Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Overall, because this is, you know, i think a lot of americans do view this as the president of the United States attacking a major institution, the Fourth Estate essentially. So depends who you are talking to. But with his base i would say he wins this argument absolutely. And ozzy, ivanka trump also mads headlines with the take on the trump immigration policy. Lets listen. It was a low point for me as well. I feel very strongly about that. And i am very vehemently against family separation. And the separation of parents and children. Some criticized her for just talking there, making no effort to go down to the border. What exactly is her role . Do we know . We covered new york. Is there any evidence she has a Mitigating Influence on her father for anything. She and supporters have always said her influence comes from Behind The Scenes conversations with her father
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Obstruction of justice inquiry. The president fired off a series of tweets this morning to discredit the report while calling the russia investigation mccarthyism at its worst and claiming mueller is heavily conflicted. Meanwhile trumps personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, kicked off another media blitz just this sunday on meet the press, accusing muellers team of leaking the story. Giuliani says the alleged leak is part of an effort by the special counsel to convince mcgahn that the president is setting him up for a fall. All right. Lets bring in our panel, ellie miss tall, above the law. Com editor. Mara gay, danny cevallos, and christina greer. Lets start with you on this, mara. Youre a member of the New York Times Editorial Board. As we look at the back and forth and this bombshell report over the weekend, saturday, yesterday, that says look at the 30 hours. Look at the nine months. Look at the three sitdowns that mcgahn supposedly has had with either mueller and or his team. Yeah. I
That he didnt know anything about any payment. There are legal questions here about Campaign Finance violations and then there are simple questions about whether the president lied to the American People. Did he lie when he said he didnt know about the payments to Michael Cohen. Questions about that. Also questions about what Rudy Giuliani says about the issue of obstruction of justice and why the president fired james comey. Much more on that in a minute. First, m. J. Lee following every detail of these new arguments on the Stormy Daniels case. For months the white house has been trying to wave everyone away from the Stormy Daniels story, saying the affair never happened, they didnt know about this payment, and that donald trump denies all of the allegations related to Stormy Daniels. Rudy giuliani changed all of that last night in just one interview. He unexpectedly revealed that Michael Cohen was paid back by donald trump for the 130,000 payment that cohen made to Stormy Daniels. An
Team orally, not written form, that they have concluded that the Justice Department cant indict a sitting president. This is a conclusion based on existing Justice Department guidelines. Guidelines that have been in place since the nixon years. At that time the office of the Counsel Department concluded that the president has a lot on his plate. And not something that should happen. The Clinton Administration reaffirmed those guidelines. It has never been challenged in court. Ever. So it was not a given that mueller would follow these guidelines and a big question on whether he would try to challenge them if he had enough in his quiver that he thought he needed to use to potentially indict the president. But now what i am hearing from Rudy Giuliani is that the mueller team made clear they are not going to go there the sniignificance of this t the team, does Rudy Giuliani think they are in the clear here . Why would they need to interview him if he was not going to be indicted for a cri
Team informed trumps team orally, not in a written form, that they have concluded that the Justice Department cant indict a sitting president. Now, this is a conclusion based on existing Justice Department guidelines, guidelines that have been in place since the nixon years. At that time the office of Legal Counselin side the Justice Department concluded that because the president has a lot on his plate that it is not something that should happen. And that the Clinton Administration years later reaffirmed those goodliuideline. Having said that, its never been challenged in court, ever. It was not a given whether mueller would follow the guidelines and a big question if he would challenge them to potentially indict the president. Now what im hearing from Rudy Giuliani is that the mueller team made clear theyre not going to go there. So the significance to the president s team, does giuliani think the president is in the clear here because they why would they need to interview him if he