A look at Breaking News, politics and reports from around the world. Trump is being urged to stop tweeting about the 2016 Trump Tower Meeting between his top advisers and group of russians, including a lawyer directly tied to the kremlin. President trump breathed new life into the story with a tweet acknowledging the meeting it was to get dirt on Hillary Clinton, not adoptions as the president and his son donald trump jr. First claimed. Well talk about that and more with the top democrat on the House Armed Services committee, congressman allen smith. Former director of national intelligence, james clapper, and our correspondents and analysts are standing by. First, lets go to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta, near the president s new Jersey Golf Club where the president is spending the week. Jim, the president continues to tweet about this Trump Tower Meeting against the wishes of his legal and political advisers. He is steering clear of the media, laying low after resur
the more potential legal jeopardy he is in. why do you think the president is apparently coming fully clean about the meeting, the purpose of the meeting after all the months of misleading the american people? i don t know. i mean, it is sort of like with the whole firing of attorney general, sorry, fbi comey. when it first came out, well, we have a memo, blah blah blah. then within 24 hours after claiming it was a series of things with lester holt, he says oh, no, i fired him. it was my choice. it was because of the russian investigation. so how president trump s mind works on this is hard to say but he has certainly proven over and over again he will change his story whenever he wants to and not even along any sort of pattern that seems to be self interested. just what pops into his head any given moment. the president s personal attorney rudy guiliani says they ll decide within the next
his characterization that the russian investigation is a hoax. the issue for the president i think is the political argument made by his opponents that somehow he conspired with the russians and they helped him defeat hillary clinton. that s what he thinks is the hoax. that s what i understand it to be. reporter: as for concerns inside president s team about tweeting, it has been an on-going concern for legal advisers. one of the president s past attorneys, you recall, stepped down in part from his position because of the president s tweets. wolf, this is something they have been talking about since there was a trump campaign during the election of 2016, getting the president or getting at that time donald trump to stop tweeting and getting himself in trouble. now there are real concerns inside the legal team that it could get him into legal jeopardy if he continues to tweet about this investigation at a very critical time. he has more than 50 million followers on twitter. i susp
don t know if donald trump jr. has spoken to mueller s team. that s important, wolf. he seems to be one of the only people in that meeting that mueller could actually talk to if he wanted to talk to that he has not talked to. we know the translator has been in to see mueller about the meeting, we know the music promoter has been in to see mueller. we know there are others. washington, d.c. fixer that s been in to see mueller. but interestingly enough, donald trump jr. has not. and i think if we know anything about how mueller is doing the investigation, that s significant, i think. kushner met with mueller. and kushner, too, met with mueller about it. if somebody is really in trouble, they re the last person you talk to. that s right. manafort was present for that meeting. he hasn t been interviewed by mueller, he has a lure. has a lawyer. he has other issues. guys, thank you very much. let s get more from democratic congressman adam smith joining us from the armed
known, should say alleged crimes, one of them being that rick gates admitted he stole from paul manafort hundreds of thousands of dollars. he did so by filing false expense claims. you had rick gates there, the former deputy and i should say former deputy chairman of the trump campaign in 2016 for those months saying not only that he committed crimes at paul manafort s direction but that he also stole from paul manafort to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. so a lot of alleged wrongdoing going on in that courtroom behind me, and a number of days to go as the prosecutors make their case, wolf. pretty gross when you think about that. jim sciutto. thank you very much. how is robert mueller going to treat president trump s admission that the purpose of the trump tower meeting with the russians was to get dirt on hillary clinton? plus, the first lady forges her own course and publicly