Movement around the country. News tonight, special counsel mueller gathering evidence about that meeting. And the breaking news right now on the Mueller Probe into Russian Election interference is new clues as to where they are head. The special counsel probe did begin questioning whether President Trump obstructed justice since he allegedly pressed his own fbi director to back off. He asked him to famously drop allegations again allegatio allegations against flynn and then fired comey. We now this animated the probe to the start. They occupied muellers focus, so that makes this breaking times story so troubling for the white house. Trump spoke to witnesses about patters th matters they discussed with special counsel. Mueller has learned of two conversation in recent months in which trump asked witnesses about matters they discussed with investigators, according to three people pam wifamiliar wit encounters, this involves the efforts to fire mueller himself. Where the two crucial track
Sandra we are waiting to hear the words discussed in that room, we have President Trump talking about guns and School Safety with the nations governors. It comes after he called for expanding background checks and arming some teachers, adding that states should decide on that. Today he told the governors the nra is on their side and said he will ban bump stocks himself if congress does not take that action. The president s with judge Jeanine Pirro over the weekend about some of his ideas. Background checks are going to be very important. There is no bigger champion for the Second Amendment then i am. Some Great Teachers who are gone adept, really understood weaponry and guns, if they had concealed permits you wouldnt have this problem. Sandra in the meantime, governors are doing their own work on gun control. More and more are signing onto some sort of control. Ohio governor john kasich, who did not attend the meeting shared his thoughts over the weekend. What i asked people to do is y
Sent by special counselor Robert Mueller. Now he wants correspondence between an unknown witness and top Trump Campaign officials, those text messages, emails, phone logs, documents, also on our radar. Two New York Times reports. One suggesting that the Mueller Investigation is probing foreign efforts beyond russia to win influence. The other a 120 million mystery. State department money already funded to combat russian meddling has been sitting unused since trump took office. We have a lot to cover. Lets start with our reporters jeff bennett and my colleague katie tur. This is blockbuster stuff. What can you tell us about the significance of this subpoena . This is a subpoena to one witness asking for information, as you said, on a number of donald Trump Campaign associates. Also white house associates. We have a list of them we can put up on the screen. Its ten different people, carter page, core yi ly lewando paul manafort, roger stone, steve bannon. It is a pretty big list. And wha
Significant role in this white house. Hes a valued member of the team and he will continue. A blurring of behavior in his public and private roles. Were going the take it as it comes along every day. I dont ear going to feel the presence of emptiness. Were more connected than ever. I dont think anything is going to change that. Good morning. Welcome to your new day. Alisyn is in parkland, florida. School is back in session. Were split up this morning because were following several major Russia Developments rocking the white house. Cnn learned that special counsel Robert Muellers team is investigating President Trumps business dealings with russia prior to the 2016 campaign. This isnt what happened during the campaign. Theyre looking at business before. Also, chief of staff john kelly koun graded Jared Kushners top secret security clearance. A bombshell report in the Washington Post says at least four countries discussed ways to manipulate kushner because of his lack of experience and f