The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. Does not change even as this Story Changes dramatically. We know there could be legal consequences. That aside, are there political . Well, thats one of the interesting things because weve weve seen these tweets over the past couple of days. This tweet about Jeff Sessions which a lot of legal analysts and experts have said, boy, that could really do you damage in a court of law, that could be obstruction, that could contradict the other statements. But in the court of Public Opinion and what President Trump believes and what his advisers believe is that attacking this investigation is really the best way to succeed in that court of Public Opinion. And there was definitely a shift after the Michael Cohen raid and weve seen in recent months about the president racheting up his attacks on this Mueller Investigation and im told that is because he very much believes and his lawyers advised him that this as a sitt
said about all of the front line worker to get the vaccine, and we will continue that conversation, but i want to first bring in correspondent shannon pennypiece about the time line of the drawdown in iraq, and the troops to stay in iraq to assist with training? well, the administration is the framing this not so much as a pullout of troops, but a change in mission to go from combat mission to advising and training mission, and you heard the president there saying that the u.s. is going to assist the iraqis and help to deal with isis as need for that may arise, but trying to emphasize the shift here from this combat mission. as far as the number of troops, of course, that is what everybody wants to know, and the press secretary jen psaki said down from 9,000 to 2,500, and she would not lay out a time line as to what is happening with the rest of the troops, and the big picture context of this,
take a listen. a dozen police vehicles including a truck diagonal across the road so nobody could get through, and a number of ambulances and gurneys out as if they were preparing for something. but, it was lots of officers with large guns. reporter: now the arrests were made on friday just days away and a block away from where tomorrow s all-star game will be held, although the fbi saying that at this point, there is no link between this arrests and the game and the terrorism, but the investigation is ongoing. geoff. erin mclaughlin and shannon pennypiece, thank you. and now, heat in the west, and heavy flooding in the east. we are going to talk about the extreme weather from coast to coast, and how climate change is make it worse. the latest out of haiti where the police say they have arrested the mastermind behind
is a bit disconcerting because an order from trump or a request is the same thing. it could constitute an abuse of power. the question is, will it be part of mueller s memo to the hill or memo to the court or will it be part or memo to the department of justice, or will it be part of some sort of lawsuit? shannon, we laid out the memo that mcgahn drew up about the potential consequences in trump went through with this. we don t know if he read it. he has a history of not reading things put on his desk. clearly, mcgahn could have given him these bullet points. do we know why he didn t and hasn t followed through on these threats? especially since, by all reporting, it s still eating at him? valid points raised in those memos that many lawyers would probably give if they were asked their advice on this. one thing i will note about this memo, if there is actually something in writing then that s