The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. Saw as obvious that he is all about protecting trump. Good afternoon, everyone. We begin with the politics lead. President trump seemingly signaling he could be taking some sort of move against the Special Counsel Investigation Tweeting out a series of debunked claims about the probe before writing quote stay tuned. It was eight days ago that the president tweeted that Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop the Mueller Investigation. Keep in mind this president did fire the then fbi director with the russia probe foremost on his mind. We could hear directly from the president as he is hosting a Round Table Event from new jersey and also possibly factoring in the stand off between him and mueller about whether the president will ever sit for an interview. Rudy giuliani saying the president will not answer muellers questions about his decision to fire comey or any e
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coming up for the excuse for firing comey. there is a constant concern among the president s advisers of the people around the president flipping on him. there is a fear that these people are going to flip on him but the never gets back to what are they flipping on him for? clearly there is a fear there. the question that bob mueller is trying to figure out is what is the fear and is there valuable information that they can turn over? why didn t he say donald trump would be interested in bringing this investigation to a close? i know rudy giuliani argues that. they need to keep this going. if trump refuses to speak with mueller he puts mueller in a position of i m going to subpoena the president. why would you subpoena the president if you are not going to indict him? mueller might write his report and we know donald trump will write his report. his son could get wrapped up
saw as obvious that he is all about protecting trump. good afternoon, everyone. we begin with the politics lead. president trump seemingly signaling he could be taking some sort of move against the special counsel investigation tweeting out a series of debunked claims about the probe before writing quote stay tuned. it was eight days ago that the president tweeted that attorney general jeff sessions should stop the mueller investigation. keep in mind this president did fire the then fbi director with the russia probe foremost on his mind. we could hear directly from the president as he is hosting a round table event from new jersey and also possibly factoring in the stand off between him and mueller about whether the president will ever sit for an interview. rudy giuliani saying the president will not answer mueller s questions about his decision to fire comey or any e
you have to elect republicans to protect him and use my role as chairman to protect him. that was his message at a fundraiser. so that s the position of the party is the president more guilty than that seems to be an admission of guilt. the idea that he is vulnerable to something coming from mueller. they seem to be very worried about this. that is an argument we will hear republicans making more and more. i talked to one republican strategist today who said you are going to see more people make the same argument that devon nunez did behind closed doors out in public because there is this enthusiasm gap between the republican base and democratic base and 2018 will be all about turning the republicans who turned out in 2016 because they supported the president but may not have in the past and getting them to
decision within 60 days of an election of an elected official then you pause for the election to happen. you didn t want to influence it. you don t make any announcements during it. you can still continue the investigation. you can do all of that. you don t stop the investigation. it doesn t mean your clock runs out. he said you shouldn t be conducting one of these investigations with 60 days. that s not accurate. you are not supposed to say something publically. they can t come out 60 days and say we are going to serve a warrant on your house this week as a part of this investigation. by the way, it s a rule that isn t really hard pressed, either. as james comey showed us in 2016 and other places. if you look in public corruption places around the country they have dipped into the 60-day rule for whatever extenuating circumstances. the trump legal team doesn t view bob mueller in the same way