That the president has been acid wously denying for more than a year now, that there was a in fact a major russian operation to interfere in the 2016 u. S. Election. And, you know, the Intelligence Community has been saying for a year now that they have high confidence that that is the case. And here you have the u. S. Department of justice and a grant Ju Grand Jury saying they can prove that beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law, using admissible evidence. And that, you know, is a Rod Rosenstein today was extremely careful not to offend the president and make sure that no americans were witting participants in this plot. But that is a remarkable factual repudiation of the entire
he was very careful to stay within what is alleged in the indictment. But he did make a point on several occasions of saying that no americans are accused of participation in this. And i do think that was probably aimed at the president in a fashion that allows the president at least until such a time as
Both sides and the president s side, the Special Counsel side had a facetoface meeting last week. A rare facetoface meeting after weeks of informal discussions and were told by a source familiar myself, my colleague that Robert Muellers Team Provided more granularity on the topics they would like to discuss with the president in a possible interview under the umbrella of the firing of james comey as well as the firing of the former National Security adviser Michael Flynn. The specifics include the Attorney General Jeff Sessions role in the firing of james comey as well as what the president knew about his National Security adviser Michael Flynn and his conversation he had had with former Russian Ambassador Sergei Kizlyback about the actions. There is possible collusion, possible Obstruction Of Justice and what the president knew. Im told by a source familiar that legal team has taking the
topics and created questions possible questions that could be asked in an interview on a memo. But
Rep. Jeff Jackson of North Carolina has used it to explain the complex fight over raising the debt limit. Rep. Robert Garcia of California has used it to engage with
mark zuckerberg said he did not do enough to stop people for using the website for the wrong reasons. we didn t focus on preventing abuse and thinking how people could use these tools to do harm as well. that goes for fake news, foreign interference of elections and hate speech. we didn t take a broad enough view of what our responsibility is and that was a huge mistake. it was my mistake. shepard: zuckerberg is set to testify on capitol hill next week. anita vogel with more. hi, anita. mark zuckerberg says the buck stops with him. he says he s not looking to throw anybody else under the bus for his mistake. but turns out the data mining operation was larger than anyone thought. facebook said first it was 50 million years that offered up their personal information to a third party app. but turns out the app took
great news for the american worker and american companies, and it prevents an all-out trade war with south korea keeping them out of the cross hairs of the steel tariffs they were trying to avoid. interesting night at the white house. shannon: kevin cork, thanks for filling us in. you would think some of those trade war fears easing would help. it did yesterday with the markets but they plummeted today, traders with blaming facebook, stock down 20% from the february high. the ftc and 37 states attorney general are investigating facebook and cook county illinois is suing the company. the lawsuit states they violated fraud law and it isn t a social media company it is the largest data mining operation in existence. founder and ceo mark zuckerberg is scheduled to testify before congress april 10. breaking news on the sanctuary state showdown, straight ahead. the rebellion against the resistance got uglyler. we head to orange county for the latest.