mississippi. that s been in the news because of immigration and the i.c.e. raids, and then after that arkansas. he did address the call from many people to get out of the presidential race and run for senate here in texas against senator cornyn. he said today that he has no intention of doing that, because again, as you heard him say, that does not get to what he believes is the root of the problem, president trump. leyla santiago, great reporting. thank you so much. also the news overnight, six police officers wounded in that standoff in philadelphia. next, a pennsylvania congresswoman will join me. we ll talk about a lot, including if she thinks the president can get republicans to move on background checks. fact is, every insurance company hopes you drive safely.
and one bit of news overnight, more could be coming shortly. that is correct. it seems the president is not content to stop with revocation of john brennan s security clearance. the president says he wants to take the clearances, they have either participated in the russia probe or they criticized him. critics say the move smax cks o authoritarianism. no president in recent years has taken security clearances like this but the president seems intent he wants to continue doing that. you also have much more on the ticktock of how that this happened. sarah sanders, the white house press secretary saying do it now, do it wednesday because the president is facing charges of
hollywood. no question. at each of the three locations that they executed warrants that there was evidence of a crime in each location and given this context, it s the president s personal lawyer where in the midst of a massive investigation of the president of the united states or involving potentially the president of the united states, i would suspect prosecutors would produce even more evidence than they would in a typical situation where they re seeking a warrant. one other piece of legal news overnight, that steve bannon, former senior adviser to the president is pitching this legal strategy of fight back against the mueller investigation. his first suggestion is to fire the deputy ag rod rosenstein. stop cooperating with the special counsel in any way and his third thing and this is what i want to get your take on, he s saying that everyone should assert this sort of retroactive executive privilege. any white house official or persons close to the president who have already
writer at 538, perry. people will hear that report and say, the deputy campaign chair had contact with russian intelligence. is that what s significant here a? is it b, more proof that robert mueller has deep knowledge of what s going on here, c, rick gates is cooperating, maybe that s the importance here or maybe d none of the above. or all of the above. we first of all have a case where lying has been uncovered throughout this investigation. when it came to manafort and gates and their past ties with russians, it had always been in the past, when we worked in the ukraine, before we started working with the trump organization and the trump campaign. fast forward to this news overnight, working with the former gru officer, russian military intelligence and by the way, he still had contact with current russian military intelligence, took place during the 2016 campaign. that s putting these two gentlemen high up the ladder in the trump campaign right there
sense that their encouragement on election eve, urging the trump campaign to contest the results if they lose parroting the line the russian intelligence committee was pursuing at the same time aligns them more deeply as an arm of that effort, and puts the willingness of donald trump jr. to communicate in a harsher light. one of the many other headlines, jeffrey toobin, the news overnight, the attorney general asked senior federal pra prosecutors in his office to look around things in the clinton foundation, one of them being the uranium one deal. this is in response to two letters in july and september from republicans in congress asking him to do so and trump