National headlines, their story of robbery, ransom. The young woman kidnapped and attacked. Police said it was all a hoax but it wasnt. Tonight, their first interview. What do the police say now . Good evening. And its great to have you with us to start another week here. And well have the track of that storm in just a moment. But first, the hunt for a suspected serial bomber tonight, striking fear yet again in austin. This time, Authorities Say with a trip wire bomb, the fourth bomb to go off. The first bomb, in a package left at a home. The following week, two more packages on the same day, both exploding. And this newest bomb with that trip wire on a Darkened Street overnight. The neighborhood on lockdown for most of this day. And tonight, the audio of this newest bomb going off just out. Abcs marcus moore leading us off from austin tonight. Reporter tonight, more than 500 agents flooding austin, texas. A massive manhunt intensifying. School buses kept away. This bomb went off hours
the fbi. when he got fired. that s whatin mueller was namedo take over. it was at if you look back at the statement that was made by rod rosenstein in naming mueller, it says he s to taket over the investigation that comey had announced was going on in his congressional testimony when we became aware that this fbi inquiry was underway. that was a counter intelligence investigation.nt he adds that he was authorized as well to look into the question of whether there washe collaboration between the trump campaign and moscow. well, fine. so we knew that was going on. it has never been the case as far as i could tell looking at the documents that the principle focus was this collusion question. so mueller has proceeded, ends up indicting russians that will
mueller was carrying out his original mandate. his original mandate was primarily to take over a counter intelligence investigation that was about what the russians did. that s what comey was doing at the fbi. when he got fired. that s what mueller was named to take over. it was at if you look back at the statement that was made by rod rosenstein in naming mueller, it says he s to take over the investigation that comey had announced was going on in his congressional testimony when we became aware that this fbi inquiry was underway. that was a counter intelligence investigation. he adds that he was authorized as well to look into the question of whether there was collaboration between the trump campaign and moscow. well, fine. so we knew that was going on. it has never been the case as far as i could tell looking at the documents that the principle focus was this collusion question.
that people have been asking about. nothing about his trip to moscow in 2013 with the salacious allegations in, you know, from steele, the steele dossier. so some areas appear to be of less interest, which is good for trump. but what mueller is interested in is deeply problematic for him. but we do know there was a subpoena for the trump organization, for documents. so that could be a separate area without donald trump you re right. and just because they re not asking about a subject doesn t mean they have no interest. exactly. but still, if you re a prosecutor and you re investigating subject a, you know, person a over subject a, that s what you re going to ask about. they may already have the answers to a whole bunch of those questions but you re a always going you always want to get the subject on the record, if only to see if they lie about it. so i would say obstruction does seem to be the focus. david swerdlick, the president s shift in tone, naming muel
strategy in dealing with the russia investigation? i think in two ways. number one, the gloves have come off. and certainly the muzzle has come off over the weekend about the president naming mueller in his criticism of the overall investigation. we ve seen a pattern of them attacking the credibility of the investigation, hoping that in some way it will make the public whatever the result comes out tell them not to believe it. if it is obviously bad for the president, if it s good for the president maybe he ll spin it a different way. remember when he hired digenova, who is known to not only conspiracy theories, but also talk about the notion that he is anti-the mueller investigation. it s one big claim to conspiracy, trying to condemn the president of the united states and trying to make him look bad. well, now he has somebody who can be his mouthpiece. the reason that s so important, wolf, remember, the fourth and the ninth circuit court of appeals have looked at the president of t