parties. if you read the new york times report on this today, it seems that perhaps her original attorney was playing both sides of the fence on this. you also have the issue of whether or not michael cohen was working behind the scenes, even though she thought she was dealing with american media,/national enquirer. and you also have the facts that there are some parts of her story that are out there in the public space in a way that is different than excuse me, i was going to say stephanie clifford. aka stormy daniels case. and a third one, summer zervos has filed another lawsuit against the president. three women are going after the president in this legal battle. how much of a price potentially is he paying right now politically speaking or will pay? so let s separate this out. we know what the country knew about donald trump when it elected donald trump president. they didn t think he was truth teller. they thought he lied about things. he wasn t seen as sort of the moral l
mccabe denies any wrongdoing and says he was singled out as part of the administration s war with the special counsel. and now, sources tell abc news mccabe sat down for an interview with mueller s team and has turned over memos of his conversations with the president. tonight, the white house insists the president has no plans to fire robert mueller. but many in washington, like republican senator lindsey graham, remain concerned. if he tried to do that, that would be the beginning of the end of his presidency. but cecilia, as you reported, the white house trying to ease concern over on the hill, saying the president has no plans to fire mueller. but back to the other headline you reported on tonight, about the nation s opioid crisis. the president had this to say today about executing some drug dealers. the ultimate penalty has to be the death penalty. now, maybe our country s not ready for that. it s possible. it s possible that our country s not ready for that. and i can unde
the dow losing 335 points to finish at 24,610. we turn next tonight here to president trump traveling to new hampshire today, talking tough about the opioid crisis, calling for the death penalty for some drug dealers. he also lashed out against robert mueller all weekend long, with tweets naming mueller. it has both republicans and democrats concerned tonight. and here s abc s senior white house correspondent cecilia vega. reporter: in new hampshire today, president trump toeing a tough line on the nation s opioid crisis. praising other countries for executing drug dealers, and proposing the same right here at home. we have got to get tough. this isn t about nice anymore. reporter: right there in the crowd, his embattled attorney general. for today, back in the president s good graces. jeff sessions, who s here with us now, feels so strongly about this. reporter: president trump getting tough after a weekend lashing out against the special counsel and his russia probe. the
things, that s some there is subjective judgment there. but i really can t say. the reason i started the discussion this way is to get the context outside-in of what s creating this pressure. andy mccabe says this is about discrediting the probe and discrediting the fbi. john brennan obviously one of the former chiefs of the intelligence community, says that s what s going on here, and he blames trump. sure enough, trump enters the frame in a whole new way, naming mueller, saying this probe should have never started. and you have this real echo and rebound from his own lawyers. one says it s time for this probe to end. the other says let s be very clear we re going to cooperate and nobody wants to end anything. what do you think is going on here? is there any danger, or is this just politics? well, i don t know. you want to know what the president is thinking about, the best barometer of that are his tweets. he gets on a tear about things,
he can do what he has been doing without naming mueller. he s used all these. now he s making it clear. he can do that and still leave his mind unmade to this point with whether or not he will fire bob mueller. the thing that i always say to people who say he will never do it. it would be political suicide. listen to lindsey graham or orrin hatch. he revels in doing things people tell him not to do. does that include this? i don t know. but i do think we should avoid the idea that donald trump won t do something with lindsey graham and orrin hatch might not like it. that s not who he believes his