I love the studio. Melissa almost like the studio you are in later. Almost the position. Dagen im on the five first time tomorrow. Look out. Im jealous. Harris . Harris we will begin with the fox news alert awaiting the start of the White House Press Briefing Amid questions looming about Robert Muellers russia investigation and whether we are closer to a potential sit down between the special counsel and President Trump. Its being talked about. We are covering it as we go outnumbered overtime. Im harris faulkner. Moments from now, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders will step up to the lectern to the left of the screen inside the White House Briefing room. The Mueller Probe expected to be a hot topic. Sources telling fox news that they responded to a letter from the legal team about the scope of a potential interview. Are they pulling parameters
he has with the level of corruption we have seen from james comey, peter strozk, andrew mccabe. Harris the chief White House Correspondent john robe
Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. Historically, because a lot of our viewers will remember. When you and bob woodward were working on the watergate related stories, was president nixon as anxious publicly during your reporting as we now see this president being very anxious, deeply concerned about the Mueller Probe . First, i think what were seeing is more than anxiety on the part of donald trump. We are seeing a president who is behaving and acting unhinged. Nixon did not really publicly act unhinged, but i think we need to look at something larger. That is that in watergate, the system worked. The president of the United States did not publicly declare the press an enemy of the people and seek to undermine the First Amendment and the very legitimacy of what the press did, though he did try to make our conduct an issue, or the issue in watergate, rather than his own conduct. Can share my own personal perspective. Ive certainly received my fair sh
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. We havent seen that in a while. So unlike this white house really. Any chance well get answers to any of these big russiagate stories making headlines today . Well, we got plenty of questions on those topics. Its likely Sarah Sanders, particularly as it relates to the personal opinions on the mueller investigation, whether he will do an interview that she will kick that over to his outside counsel, Rudy Giuliani who has spoken to nbc news in the last several hours. Giving us a sense of where things stand. Effectively saying there was a letter from muellers team to the legal team representing the president. And there will be some narrows of the course of the topics, but they will still focus on collusion and obstruction of justice. I think it was last in may when he said it, walking on the south lawn that hes open to talking about all of this with robert mueller. That new reporting for the new york times, insisting
before. we understand better what they need. they re sharing information back with us based on what they find. there are things they can do on their platforms voluntarily, in terms of terms of use and things like that, that the government doesn t have a role in. in turn, we learn things from them and can use that to have our investigations be more effective. i think progress is being made. we got to keep getting better on it and staying on the balls of our feet. ambassador bolton, in your letter you talk about ordering the closure of the consulates in san francisco and seattle. these are two tech hubs. what happened there that led you to do that? well, i m not going to discuss the background of that decision, which actually occurred before i came to this job. but the purpose of expelling the russian individuals that were expelled was to send a signal to russia that their conduct in conducting a chemical weapons attack in great britain was
they can find. there are things they can do voluntarily with the terms of use and things like that that the government doesn t have a role in. but in turn we learn things from them and we can use it to have our investigation be more effective. so i think the progress is being made. keep getting better and stay on the balls of our feet. that is what we are seeing. ambassador bolton, in your letter you talk about the order closure of the consulate in san francisco and seattle. to tech hubs. what happened there that led you to that? i m not going to discuss background of the decision that occurred before i came to the job. the purpose of expelling those that were expelled to send a message to russia that the conduct of conducting a tem call weapons attack in great britain was unacceptable. this was mode of retaliation designed to show we will not tolerate the activity on the