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reading it? and do they even care? plus, is a pot war pending? the attorney general trying to turn back the clock on federal enforcement of marijuana. does that mean that legal pot is in trouble? we ll talk with the governor of colorado, where $100 million in marijuana is sold every month. and the cybercurrency bitcoin so big, it s even shaking up the world s richest list. one surge made ripple cofounder chris larson wealthier than zuckerberg. is this digital gold or a ponzi scheme? first, the new book by michael wolff has renewed debate about whether robert mueller can assemble a case for obstruction of justice against president trump. this is different than collusion. this is not a matter whether trump campaign officials aided and abetted the hack of the server. this is whether trump sought to proceed with corrupt intent. the times story gave a behind the scenes accounting of what went on at the white house as president trump contemplated firing fbi director
circle that talks about the mechanism that could be invoked to remove the president from office i m talking about fire and fury by michael wolff, the legal team tried and failed to block the book from being released. one of the senior adviser was on cnn earlier today describing the man who wrote it as garbage. the book is best understood as a work of very poorly written fiction. and also i will say that the author is a garbage author of a garbage book. the tragic thing about this book and there are many things about it that are unfortunate, but the portrayal of the president in the book is so contrary to reality, to the experience of those who work with him, to my own experience having spent the last two years with him. on the campaign, i had a chance to travel all across the country with the president on trump force once, would be the president, me and dan and hope hicks and a few other people. i saw a man that was a political genius. the allegations and insinuations are
afternoon. we had a couple of incredible meetings. it s feeling here that you don t have in very many places. security discussed. all types of military situations discussed. a lot of good military input. very important. we also obviously went into budgets. we went into daca. we hope we re going to be able to work out an arrangement with the democrats. i think it s something they d like to see happen. we are very well prepared for the coming year. we finished very strong. one of the things we are discussing and discussing very powerfully is drugs pouring into this country and how to stop it. because it s at a point over the last number of years it s never been like this. we ve never had a problem with drugs like we do. whether it s opioids or drugs in the traditional sense. it s never been like it is. we re going to do everything we can. it s a very difficult situation. difficult for many countries. not so difficult for some, believe it or not. they take it very seriously. an
raising a question loud and clear, is donald trump fit to be president of the united states. the president, have you read the book fire and fury. this is extraordinary that a president of the united states would try to stop the publication of a book. he has not lost it as he claimed. we ve got a guy in the white house that is unstable and not fit for office. i m not suggesting that he s not capable of doing the job. i just hope that he ll do it. i have recused myself. a source close to attorney general jeff sessions says president trump tried to stop sessions from recusing himself from the russia investigation. i think that we are in a neighborhood where i hope mueller is looking at this very seriously for obstruction of justice. i believe it may be time for him to step aside. the attorney general is going to continue showing up to work this week. after months of the president clam boring for an investigation into hillary clinton, cnn has now learned t