Security correspondent, jim shuuto. Hes reaching deep into the Trump White House. It bears repeating every adviser as well as one cabinet secretary has been interviewed by the special counsel who we know wants to sit down with the president himself. Also worth emphasizing that the focus of those questioning sessions has almost universally been on the question of obstruction of justice. Tonight, the president s lawyers say 20 white house staffers have now sat for voluntary interviews with special counsel Robert Mueller, including don mcbegan, hope hick, Steven Miller and former chief of staff, reince priebus. They say they have turned over more than 20,000 pages of documents. Now donald trump says he is willing in fact eager to be next. Telling reporters im looking forward to it, actually. I would do it under oath, yeah. Trumps lawyer quickly qualified the president s statement, telling gloria borger, quote, while mr. Trump was speakinghurriedly, hes in complete cop ration. We have been
Suggesting it will become awkward at best for the president to continue to call the investigation a hoax. Now that a grand jury was convinced by bob mueller and his investigators who presented this evidence to them, and to which they responded with todays indictments. Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein took to the d. O. J. Podium and announced the charges. The defendants allegedly conducted what they called Information Warfare against the United States, with the stated goal of spreading distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general. They used stolen or fictitious american identities, Fraudulent Bank accounts, and false identification documents. The defendants posed as political and socially active americans advocating for particular candidates. They established social media pages and groups to communicate with unwitting americans. Were Campaign Officials cooperative or were they duped . Whats their relationship with this . There is no allegation in this indict
I appreciate that. Thats real that is lick a sibling. Are my questions you cant pick your own council and you can do that any day of the week. I believe in privacy. Number two, hannity. Legal questions about real estate and no third party. Nobody. Okay. This is what i would have advised you im representing you i would say, cohen should have been getting real estate advice from you. Okay. I know the real estate you invest in the. You would need him every day of the week. You dont need cohen. A 20 bill im send itting in the mail and enlisting your service. Laura ingraham, my attorney is taking over. Good evening im Laura Ingraham this is the ingraham angle. Another huge news day and we got it covered for you from every angle. President trump goes on offense after a furious news cycle full of vicious attacks. Mr. Trump attorneys are locked in a battle to keep federal investigators using protected information seized by the fbi from his personal attorney. White Water Council ken star will g
Campaign. If any of that is true, that is an absolute red line. It would have quite a bit of detail on it. If any of that is true, theres a red line in this country. You cant do this to Political Campaigns. Harris meanwhile, democrats are also blasting the president s latest salvo. Senator Dianne Feinstein tweeting, the president s statement indicates he will order the Justice Department investigate the f. B. I. Could not be more disturbing and reiterates the deep contempt for the rule of law. Catherine herridge has more. Under investigation himself, the president called on the Justice Department to probe whether an f. B. I. Used probe to be part of the campaign. He is going to ask the department of justice to infiltrate the campaign. The Justice Department wasted little time to announce internal investigation of the president ial investigation. And it will look into whether there was a inpropriety or political information and where they used informants to collect intelligence. In a st
World. Im natalie allen. Im George Howell from cnn newsroom. 4 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast. The lawsuits are flying. The u. S. President barely uttered the words National Emergency and the lawyers came out fighting. Members of his own party warned it was a terrible idea. President trump declared a National Emergency days after congress refused his demand for funding. He will face a gauntlet of legal challenges. Cnns jim acosta reports, he may have already sabotaged his own case. Reporter try to take a victory lap after a defeat in congress, President Trump declared a National Emergency to tap into Administration Funds to build a wall. The president may have already undercut his case when he admitted the motivation is to speed things along. I could do the wall over a period of time, i didnt need to do this, but i have to do it faster. I have done a wall for the election. 2020. Reporter more than 1 billion authorized by congress, they are free to secure 8 billion for the wall. The p