if any of the neighbors want to come and speak to me about what they saw on that block, you have an open invitation. a great segment. do you remember the 1980s mobsters comedy, wiseguys. it s part of the grand design. the mob is willing to forgive them. if he will just do one simple thing. wiseguys. wiseguys. a comedy about two loadable gangsters played by joe piscopo and danny devito, who work for a mafia done called castillo. probably not the highlight of danny devito s successful career, it was the high point for joe piscopo. he had a run as a cast member on saturday night live, where he was known for playing gangster adjacent characters like his half decent frank sinatra. he played a mobster from the 1930s with michael keaton. then a more modern version of the same character in wiseguys. after that joe piscopo didn t get a lot of other leading roles until today. when he got a late career break is a different kind of lackey. today he was among the odd characters that
i think it s a watergate size and scale. we need the facts, it s obvious there are people out there whio want to harm the president. we have an obligation to carry out our oversight regardless of which party is in the white house. unemployment has fallen to its lowest level in 42 years, but wages aren t keeping up with inflation. chelsea manning, the former us soldier, who passed hundreds of thousands confidential diplomatic documents to wikileaks, has been released from a military prison in kansas. and items worn by one of television s best loved characters, coronation street s busybody hilda ogden, have sold for more than £4,000 at auction. it s five o clock. our main story the liberal democrats are putting another eu referendum at the heart of their general election manifesto which was launched earlier today. the party said it would let the people decide whether brexit happens, once negotiations have finished. the party s leader tim farron says the decision to leave
investigation of russian interference into the u.s. election and other matters. it s up to mueller to decide the other matters, to include the firing of the fbi director. michael flynn, a meeting between the fbi director and the president in the white house. just to be clear, the fbi investigation that s been going on, that was under director comey, that continues and that is what mueller is overseeing? he has oversight over the entire probe as it were. you re not going to stop any activity in the fbi anymore, you ve got a whole team there, and that s something you ve heard from the acting fbi director, as they search for a new director, that they re continuing their work. i have spoke to people inside the bureau, but this is a very independent-minded mueller. one other thing i ll note. i have been talking to people around washington in reaction to this, yes, comey s out, if you huge development today. just two days ago, white house press secretary spicer says frankly there
mcgahn. he says that sessions made a huge error, he s very frustrated. a couple people have said one of the few times they ve seen him get genuinely angry as opposed to the blufter that we know the president is prone to was about jeff sessions. he s upset about the russia recusal situation and feels angry and hamstrung about the fact that the executive order that the president himself signed related to a ban on travel a temporary ban, quote/unquote, from muslim majority nations was struck down by the court. this was within the first week of the administration and set the tone going forward and in the president s mind, jeff sessions is tied to everything. lastly, your colleagues just broke some news which is fascinating about jim comey asking jeff sessions not to be left alone again with the president or that he didn t want to be left alone with the president. it s quite striking. essentially you have the fbi director concerned about the position apparently that the president m
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meaning, is he going to say okay if they don t come to an agreement on an interview? i ll just write a report without it. is he going to launch a subpoena fight, which will take months and months and months. and go to the supreme court. exactly. and it s risky for robert mueller to do that. because he might not win. and it just really depends on what he has and what he thinks he needs to ask the president. so it s so unknown that the trump legal team is and particularly on the political side of it, they re doing what they have to do. and guiliani, along with the president, and jay sekulow, to a lesser extent, they have realized that what they have control over right now is the court of public opinion. sure. and so they re going to continu