i m alex marquardt. nice to see you. i m christine romans. stories from moscow shortly. first we begin here sources familiar with discussions in the white house tell cnn it looks like president trump is considering firing deputy attorney general rod rosenstein in the wake of the fbi raid on trump fixer and personal attorney michael cohen. rosenstein has been supervising special counsel mueller s russia investigation since jeff sessions recused himself. the president has talked about firing all three sessions, rosenstein, and mueller, at various points. the widespread assumption was that federal regulations barred president trump from firing mueller directly, but yesterday we learned the president does not share that assumption. listen does he believe he has the power to fire robert mueller? certainly believes he has the power to do so. press secretary sarah huckabee sanders did not suggest that the president that
better off he will be. me advice to anybody would let director mueller to his job. it would be a mistake to fire him. i don t think his job is in jeopardy. i think it s important we continue with the investigation. i think it s in his best interests if he does not. the best thing that could happen for the president and country is for mueller to be able to finish his work. quite a compilation reel. following the raid on michael cohen, the president s legal team is rerks evaluating whether re-evaluating whether mr. trump should sit down with the special counsel. an official saying that the administration believes the cohen raid showed a lack of courtesy. cnn has learned that mueller s investigators were meeting with the president s lawyers on the same day that the fbi raided cohen. that s how we know that the president knew about the raid beforehand. what cohen s thinking and saying about the raid. cohen tells cnn that the fbi was courteous, extremely professional, and re
if trump acts, rothstein is his most rosenstein is his most likely target. we should note not all of trump s legal advisers are on board, but officials are telling us they believe he has a stronger against against rosenstein, he believes he has crossed the line in what they can and cannot pursue and call his conflicted since he s a special witness in the investigation since he wrote the memo that suggested firing former fbi director james comey. even though trump has considered firing rosenstein in the past, the possibility has taken on a more serious tone in recent days according to sources we ve spoken with. thank you. top republicans urging president trump ton fire mueller. they want the special counsel to finish what they started and are warning the president his presidency could be on the line here. i think it would be suicide for the president to fire him. i think the less the president says about this whole thing the
nearly half the senate grilled zuckerberg five hours yesterday. and the verdict here is he emerged relatively unscathed. in part because there were so many questioners, there was little time left for followup. zuckerberg began the hearing by formally apologizing for host of issues plaguing facebook. it s clear now that we didn t do enough to prevent these tools from being used for harm, as well. and that goes for fake news, for foreign interference in elections, and hate speech, as well as developers and data privacy. last month it was revealed that a firm with ties to president trump s campaign accessed the data of 87 million users about their consent. that angered users, advertisers, and lawmakers already struggling with facebook s role in spreading misinformation and allowing election meddling. have you heard of fakebook? that s what people call it now. zuckerberg said he was open to regulation. he deflected questions about specifics telling lawmakers this
in part because the large number of questioners gave little time for followup. he began by formally apologizing for the host of issues plaguing facebook. it s clear now that we didn t do enough to prevent these tools from being used for harm, as well. that goes for fake news, for foreign interference in elections, and hate speech, as well as developers and data privacy. last month it was revealed that a firm with ties to president trump s campaign accessed the data of 87 million users without their consent. that angered users, advertisers, lawmakers already struggling with facebook s role in spreading misinformation and allowing election meddling. while zuckerberg said he was open to regulation, he deflected questions about specifics saying this yes, and i ll have my team follow up with you so that way we can have this discussion across the different categories where i think that this discussion needs to happen. look forward to it. wall street liked that answer. and wall st