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a focal point of somebody that we all trust. have a body that is truly independent from political consideration and also has all the resources it needs and a single focus on the oversight of what russia did. reporter: president trump reacted saying he looks forward to this concluding quickly and he believes that a thoreau investigation will confirm that there was no collusion between my campaign and any foreign entity. now, you did mention that rod rosenstein will be on capitol hill today. so, he was invited by members of the senate to come in and answer questions, not only about robert muller and the appointment of him as a special counsel because that just happened but what they really want to get to is the firing of james comey as fbi director and what, if any, that brief that rosenstein wrote had to do with that so he s addressing the senate today and he ll address the house tomorrow. back to you guys. 4:41 is from both sides of the i feel want to see the me ....
90-degree heat wave and erin como talking about the roads where we have some issues already. mike, what about this heat. yeah, hot, hot, hot. 90 s once again later this afternoon. we ll keep it dry but you ll notice the humidity upticks a little bit later today. erin. outer loop a mess. crash closes all lanes. i have your work around drive times all that when we come back. thanks erin. 5:01 is our time. we ll begin with breaking news from overnight. chris cornell the lead singer of audio slave and sound garden has died at the age of 52. a representative says his death is sudden and unexpected. crnell s family is working closely with the medical examiner to find out exactly what happened. turning to politics the white house reacting to the justice department appointing a special counsel to take over the investigation into possible ties between russia and the president s campaign. while president trump insists nothing will be found, the move is receiving ....
make larry: thank you for that. good luck, mr. speaker. president trump started the day adding to the drama with the tweet calling the appointment of the special prosecutor the single greatest witch hunt of politician in american history. the situation changing by the minute. this is what happened. hours after saying that michael flynn wouldn t comply with the subpoena the chairman of the senate intelligence committee correcting himself saying that the panel hadn t gotten a response from flynn s lawyers yet. we learned that the former c.i.a. director john brennan will appear before the house intelligence committee next week to talk about the allegations that russia meddled in the u.s. presidential election. earlier in the day, utah congressman jason chaffetz announced he will leave congress june not but it is unclear what the early departure of the head of the house oversight and government reform committee means for the investigation. alison: in the midst of all the ....
i asked president trump have you in any way urged former f.b.i. director james comey to slow down or tepid russia investigation regarding flynn? he said no, no, next question. unequiver call. unekiv can. one of the conscious that will be brought to the forefront when the special counsel investigates the white house. it s remarked that history has a wray to repeat itself. when it comes to the special prosecutors that is true, too. a dozen times in the last 100 years they dominated the news cycle to put presidents on the defensive. the tapes, the matters of the presidential conversations. those are the matters in which the president has responsibility to defend this office. from watergate to white water. special counsel can follow leads sometimes aren t of course at first. that aren t obvious at first. absolutely. they can veer into almost any direction they want, depending where the evidence takes them. a prime example was land deal focused on an affair. ....