And another try. Were following a new lastditch republican effort to repeal obamacare after multiple attempts and failures. Could this compromise actually get through the senate . We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were following breaking news tonight, extremely dangerous hurricane. We just learned that maria has intensified to a powerful category 4 storm. Its expected to intensify even more as it heads toward the caribbean island of puerto rico where its expected to make landfall. Also this hour, President Trump makes his debut at the United Nations, giving u. N. Members an initial taste of his unorthodox style and America First agenda, on this the eve of his big speech before the u. N. General assembly. Mr. Trump is dropping new hints that he may scrap the nuclear deal with iran, teasing that hell reveal his decision soon. Hes also vowing to keep the economic pressure on north korea just hours after
To Robert Mueller . President s personal lawyers, theyll make that decision. Or make a recommendation to the president on that. I dont think anythings off the table. But now with cobb stepping aside, with the addition of flood, trumps legal team could take a more adversarial posture when it comes to Robert Mueller and that could set the stage for a more contentious fight going forward. The big question we are asking about this development, do the changes in trump a s legal tea suggest that he is going to war with mueller. Weve learned the special counsels legal team is trying to figure out a way to compel the president to testify. At a meeting back in march, reportedly the meeting turned tense when the special counsel to was told he had no other option but he claimed he does. A subpoena for the president to appear before a grand jury. A president ial subpoena would be deeley significant. Only three president s have ever faced the prospect of being compelled to appear before a grand jur
Everybody just coming in to this breaking news, what you all are reporting and what the significant is. Sure. What were reporting is that ty cobb, the Top White House lawyer, his title was actually white house special counsel, just to keep things confusing. Ty cobb is leaving, and is going to be replaced as you said, with emmet flood from the Law Firm Williams Connolly certainly part of the Impeachment Defense Team during the clinton administration. This is significant, because ty cobb came in last year as kind of a voice of moderation and collaboration with the special counsel. Arrived at a time when the situation was kind of tense. Mueller team was just getting started. Didnt feel they were getting the documents wanted fast enough and cobb basically became the point person at the white house for all things mueller, both for the mueller team and for reporters like you and me. His whole thing was, we are in full cooperation mode. So much so he caused tension between him and the white H