this is new day with chris kco como and alisyn camerota. here s our starting line. we have new details about the fbi raids on president trump s personal lawyer michael cohen. investigators were looking for communications between cohen and donald trump related to the infamous acce access hollywood tape. and president trump s ousted former chief strategist steve bannon is reportedly pushing a plan to fire rod rosenstein. the man overseeing the russia investigation. . . washington post reports bannon wants the white house to stop cooperating with mueller s team. at the same time, a senate pan has a bipartisan bill to protect mueller. right now sewer syria s ruler assad is addressing the public,
comfortable with him and why he picked him. they are like minded. that has given many democrats pause. right. democrats have learned there suspect always a consistent world view or policy in the middle east or anywhere in this administration. look at syria. you know, there are trump supporters who are absolutely horrified at the fact that he is considering new robust policy in is syria that thus far has been tolerance. he will punish for a chemical weapons attack. is there a no-fly zone. what is he talking about when he is talking about taking on the russians, iranians and syria? trump is so often inconsistent that i think people are actually just banking on the fact that mike pompeo is able, well versed in the issues. and he actually has trump s ear
chairman john podesta. investigators are searching for documents regarding any frt to keep the tape from going public. the white house lamenting that mueller s probe strayed too far from the scope. special counsel and others have taken. this started out as russia collusion, of which there was none. reporter: a source tells cnn the president is still fuming over the raid on his lawyer but hasn t had had time to study it or listen to his advisers as he grapples with how to respond to syria s chemical attack. this as washington post former chief strategist steve bannon is pitching a plan to the white house to crib will el the russia probe by firing rod rosenstein, having the white house stop cooperating with mueller and invoking executive privilege after several white house officials have already interviewed with mueller. i think president trump is going to go to war. reporter: a source tells cnn
no. regrade on a curve in terms of who he is going to pick, who is in his favor at the moment. if they are confident and qualified, i think people who willing to take what they get. given the chaos and national security apparatus, the comings and goings, bolton this week, people getting fired, syria and north korea on the table, i just think in the end they will take someone impeccably credentialed like mike palm and he will be confirmed. you have to be open on it. wolf blitzer will do special coverage of the confirmation hearing starts at 9:00 a.m. there is a little bit of hype in the suggestion. but what is the suggest that mike pompeo doesn t get confirmed? very slim. south of 10%? he needs one democratic vote.
destabilize the entire region. the kremlin is saying the deconfliction line is being used by both sides. let s bring in david sanger. your take on where the state of play is. in the current moment, he is getting ready to meet his national security advisers. they were all taken by surprise by his tweet yesterday. and i think what you have seen in yesterday s and today s is tremendous confusion in the president s public communications about what our objectives are. the tweet included the u.s. effort to rid syria and iraq of isis. that was a project started in the obama administration, finished very well in the trump administration. not completely gone but largely