monday after july 4th. i ll be announcing it. we will have more on the president s list of nominees just ahead, but we begin with the war between the trump white house and the department of justice, specifically the president s own deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein. the man overseeing the special counsel s russia investigation. the president and his allies in congress have been hammering rosenstein over this mueller inquiry, and the house has given the deputy attorney general until july 6th to turn over some sensitive documents related to that investigation. some house republicans have floated the threat of holding rosenstein in contempt of congress, a potential first step to his possible impeachment, if he doesn t comply with this request. this afternoon, trump was asked about that. i think the whole thing is going to work out. i think that he ll give what is necessary. i really believe it s going to work out very easily between rod and between the rest of the
announce his choice for the supreme court next month. i ll be announcing it the monday after july 4th. i ll be announcing it on the 9th. we will have more on the president s list of nominees just ahead, but we begin with the war between the trump white house and the department of justice, specifically the president s own deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, the man overseeing the special counsel s russia investigation. the president and his allies in congress have been hammering rosenstein over this mueller inquiry, and the house has given the deputy attorney general until july 6th to turn over some sensitive documents related to that investigation. some house republicans have floated the threat of holding rosenstein in contempt of congress, a potential first step to his possible impeachment, if he doesn t comply with this request. this afternoon, trump was asked about that. i think the whole thing is going to work out.
careless with respect to the handling of classified information. he never tells the american people that there is an investigation of donald trump and russian influence in his campaign, which we re now seeing the end of with the mueller inquiry. this is the complete reversal of the facts and of the reading, any sane, clear-headed, unbiased person reading this report would say jim comey was insubordinate, but what he did helped donald trump. not the opposite. sandra: the president called this a total disaster for james comey, his minions, and sadly for the f.b.i. he said i think comey was the ring leader of this whole den of thieves. so here s the thing, when he says that comey exonerated hillary clinton, you go through the report, and you see all the things that they took out about hillary clinton and her compromising of classified information. that was not made public, and the big bombshell in this report
investigation? he said that to the sinister lawyer who was an important figure in donald trump s early career. the issue of whether the president used his power to obstruct an investigation of him and his campaign is at the heart of the mueller inquiry. whether that you know, whether this meeting is further evidence of that is obviously something that mueller should look into and apparently is. rudy guiliani says unrecused says take responsibility for it and handle it correctly. robert mueller may be the barometer can we say, that s just false. recusal means not participate. what giuliani is saying is completely false. jeffrey toobin, ken cuccinelli, thank you. appreciate it. alisyn? north korea s former spy chief coming to new york to meet
magnificently corrupt previous government in the ukraine. ukraine s new government obviously had some information about paul manafort in those previous business dealings in that country, and they had previously been providing that information to the united states. well, today paul wood is reporting at the bbc is that when ukraine made that decision that they would stop providing evidence to the mueller inquiry, they would stop helping effectively with the paul manafort prosecution, that decision by ukraine s government followed almost immediately a visit to the white house by ukraine s new president. a visit to the white house that was reportedly arranged on behalf of the ukrainian president by michael cohen, president trump s long-time personal attorney. now nbc has not verified this reporting. but what paul wood of the bbc is reporting is that michael cohen