Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. Undoubtedly, hes going to confirm all the suspicions mounting for the past year that hes been using his chairmanship to protect the president. We recall last year when he viewed some things he viewed as problematic in those intelligence reports. He rushed to the white house, briefed the president about it before even briefing his committee. He was forced to step aside from the Russia Investigation on his Committee Last year, but he still wielded considerable influence from the outside. He stopped democratic attempts to subpoena witnesses, to get more records, to schedule witness interviews. Behind the scenes, he mounted his own investigation to try to sew doubt on the fbi, the Russia Investigation, the mueller probe. That led to the release of the nunes memo from earlier this year, criticizing how that fisa warrant was obtained to monitor carter page. Democrats say this is all part of this effort by devin nunes to
The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. Leadership criticisms for this president that we know about, lets be clear and fair. Anger, ego, incompetence, thats not enough. The higher bar here is corrupt intent in a persons mind. So mueller is saying, like any careful prosecutor, he must question trump before he can conclude his work. And tonight trumps lawyers are leaking their new ongoing negotiations with mueller to show that as of tonight, theyre not accepting this full interview yet. So theyre using two tactics. Leaking information with their new letter to mueller about a kind of a narrower counteroffer, and also talking to each other, these lawyers, in a radio callin show, an appearance that can only be described as another bizarre chapter in one of the most bizarre live action legal defenses of a president in our history. We give you the unusual scene this morning. Rudy giuliani joining trump lawyer jay sekulow on sekulows r
that s a lot of money if you look at campaign payrolls to pay someone who is not managing the campaign, running the day to day operations on the campaign but essentially going out there and maybe getting a surrogate, whatever the role was they were talking about. and i think the great irony of this is we don t know what omarosa has. yes, she s trickled out things like this where they don t look great, but it s not the same as having a tape of the president saying the n. word. she s learned if you dangt out, ok , let me just throw allegations out there and maybe i ll provide proof or maybe i won t. that is exactly what the president does every single day and she learned it from him. and this is classic they say there s a tweet for everything. this is then businessman donald trump, omarosa always promises and delivers high drama, honest omarosa. she won t back stab, she ll come
getting yelled at. we know he s working on judges, the point man on the supreme court nominations. he s getting a lot of his colleagues and former colleagues into the justice department as lawyer, and he s talking to robert mueller quite a bit. and this is kind of to julie s point earlier this is sort of a much more serious version of the omarosa story. the people around trump fear what he s going to do, how you re going to eventually get thrown under the bus. omarosa taped conversations in the situation room, don mcgahn is cooperated with robert mueller. and michael beschloss, the presidential historian tweeting about 1973, heading into the watergate investigation where the big concern was john dean would end up giving testimony to the president of the united
i m not going to be bullied. i m not intimidated, and everything he throws at me believe me my tapes are much better than theirs. how are you going to determine whether you need to? well, we ll see. he s threatening to get me arrested. he s trying to intimidate my publisher, trying to intimidate me. donald trump has met his match. who knows what omarosa really knows, but top aides are worried. discussing whether he usesed the n-word and about lara trump. it sounded like there s something you ve got in the back pocket to pull out. clearly if you come onboard the