Very High Profile Company and the shooter was a woman. Both of those things are rare with gun violence. Before shooting herself according to police, the woman was able to shoot and injump three other people, one of whom is in Critical Condition tonight but the only fatality from this shooting will be this woman killing herself after she shot and wounded these three other people. Police have not described any terrorist association and the intent of bringing a gun and live ammunition into a business and starting to shoot the place up. Well tell you about the shooting tonight if we learn more over the course of this hour but so far thats pretty much the extent of what we know. I should also tell you looking ahead to the overnight, we are bracing ourselves for two expected news earthquakes. One economic, one political. The economic earthquake were anticipating has to do with china. President trump today unexpectedly announced another 50 billion in tariffs against chinese products, china said they are adamantly opposed to what trump has done and they will retaliate. Everybody is watching the markets overnight and watching for Chinese Government pronouncements over the next day or so. Thats the economic quake were expecting overnight. The political quake were anticipating has to do with jet another trump cabinet official. Epa administer scott pruit had heal ethics troubles from the beginning but in the last 24 hours there is a title wave of allegations and new revelations about his behavior while in office and what appears to be misuse or at least a cavalier attitude toward taxpayer dollars. Well have more on that coming up in just a moment amid honestly increasing expectations that scott pruit may be the next member of trumps cabinet who has to go. Today was also of course a landmark day in the special counsel investigation looking into the russia scandal. Today for the first time, a criminal case spawned by the special counsels investigation has come to a close. Weve seen a number of people charged by the special counsels office and weve seen a number of people plead guilty but today was the first sentencing in the Mueller Investigation for anybody whose been charged in the case today was the first time that person was that any such person was sentenced. Somewhat interestingly, the person sentenced to a prison term today is the soninlaw of a Prominent Russian oligarch which seems it should be more prominent than the attention given to the matter but well talk more about that later on in the show because as we were observing that information tonight about alex van der zwann being sentenced to prison, we also got naturally a very big breaking news story from the Washington Post. Do you remember james comeys pink slip . The short letter that donald trump sent via his body guard to fbi director james comey, the letter firing him in may last year . You might remember the way it was phrased because it had one very memorable line. It was memorable because that line was so out of place in a pink slip, in a termination letter. In the middle of firing james comey trump said quote i greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occasions i am not under investigation. Also youre fired. Love donald. When james comey testified before congress the following month, he more or less confirmed that he had indeed told the president that he was not personally under investigation. But what we heard from comey and from all the other government officials from whom trump tried to pressure what trump wanted more than anything was for senior Law Enforcement and intelligence officials to publicly state that the president himself was not under investigation. He was never able to persuade anybody to make a blanket Statement Like that. And every since the firing of james comey and appointment of Robert Muellers special counsel, that has been an open question. The president personally under investigation. Is the president of the United States himself personally the subject of an on going criminal and Counter Intelligence investigation by federal Law Enforcement . As of this evening, we have a big new piece of information about that. Washington post reporting that in negotiations with the president s lawyers last month, so in february, special Counsel Robert Mueller described President Trump as quote a subject of his investigation into russias interference in the 2016 election. A subject. The president is a subject of muellers investigation. The posts carol and robert report special Counsel Robert Mueller informed president trurch trumps attorneys that he does he consider him a criminal target. In private negotiations in early march about a possible president ial interview, mueller described trump as a subject of the investigation in the 2016 election and prosecutors view him as a subject when that person engaged in conduct that is under investigation but there is not sufficient evidence to bring charges. The president reports tonight has privately expressed relief increased determination to agree to a special counsel interview. The president said hes not a target of the probe and believes an interview will help him put the matter behind him however, legal experts say muellers description of trump as a subject of a grand jury probe doesnt mean the president is in the clear. Under Justice Department guidelines, a subject of an investigation is a person whose conduct falls within the scope of a grand jurys investigation. A target on the other hand is a person for which there is substantial evidence linking him or her to a crime. So subject versus target as mueller confirms he is a subject. This reporting ends with a quote, quote, there are plenty of instances where a guy walks