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service. school and homes have been targeted. children have been morning the casualties, wolf. the syrian regime and russia have not stopped this. a warning from the united nations, there will be mass starvation in this city if food, water supplies and water are not allowed in very soon. will ripley reporting for us. thanks very much. that s it for me. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront, the breaking news, president-elect trump at this hour laying out his promises for day one. you will hear him. plus, trump s controversial chief strategist steve bannon speaking out and saying, i m not a racist. trump meeting with america s first self-made black billionaire. he s a democrat. how did that conversation go? he s my guest tonight. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett. o outfront tonight, breaking news, trump releasing a new video, first policy statement since his trip to the white house after the election. trump breaking his silence bre ....
any better. craig, thank you. thank you. and thanks very much to all of you for joining us, don t forget, you can watch out front any time, anywhere. just go to cnngo, a.c. 360 s.t.a.r.t. starts right now. and good evening, thank you for joining us. we re waiting to hear from fbi director james comey who s going to speak at a dinner for the intelligence community. we ll bring you those answers to questions live when they happen. earlier today, the top two members, the senate intelligence committee spoke to reporters in advance of their first public hearing tomorrow into all things russia. and while it s obviously too soon to draw any conclusions as to the shape of their investigations, the shape it s going to take, it s hard to miss the sharp contrast between today s rollout between straight forward, devoid of policy, a train wreck over on the house side. both the house and the senate intelligence committees are supposed to investigate russian meddling in the last el ....
let him finish excuse me a minute. the president, of course, was known to be upset about the recusal in the first place. but look, this is on the front side of all the litany of things you heard about. at the same time, as i said, it went way beyond from the attorney general s perspective, way beyond wrong the recusal called for under the regulation that s just wrong. that is wrong. that is not the reading of the regulation. read it. and the ethics rules for lawyers, rule 1.7 for lawyers, conflicts of interest. he cannot investigate a campaign in which he was a material part of that campaign. he cannot do it under the ethics rules for lawyers or under the ethics regulations. open and shut. he could not participate there are three types of investigations that investigation the department of justice. there are three types of ken, what are you saying? there are three types of investigations at the department of justice. criminal and civil a ....
Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. jonathan, we re probably going to get swept in like three when we get divisional playoffs. so, i mean, but, listen, it was a fun summer. mika, why don t we go to the news. in an interview last night president trump s lawyer said special counsel robert mueller will personally have a lot to answer for just hours after they rejected mueller s reported latest offer to get a sit down interview with the president. trump s legal team said they have made the counteroffer listing their conditions for access to the president who is a subject in the wide-ranging investigation of russian interference in the 2016 election. trump s attorneys also publicly voiced their desire for the probe to end. within the next three weeks and suggested that mueller would be violating doj policies, if it does not end. don t have an internal deadline. we are moving. i u ....
president itself wants to do the interview and it s only his lawyers holding him back. so what is really going on here? does the president want to talk or not? politico suggests the answer is yes. despite the risks. that s because of, quote, trump s belief in his self-created myth, that he can convince anyone of anything if he s simply given the opportunity to get them in a room alone. apparently that includes special counsel bob mueller himself. i want to bring in nbc s peter alexander who s live in berkeley heights, new jersey. peter, if the president really wants to do it, he could just say yes. i mean, his legal take is working for him. so what s going on here? yes, chris, you make a very good point. there would be one easy way for rudy giuliani and, frankly, president trump, to wrap this thing up sooner. giuliani saying he wants it to end within the next three weeks, by september 1st. he doesn t want it to interfere with the november elections. they would sit down with robe ....