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A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. campaign, the re-election in november, and apparently, wolf, does not want to say anything that could infuriate the president. perhaps one reason he did not want to answer that question. but no doubt about it, wolf, republicans did not want to embrace these concerns today perhaps because the president is so about the mueller probe. manu raju on capitol hill. joining us now, republican congressman chris stewart. he s a member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, thanks so much for joining us. good afternoon. the president has told his attorney general, jeff sessions, to stop the russia investigation right away. is that in your opinion obstruction of justice? i think it would be very, very difficult as a prosecutor to make the case. i m not an attorney but common sense would tell me it s going to take much more than ....
News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. meaning in this other than you have to pay your taxes, and you can t lie on a loan application. time is going to tell who is to be trusted around here and who isn t. including everybody. we begin there with the president in crisis and the stunning fact, yes, fact, that the foundation of that crisis. the president of the united states is an unindicted co-conspirator in a felony campaign finance case. if that isn t enough, the special counsel won convictions on eight counts in his first major trial. that are the former campaign chairman paul manafort. the president s reaction today is beyond telling. he s attacking his longtime lawyer and fixer michael cohen who decided to cooperate with the feds and is praising paul manafort who the president says is refusing to break under pressure. both michael cohen and paul manafort face prison time. what now for the president is the big question here in washington. there ....
Mueller report could be imminent. special counsel watchers seem to be looking for clues every where from the tmz photo of bob mueller arriving to work yesterday morning. i say that if he s in actually in like hawaiian shirt or something then we know it s done. then to be the attorney general who was spotted arriving at the white house yesterday for an unrelated event. james comey whose firing by the president led to mueller s appointment is explaining what he wants from the special counsel report. an op-ed for the new york times comey writes this even though i believe mr. trump is morally un-foot be president of the united states i m not rooting for mr. mueller to demonstrate he s a criminal and i m not rooting for mr. mueller to clear the president. i m not rooting for anything at all except to let the special counsel finish his work. he calls for maximum transparency of the special counsel s work. i don t know all the considerations that will go into ....
Happen. that s why it was so important to let the special counsel finish his work. one of the reasons why i think so many of us have been so suspicious is because the president has been clearly fantasizing about firing the special counsel, shutting down the probe, appointing an acting attorney general who also is hostile to the probe and, of course, other bizarre activity like seizing the notes from his translator during his meetings with vladimir putin, something unprecedented in presidential history. we have to remember the senate intel committee has not spokenton flynn, manafort, and rick gates. they don t have the full picture but the washington post is reporting in august, 2nd, 2016, there was a meeting at a manhattan cigar bar between manafort, rick gates and kilimnik, the russian political operative. and it goes to the heart of the mueller probe. they write this. it was at that meeting that prosecutors believe manafort and kilimnik may have exchanged key ....