A Senior Administration official tells cnn that white house officials were involved in the effort to persuade attorney Jeff Sessions not to recuse himself from the investigation. Reince priebus and sean spicer did participate in calls between the white house and the justice department. White House Counsel don mcgahn reach out, trying to dissuadie ing sessions from recusing himself from the russia investigation. Now that you know that you have other officials that were involved in this outreach to sessions, is it reasonable to conclude that social counsel mueller will want to interview them . I think those two officials have gone in for their interviews. If they werent asked about this, they would want to be asked about this. The interest of Robert Mueller is to figure out if from was something here and was something being done. If there was a conspiracy to obstruct this investigation. And this goes certainly to that part of the question. I think, you know, for the white house and for P
Head quarters. Well get the latest from the Weather Center on the severity. And President Trump got a big decision this week on immigration. Its all next here on c ncnn newsroo newsroom. A good day to you around the world. Were live around the world at an Emergency Shelter in downtown houston. Many people at this hour asleep for the night. Some who dont have a home to return to, but many people still thankful that they survived because, quite frankly, there are many who did not. We understand the death toll from the storm stands at 50 people. There was a second fire at a Chemical Plant in crosby. The meade yead area has been evacuated. The epa says it has not detected high levels of toxins in the air. In the meantime President Trump returns to plan to the state today. The mayor of houston says the money cannot come quick enough. We must operate with a sense of urgency. We have to have the resources in order to assist people in transitioning from a crisis state and getting them back in
Dr. Jackson calling the claims false and blasting democrats, accusing them of obstruction. This is outnumbered. Im melissa francis. Here with us, Katie Pavlich and dagen mcdowell. And fox news analyst, marie hart and corey lewandowski. Hes outnumbered. Ready . Im ready. One lucky guy. Youre surrounded. I punched him in the arm walking in here. He to get me ready. He knows where he stands. Perfect. Lets get to it. Dr. Ronny jackson withdrawing as consideration for v. A. Secretary but staying on as white house physician. He decided to pull out after new details were released of allegations against him. They include claims that he prescribed drugs recklessly and drunk on duty and crashed a government car. Dr. Jackson releasing this statement. Unfortunately because of how washington works these days, these false allegations have become a distraction for this president and the important issue we must be addressing. How we give the best care to our nations heros. President trump was asked ab
Also, the pentagon apparently set to cancel a Major Military exercise with south korea. Keeping promises to pyongyang . Lets get to it. The Justice Department Inspector General is blasting the former fbi director james comey for how he handled the Hillary Clinton email investigation. The report states that comey was insubordinate but adds that his actions were not politically motivated. The key findings focus on how the former fbi director james comey and the former attorney general Loretta Lynch looked into clintons use of emails while she was secretary of state. On strzok and page, the Inspector General revealed the fbi general working on the case texted an Agency Lawyer who he was having with whom he was having an affair that he would stop President Trump from winning the election. He adds, theres no evidence that the agents political leanings impacted the investigation. We have more on that ahead. First, it was july of 2016 the former fbi director announced during a News Conference
Lawyers were not given a full accounting of what mr. Mcgahn said. We start with caitlyn collins. Lets start with the connection, the communication, or perhaps lack thereof, between trumps personal legal team and the white House Counsel, don mcgahn. What do you know . Brooke we are seeing how they are still scrambling to find out what it was that don mcgahn said during these 30 hours that he sat down with investigators from Robert Muellers team. Its pretty clear they dont know a lot. We heard from Rudy Giuliani who is the president s lead attorney on the president s outside legal Team Handling this russia probe saying he is relying on what john dowd told him. Esque on the president s legal Team Last Year but left the team five months ago. Hasnt been around in five months yet that is the person that jaul joule is relying on for his information that he is essentially getting secondhand here, brooke. We are seeing them scramble to find out what it was that says since no one on the presiden