Welcome everyone to the 4. After the hearings today President Trump continued to call the probe a hoax and a witch hunt. Two tensed harington a lot of questions from lawmakers but not many specific answers from former special counsel Robert Mueller. I would have to refer you to the report. The house judiciary committee. Its not our job to determine Donald Trumps innocence. He charge of threestar general with false statements but the guy who puts his country through the saga he lives in you guys dont charge him. And then it was onto the House Intelligence Agency where mueller made it clear he would not discuss how or why the probe got started. I, criticizing the president s embrace of wikileaks in 2016 when he touted the leak dnc emails. Problematic is an understatement in terms of display. Russia stood to benefit the most with donald trump in the oval office. Director, who did the russian social Media Campaign ultimately intend to benefit . Hillary clinton or donald trump. Donald trump
We investigate the incident of force. On edge every time this year we begin with a fire in the north bay where crews are battling a fire. The wragg canyon fire burned 60 acres near berryess canyon. This fire is 60 contained at this hour. Cheryl hurd joins us from napa county. This could be the delayed start of the fire season. Reporter yeah, thats right. We areiv atiles up that hill. As you said, the fire is about 60 contad news for everybody. The road closure will be here at least until morning. John carlson is relieved firefighters are keeping a close eye on things. His home faces the hill, where it appears the fire started. Tired of fires. Weve had last three years weve had a lot of fires. Were fortunate we havent had any fires on our property, but theyve come pretty close. Reporter the socalled wragg canyon fire started this afternoon. Nine homes were evacuated. Youve got to be prepared, i guess. Ready to go when they tell you. Reporter the fire quickly grew to 55 acres. Very dry r
Robert mueller repeated his assertion from the morning hearing that russia stood to benefit the most with donald trump in the oval office. Direct dur the instructor, who did the russian social Media Campaign ultimate intent to benefit . Hillary clinton or donald trump . Donald trump reporter afterwards, the president reacted. This was a bad day for the democrats so Robert Mueller did a poor job. Reporter robin miller did tell lawmakers he wanted make a correction to something he said this morning, saying he did not charge the president because the office of Legal Counsel would not permit it. Rather, he could not determine if the president committed a crimhill, lauren blanchard, foxnews. Date abuse political analyst, brian sobel is here now. Brian, at the end of the day, what, if anything was gained by having Robert Mueller testify . I think it was a reminder to the American People that there are nation states that dont care for our democracy and will undermine if they can pick we are t
His assertion from the morning hearing that russia stood to benefit the most with donald trump in the all oval office. Reporter director, who did the russian social Media Campaign ultimately intend to benefit . Hillary clinton or donald trump . Donald trump. Reporter afterwards, the president reacting. I think today proved a lot and i think everybody understands whats going on. There was no defense to this ridiculous hopes. Reporter Top Democrats today also claimed victory saying they will continue their investigation and house to dysuria Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said democrats will go to court to gain access to muellers grand jury material. On capitol hill, ray bogan, fox news. Kate abuse political analyst, brian sobel says a key focus of the testimony was to remind americans that russian interference in u. S. Democracy is real and i watched mueller s little bit outside his reports to continue to remind the American People that this is serious, that what the russians did was
The president was not impressed by muellers appearance. The president called it a great day for republicans. Muellers testimony was mostly dry and dispassionate during more than six hours of questioning. As promised, he stayed close to the statements in his written report, and he distanced himself from topics of president ial crimes and impeachment, leaving that to congress. I think looking at this there was political grandstanding, followed by short oneword answers from mueller. Clearly one of the big messages he had today that was very important and also irrespective of party is he warned his investigator did find foreign election meddling. Its real and a grave threat to our american democracy. Reporter Robert Mueller was sworn in wednesday at the House Judiciary Committee hearing in the morning and the intelligence Committee Hearing in the afternoon. He gave guarded answers about his report on Russian Election interference and the Trump Campaign, declining to expand on his findings.