heavily industrial and highly populated parts of texas all along the gulf of mexico. And obviously, the eyes of the entire country are on this enormous storm. And of course the millions of people in its path on this friday night. Were also seeing what this Trump White House is doing as this lifethreatening storm barrels down on the mainland United States. For the white house tonight, the event of this storm means it has been time to make the ban on transgender troops official, to announce this blockbuster news, the resignation of the very controversial adviser sebastianr to the president. He came to the white house with ties to groups that call islam ism a murderous religion. Within this very past hour, as you may have heard, as the nation watches what is now a category 4 hurricane in texas, the Trump White House announces a president ial pardon
Counsels probe, Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein is the only person standing out there between President Trump and Robert Mueller. His defense of mueller and the Justice Department have made him a prime target of the right wing. However, rosenstein has was also instrumental to the white house in may of last year when President Trump decided to fire fbi director james comey. It was Rod Rosenstein who ultimately drafted that memo that the president used to justify comeys firing. In an explosive story tonight, the New York Times is now reporting that rosenstein told colleagues he believed he was used. Quote, in the days after the fbi director james comey was fired last year, Rod Rosenstein repeatedly expressed anger about how the white house used him to rationalize the firing, saying the experience damaged his reputation, according to four people familiar with his outbursts. Well, those sources describe the Deputy Attorney general as seemingly conflicted. Quote, rosenstein alternate
Glosser how part of the impetus for doing this is stephen mill or the stump for trump was invoking his Family History to talk about his ancestors as if they might have been pro trump or Trump Supporters and that was too much for his family to stomach and they starred telling their story publicly. That was something to watch. Breaking news about Robert Muellers testimony to the house judiciary and Intelligence Committee and we will get to that in a moment. If you are going to follow the democratic debates and figure out which approach to health care is the best. The biden approach of strengthening the Affordable Care act or medicare for all, none of those are possible if the democrats dont have 60 votes in the senate. Right now they are 13 votes shy of 60 votes in the san jose. They are four votes shy of knocking Mitch Mcconnell out of the leaders position and installing chuck schumer. This is by far the most election coming up, but the second most important elections are the United Sta
To them, say that the report is more damaging than what bill barr laid out in his memo. And theres this from the Washington Post. Quote, members of muellers team have complained to Close Associates that the evidence they gathered on obstruction was alarming and significant. Thats not all for President Trump. The new democratic majority is flexing its oversight muscles in a very real way right now. Not only with subpoenas, as we discussed yesterday, for the full Mueller Report, but also now demanding the president s tax returns. The democratic chairman going straight to the irs to get them. The president , youll be not surprised at all to hear, says hes not inclined to hand those over. Still. Lets start with this tension over the Mueller Report. Jessica schneider is at the Justice Department joining me now. Jessica, the Justice Department is just now putting out a statement about this reporting coming out in the New York Times and the Washington Post. What do you have . Well, the depart
Principal associate deputy and the office of Legal Counsel that had dealings with the special counsels office. They had knowledge of a number of the episodes and some of the thinking of the special counsels office. Right after march 5th, we started discussing what the implications of this were and how we would view. You made the decision when . Probably on sunday, the 24th. That was the day the letter came out. Yes. You didnt make the decision until the letter came out. You must have told somebody how the write the letter. When did you decide that there was no obstruction . The 24th. Okay. When did you get the first draft of the Mueller Report . The first it wasnt a draft. We got the final. The first version that you saw. The only version i saw. The only version. 22nd. You told senator harris you made your decision on the obstruction charge, you and rosenstein, based on the Mueller Report. Did i correctly infer you made it between the 22nd and the 24th . Well we had had a lot of discus