deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who called for an investigation into mr. trump s unproven allegation that he was spied up during the 2016 claim. the justice department has agreed to expand the investigation. and they ll set up a meeting to review highly classified information. it sounds like it could be a win for the russia probe critics who want the investigators under investigation. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein arrived at the white house for what officials insist was a prescheduled meeting, but it s clear what s on the president s mind. while he s not answering reporters questions about it, the president is complaining he was spied on before the 2016 election. ranting about the presence of a confidential source working inside the trump campaign. tweeting i hereby demand that the justice department look into whether or not the fbi or doj infiltrated or surveilled the
investigation. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein arrived at the white house for what officials insist was a prescheduled meeting but it is clear what is on the president s mind. while he s not answering reporters questions, the president is complaining that he was spied on before the 2016 election. ranting about the presence of a confidential source working inside of the trump campaign. tweeting, i hereby demand the department of justice look into whether or not the fbi or doj infiltrated or surveils the trump campaign for political purposes and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the obama administration and while the confidential source did speak with advisers, u.s. officials told cnn the confidential source was not spaying on the campaign. i think that is that is actually very disturbing assault on the independence of the department of justice and i think when the president this president or any president tries to use the department of justice as ki
campaign was spied on. welcome. i m neil cavuto. this is your world. kristin fisher with the latest. kristin? hi, neil. right now president trump is wrapping up that meeting with the deputy attorney general, rod rosen stein and the director christopher wray. we re told that this was a prescheduled meeting, a meeting scheduled before the president s tweet this week. a senior administration official has confirmed that the concerns that president trump brought up in those tweets, concerns able a possible fbi informant infiltrating his campaign, those concerns were absolutely brought up in this meeting today, which just wrapped our should be wrapping up any moment now. the tweeted that started it yesterday, president trump demanded that the department of justice look into whether or not they infiltrated or surveyed the trump campaign for political purposes and if any u.s. demands
if it s iran, if it s all of them together, we will figure it out. and we will know the answers quite soon. we are looking at that very strongly and very seriously. the president mentioned vladimir putin by name, reinforcing a message delivered by jim matus at the pentagon this morning. he spoke before a prescheduled meeting with the emir of qatar, he also indicated russia for responsibility. the first thing we have to look at is why a chemical weapon is still being used at all when russia had the framework of moving although it chemical weapons. working with our allies and partners, we are going to address this issue. the pentagon has been working all weekend to draw up options for the president. right now the u.s. has no
that the u.s. is with drawing from the deal. it s time to exit the paris accord. and time to pursue a new deal that effects the environment and our companies, our citizens, and our country. it is time to put youngstown, ohio, detroit michigan, and pittsburgh pennsylvania along with many, many, other locations within our great country before paris france. it s time to make america great again. the president s daughter had been pushing the president to stay in the climate agreement. she and her husband did not attend the president s speech. a white house official said they were observing a jewish holiday but the official noted kushner opted to keep a prescheduled