Weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Good sunday morning to you. President Trumps White House counsel is telling his story to the mueller team. The New York Times report says that don mcgahn has been cooperating are the Mueller Investigation and participating in several interviews totaling 30 hours over the last nine months. President trump says he, quote, allowed mcgahn to fully cooperate are the special counsel. The times reported that mcgahn was worried he might be President Trumps fallguy, so to speak, for any potentially illegal incidents or obstruction. Cnn White House Reporter Sarah Westwood is live from new jersey where the president is spending the weekend. What are we learning further this morning . Reporter President Trump is speaking up to downplay the significance of the New York Times white house that don mcgahn on the obstruction of justice portion of his inquiry. The times is reporting that mcgahn spent 30 hours with investigators and provided potentially dam
The u. S. President would say a lot to see here, but there is a lot to see stemming from the russia probe. And now for, but there is a ltd ot to see. It comes from two major Court Filings filed on friday, one from Michael Cohen, the other on former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort. First Michael Cohen, in a sentencing mee ining memorandum cohen committed two election related crimes at the direction of donald trump. There were also new revelations about contacts two cohen and a Russian National claiming to be well connected. As for Paul Manafort, mueller says that he lied about five major issues including having recent contacts with the Trump Administration and man forthafo former russian associate. Lets get to the facts first. Reporting of our justice correspondent Jessica Schneider kicks it off. Reporter a flurry of filings related to two men, Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort. Now, when it comes to Michael Cohen, prosecutors out of new york are telling the judge cohen should face
Are, quote, deeply relevant to the investigation. Minutes before u. N. Ambassador Gordon Sondland was set to appear before the three committees, the white house stopped him. And adam schiff said, of his testimony, its hard to overstate the significance. The failure to produce this witness, the failure to produce these documents, we consider yet additional strong evidence of obstruction of the constitutional functions of congress, a coequal branch of government. Ambassador is already a key witness in the investigation, even before new things are coming out, because of the Text Messages that have been released between him and other senior u. S. Diplomats about ukraine and Foreign Military aid. And a biden investigation. So, lets get to it. Joining me right now is cnns Jeremy Diamond at the white house, cnn Congressional Correspondent manu raju is on the hill. Manu, what are you hearing about everything thats already happening this morning. Reporter well, major questions right now on capi
A source says trumps former adviser fiona hill is furious at Gordon Sondland saying he tried to discredit her and lie in his sworn testimony. This is comeing a day after the release of sondlands testimony showed three pages of revisions he made. He won. Sondland said he did remember that he was or had delivered a message about a quid pro quo to the ukrainian officials. Lets get to capitol hill, senior Congressional Correspondent fanu raju on key testimony under way. So manu, hale tying politics again not to the military case it seems but to the firing of former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine . Reporter yeah. And well see how much defense he ultimately gives to secretary of state mike pompeo, because its come under withering criticism for not defending his ambassadors in the field. Thats one witness why a separate witness, mike mckinley, a top aide to mike pompeo ultimately resigned of mike pompeo to offer that statement of support for the ousted ambassador Marie Yovanovitch started by gui
Reports that the president s anger about being in essentially impeach innocent limbo. He tweeted, i want an immediate trial, exclamation point. Its apparent the president wont get what he wants before christmas. That specifically is to know the house will actually send the two articles of impeachment to the senate triggering the impeachment trial. Speaker pelosi made it clear she has not done that yet delaying the handoff expressing concern whether or not the senate would hold a fair trial. Heres more from the Senate Committee chairman lindsey graham. I just left President Trump. Hes mad as hell that they would do this to him and now deny him his day in court. The reason theyre denying him his day in court is because they know their case sucks. One scholar is speaking out about Nancy Pelosis delayed handoff. Harvard law professor noah feldman testified for the democrats during the impeachment inquiry saying if the house doesnt send the articles over to the senate that means the preside