rosenstein gave to mueller. and the problem that people have, the reason they re so troubled about michael cohen, is he was the president s one of his closest confidants, his lawyer, his corporate lawyer and his financial dealings are inextricably entangled with the president. so mueller has to go down that rabbit hole, and it s a rabbit hole that people don t know what s at the end of it. the only people who know that are donald trump, michael cohen, and maybe a few people around him. so the people who are close to trump are just worried about where that ends. they ve seen felix sater who s at the very least, you know, a mob-tied former felon, and who knows who else is at the other end of that russia deal. jill wine-banks, i couldn t help but notice a report in politico tonight, senate russia investigators weigh issuing interim report. now, we re told this is being considered at all because of what s been picked up about russian influence in our
so mueller has to go down that rabbit hole and it s a rabbit hole that people don t know what s at the end of it. the only people who know that are donald trump, michael cohen, and maybe a few people around him. so the people who are close to trump are just worried about where that ends. they ve seen felix sater who s at the very least, you know, a mob-tied former felon, and who knows who else is at the other end of that russia deal. jill wine-banks, i couldn t help but notice a report in politico tonight, senate russia investigators weigh issuing interim report. now, we re told this is being considered at all because of what s been picked up about russian influence in our elections. senator warner said the interim report would address election security. there is that, that we sometimes forget about. what would it help, what would it hurt to issue an interim report, do you think? i think it s important for the american public to know what s going on. so an interim report would he
with documentation of it and this was all happening while trump was running for president. this is explicitly within the realms of the brief that rosenstein gave to mueller and the problem that people have, the reason they re so troubled about michael cohen, is he was the president s one of his close closest confidants, his lawyer, his corporate lawyer and his financial dealings are inextricably entangled with the president. so mueller has to go down that rabbit hole and it s a rabbit hole that people don t know what s at the end of it. the only people who know that are donald trump, michael cohen, and maybe a few people around him. so the people who are close to trump are just worried about where that ends. they ve seen felix sater who s at the very least, you know, a mob-tied former felon, and who knows who else is at the other end of that russia deal. jill wine-banks, i couldn t help but notice a report in politico tonight, senate russia investigators weigh issuing
maybe leaving the podium. let s get to cnn s jim schuitto with more on breaking news. we have new reporting tonight on what must be a thorn in the president s side. the former national security adviser michael flynn failing to close a middle east trip about a russia deal. what can you tell us? this is a letter from the ranking members and democrats on the house oversight committee and foreign affairs committee to general flynns lawyers as well as two of his business patterns asking about a trip in the summer of 2015 to saudi arabia to arrange, it appears a nuclear deal between saudi and rush to build power plants. unclosed when he took a position in the trump white house. they re also asking about a trip later that year in october of 2015. flynn provided no details for where he stay there had, who he traveled with and the purpose of the trip. in addition to that, on that
obstruction, nobody who had any role in that firing should be overseeing that investigation? that question came up today. there were reports that deputy attorney general rosenstein was thinking about recusing himself. later in the day his office put out the word that, in fact, he wasn t prepared to do so. that opinion could change at any time. as the investigation proceeds, he ll have to make a judgment about whether he s going to be drawn into this obstruction investigation as a witness, perhaps, in a way that makes it impossible for him to supervise the investigation. and if he recuses, it goes to another departmental official to take over the responsibility of sprfsing the special counsel. so, are you saying that if the obstruction investigation does come to focus on this issue of the firing of the fbi director, the special counsel might have an option whether or not to call on mr. rosenstein as a potential witness if he doesn t if he chooses to