insurrection on january 6th. the republican front runner removed from the gop primary ballot in that state. what does this mean nationally for the primary, and for the general election? trump advisers are already vowing to appeal setting up another high stakes supreme court case, his republican primary rivals rushed to his defense, and one wants candidates to boycott the colorado primary all together. also developing this morning, talks under way for a potential new deal to free hostages held by hamas. the new israeli proposal floating around this morning that could lead to a second temporary truce. cnn this morning starts right now. here s where we begin, donald trump kicked off the ballot in colorado, in an historic ruling that could throw the 2024 presidential election into chaos. the president, advisers vowing to take this extraordinary case all the way up to the supreme court just weeks before the crucial gop primary season officially kicks off. here s what happe
is not the truth. is that just misspeaking or part of a campaign of deception? it s time to go deep. let s get after it. in an on the record interview with reuters, the president says that he could run the probe himself if he wanted. all this coming after his biggest tweet storm yet about mueller and word that his white house counsel cooperated with mueller s probe more than trump might have known. here to discuss that and much more, former attorney general michael mukasey. judge, good to have you as always. good to be with you. so if you were to hear that the president has decided, i m taking over this probe. i m taking it over. what would your reaction be? i would shake myself and wake up. just a dream? yeah. can he, or should he not? i i have no idea whether he can. i can t believe that he can. he d have to fire mueller in the
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he said that initially. they later reversed themselves and flynn was indicted for making a false statement to an fbi agent. but as point of fact, judge, he s told them things that were not true and things that he should have known and recollected in realtime. right. maybe he did. and maybe he did it because he thought there was some impropriety about having the conversation with kislyak. that s why sally yates, then at the a.g. s office, then went to don mcgahn and said you better figure out what s going on with this. i don t think there was any impropriety in that conversation at all. in fact i think flynn would have been committing malpractice if he had not had the conversation with kislyak. he is the guy who was going to be the national security then why did he lie about it? beats me. that s a good question, no? it s an excellent question, but i don t know the extent t
Main probe responsibility is to get the facts and find out what happened. the president s part of that. and you say, well, why would he do it except to give grift to that mill, that mill being something nefarious in your perspective. i m saying no, not nefarious. it s for inclusion in a report to the house. right. that can then be used to consider impeachment. why would the president walk into that? because of the truth. he says he wants to tell the truth. if he doesn t sit down with mueller and we have some type of objective body, which i hold out hope that s what mueller is. everybody loved him until this probe didn t start going the way the president likes. now all of a sudden he s suspect. but if he doesn t sit down, it will always be an open question of whether or not he was hiding anything from the american people. fair point? fair point. but i would sitting in the president s place, i would rather have an open question than have somebody who went to hillary clinton
there is no possibility because the doj guidance. it doesn t mean that mueller s main probe responsibility is to get the facts and find out what happened. the president s part of that. and you say, well, why would he do it except to give grift to that mill, that mill being something nefarious in your perspective. i m saying no, not nefarious. it s for inclusion in a report to the house. right. that can then be used to consider impeachment. why would the president walk into that? because of the truth. he says he wants to tell the truth. if he doesn t sit down with mueller and we have some type of objective body, which i hold out hope that s what mueller is. everybody loved him until this probe didn t start going the way the president likes. now all of a sudden he s suspect. but if he doesn t sit down, it will always be an open question of whether or not he was hiding anything from the american people. fair point? fair point. but i would sitting in the president s place,