into a grand jury as a subject. He gets out of that testimony and is told guess what . Youre a target now. Joining us now is carol and bob cast kosta. Thank you. Appreciate you making time. Thank you, rachel. Good to be here. As of last month, i want to headac make sure i get the basics. He was told that the president was not at least as of then a target of the investigation but he is a subject of the investigation. Was that was that news to the president s lawyers . Did they suppose that or guess that . That an important advance for them and their understanding of the legal jeopardy. There is a lot ocho to unpac your great question, soon you can get a job in the Justice Department, rachel. I would say first of all, it is not a surprise to most people monitoring this case, that the president is likely is a subject. Being told youre not a target and youre a subject while your attorneys are talking brass tax with the leader of the special counsels team is a significant development, and it essentially means that if youre not a target, they do not have the evidence that moment to prosecute you to bring charges and there are many that believe mueller doesnt have the power to charge a sitting president with a crime even if he had evidence. So this news is news and its certainly delighted and relieved for the president of the United States when he learned it. Is there now any sort of unanimousty, a lawyer or two coming on board to represent the president and that didnt work out. Do we know if the president has had a meeting of the minds with his current russia legal team as to whether or not he should sit for an interview or is there still disagreements there . So what we learned in our reporting and that is shared for the first time in this story tonight is that there was some fairly significant and sharp disagreement. John dowd, according to Close Friends of the president , was counseling the president that he should absolutely not do the interview all caps. Do not do the interview with bob muellers team. However, were told that white house attorney ty cobb and cocounsel jay sbelieve the president should do this interview and now, my understanding is that they are leaning in that direction. Dowd resiegned as a result of feeling the president was not listening to him. Bringing the two elements of your reporting tonight together, there always is the possibility if somebody goes into testimony, not as a target of the investigation but a subject, somebody being looked into even though there isnt enough evidence to bring charges, there is the possibility during that interview a statement will be made, an assertion will be made of some kind, something materially will happen during that testimony that converts the subject of the investigation into a target. Absolutely. In fact, you know, ive talked to a lot of a usas and former u. S. Attorneys when i was doing reporting for this and asked them to keep this confidential until i posted it and said what do you think . Is important here . He can go from subject to target in a red hot minute and that is true of most witnesses. The only question here is does bob mueller, the special counsel authorized by the department of justice believe he can charge a president with a crime if he finds evidence of it and thats a big open question. And that brings us to the other big piece of news that you and your colleague robert costa have broken tonight, which is about the special counsels plans whether or not they end up charging the president , you report tonight quote the special counsel also told trumps lawyers he is preparing a report about the president s actions while in office and potential obstruction of justice. Muellers investigators said they are considering writing reports on findings in stages with the first report focused on the obstruction issue under the special counsels regulations, mueller is required to report conclusions to rod rose nstein and he would decide whether to release this information to the public. One person said quote they said they want to write a report on this to answer the publics questions. This is something that weve always known was a possibility. It sounds like youre able to report that its in the works. So its been a little bit of fraught reporting target because weve been hearing snatches of this conversation for awhile. Various people who said they had information that muellers team planned to write a report but now we reached sort of a spot of people in a real front row having information muellers team told them look, we just want answers to these questions. We need this to write our report and this is our plan. Now, keep in mind, bob muellers spokesperson declined to comment and always does decline to comment and so they are not giving us any great insight but weve reached a point where now enough people have said this is what they have heard from the special counsels teams lips that we feel comfortable saying so. Wow. This is a big advance in our understanding tonight and a number of fronts. Carol with yet another big scoop on this subject. Thank you for joining us on such short notice. You bet, rachel. Recapping what we just learned from this breaking news story from the Washington Post. The president s lawyers have been informed by Robert Mueller the president is a subject of muellers investigation into muellers interference and the president is relieved to learn hes only the subject of the investigation and not yet a target of the investigation. The difference being whether or not muellers investigators at the time of the advice to trumps legal team believed they had enough information to bring criminal charges. That of course is complicated by the legal fight over whether or