Viewers in the United States and around the world. This is a special edition of new day. Saturday, january 25th, here in new york. Breaking overnight, the release of an explosive audiotape that features President Trump speaking to igor fruman and lev parnas at a dinner in 2018. Youll remember these are the two indicted Rudy Giuliani Associates Charged with funneling russian money to President Trumps political pac among others. This is the same lev parnas the president says he does not know. On this tape, mr. Trump does know him and is telling him to get rid of thenu. S. Ambassador to ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. Here it is. Get rid of her. Get her out i dont care. Get her out, okay. Do it. That audio was obtained by abc news. There is paeapparently a lot mo. Parnas lawyer says the full recording is nearly an hour and a half long. We will play more of what has just been released. The tape supports of version of events that parnas has been speaking to and refutes the president s claim that
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It doesnt exactly make a whole lot of sense. Reporter no, boris, it doesnt. Mixed messages seems to be one of the themes, one of the themes to describe the way this white house operates. The Washington Post reported on wednesday that special counsel, Robert Mueller, is investigating the president for possible obstruction of justice. On thursday the president took to twitter to blast this idea that he is under investigation. He called the new focus on obstruction of justice foe phon which is the same word hes used to describe the russia investigation for months now. Then a day later on friday, friday morning, the president took to twitter to tell husband millions of followers that he is under investigation. Now sources close to the president told cnn he wasnt saying that he had been personally informed officially that hes under investigation. He was talking about media reports. Take a listen to what one of his lawyers, how he explained all this on state of the union this morning. The pr
Clarity from the president on the status of the russia investigation. Reporter mr. President , are you under investigation by the special counsel . Mr. President , are you under investigation by the special counsel . No answer from the president. We are also keeping an eye on attacks in europe and london. Police are investigating what the Prime Minister is calling a sickening attack on a crowd outside a mosque, while a man in paris rammed a police van with a car full of weapons and explosives. We will have much more in just a few moments on both of those developments. Also, there is now the potential for catastrophe in the skies over syria, as russia expresses deep anger over the United States downing of a Syrian Military jet. We will talk about what russia says they will do now when confronting u. S. And Coalition Planes. First, lets get back to the russia investigation and denials from the president s expanding legal team that says the president is not under investigation by the spec
Director by the man who told me to fire the fbi director, witch hunt. There are new developments tonight. Evan perez joins us with that. The new question is, will the attorney general Rob Rosenstein recuse himself from the russia probe. John, its looking more and more like thats where hes going to be, probably not in the next couple of days, but certainly as probability mueller starts staffing up his investigative staff, hes got about a dozen lawyers now, the real possibility is that Rob Rosenstein is going to become a witness in that investigation, because obviously he was part of the Decision Making to fire james comey the fbi director, and now that is going to be wrapped into whether or not the president was trying to interfere or obstruct the ongoing russia investigation, obviously this is something that has been on rob rosesteins mind. He has said he will recuse himself, when he learns from Robert Mueller whether hes going to be a witness, then hes going to have to make that decis