and this just in. the washington post reporting that the special counsel is now investigating jared kushner s business dealings. more on that in a bit. we begin of course with the president, who appeared to go after special counsel robert mueller, the man leading the justice department s russia investigation, in a series of official statements today in the form of tweets. they made up a phony collusion with the russians story, found zero proof, so now they go for obstruction of justice on the phony story. nice. there s no evidence to support the president s claims. indeed, new reporting suggests mueller s investigation is zeroing in on possible money laundering by trump campaign officials. more on that shortly. back to the president s statement, however, which continued. you are witnessing the single greatest witch hunt in american political history, led by some very bad and conflicted people. #maga. late tuesday, the new york times reported that shortly after mueller was named spe
investigators are digging into the attackers criminal record, his on line anti-trump rants. were there any signs he was headed in this direction? so this attack is testing the resolve of unity from president trump and lawmakers as their charity baseball game goes on tonight as planned. meanwhile, the washington post is reporting that special counsel robert mueller is investigating president trump for possible obstruction of justice. the president slams this probe as phony and the biggest witch hunt in american political history. we have it all covered for you. let s begin live in all sand rea, virginia. the fbi ramps up their investigation with with the help of other agencies and local law enforcement, calling for the public to come forward with any information they have as they try to dig into how and why he carried out this horrific attack.
parties and folks in the media who have a platform to tone it down. stuart: you re attending the game tonight. let s hope that brings the two sides together for the baseball game and raises serious money. scott taylor. stuart, the show must go on, the governing must go on and the game must go on. bill there. stuart: thank you. new leaks out of the fbi. the washington post reporting that robert mueller is investigating whether president trump tried to obstruct justice. the president slamming that story on twitter calling it phony and the single greatest witch hunt in american political history. is this a big deal? could this lead to impeachment? it s a very big deal i practically speaking, the supreme court has not said definitively whether or not a sitting president can be indicted on a crime offense. so i think a lot of this
said, if you have tapes, preserve them and hand them over by june 23rd. so i would hope and expect we ll get an answer by thursday of next week. the president has signaled that he is going to give an answer, but those would be the very best evidence. none of us, i think, can make heads or tails out of that tweet, he said, that was essentially threatening comey, you better look out, i have tapes or may have tapes. whether that was an idle threat, meant to intimidate the director or there s more to it, but we need to find out. president trump tweeted, among many tweets today, he s been very prolific on twitter today. quote, you are witnessing the single greatest witch hunt, all caps, in american political history, led by some very bad and conflicted people. let s just talk about the witch hunt part of that. is there any evidence of obstruction of justice or collusion with the russians that you have seen? well, you know, let me take the obstruction issue first. i think what james come
president tweeting this morning but the fact that the president is tweeting, is this can we take this as an admission that he is being investigated for obstruction? because we haven t heard that per se? we haven t heard it per se. like so many things in the investigation the whole process is being driven in large part by anonymous leaks. it doesn t surprise me if, in fact, the special counsel is investigating obstruction. certainly we heard the testimony from mr. comey, we ve heard reports from other people and again, this is not an indict, it s not a finding that a crime has occurred, it s merely the special counsel asking questions of people who might have relevant information as the special counsel goes forward with this investigation. ashah, how hard is it to prove obstruction? i mean it seems up to this point especially in the news cycle, people hear what they want to hear, the debate over the intent of the word hope. it s not black and white, is it? it s not black and whi