joins us live. and the race to 2024 officially heating up, the first challenger to donald trump for the republican nomination. his one-time ally turned opponent. what nikki haley is saying about pushing back on belize, as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good valentines evening, i m stephanie ruhle. we may be on the verge of several major legal battles involving the justice department. donald trump, and his former vp mike pence. a source tells nbc news that the former vp plans to challenge a subpoena from special counsel, jack smith. smith wants pence to testify under oath in the investigation in trump s role in the january 6th riot. pence was the focus of a major pressure campaign by trump himself to block biden s victory. pence had to certify those electoral resorts before a joint session of congress, you know when, january 6th. the votes for president of the united states are as follows, joseph r. biden junior of the state of delaware has received 306 v
Separate. And why your reporting is ev even he didnt read the letter and approve it. In the letter friday he said it would be muellers principle conclusions. Thats not the case. On page three he didnt have a principal collusion. Its barrs that there wasnt obstruction of justice. Everybody stand by. This is cnn breaking news. I want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I am wolf blitzer in washington. After nearly two years, we now know the main conclusions of Robert Muellers russia information. A fourpage singlespaced summary was released by the Attorney General of the United States, bill barr. Part of the report reading and im quoting now. The investigation did not kid not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or
coordinated with the russians government in its election interference activities. Rudy giuliani told us the findings were better than he expected and President Trump just responded as well. It was a complete and total exoneration.
Investigation. And the fact that barr has been really the only voice speaking out on this has fed that perception. So with mueller now finally adding his voice, that will hurt the president s ability to continue this line of total exoneration, jim. Especially when its not true. Doesnt match the facts. Sarah westwood, thanks very much. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Top of the hour here. I am jim sciutto in new york. Our breaking news, a bombshell in the making. Robert mueller, the Special Counsel, who has not said a word in public since he took over the Russia Investigation two years ago this very month, is set to make a Public Statement, his first Public Statement one hour from now. This comes amid weeks of negotiations with the House Judiciary Committee over whether and how he will answer questions on the hill about the report that he submitted in march and will he take questions, will he take them in public . A lot of open questions there about the testimony. But no question n
Yes. Now, ambassador taylor also testified that and mr. Morrison both of them testified that you told them that President Trump said there was no quid pro quo which you also included in the text message that you referred. But then you went on and they had slight variations as to what you told them, but then you said that to ambassador taylor that president zelenskiy himself not the Prosecutor General needed to clear things up in public or there would be a stalemate. And mr. Morrison recounted something similar. You dont have any reason to doubt that both of their very similar recollections of the conversations they had with you, do you, ambassador sondland . Let me break that down, mr. Goldman. The text as i said about the no quid pro quo was my effort to respond to ambassador taylors
concerns to go to President Trump apparently ambassador taylor had access to Secretary Pompeo. He did not have access to President Trump so i made the phone call. I said what do you want . President trump
and it is going to show all of this like a plot to try to get him involved in a coup, and so on. none of that happened. the investigation totally fizzled. durham indicted it whopping two people, brought them both to jury trials, lost both federal jury trials, so durham was oh for two which is very hard to do if you are a federal prosecutor to lose to jury trials. but john durham managed to do it. and then, we have these new revelations from the new york times that durham was not acting independently from barr. that he would actually have regular scotch sipping sessions with the attorney general, they get it off to italy together and in italy the italian authorities evidently said to barr, look, we have new evidence that donald trump has committed their crimes, it looks like money laundering but we are not sure what. what did barr do? he gave that to john durham as well. that is not an independent investigation, that is what i think merrick garland needs to look into, and it is partic