Trump are made public and have officially been sent to committees in congress. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts is following all this from west palm beach, florida this morning. Good morning. President trump with nothing on the public schedule until a reception later on today but he is active on twitter this morning taking aim at the newly released comey memos in a couple of tweets saying james comey memos just out and show clearly that there was no collusion and no obstruction. Also he leaked classified information. Wow, will the witch hunt continue . The president also tweeting this morning so general Michael Flynns life can be totally destroyed while shadow james comey can lie and make money from a book that should never have been written. Is that the way life in america is supposed to work . I dont think so. We can expect well hear more from the president today because clearly this is an issue that will be prominent in the news. The other big thing surrounding the president today, news that fox broke yesterday afternoon that the president was told in an Oval Office Meeting by Rod Rosenstein that he is not a target of the cohen investigation. The president s attorney john dowd who was since departed was told by mueller he wasnt a target in the Mueller Investigation, just a subject. Now we learn from Rod Rosenstein that president wasnt the target of the cohen investigation and focused solely on Michael Cohen. A point to bring up, we dont know why Rod Rosenstein and legal sources ive spoken to close to the president dont know how Rod Rosenstein can make that assertion because all of the evidence that was seized in the Michael Cohen raids more than a week ago has been locked up in Court Proceedings as to what is privileged information and clientattorney privileged conversation and what might be able to be given to the prosecutors. The fact it came up from the Mueller Investigation through the u. S. Attorneys office in the Southern District of new york has a former special prosecutor ken starr saying the Mueller Investigation has gone way out of bounds. The cohen thing is very troubling to me. Any time a Lawyers Office is raided i believe all americans should be concerned about that. What is the justification . There was a safeguard in place and judicial review but im very concerned about the process that will be followed to protect the Attorney Client privilege, which is sank row sank in america law and it should be. One of the most important elements to protect the liberties of the people. Im very concerned. Legal sources close to the white house also tell fox news that rosensteins statement about the president not being a target of the cohen investigation could be problematic if the u. S. Attorneys office does develop information that could lead the president to be a target. As one source told me there were a lot of prominent people in that room, including the president. For there to be an abrupt change in the investigation could be problematic and some people who believe that Rod Rosenstein might have put his job in jeopardy by making that disclosure. If i was the attorney general, someone said i would fire rosenstein on the spot. Sandra there is a familiar face that has just been added to the president s legal team. What can you tell us about Rudy Giulianis new role. A big announcement yesterday by jay sekulow, giuliani is joining the team. He will be the liaison between President Trump and the white house and the mueller special counsel team. The president in a statement saying yesterday rudy is great and has been my friend for a long time and wants to get this matter quickly resolved for the good of the country. In an interview with the Washington Post yesterday giuliani said he is a big fan of mueller, has a tremendous amount of respect for him but hopes he can get that matter resolved quickly. The president has been talking for months now, more than a year about this cloud that has been hanging over him because of the Mueller Investigation which is impeding him from getting done the work of the country. Sandra the last 24 hours, john roberts. Bill lets get to the memos and whats in them. Here is one about the russia collusion investigation. Comey writes this. Trump said that if there was some satellite in parentheses, i took it to me some associate of his or his campaign that did something, it would be good to find that out but that he had not done anything and hoped i would find a way to get out that we were not investigating him, end quote. Katie pavlich. Editor of town hall. Com. A few more coming your way. React to that. Good morning and react to what you read in the 15 pages that we have now in these memos. The most interesting thing that stood out to me when you go through all of these pages and the separate memos written on different dates the theme is the f. B. I. Was working on behalf of the president to protect him against russia and russian narratives coming out of moscow about the president in terms of salacious accusations and james comey repeatedly states in these memos that he told the president that he was not under investigation. So for the f. B. I. s role comey kept saying to him that we were protecting the president against all of these