Cal or dental procedures. Im still going for my best. And for eliquis. Ask your doctor about eliquis. Welcome to kasie d. C. Im kasie hunt. We are live from washington every sunday. Tonight, Spring Cleaning in the Trump Administration. Rex tillerson gone. Andrew mccabe, gone. Is the Special Counsel far behind him . And what about other key members of the Trump Administration . Senator chris van haul enjoins me live to talk about what all of this means as the Foreign Policy obstacles mount for the United States. Plus, democrats pull off a serious upset in trump country. New polling just out today shows why pennsylvania could be just
the beginning. But we start with a restive weekend in the white house. That is an understatement. Andrew mccabe fired hours short of his retirement, and he kept his receipts. Reportedly handing over notes on the president to the Special Counsel. The Special Counsel subpoenaed the Trump Organization as the president s lawyer wondered aloud whether isnt it tim
Disciplined or removed from office only by the personal action of the Attorney General. But according to the white house, the president has been advised he, he can terminate Robert Mueller all by himself. Does he believe he has the power to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller . Certainly believes he has the power to do so. Most legal experts believe he would have to order Deputy Attorney general rosenstein to fire mueller and corefuse. I know a number of individuals in the Legal Community and including at the department of justice said he has the power to do so but i dont have any further announcements. They told me, ive asked. They said its rosenstein oversees is the Special Counsel and only he has the power to fire the Special Counsel. Again, weve been advised that the president certainly has the power to make that decision. I cant go anything beyond that. Weve been advised the president certainly has the power to make the decision. To be clear, the warrants that were executed agains
Reporter that reassured wall street, but just hours later, President Trump turned up the heat yet again, announcing 100 billion in additional tariffs against china. Enter today, the Treasury Secretary there is the potential of a trade war. And let me just be clear, it is not a trade war. The president wants reciprocal trade. Reporter so, what now . Well, just last month, the president himself said the United States had been treated so badly for so long on trade that, quote, trade wars are good and easy to win. Does the president think that trade wars are easy to win . Is that still his view . I think the president feels like if he is in charge of those negotiations, absolutely. And jon karl joins us from the white house tonight, and jon, the president s top economic adviser calls the tariffs just a proposed idea, but youre not hearing that kind of language from the president himself. Reporter well, tom, it is true that tariffs have not gone into effect yet. The process could take a cou
The idea of possibliy resigning. Whats unclear is how serious that was. Whether he said Something Like i am willing to resign if the president wants me to or whether he said i intend to resign and im going to do it on monday. We dont know the exact nature of those conversations. Eli, i want to hear about your reporting. I want to show our viewers what phil rucker is talking about. Lets watch. I have a message for the president tonight. Under zero circumstances should the president fire anybody. If you are laying a trap for donald trump, this might be exactly how youd do it. Okay, professor, what will President Trump do now . Well, if hes smart, hell take advantage of this and not fire either any of these people, not mueller, not rosenstein, and not sessions. So this is important point because i think a lot of people are really scared after the
rosensteins people to come out and say, he expects to be fired. His people were putting that out to what end, we dont know at this point but cer
It is 12 00 in new york. Were following what has already been a dramatic day of testimony on capitol hill from two key witnesses, former nsc Senior Adviser fiona hill and current u. S. Diplomat david holmes, both witnesses raising alarms today about the conduct they witnessed between the Trump Administration and ukraine, namely the conditioning of both military aid and a white house meeting on a commitment from the ukrainians into those investigations designed to hurt the bidens, a Smear Campaign against Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch who was apparently standing in the way. The conduct of both of todays witness witnesses, they believed lives could be jeopardized in ukraine. Here is some of the dramatic testimony of fiona hill and david holmes. The barrage of allegations
directed against ambassador yovanovitch, a career ambassador, is unlike anything i have seen in my professional career. I heard ambassador sondland say to the president , yes, he was in ukraine, and went on to say