Typical New York Times fake story. The president s common proclamation, how might the latest reported episode fit into the big picture of the russia investigation . It adds up to a continuous pattern of interference, obstruction of justice. Saving mueller, democrats want to make sure the president can never fire the special counsel. Might republicans join them in that effort . Plus nikki haley having to answer a question she probably never imagined she would get as u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Details, next. So new this morning, democrats launching efforts to protect special Counsel Robert Mueller in the wake of reports that the president ordered his white House Counsel to fire muler in june. The New York Times and Washington Post reports Senate Democrats plan to include that legislation as part of continuing budget negotiations, with republican senator Lindsey Graham cosponsoring yet another measure. And republican senator tom tillis, who previously cosponsored a bill to pr
Four countries discussed ways to target kushner, look at his financial woes and his inexperience. White House Communications director hope hicks admitting to a House Committee she has told white lies and the president s latest slam on his attorney general, calling Jeff Sessions actions on surveillance warrants, quote, disgraceful. Sessions did just respond. Were going to get into all of this. But first to the breaking news involving the growing tensions between Jared Kushner and chief of staff john kelly. Jeff zeleny is joining us with this. Are these battle lines deepening . Seems they are. Seems to be lying in wait, if you will, a bit dormant over the past weeks or so but they are again showing themselves. John kelly, of course, followed the president s directive and stripped Jared Kushner of his top secret security clearance. This is something that has ininflameded tensions but something Jared Kushner knew since friday. He didnt talk about it but was on capitol hill working on his a
Have happened. We now call it spygate. Youre calling it spygate. A lot of bad things have happened. Were not calling it spygate. The, quote, spy is the confidential source the fbi used to make contact with these Trump Campaign members prior to the election. The aim was to look into russias meddling in the election. But the president as seized on this to call it a fact of investigators with him, which he denied this afternoon. Reporter [ inaudible ]. All you have to do is look at the basics and youll see. It looks like a very serious event. Well find out. When they look at the documents, i think people are going to see a lot of bad things happen. I hope its not so because if it is, theres never been anything like it in the history of our country. Were not undercutting. Were cleaning everything up. This was a terrible situation. What were doing is cleaning everything up. Its so important. What im doing is a service to this country. He may say theyre cleaning everything up but the tweet s
Plus a bizarre scheme to try to smear the special counsel, an attempt to target robert mueller. How a pro trump conspiracy theorist is linked to all this. Well talk to a woman contacted in the plot. We have a ton to get to. Our team is ready to go across the country, covering all of it. I want to start with donald trump and his last big push starting today, trying to tap into some hot button issues he hopes will keep republicans in power in a lot of instances, making claims that are misleading or just not true. Were the only country in the world where a person comes in, has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States for 85 years with all of those benefits. They want to raise your taxes, open your borders. We have other tax cuts planned. In that caravan you have some very bad people. When you looked at that bridge loaded up with people, thats called an invasion of our country. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell is at the white house. Kelly, if i know anything, just as i have my
Weisselberg is considered to be the gatekeeper to trumps personal finances. He is being asked now to testify in the Michael Cohen case. The criminal investigation. Now cohen, the president s former personal attorney, just released one of the secretly released conversations with the president to cnn where we hear him mention by name Allen Weisselberg about the payment when theyre having that conversation about the former playboy model. Here is a clip. Listen for his name. I need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend david so that im going to do that right away. Ive spoken to Allen Weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with funding. Yes. All the stuff. Because you never know where that company where hes going to be. If he gets hit by a truck. Correct. Im all over that. I spoke to allen about it. Spoke to allen about it. With me now cnn legal analyst, a former federal prosecutor is with us for the eastern and southern districts of new yor