The New York Times reports this afternoon, was approved by Trump Appointee Rod Rosenstein. Quote, in addition to mr. Rosenstein, all of the top Law Enforcement officials involved in the raid are republicans. The times also offering more details this afternoon about what the fbi was looking for in that raid. Quote, the search arent carried out by The Public Corruption Unit of the manhattan federal Attorneys Office seeks information about Karen Mcdougal an ex Playboy Model. She was paid 150,000 by American Media inc. , the enquirers parent company, whose Chief Executive is a friend of mr. Trumps. Our friend joyce vance described the raid as a, quote, bomb, on trumps front porch. Been in agreement that if the president wanted to Fire Bob Mueller, if he wanted to change course here, then he had to essentially get somebody to do it for him. That somebody would have had to have been Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney general and for all intents and purposes, the Acting Attorney General in t
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Overall, because this is, you know, i think a lot of americans do view this as the president of the United States attacking a major institution, the Fourth Estate essentially. So depends who you are talking to. But with his base i would say he wins this argument absolutely. And ozzy, ivanka trump also mads headlines with the take on the trump immigration policy. Lets listen. It was a low point for me as well. I feel very strongly about that. And i am very vehemently against family separation. And the separation of parents and children. Some criticized her for just talking there, making no effort to go down to the border. What exactly is her role . Do we know . We covered new york. Is there any evidence she has a Mitigating Influence on her father for anything. She and supporters have always said her influence comes from Behind The Scenes conversations with her father
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Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. The issue of adoption, did that come up . Like i said, that was the primary thing we had spoken about in the meeting. Thats not the premise that got them in the room. Then it was essentially a bait and switch to talk about that 6789 everybody has basically said that in. The already. There is this another intere interesting thing over the weekend. Hope hicks boarded Air Force One and flew to the president s rally in ohio and back. You may recall, hope hicks resigned from the white house one day before a Congressional Committee that she had told white lies on behalf of donald trump. She is now living here in manhattan and she too has come under scrutiny for crafting that
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Offered damaging information on Hillary Clinton, he wrote no details or supporting information was required. Later, emails between don junior and the man who organized the meeting said it was supposed to damaging email on Hillary Clinton. Quote, if its what you say, i love it. To get out ahead of that story, don junior changed his line again. The information they suggested they had about Hillary Clinton i thought was political Opposition Research. Just after this we heard this from trumps lawyer. The Statement Released was donald trump jr. And his lawyers. The president was not involve in the that. The president was not involved in the drafting of that statement. It came from his son. July 31, trump himself personally dictated the statement. Then hater this year it was revealed trumps own lawyers admitted in a momentumo to Robert Mueller that yes, the president himself did dictate the trump tower statement but added there was no collusion. This weekend, the president s same lawyer jay
The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. Unfolding in the same district, there are a lot of legal issues these are all people, you say people all in the president s circle. Its Congressman Collins, his son and the sons soon to be fatherinlaw. There are a lot of references to coconspirators not named as defendants. Yes. So are those folks who if youre a prosecutor, are these other Family Members who are cooperating or might they be indicted down the road. They could be indicted down the road. At this point theyre not being indicted but they participated in criminal conspiracy according to the indictment. The most Famous Coconspirator in an indictment probably was Richard Nixon in the watergate affair. He was never indicted but he was clearly listed as a coconspirator with respect to some of the charges that were brought. So, this is something they do in the early stages of a case. The case may name others later. Might you have other Family Members flipping on othe