Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Our colleague Kristen Welker there is still a steep hurdle to an interview with robert mueller. It would, quote, raise significant article ii questions going to the heart of president ial authority. Its not just about this president but about the presidency. Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani spokes with axios. They report, quote, there are two topics the president s lawyers want to rule out in order to agree to a trump sitdown with mueller. One, why trump fired fbi director james comey. Two, what trump said to comey about the investigation of former National Security adviser michael flynn. Tonight, bloomberg has also spoken to giuliani and also reports that those two topics are off limits. According to bloomberg, giuliani said, quote, if asked the president would tell the Special Counsel that he didnt urge comey to stop Investigating Flynn and Didnt Fire Comey to cut off his investigation into russian int
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Election, that means the more careful you have to be in how overtly you investigate or charge someone who is going to be on the ballot in that election. First of all, donald trump, as far as i know, is not on the ballot in 2018. So this whole issue about them affecting the election is actually pretty tangential. Its not clear how much it applies. But mueller is so clearly cautious and observant of precedent and law. Yes. So he will take it into account. But its sort of a sliding scale. Trumps not on the ballot. So you dont have to be quite as careful as, for example, charging someone like collins who is up for reelection. So there they had to be very, very careful. And also, you know, you have to not you dont have to stop the whole election the whole
investigation. Can you pause some aspects of it . You just dont want to do something overt. He can keep doing lots of stuff, its not like theyre goi
About the shooters six weeks before the shooting trump used the admission to continue his crusade against the fbi. Tweeting, very sad that the fbi missed all of the many signals sent out by the Florida School shooter. This is not acceptable. They are spending too much time trying to prove the russian collusion with the Trump Campaign. There is no collusion. So heres the thing. The fbi is a federal agency employing approximately 35,000 people. Many of them investigate major crimes, murder, cyber crimes and like and, yes, they are supposed to follow up on tips about potential Violent Crimes like the massacre in parkland. Indeed, someone at the fbi failed to follow up on just such a tip called into the public hotline in january about the parkland shooter. But its an entirely separate part of the fbi that investigates Counter Intelligence. Things like a president ial campaign colluding with the russians. Mr. President , those kids werent about you. But the Russian Campaign was very much yo
Ive wanted to keep it down. Weve given i believe over a million pages worth of documents to the special counsel. The president is absolutely wrong. Nobody broke into Michael Cohens office and nobody, not even the president is above the law. A dozen fbi agents armed with search warrants legally seized documents from cohens office. His hotel room. A source telling cnn those documents are related to Stormy Daniels. Another source telling cnn the search warrant was very broad and included bank records for President Trump to use this as an attack on him and the country. Also telling cnn that the cohen raid sent the president over the edge because his attorney is like a surrogate family member. Its a disgrace. Its a real disgrace. Its an attack on our country in a true sense. Its an attack on what we all stand for. So when i saw this and when i heard it, i heard it like you did. I said that is really now in a whole new level of unfairness. So lets talk about this. I want to bring in cnn pres
Wrong. Nobody broke into Michael Cohens office and nobody, not even the president is above the law. A dozen fbi agents armed with search warrants legally seized documents from cohens office. His hotel room. A source telling cnn those documents are related to Stormy Daniels. Another source telling cnn the search warrant was very broad and included bank records for President Trump to use this as an attack on him and the country. Also telling cnn that the cohen raid sent the president over the edge because his attorney is like a surrogate family member. Its a disgrace. Its a real disgrace. Its an attack on our country in a true sense. Its an attack on what we all stand for. So when i saw this and when i heard it, i heard it like you did. I said that is really now in a whole new level of unfairness. So lets talk about this. I want to bring in cnn president ial historian douglas brinkley, michael, and frank br bruney of the new york times. Good to have all of you here onset. Frank, federal