Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating whether President Trump possibly tried to obstruct justice. Now, cnns reporting is different. Cnn says that we do know that the special counsel and his investigators have asked for information and will talk to the president s top sblenlgintellig chiefs. One might think because President Trumps own friends and advisers have explained to him how much his impulsive tweeting has hurt him in various ways, that he might handle this news by being cautious, by being circumspect. But one would be wrong. Just a few moments ago, a new tweet. Crooked h. Destroyed phones with hammer, bleached emails, and had husband meet with attorney general days before she was cleared and they talk about obstruction. The president also calling the fbi investigation a witch hunt and impugning the integrity of people well known for their integrity. Cnns Jessica Schneider is here with us and she has the latest on the investigation. Jessica, what has cnn learned about t
This is cnn breaking news. All right. Welcome back. This is the cnn newsroom. Im fredricka whitfield. Thanks for watching. Well following breaking news on bill cosby. A little more than an hour ago a judge declared as mistrial in cosbys case. It happened when the jury came to the judge after just one hour of deliberations this morning telling the judge they were hopelessly deadlocked and unable to agree on a unanimous verdict. Youre seeing pictures of bill cosby earlier today. The comedian had been charged with three counts of aggravate the indecent assault and despite the outcome the prosecution now vowing to retry the case. Cnn is following the story for us right now. We heard from the District Attorney kevin steele who said while theyre going to reassess, hes also vowing they will retry this case. Right. He had a lot of comments saying this is an important case and thats why it does need to be retried. You know, it speaks for a lot of the cases out there, a lot of cases out there an
Matter where youre from, everybody wants to be on them. Because they are prestigious in all the right ways for everybody in the senate. And so even though there are only 100 u. S. Senators in total, 26 out of the 100 senators are on the Armed Services committee. More than one in every four senators is on that committee because they all want to be on the Armed Services committee. I think they decided at one point, rather than make the Armed Services committee hard to get on to rather than make all the senators is compete, theyre just going to let everybody join. Everybody wants to be on that committee so everybody gets to be on that committee. 26 out of the 100 members of the senate. A couple months ago, at the end of february, beginning of march, a passel of National Security reporters from the Washington Post, they got in touch with every single senator who serves on the Armed Services committee in the senate. And they asked the one very specific question, they didnt want like full le
During the past 17 months. The burden of our ordeal has been eased by the support we have experienced. Not only from our friends in cincinnati, but throughout ohio, at the university of virginia, throughout the United States, and indeed from around the world. Id also like to thank todd, lynn, mr. Syler and mr. Burke from wyoming high school, a place where otto experienced some of the best moments of his young life and he would be pleased to know his return to the United States would be acknowledged on these grounds. My wife, cindy, is at ottos side this morning, as she has been since the moment he returned to ohio. She wanted me to tell you that she knows that otto is a fighter, and she and i firmly believe that he fought to stay alive through the worst that the North Koreans could put him through, in order to return to the family and community he loves. Cindy joins me in expressing our gratitude to so many people. The wonderful people at the university of Cincinnati Medical Center are
Then hes bringing home goats. Willie, you say it cant top what happened yesterday and every day this Reality Tv Show president tops what happened yesterday. But in a way that is tragic for the country. Its just insane. We got three stories right off the top. It would be a huge lead story any day. Well pick which one to go with. Today the Senate Intel Committee, dan coates will be there, rod rosen stein. Thats a prelude to whats going to happen tomorrow. Mika has the morning off. Msnbc contributor Mike Barnicle, seor political analyst for nbc news and msnbc Mark Halperin. Senior Political Editor and White House Correspondent for the huffington post, sam stein, chair of the department of africanamerican studies eddie glaude, junior. Nbc news capitol hill news correspondent kasie hunt and New York Times reporter michael schmidt. Good morning all. Willie, theyre all here for one reason, Mike Barnicle, and that reason is the red soxyankees series matters again. Kimbrel matters again. Thats