welcome back, happening right now and playing defense, president trump hires another high profile attorney while confirming he s being investigated for obstruction of justice, plus, an urgent search and rescue operation. and deadlocked after six days of jury delibulatierations, a june declared a mistrial for the case of bill cosby. hello everyone, welcome, i am fredricka whitfield. thanks so much for being with me. we begin with the surgeon search for seven missing u.s. sailors.
breaking news we have been following, a mistrial in bill cosby s assault case. next, we turn to politics and president trump s growing legal team. the new high profile attorney the president s hired and what that means for the investigation he and his associates are under. you do all this research on a perfect car, then smash it into a tree. your insurance company raises your rates. maybe you should ve done more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won t raise your rates due to your first accident. liberty mutual insurance.
i want to get your reaction to the president bringing on first on this new another high profile attorney to can defend him in the face of the reach probe. what s yieb take? well, i think it s either the counsel or the white house staff or there are two sides to mr. trump. he realizes, having been in business, that this is she, very serious. an obstruction of 1yu69 charge is very serious. then on the other side he just can t contain himself. let me briefly say to you, an obstruction of justice charge can simply be the impeding of a justice action that s n ongoing by communication, by letter, when you know that it s ongoing and you attempt to disrupt the system. it s clear that the president engaged that action. if as mr. comey said under oath, that he in a meeting of which he and the president were alone he asked them to lay off.
league baseball. defight president s powerful legal team and their concerns about the president s tweeting habits, the president again today took matters into his own hands. atheen aip jones is out front. primp speaking with nbc just days after firing fib director comey. i said to myself, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. acknowledging the investigation into the possible collusion between his campaign was on his mind when he gave comey the boots. trump s words his critic s obsession with the russia investigation. three days after letting comey go trump tweeted what sounded like a threat. james comb better hope that there are no tape of our
general who did the firefirings is going to be testifying in congress for the first time since the fires. it seems leer he is going to get asked about his own contacts with russian officials. he is likely to be asked about his recusal from things related to the trump campaign. he is going to be asked about his role in firing the fbi director. he is likely to be asked about all of that. but there is also the u.s. attorney fires, which he was right in the middle of, and which still make absolutely no sense there is no explanation for them. preet bharara was the highest profile attorney in the country by a long measure. preet bharara had been assured by the president and jeff sessions, the attorney general, that he wouldn t be fired, that they d want him to stay on in the new administration. so that would be one question for jeff session. why did preet bharara get fired after you guys repeatedly told him he would be retained. here is question two for jeff