Announcer live where you live, this is abc7 news. A bomb shell announcement from the nations capital, the man who was once u. S. Attorney right here in San Francisco is now tapped with investigating President Trumps ties to russia. Good evening and thank you for joining us. Im alma daetz. And im dan ashley. Tonight both republicans and democrats are praising the choice of Robert Mueller as special counsel. Mueller is a former fbi director and served at the u. S. Attorney for the Northern District of california between 1998 and 2001. Lets begin our Team Coverage with abc7 News Reporter maggie in the nations capital. Maggie . Dan and alma, washington is in shock as the white house gets hit with a third bomb shell in just as many days. And now lawmakers and the administration are scrambling to respond. In a week of breaking developments obviously its a step in the right direction. Reporter a major decision from the department of justice. Very solid and significant step. Reporter the depar
Announcer live where you live, this is abc7 news. A bomb shell announcement from the nations capital, the man who was once u. S. Attorney right here in San Francisco is now tapped with investigating President Trumps ties to russia. Good evening and thank you for joining us. Im alma daetz. And im dan ashley. Tonight both republicans and democrats are praising the choice of Robert Mueller as special counsel. Mueller is a former fbi director and served at the u. S. Attorney for the Northern District of california between 1998 and 2001. Lets begin our Team Coverage with abc7 News Reporter maggie in the nations capital. Maggie . Dan and alma, washington is in shock as the white house gets hit with a third bomb shell in just as many days. And now lawmakers and the administration are scrambling to respond. In a week of breaking developments obviously its a step in the right direction. Reporter a major decision from the department of justice. Very solid and significant step. Reporter the depar
Developments obviously its a step in the right direction. Reporter a major decision from the department of justice. Very solid and significant step. Reporter the department of justice appointed a special counsel to take over the investigation into russias interference with the 2016 election, including possible collusion with the trump campaign. The man now leading the investigation, former fbi director robert mueller. Whatever investigation goes on will have the credibility of bob mueller, former director of the fbi, and a renowned lawyer. Reporter now mueller will have all of the authority of a u. S. Attorney including the ability to take the matter before a grand jury and the ability to issue subpoenas. Abcs chief Legal Affairs chief says mueller will have the daunting taf of addressing all the recent controversies surrounding the white house. Take all that of together and most importantly with james comeys account and then you assess, is it obstruction or is it not. Reporter lawmake
Abc7 news starts right now with live, breaking news. And that breaking news involves the attacks on paris, gunfire and explosions. Right now Police Outside the city are in the middle of a raid linked to the manhunt for the fugitive terrorist on the run. And breaking now here at home, not one, but two u. S. Planes bound for paris are diverted after anonymous threats. Im dan ashley. Im ama daetz. Katie has more. We will start first with the police raid. We want to show you quickly where this is happening. It is a suburb to the north of paris where the National Stadium is located which of course was one of the targets on friday. Authorities have at this hour confirmed to abc that he is the target of the operation and believed to be one of the master minds of the paris you a tacks. No confirmation whether he is in the apartment at the center of the raid. You can hear there sounds of gunfire captured on a witness twitter video. This has been going on since 4 30 a. M. Paris time. Witnesses h
Abc7 news starts right now with live, breaking news. And that breaking news involves the attacks on paris, gunfire and explosions. Right now Police Outside the city are in the middle of a raid linked to the manhunt for the fugitive terrorist on the run. And breaking now here at home, not one, but two u. S. Planes bound for paris are diverted after anonymous threats. Im dan ashley. Im ama daetz. Katie has more. We will start first with the police raid. We want to show you quickly where this is happening. It is a suburb to the north of paris where the National Stadium is located which of course was one of the targets on friday. Authorities have at this hour confirmed to abc that he is the target of the operation and believed to be one of the master minds of the paris you a tacks. No confirmation whether he is in the apartment at the center of the raid. You can hear there sounds of gunfire captured on a witness twitter video. This has been going on since 4 30 a. M. Paris time. Witnesses h