report was posted in the new york times, the president denies it. then we published the story. the president was asked. he described it as fake news. but you gave the white house every chance to several days. rebut. it s normal at times. you find the white house responds after you publish. they want to see it in its entirety. you gave them the details. we did. we gave them what we were planning to report. there was not response. let s talk a little, shimon, about the scope of all of this. is there concern at the white house right now the justice department for that matter, over the strength of mueller s overall obstruction case? i think overall, they have consistently been concerned about the mueller investigation. i think what mark s piece with the new york times lays out, the biggest concern i think
interviewed by robert mueller and that the special counsel has contemporaneous notes or memos he wrote about list interehis i with president trump. how significant is that? very significant. agents such as director mccabe are trained to record in contemporaneous recording conversations they have in connection with investigations that are ongoing. that s compelling evidence to support his interviewed is serious. coming up, evidence of obstruction. we re digging into the president s reported attempts to interfere in the michael cohen investigation. could it wind up in mueller s report? we will talk about roger stone s potential punishment as he gets ready to face the judge that he appeared to threaten on social media. i hear it in the background and she s watching too, saying
let s get more on the major new revelations by the former acting fbi chief andrew mccabe. mccabe is confirming, david, that he has been interviewed by robert mueller, the special counsel, and has said he has given mueller and his team all of the contemporaneous notes about his meetings, his exchanges with the president. how significant is that ? it s significant. it means there s more information potentially coming from mccabe than we know from his his interview and his book and statements he made recently, some op-eds. it s significant because you have these writings that are contemporaneous recordings of what his reactions were and what his comments were to and from president trump in various meetings. there will be questions like there were with james comey when he testified about whether he
the white house counsel review and determined that there is not an illegal issue but rather a trust issue. reporter: the report coming amid headlines that andrew mccabe, who was fired last spring, briefed congressional leadership about the counterintelligence investigation he launched into president trump. the purpose was to let our congressional leadership know exactly what we had been doing, opening a case of this nature. not something that an fbi director, not something an acting fbi director would do by yourself. reporter: that no one raised concerns. i told congress what we had done. did anyone october? no one objected. reporter: the president had private conversations about attacking the mueller campaign, something he has done over 1,000 times. kaitlan collins reporting
one of the things he s probes is important when you have a secretive debt leverage businessman as donald trump in office. he may have committed zero financial crimes and yet he might be the most leveraged president in american history that foreign interests, foreign bankers have all sorts of power over him that we don t know. i think it s highly unlikely he committed zero financial crimes. it s part of my job to acknowledge that. as important as the mueller investigation is, it s not sufficient because we re trying to find out not just crimes but threats to our democracy. for example, one of the things that the house intelligence committee will look into, it s not just compromise from russia. it s compromise from all sorts of foreign countries. we just learned that security specialists with the fbi recommended that jared kushner not be given a security clearance because of possible compromise from foreign