Still more breaking news tonight. New reporting on how the president may try to derail the mueller investigation, and whos pitching the plan. Steve bannon is back. And the access Hollywood Tape, what the fbi were looking for or at least in part when they raided three locations. And also this hour, exit stage right. The most powerful republican in congress, third in line of succession, decides to call it quits. And the fbi director President Trump fired is firing back. And james comey is comparing the chief executive to a mob boss and the president is tweeting about Sean Hannitys program. Our jim acosta has the latest and joins us now. Explain what youve learned about mondays raid . Anderson, i should mention that ive just talked to sources familiar with all of this. Said these discussions going on at the white house, especially about the Mueller Probe, and this source is saying just a few moments ago that the president is still very upset about the raid into Michael Cohens office and t
Surprise moved into a pr conversation about how the trump team would position this and what they could say about this that no one to my recollection asked. So whats coming next from the russians, how might we stop it, whats the future look like. Good morning and welcome to a. M. Joy. In a move that has donald trump rage tweeting all morning, former fbi director james comey is spilling all the tea with a new book and media blitz starting tonight. Telling his version of events surrounding the 2016 election in the early days of the Trump Administration. While it may be seen as an attempt to clear his name, comey is after all the man the clinton camp blames for their loss. He pulls no punches when it comes to donald trump. In his book he describes in detail trumps attempts to bring him into a mafia like political family that values loyalty to donald trump above all else. The quote, forest fire, that is the Trump Administration. Trump world and its allies in the gop are already on the attac
Money paid to the former porn star in the days before the 2016 election. Toxic environment . Epa administrator scott pruitt in a fight to save his job amid a growing list of ethics questions. President trump has offered his support, but how long would that support last . And breaking news. Police say there are casualties after a van plowed into a crowd in munster, germany. A live report in a few minutes. We begin this hour along the u. S. Mexico border where the First National guard troops should be arriving within the next few days. Defense secretary james mattis approved the deployment of up to 4,000 troops through the end of september. President trump told reporters he wanted those troops to help crack down on illegal immigration and drug trafficking. Jeff bennett is live at the white house this afternoon. Lets start with this. Whats the status of those deployments right now . Reporter hey, great to see you. Texas is the first state to heed the president s call following what was re
And refers to the forest fire that is the trump presidency. Im joined now by phil rucker from the Washington Post who has read the book, former watergate prosecutor nick ackerman. Phil, lets start with you. Youve been burning the midnight oil, reading this book. What stood out to you . Well, its a really stunning tellall. More than 300 pages, and in it, james comey, the fired fbi director, details in vivid scenes all of his conversations with President Trump beginning in the transmissiition phase be he became president. Comey traveled to trump tower and briefed the president elect oneonone about the most lewd allegations in that dossier by mr. Steele that weve been talking so much about. And trump took it very in a very difficult way. He became fixated on this subject and would repeatedly try to prove to comey that these allegations were not true. He did so in that trump tower briefing. He did so again in a phone call a week or so later, and again and again. And comey details all of it
We begin with the latest on syria on monday President Trump said he will be making decisions on syrias use of chemical weapons. There was no timetable for this and as the administration continues to drum up sup port from allies for a unified response the war of words between washington and the kremlin continues. Ayman, i do understand the president spoke with theresa may possibly building a coalition here. Talk to me about what you know on that. Yeah, theres certainly no doubt that there is a widespread condemnation that is emerging right here in france. There is the contours of a coalition that is beginning to emerge with some of the United States closest allies including macron. He went a little bit further putting the blame on the u. S. Government and they attributed that to the assad regime. Now, what kind of response may actually play out . That i think remains to be the question. Surprisingly over the past 24 hours its been somewhat muted here. There has not been any clear indica