allegations. And clearly in these memos the president was going and saying things even about mike flynn about getting to the bottom of some of these things that had happened and saying if wrongdoing happened, the f. B. I. Certainly should be investigating it. Bill thats in the memos also. Just to continue that thought on the investigation put this on screen i responded that we were not investigating him and the stuff may be totally made up but it was being sent out of russia. Our job is to protect the president from efforts to coerce him. The president was trying to get him to go public and let people know he wasnt under investigation. He believed it was hurting him with members of congress and with foreign leaders from overseas. That is in the memo, too, katie. Now were making the distinction between the russian collusion investigation that came later and this cloud the president refers to meaning the salacious allegations and it goes to the crux of why President Trump originally said and when it was reported that he fired james comey because he refused to go out in public and say that President Trump wasnt the center of these investigations and that these allegations were coming from russian sources and therefore might not be true. In fact, they didnt believe at the time that they were true. Comey kept saying he referred it to Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein who also didnt come out publicly to disband any of these rumors. That goes back to the firing of james comey and the president saying that is why maybe he did it. Bill you picked this one, too, a dinner also on screen. The conversation was pleasant at all times. I felt comfortable throughout although never relaxed given the focus conversation required. Whats significant about that . If you fast forward to where we are now and after james comey was fired he repeatedly said, including under oath in testimony to congress, that he felt very uncomfortable with the way the president was behaving. He felt uncomfortable with the conversations that they had. According to these memos the conversation was please anlt. He didnt get to speak very much. The president was deciding what things they were going to talk about. So james comey has some explaining to do when it comes to what he wrote in these memos and what he has been saying publicly now in the aftermath of his firing. But again i want to go back to the idea these memos show the f. B. I. Was working on behalf of the president to protect him against a russian narrative not working to investigate him for colluding with the russians. Bill a lot more to be said as you well know. There is a lot in here. Bill the first bite of the apple. Politico writes about it as being an instant political rorschach test. You can pick out whatever you want and make a case for that. Sandra some are. Bill read it for yourself. Make up your own mind. This is quite revealing now as we try to dissect more of this relationship between trump and comey. Sandra the president not mincing words this morning. Meanwhile another big story were watching, investigators search for a motive in the murders of two florida deputies after an apparent ambush at a restaurant in a florida city. Sergeant ramirez and Deputy Lindsey were the best of the best. They were men of integrity. They were men of loyalty. They were godfearing and they loved what they did. Sandra Jonathan Serrie is live in atlanta with an update. Bill investigators identified the shooter as 59yearold who lived in the same county the deputies were working in. They found his body outside the restaurant dead from a gunshot wound. Authorities havent said whether it was selfinflicted. There was no disturbance or crime in progress. The shooter walked up to the front of the restaurant where the deputies were picking up food and fired through the window at them. Although the motive is still under investigation the sheriff raised concerns about the often hostile social climate Law Enforcement officers face. What do you expect happens when you demonize Law Enforcement to the extent it has, every type of hate, every type of putdown that you can think of, the only thing these men were guilty of is wanting to protect you and me. The sheriff is calling both deputies heroes. The 29yearold Sergeant Ramirez was in Law Enforcement for seven years leaving behind the wife and two Young Children and Taylor Lindsey had served with the Sheriffs Office for five years. President trump tweeted yesterday. Sandra, back to you. Sandra thank you. Bill another big story were watching. Ms13 gang now putting on a hit on Police Officers. Details on that threat and where it is coming plus there is this today. President trump looking at what is happening in california with sanctuary cities where the people are really going the opposite way. They dont want sanctuary cities and there was a little bit of a revolution going on in california. Sandra President Trump applauding the effort of cities to fight californias sanctuary status. Congressman darrell issa will join us to talk about the ongoing battle in the golden state. Bill criticism coming from james comey and some say it will have a devastating effect on the f. B. I. The very notion of a former f. B. I. 