a lot of news this sunday so far. more on that in a minute. welcome to america s news hq so far. i m leland vittert. gillian: i m gillian turner. the russian investigation into accusations from the trunk transition team of special counsel robert mueller investigators inappropriately obtained tens of thousands of e-mails. garrett tenney has the latest from the white house. reporter: well, transfixed on the the transition team accusing robert mueller of bad behavior and how it obtained the e-mail suggesting investigators may have violated the fourth amendment top lawmakers transition team claims in august requested tens of thousand that is the government agency with
memory. if there is an indication that comey s people did not believe he was evasive when he given information, that would obviously change. what s interesting about this deal is it s a pretty good deal. melissa: the implication of that is that he s giving them something in return and ed was said that he was directed to reach out by a senior official in the trunk transition team. there were reports earlier from abc that they sort of walked back after the market that he was willing to testify against the president. what s the likelihood of that? there is no indication that the president is the person being referenced. there is a reference to helping in the prosecution of another person. that could be any number of
getting these reports? others would say it proper. but say they are monitoring carefully at. america won, america too, authors david officials with the american one, two, three. that s your job susan rice would say us to find out what is going on here? who are these people? they re for the odessa the committee would take the information back to her and reveal who these people are. right. in this specific instance, congressman devin nunes said it didn t relate to russia appeared to your point, i could imagine hypothetical situations where let s say there s a hypothetical two people in turkey talking about trying to curry favor in that person happens to be in the trunk transition team. you might want to know who that person is. did the bush administration, did they behave in a similar way back in 2008-2000 nine when obama was taking power this is the incidental collection and
you just threw down. you are going to pay for that. you re telling the truth. yuko little brown sugar in your oatmeal and it s good, but i can t remember the last personnel ordered oatmeal. rachel: i get it all the time. ed: rachel have my back. train to the best journalists in the business of course. a lot of news this morning. a fox news exclusive this morning. a potential bombshell of the special counsel russia probe. ed: now accusing robert mueller steam of improperly obtaining documents. rachel: peter doocy live from washington with the details. très morning. the last humans for lawyers or the trunk transition team have been sifting through e-mails to and from 13 top transition officials including michael
the trunk transition team were aware of his meetings and the white house that they had previously suggested here that with the broad powers of the special investigation to investigate an issue that comes up in the course of the worker that has the white house a little on edge. depending on what he tells investigators, it could open up another number of doors. for his team and a number of issues for the white house going forward. thank you garrett. and on the north lawn you can hear the rotors of marine one landing in the south lawn. thank you. and with more on this now we have al weaver with the washington examiner. thank you for joining us. this is what we have for now, what is a level of this legal exposure? the big thing for michael