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continue to have strong work being done by the senate intelligence committee. i believe the senate judiciary committee is going to reengage and will investigate further. we ve also seen action in a subcommittee of appropriations and on foreign relations. so, i m encouraged that you ve got republicans and democrats working together, across a range of issues, and that there is broad support for bob mueller, as special counsel. so i think that is going to continue to move forward. there s a great deal of smoke. there is not yet, clearly, fire. but the fact that the president has gone back on to twitter and is now dedicating his time to trying to distract the american people or to denigrate this investigation is really not wise. any criminal defense counsel s first piece of advice is to shut up, to folks that they represent. and so i m sure that president trump s personal is probably frustrated at the frequency with which he s taking to twitter to express his views on this ongoing investig

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house remains silent. at the daily white house briefing, held off-camera again today, spokeswoman sarah huckabee sanders declined eight times to explain the president s tweets or discuss the investigation. she referred questions to the president s personal lawyer, who issued a statement that did not address whether mr. trump was under investigation for obstruction of justice. he, instead, took aim at leaks calling them outrageous, inexcusable, and illegal. mueller is now under fire by trump loyalists like newt gingrich, who has urged congressional republicans to shut down the independent counsel. but i do think the congressional republicans ought to look into this. mueller s first four hires were all democrats. these are bad people. reporter: few republicans on capitol hill seem to agree. senator john thune, the third-ranking republican in the senate, called mueller a man of integrity. he needs to be able to do his work and i think it s better for all of us if that work continues

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united states under investigation for possible obstruction of justice. according to the washington post, special counsel robert mueller is looking into whether trump asked the fbi director, james comey, to drop the investigation into fired national security adviser, michael flynn, before firing comey. trump admitted to nbc news that the fbi investigation into his campaign s ties to russia was a factor in the termination. in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. reporter: but ken starr, former special counsel, whose investigation of president clinton ultimately led to his impeachment says it s a tough case to make. obstruction of justice is really a very hard crime to make out. it s not just, you want the investigation to go away, you suggest that the investigation goes away, you ve got to take really affirmative action. do you solemnly swear to tell the truth?

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at the homeless shelter. reporter: police say there s no evidence that hodgkinson s handgun and rifle were illegal. a next-door neighbor back in illinois once called police on hodgki hodgkinson for shooting his gun in his own backyard. i said, don t shoot over there, we have little kids in the backyard. and he didn t really acknowledge my presence. reporter: surveillance video shows the power of hodgkinson s gun. watch as the window of a parked suv is blown out by a bullet. tonight, congressman steve scalise remains in critical condition an after being shot in the hip. a source tells cnn he underwent a third surgery earlier today. there was no exit wound, it so makes sense that there was some internal damage and multiple surgeries is normal around situation like this. reporter: overnight, president trump visited scalise. it s been much more difficult than people even thought at the time. it s been he s in some trouble. he s a great fighter and he s going to be okay, we ho

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senate adopted a bipartisan package of sanctions against iran and restrictions on president trump s ability to waive sanctions against russia without congressional consent. let s talk a little bit about the chairman of your judiciary committee, chuck grassley. he said your committee will pursue investigations into any efforts to influence fbi investigations. do you consider that, senator, an investigation into obstruction of justice? yes. i think an ongoing investigation into whether or not there was inappropriate political influence over an fbi investigation, either during the presidential campaign, following the presidential campaign, or this year, by definition, touches up against or covers the topic of obstruction of justice. why didn t he explicitly say that? well, i think senator grassley, chairman grassley is being careful in his language. obstruction of justice is a legal conclusion that a

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