are these constant controversies coming out of the white house heading into a very difficult election year where they have to keep the house, very difficult chans of keeping the house. the senate clearly at risk. but when they re constant controversies coming out of the white house, when the president has significant credibility issues that makes obviously their job a lot harder. so undoubt di the effect of everything that s happening has an immateri impact on this party, particularly this this race in november turns out to be a for the president. if his credibility diminishes the republicans are at large in trouble and they know that here in washington. all of you stay with us. we ll be right back. it ll connect us to everything that s going on in the company.
the department reached a legal conclusion. that s what it is. is he right? is the indictment for president trump off the table? he s referring to two memos offered by legal counsel, one in 1972 and one in 2000. those opinions are binding on the opinion of justice unless their rescinding. if he could rescind those opinions there s no indication that s going to happen. there is some question, a smaller minority yes, whether or not those opinions are binding on the special counsel s office. whether or not robert mueller would consider himself open to consider for his own purposes whether or not the president could be indicted. put his own legal judgment on that question. at the end of the day we ll see what happens. susan, guy. thank so much i appreciate it. more on breaking news tonight as chans of the president sits down with mueller s team seem to be getting slimmer. cnn now learning the special
the white house denies. she is not the only woman talking about this. here s the deal, donald trump denied the affairs prior to length, he still got elected. the issue now is the payment issued to stormy daniels and the cover up mcdougal alleges as well. it seems like this may be the crux of why this is different than before. is that fair? right. there have been other presidents who have been in that position. this is not the most shocking things that anyone s ever heard and certainly not about the president. what you ve got here is a question of whenever there was an effort to silence people in order to further the president s chans of winning the presidency. there could be a issue there but there are a string of issues
investigation keeps up its current pace, it seems to be indictments are announced every week. who knows what happens in september. he may be looking for a pardon from this white house. he s signaling to president trump he is not cooperating with the pro. chans of that happening? at this point, the white house has not sent any signal that they re going to have a pardon for manafort or fin else connected to the investigation. but, as the president keep calling it a witch hundred you have to leave these variables on the table. david, i want to turn back with the security issues and chans of how he carry on his job moving forward. the announcement that h.r. macmaster was concerned about kushner not reporting hi meeting to foreign officials, how usual is this? i think it s quite extraordinary to have undocumented meetings going out
at least. you d have to argue that he was a surrogate of the campaign, you d have to get a little more than that, prove under the law that he was acting as an agent and within the scope of his agency doing this. definitely a tougher case to make. what are the chans he would be acting on behalf of the president as his attorney and making decisions for him and not telling him about those decisions? incredibly low. that s why we think this looks like a violation. at the very least enough grounds for investigation. $130,000, he s the head lawyer at the trump organization, he was trump s personal lawyer, definitely enough for an investigation. all right. thank you, paul s. ryan, i appreciate it. much more on our breaking news tonight. the report that president trump and attorney general jeff sessions are pressuring the fbi, the director of the fbi, to fire the deputy director. we use our phones and computers the same way these days.