it s not just about him pushing his own agenda or his own view, i should say, that maybe the president should talk. it seems like maybe he s trying to clean up what the president did this morning, as i mentioned, taunting the special counsel, more than ever before. i think that s right. trying to perhaps bring the temperature down a little bit. it s getting pretty hot this week in washington in many ways. i think the president is agitated. as we ve been reporting. the more he learns and sees and realizes about this investigation, the more it frustrates him that he is in this position. so he now is lashing out, going after everyone. so that s what it seems to me that ty cobb is trying to be the voice of reason. it s still possible we re thinking about an interview. when i asked sarah sanders yesterday, she wouldn t answer. but the president has always said there s one reason to do it, which is to speed this investigation up and bring it to a close. it seems it would be, you know, hard
real heavy hitter, a serious washington lawyer. these things are real specialties, these kind of washington cases. if you re going toward s impeachment, you want somebody that understands the nuances here. and you know, i think there was a lot of concern that the he will advice the president was getting wasn t strong enough legal advice for the situation he s in. emmett flood has worked on both sides of this, inside the white house, outside the white house. so we are confirm thing from a white house official, as well. they will be putting out a statement shortly. but ty cobb was saying i ve been planning to retire. and basically he was somewhat of a package deal with john dowd. this was done at a very different time in this investigation. he was brought on board at a very different time. he s had a sometimes friendly, sometimes not so friendly relationship with this president, as everyone who works for him has. but this signals to me that the president is getting advice to,
hire emmett t. flood, a long-time washington lawer, with a long list of high profile clients, including bill clinton and dick cheney. wow. so this is a big deal. we were talking not so long ago, feels like a couple of minutes ago about ty cobb calling in to a podcast on abc giving some rare remarks, and now we know why, because ty cobb is leaving. he made that clear in this phone interview that he did with the new york times, saying that it s an honor to serve in this capacity. i wish everyone well moving forward. but the big news is emmett flood, who is a power house, no nonsense big-deal washington attorney. he s the guy, one of the guys that you want if you are the president in this situation that the president is in. things move fast in trump s washington. i think this resolves a problem that a lot of people in trump s inner circle and elsewhere have been saying, they didn t have a
road, the savannah firefighter s association saying that highway is shut down until further notice. emergency crews, as you can see through this eyewitness video, they are on the scene responding to this crash that happened within the last hour. there are still many questions, how many people were on board. did anyone survive? dana, we ll continue monitor thing situation and keep you updated. thank you for that update. we re going to move back to politics now and another very busy day. we re in donald trump s washington, a wednesday. there are new developments from the russian investigation. the president tweeted and taublted the special counsel robert mueller saying there is no obstruction of justice. that is a setup and trap. he punctuated the tweet with witch hunt for good measure. this is about a looming legal showdown with the special counsel and the president s he will people.
broadcasting. we ll have more straight ahead. we begin with that breaking news. also today fears that al qaeda could try to explode explosives hidden inside the bodies of terrorists. the warning comes on the one-year anniversary of the death of osama bin laden. reports in america and the middle east have been stepped up as we get new intelligence with hints at potential and future al qaeda threats. german agents found a memory chip in his underwear. first it looked like it was a pornographic movie but what they found was actual operations drawn up some of al qaeda s, drawn up by some of al qaeda s most senior operatives, the plans include hijacking a cruise ship, dressing the passengers in orange jumpsuits to mimic guantanamo bay prisoners. this morning we join commissioner ray kelly. nice to see you. when you hear about threats like this, a consistent drip, drip, drip of what s happening in the world and what could impact us here. how does that change how new york law enfo