to early start, i m dave briggs. i m renee marsh. it s wednesday, april 4th. 4:00 a.m. in the east, 11:00 a.m. in damascus where we ll have a live report coming up. breaking overnight, special counsel robert mueller has reportedly told the president s lawyers he is not currently a criminal target of the russia investigation. the washington post reports mueller s team told president trump s lawyers he remains a subject of the investigation including whether he sought to obstruct the russia probe. one source tells the post that the special counsel s office is writing a report on mr. trump s actions since taking office and wants to interview him as a last step. and that, according to the post, has some trump advisers worried the president could be baited into an interview that would put him in legal jeopardy. meanwhile, the mueller team with the first sentence in the russia investigation. a dutch lawyer tied to former trump campaign deputy chairman rick gates sentenced to 30
firing all three men, sessions, rosenstein, and mueller, at don t hold back. various points. the widespread assumption was .ask your dermatologist if cosentyx can help you that federal regulations barred find clear skin that lasts. president trump from firing mueller directly. but yesterday we learned that the blade quality you d expect from gillette the president himself doesn t share that assumption. listen. at a price you wouldn t. does the president believe he has the power to fire special the new gillette3 and gillette5. counsel robert mueller? available now for $7.99. does he believe that s within his power? certainly believes he has the gillette. the best a man can get. power to do so. press secretary sarah sanders did not suggest president trump is, in fact, planning to fire mueller. but cnn has learned the president has been talking about it for months. we know he made moves to fire sources telling cnn that president trump is considering mueller last june but was talke
wave of reporting and overt hinting by the president that he s enjoying firing people right now. and that he s about to get rid of even more senior officials, including potentially from his cabinet, repeatedly saying now that he s almost got the cabinet that he wants. the new york times broke news this afternoon that made everyone say ah-ha maybe that s why the president seems off the rails the past few weeks. the times reporting sometime in the past few weeks, robert mueller s special counsel office issued a subpoena to the trump s business. it had previously been reported the trump organization was voluntarily handing over documents to mueller s team. they had responded to requests from mueller for information from the trump organization that reportedly spanned the length of trump s presidential campaign from the time he announced he was running until the time he was sworn in as president. the times reports mueller s
he then tried to fire the deputy fbi director. and then he tried to get his own attorney general to resign. and now we know he tried to get robert mueller fired. this is a pattern. the fact that the president wanted so badly to get rid of jeff sessions and why? because jeff sessions recused himself. and why did that bother the president? because it led to the appointment of bob mueller. msnbc s kristen welker has more on why the white house is fighting back on the reports which overshadowed the president s trip to davos. reporter: in davos, president trump lashing out at reports he ordered the firing of special counsel robert mueller last june. fake news, folks, fake news. reporter: a source with firsthand knowledge of the matter tells nbc news mr. trump ultimately backed down when his white house counsel, don mcgahn, threatened to quit over it, saying the move would be catastrophic. the news first reported by the new york times said it all happened amid the first reports m
plans to speak to the former spokesman for the trump legal team, mark customer ral low, who resigned earlier this summer. the significance is big given this story breaking in the new york times just tonight which reports mueller plans to ask carell low about the statement president trump and advisers drafted as a cover story to explain the trump tower meeting that don jr. accepted with several russian nationals. the times says mr. corallo is planning to tell mr. mueller about a previously undisclosed conference call with mr. trump and hope hicks, white house communications director, according to the three people cited earlier in the hour. mr. coralla planned to tell vest gais ms. hicks said e-mails written by donald trump jr. before the trump tower meeting in which the younger mr. trump said he was eager to receive political dirt about mrs. clinton from the russians will never get out.