Anthony weiner, somehow her emails are forwarded to Anthony Weiner included by her assistant huma abedin. Information. Hich classified charles that statement, as we know was incorrect. And meanwhile, the white house as of russias top diplomate meets with trump. All of this in a possible distraction to health care, and were going to have rand paul join us in a moment. Varney company is about to begin. I simply said to him, mr. President , all due respect, youre making a very big mistake. And he didnt really answer. And i have said from the getgo that i think a special prosecutor is the way to go, but now, with whats happened, its the only way to go. Well, that was senator Chuck Schumer calling for a special prosecutor to investigate ties between Trumps Campaign and russia. This happening after the president fired fbi director james comey and President Trump then tweeted this. Crying Chuck Schumer stated recently i didnt have confidence in them aring referring to james comey, any longer,
This one, to a former trump doorman who told a story about an affair mr. Trump had with his housekeeper and allegations he fathered a child with her. Also tonight, cnn exclusive reporting on white house preparations to undermine Rod Rosenstein, and the Republican Party has just laub ched a major war against fired fbi director james comey in response to his upcoming tellall. Then, late today, details from that book began emerging, some revealing, some outright salacious. Remarkable scenes from meetings with president obama and President Trump at some of the most critical moments in american history. Randi kaye has all the latest. What have you learned about the details in this book . Reporter anderson, in the Washington Post, james comey says donald trump brought up the intelligence dossier. That dossier alleged that russians had a socalled pee tape of prostitutes that trump paid to urinate on each other and his bed in a Russian Hotel suite. Comey reportedly writes in the book that trum
U. S. President come together remembering the queen of soul, live from cnn, World Headquarters in atlanta. We want to welcome our viewers here and around the world. Im George Howell. Cnn newsroom starts right now. At 5 00 a. M. Here on the u. S. East coast for the first time the u. S. Justice department has publicly charged someone with helping a foreigner funnel money to a trump political event the focus on washington lobbyist Samuel Patton, the man you see here. He pleaded guilty on friday from steering money from a russianbacked oligarch. He pleaded ghlt to acting as an unregistered foreign act and lying to congress. Trumps attorney Rudy Guiliani called the event irrelevant. What does this have to do with President Trump . Not a single thing. It has nothing to do with collusion. Some guy who donated to the inauguration. My goodness, there are about 500,000 that donated to President Trump. And there are still more contradictions. George papadopoulos contradi tickets and pushed back o
everything in the mueller investigation, keeping in mind that investigation is still under way. no one s seen it yet. is this a flip of the phrase a good defense is an even better offense? it s lyme like hopefully pre emive strike the way he s thinking. it won t work. he will say mueller wasn t appointed legitimately. which he was, the court s upheld the reports by roden stein. he s trying to discredit any report ahead of time. this russian ol gashing, fig funneling money, patton now cooperating with investigators. should that worry team trump if your mind? i think it should worry them. these investigations can lead to other threads that follow. then you find there is something
in advance of the comey book, or what everyone thought in advance of it, the republican national committee launched a website aimed at what seems is besmirching him. on top of that, cnn has learned that the white house is gearing up for war against deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. sara murray has the exclusive. so, what have you learned about these talking points? reporter: well, anderson, sources familiar with this say there was at least a preliminary plan that the white house was developing to try to discredit rod rosenstein, and of course, this comings at a time when president trump has been weighing whether or not he wants to fire his deputy attorney general in the wake of these raids against michael cohen. now, they ve come up with a couple of different lines of attack against roden stein. the broad idea is that he s too conflicted to oversee the russia investigation. the notion that rosenstein was