hill. epa chief scott pruitt faces the heat. you are actions are an embarrassment to president trump. and later the president s symphony, on the fix. fifth of the. fifth amendment, fifth amendme amendment. fifth amendment. this is mtp daily, and it starts right now. good evening i m chuck todd, your special master here in washington. welcome to mtp daily d. we begin with wild developments involving a pair of criminal investigations embroiling this president this. in russia investigation the president want on a tirade today lashed out at his own justice department and fbi. he attacked the special counsel. he called james comey a criminal and threatened to intervene unless the justice department
trump has been on a twitter tirade today. he wrote that the president that president obama did nothing after being notified of russian meddling. a few minutes later, the real story is that president obama did nothing after being informed in august after russian meddling, with four months looking at russia under a magnifying glass,s there no evidence of t-people, meaning trump people, being guilty of obstruction. i don t know what to say about that, i m still processing it. i think we can describe this as a counter suit here, the counter puncher, president obama is now redirecting his attacks
reporter for the associated press. jonathan, i m curious. the president has gone on this ten-tweet tirade today. it seems like he s worried about something. the legal cloud is definitely darkening. it s closing in. what s happening right now? according to the aides we talked to, people close to the president, it s a succession of things. it s not long since he had a one, two, three, four punch manafort, cohen, pleading guilty. you hinted about a book. bob woodward s book is coming soon in the next couple of weeks. has he had acsnes they ve been cagey about the reveal. he talked to people around the president and who work in the white house. certainly the comey and lester holt pieces of his tweet storm this morning, those both would connect seemingly to the obstruction of justice part of this so it s possible in conversations with his lawyers that is something that the president is particularly concerned about.