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Learn more at cancercenter. Com experts Appointments Available now. He was the head of this investigation and is now one of the cooperating witnesses. Nobody would suggest that this book is benefiting the investigation. To the contrary, he is undermining his role as a witness. So the question is why is he doing it . The answer is rather obvious. He will make a lot of money but in the process he is going to do untold harm to the institution he once headed. Bill jonathan turley, a law professor slamming the former f. B. I. Director as an opportunist saying the book tour and book will do serious damage to the bureau long term. Juan williams with us. Steve hayes also with us. Great panel. I have to tell you, i was watching deep into the night last night trying to figure out whats right and whats not. Whats accurate and whats inaccurate. Im looking for obstruction in the memos. I did not see it. Im looking for collusion, i did not see it. Im wondering if there are aspects of our government in washington, d. C. , an f. B. I. Director to put out a book and trash a dullly elected president whether you voted for him or not, whether you like his policies or not but to trash our democratic system and only surrender these memos three or four days later after the subpoena came from House Republicans. Just think about that, steve, think about where we are when we allow Something Like this to happen and what it does to our own institutions we so dearly love, want to protect and keep in tact long term. Go ahead and start. James comey hasnt done himself or the f. B. I. Any favors. If you look at the way he opens the first memo he classifies it is secret. Im not sure what the classification should be so ill say it is secret. He then proceeds to leak portions of the memos to the new york times. In the conversations that comey recounts with priebus, priebus asks him if theyre private conversations. Comey distributes the memo to his colleagues. Finally, he says repeatedly that it is a problem if conversations with the president of the United States are leaked. He talks specifically about the leak of the president s conversation with the leader of mexico. Says its a problem and prosecutable and comey goes on and leaks his own private conversations with the president. Look, i think there are real questions about what the president did. I think the investigation by Robert Mueller is necessary. But james comey doing what he is doing both on the book tour and in writing these memos, doesnt do any favors for him, doesnt do any favors or the f. B. I. Or the process. Bill juan, where are you this morning on this . Let me just say i think much of this has to do with the three Committee Chairs in Congress Really going after Rod Rosenstein who is the Deputy Attorney general and as you know, someone that is in the sights of President Trump. The question being whether or not he should fire rosenstein. I think the three Committee Chairs requested these documents and threatened subpoenas, bill, because they wanted to put the pressure on rosenstein. And it turns out he gave them the memos somewhat redacted but they dont the memos do not indicate to me any evidence of bias against the president on comeys part and theyre consistent with what comey has said. Bill but in the context of the book and the interview tour you have to include that in your evaluation now, juan. And i see its consistent. From your perspective i was listening to what you and steve were talking about, i dont think comey has helped in terms of the reputation of the f. B. I. , if thats your point. But my concern here is that comey makes the case that he feels the president is a threat, he is a liar, he is not trustworthy and he wants the American People to know. You could see he is selfrighteous and he thinks he is better than anybody else. Bill he is the one who leaked the reports. He was under oath did you ever leak this material to the members of the media . Never happened. Dont get lost in this, folks. Yesterday with jake tapper april 19th when he was asked whether or not the dossier is legitimate and comey says unlikely but possible. All right. I guess anything is possible. I mean, maybe ill fly later this afternoon off a building in new york city. Its possible but unlikely. Whats interesting, bill. In that he says that he has corroboration of aspects of the dossier from other intelligence officials. I didnt know that before i saw that. Bill now we know, steve, that clapper left the room at trump tower in the first meeting in january when he was told about this dossier and he warned trump that cnn had the report and four days later it shows up on cnn and buzz feed. It makes you wonder the conversations these men had between each other and what their ultimate objective was. Were trying to figure that out. Last word, steve. These memos, the release of these memos answers some questions but raises several important questions. One is the role of the Obama Intelligence Community leaders. I dont think we know enough based on my reading of these memos to say that they leaked this and they are responsible for this going public but it raises some interesting questions and we need to have those questions answered. Bill well tr