not anybody can bring criminal charges against a serving president to that end. Carol and robert further report tonight that special Counsel Robert Mueller is preparing a report about the president s actions while in office and potential obstruction of justice. Noting just they just note late in the piece some of trumps advisors warned white house aids they fear mueller could issue a blistering report about the president s actions meaning dont be psychosiked about this. Thats important news. Thats just broken. The president is a subject of muellers investigation. I want to alert you to one other thing that happened today about that we learned from a court filing. Late last night after joy reid finished sit income for me in the middle of the night we got a new court filing from muellers prosecutors that related to the Paul Manafort case and you probably heard something about this today, big headline out of that filing today was that in addition to the publicly available document that set up the special counsels office and hired Robert Mueller and laid out the scope of muellers investigation, we learned from the court filing there was also subsequent to that Public Statement establishing the Mueller Investigation, there was also another bit of instruction. August 2nd last year, another basically sheet of instructions from Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein to bob muellers office explaining to him, confirming in writing a list of specific stuff that mueller was cleared to look into as part of his investigation. This is the document. Its just been released as part of this filing and thats it. You see the big black boxes . That shows you is almost all of this memo from august 2nd is still redacted. Those big black blooxes are whe Rod Rosenstein wrote about mueller being cleared to investigate specific people and look at specific lines of criminal inquiry. The one part they left unredacted and allowed to be seen were the specific instructions from rosenstein saying that Robert Mueller was cleared to look into Paul Manaforts business interest in ukraine. Paul manaforts business of course led to dozens of criminal charges that are currently pending against him and thats why those specific instructions from rosenstein were cleared as part of the court filing today. Thats interesting. We didnt know rosenstein gave that direct very specific instruction to mueller as to what he was allowed to look at. Its also interesting because it probably torpedos Paul Manaforts fairly hopeless argument that he should be sprung and have charges against him dropped because there was something wrong with mueller being the special counsel, manaforts argument was that mueller was running off on a wild goose chase and nobody was controlling him and he was an unaccountable lose cprosecutor. Now hes answering to the Department Attorney general what hes pursuing but here is the thing i want you to know, Something Else from this filing that looks to me like its something really important. Its from deep in the filing page 42. Muellers prosecutors give us a couple new pieces of information here. They tell us that the charges brought against Paul Manafort werent just brought by special counsel Robert Muellers office a alone. The charges were signed off on by main justice. They signed off on some of the charges and tax division signed off on some charges. Really . Thats interesting. Robert mueller is not acting alone in bringing these charges in the return sussia investigat. Hes getting sign off from the other two divisions at the Justice Department for bringing these criminal charges. And then muellers team also basically makes the case that if somehow magically Robert Mueller was disappeared and the special counsels office was no longer allowed to be involved in the investigations, nevertheless, these investigations would persist. This seems very important to me. Page 42 of the filing. Quote, the Senior Assistant special counsel in charge of this prosecution is a long time career prosecutor with the internal authority to conduct this prosecution separate and aside from his role in the special counsels office. Now it looks the senior official is longtime justice prosecutor working with mueller but we actually checked with the special counsels Office Tonight and carol was right moments ago when she said the spokesman never confirms anything. The special counsel spokesman did tell us tonight there are a number of people involved in the special counsels investigation that have that title. Senior assistant counsel including Andrew Weissman as one of them. That meaning they are asserting if Robert Mueller goes away and gets raptured and if the whole special counsels office gets wrapped up and thrown away, these prosecutions will continue. The Senior Assistant special counsel in charge of this prosecution say longtime career prosecutor with the authority to conduct it separate and aside from the special counsels office. We think thats about wiseman but we think that can be any of the senior attorneys. You make the special counsels office go away, they still have authority. You poof Robert Mueller somehow, this investigation will continue. Bury in this filing that came out late last night, this say blunt assertion here from the special counsels office this investigation cannot be stopped if you stop Robert Mueller. Now i dont know why muellers prosecutors felt the need to publicly assert that today on page 42. Doesnt seem totally relevant to the argument specific to Paul Manafort and his trying to get the charges thrown out but they have spelled this out now clear as a bell. I dont know if that means they are expecting to be tested on this or warning they shouldnt be bu