Good friday morning. We begin with President Trump railing against the investigation into Russian Election meddling. The headline, the president is denying any personal collusion with russia and says he was close to naming a new fbi director and that may happen before he begins his first foreign trip. Abcs janai norman is in washington for us with more on the president s reaction to the appointment of robert mueller, as special counsel. Reporter good morning. And happy friday. The president tweeted calling the investigation the single greatest witchhunt of a politician in american history. But there arent too many lawmakers who are standing by the president on this one. The president is sticking to his guns insisting the fbis investigation is nothing more than a witchhunt. Even as members of his own party arent sticking with him. The entire thing has been a witchhunt and there is no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign. Its an investigation. Hes entitled to his opinion. I