The committee will come to order. That objection, the chairs authorized to declare recess at any time. We welcome everyone to todays hearing and lessons from the Mueller Report part two bipartisan perspective. I will not recognize myself in Opening Statements. Last week we heard from two former United States attorneys who described President Trumps repeated efforts to undermine special counsel muellers investigation of russias interference in the 2016 election. We also heard from president nixons former white House Counsel who told us that the actions by this administration were substantially similar to the measures that nixon and the admin efficient took to undermine the watergate administration. There is one important difference. The special counselor mueller was investigating a different kind of break in. The target was similar to that in watergate. The burglar was a hostile foreign nation. The crime was carried out through a hacking operation that still hundreds of thousands of doc
Did the mueller team go far enough in exploring this . I believe the mueller team did not go far enough in exploring this, in particular one of the bases on which it decided to decline to prosecute any Trump Campaign officials at the trump tower meeting was lack of evidence of willfulness. In order to be prosecuted for this crime, you have to know that you are violating the law. The report says that donald trump jr. Had failed to voluntarily speak to mueller, and then mueller did not subpoena him to appear before a grand jury to answer questions under oath about what he knew at the time. I think that was a mistake. It could have come out differently had he done so. And after the president s comments, you tweeted, it likely would be a campaign Law Violation to receive information from a Foreign Government, but thats not the point. The point is its wrong, its immoral, and its contrary to u. S. National security interests. For a sitting president it violates his oath of office. Thats a st
The committee will come to order. That objection, the chairs authorized to declare recess at any time. We welcome everyone to todays hearing and lessons from the Mueller Report part two bipartisan perspective. I will not recognize myself in Opening Statements. Last week we heard from two former United States attorneys who described President Trumps repeated efforts to undermine special counsel muellers investigation of russias interference in the 2016 election. We also heard from president nixons former white House Counsel who told us that the actions by this administration were substantially similar to the measures that nixon and the admin efficient took to undermine the watergate administration. There is one important difference. The special counselor mueller was investigating a different kind of break in. The target was similar to that in watergate. The burglar was a hostile foreign nation. The crime was carried out through a hacking operation that still hundreds of thousands of doc
We begin with todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. 16 people are dead after a military plane crashed in mississippi. A marine aircraft goes down in a ball of flames. The fuelling plane went down monday night in a soybean field. Bodies and wreckage were scattered for miles. The New York Times reported donald trump jr. Was informed in an email that the material was in an aid to his fathers candidacy. If this is correct the first person that may have found out to try to intervene to help the candidate was the president s son. And searching for four men who disappeared over the last week. The District Attorney suspects foul play. The fbi say it has arrested a soldier in hawaii for alleged ties to isis. Record breaking heat is helping fuel a wave of wildfires in california. A lot of smoke, a lot of flames. It gets scary. Air force recruiting office in tulsa was the scene of an explosion with what appeared to be a pipe bomb and no one was hurt. A marathon match ending in a stunning u
No match for a sea of samaritans. This is this is the cbs evening news. Mason good evening. Im Anthony Mason. The russia investigation the president calls fake has just become a very real problem for his son. Today donald trump, jr. , released an exchange of emails in which he accepts what is purported to be an offer of help from the russian government in his Fathers Campaign against Hillary Clinton. A russian lawyer was to deliver dirt on clinton in june of last year at that trump tower meeting we first learned about last weekend. It involved trump, jr. , brotherinlaw Jared Kushner, and Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort. We have extensive coverage tonight, including Major Garrett on team trumps changing stories, nancy cordes with the political fallout, and Julianna Goldman on the legal implications. But we begin with jeff pegues, who is following the email trail. Reporter the first email on june 3rd was blunt. Music publicist Robert Goldstone wrote donald trump, jr. , that a russian off