Good morning, everybody. It is tuesday, july 23. Im Yasmin Vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. A letter from the deputy general in response to a request from guidance from mueller earlier this month and implies he cannot discuss his disagreements with bill barr and must remain within the boundaries of our report because those discoveries were made by executive executive privilege. The letter adds this, it is the departments longstanding policy not to discuss the conduct of uncharged third parties. A spokesman for mueller said monday that he will have a brief Opening Statement and will then offerd the entire report as hi full statement for the hearing record. Mueller intends to abide by the staimt report, any testimony from his office would not go beyond hisno report. President trump said he will notru be watching any. Yesterday, he said he might watch, quote, a little. Im, not going to be watchi, probably, maybe ill see a little bit of it. Im not going to be watching mueller because you cant take all ofe those bites out of the apple. The president is expected to monitor the hearing much like he has done with similar events in the past. Trumps schedule on wednesday only includes a routine lunch with the Vice President and points to executive time as a natural window for trump to take in snip ets of news coverage. We know he loves to do that. We remember the nine minutes that bob mueller spoke, the first time we heard from him after the investigation concluded. In that nine minutes, he basically said im not going to offer anything beyond this report. What are you going to be listening for . You really seized on significant moment. He came out and said, if i am made to testify, i will essentially read from my report. In the last day, he gets a letter saying, hey, you make sure youey stick to that report. If you are him, you are thinking, didnt i just say that . In that is what congress will be working very hard to try and get him to do is stray from his report. More specifically, youll hear phrases like, in your own words. And what can you tell us about the thinking behind that decision. With strict time constraints, the challenge will be asking openended questions and getting anything out of him who will be just saying, im going to be reading from my report. Talk about that letter sent to him. Hes made that clear. The doj reinforces it with this letter. Could that backfire for the doj, could that have nudged him to say, i already said i was going to do this. Now you are telling me what to do . If Robert Mueller wasnt so unflappable, i would say absolutely. But seize shown not to be. A lesser person might be more annoyed and actually retaliate against a doj that sends him such a ridiculous letter. Was that more from the doj to be on the record saying this ahead of had is testimony . Again, hes now a private citizen, so he doesnt have to listen to what the doj is advising. Exactly. The letter makes you wonder if it was directed by somebody, i dont know who but somebody very high may have sent the letter. Going to the other part of your question, whatou are trumps te going to be looking for . That is the key. How much will he deviate and how much space will he admit to between himself and william barr. Does william barr exert executive privilege . He can claim it, trump can claim it. It can be litigated. We dont know the extent of executive privilege. We know it exists but it isnt an absolute. Im about to get yelled at. What question would you ask . The number one question is this,es why did you not subpoen the president . Danny, thank you. President trump is escalating his attacks on four Progressive Democratic congresswomen known as, quote, the squad. He tweeted yesterday, the squad is a racist group. Tweeting as his motorcade made its way to the supreme court. On your tweets, why are you escalating your feud with the four congresswomen in racial tensions . I think they are very bad for our country. They are pulling the democrats way left. They are very bad for our country, absolutely. You are stoking racial tension. No, no. There is no racial tension. The president criticized the Washington Post for running a story stating that he had talking points about the four congresswomen during a speak last week, he tweeted. The amazon Washington Post front page story yesterday was total fake news. They said advisors wrote new talking points. Does that sound like me . Photographers for the Washington Post and Associated Press captured notes from that speech with piece of paper with bulleter pointed notes for the president remarks showing just that. St interesting, you can see h he misspells al qaeda. We know hes briefed on them. Hes not necessarily reading them. Fairdi point. The white house is responding to the claim that it is detaining 17 cia agents. Having had the chance to lead that great organization, the Central Intelligence agency, i would urge everyone reading that story to understand they have a long history of lying. I would take with significant grain of salt any iranian assertions about actions theyve taken. He i read a report today abou the cia. It is another lie. They put out propaganda or lies. I dont think pakistan would ever do a thing like that. Definitely not. Pakistan doesnt lie but iran does. We are ready for the absolute worst. We are ready for sense too but we are very geared up. They are really the number one statemb of terror in the world. I have to say theyve pulled back because their money is running very low. Iranians said some of those arrested will be sentenced to death. The president tweeted the story is totally false, no truth. Just propaganda put out by a regime that has no idea what to do. T sitting along with the pakistan prime minister, said the reason american m forces ar still there is that he doesnt want to, quote, kill 10 Million People and, wipe the country, quote, offhe the face of the earth. We are like policeman. If we wanted to fight a war in afghanistan and win it, i could win that war in a week. I dont want to kill 10 Million People. Does that make sense to you . I have plans on afghanistan, if i wanted to win that war, afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the earth. It would be gone and over literally in ten days. I dont want to go that route. I dont think anybody would define winning a war as using a Nuclear Weapon to kill 10 Million People. Great to have you with us. A bizarre moment, the first time ath sitting president has talke about wiping an entire country off the face of the earth and bragging about it. Whenbo iran has does that towar israel, people have been up in arms and when he does it, he is boasting. Why are republicans so silent . Why are we not seeing any outrage . Thats a great question. Im not convinced we are not going to hear more out cry from folksry in afghanistan who wanto hear more details about this as they have foughtou alongside u. And nato partners for years. Again, this is a president that usually fires from the hip. This is something we could see some press back on. Lets talk about the attacks on the four democratic freshman congresswomen. It seems as if the president is digging in here. It is interesting. We have been say these are racist comments. The question is why . Why is he continuing to dig in versus back off . Is he trying to prove that they are note racist comments. Now hes turning around and calling them racist. There is a strategic thing here, hes making these four progressive women of color, members of congress, hes saying the comments they are making are unamerican, unacceptable. Hes painting them as far left ers. Hes using them as a place holderas in lue of the fact tha there isnt kind of a standard barer for democrats. We know the president spot tests this stuff. Does he feel like this message is resonating with his base and is something hell take all the way to november 2020 . Im not certain well hear him take this specific message all the way to 2020, we know we have heard this racist rhetoric. Weve shown so far, he hasnt had to pay such a cost. This is sort of a preview of what we are likely to see in the general election. Still ahead, the Trump Administration expands power. What itds means for the future u. S. Immigration. And al fraken regrets he redesigned over groping allegations. Hes not the only one who has spoken up. Well be right back. Work so hard give it everything you got strength of a lioness tough as a knot rocking the stage and were never gonna stop all strength, no sweat. Just in case you forgot all strength, no sweat. No no no sweat. 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