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and crucially he knows he is not supposed to do what he s doing, not supposed to get involved, admitting at much in a radio interview yesterday. you know, the saddest thing is that because i m the president of the united states, i am not supposed to be involved with the justice department. i m not supposed to be involved with the fbi. i m not supposed to be doing the kind of things that i would love to be doing. and i am very frustrated by it. i look at what s happening with the justice department. why aren t they going after hillary clinton with her e-mails and with her the dossier. if we haven t yet heard widespread calls for impeachment, it s because this president s disregard for the rule of law for democratic norms, his authoritarian impulses are largely baked in in the country s perception, even among political insiders. it was just a couple of days ago, for example, that he called the american criminal justice system a joke and a laughing stock. on top of that, all in ....
tries to clean up trump s tweet, saying he knew general flynn lied to the fbi when he urged then-fbi director jim comey to drop the investigation into flynn. the president s tweet raising serious questions about whether the president obstructed justice. here s sarah sanders late today. look, the president knew that he lied to the vice president. that was the reason for his firing. the problem is, that is not at all what the president tweeted four days ago when he fired off this tweet. quote, i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the vice president and the fbi. the white house has made it very clear, president trump s tweets are, quote, official statements by the president of the united states. no matter who might draft, tweak, or actually type them. in this case, lawyer john dowd, the first person ever to take the blame for a presidential tweet. trump s tweet and sarah sanders explanation simply are not the same. they contradict each other. they also don t match cnn ....
mother-in-law among the victims? she was not. i m sorry? was he fired? we know he was released from the army. and we d have to refer to the air force on that. it was the air force. where was the self-inflicted gunshot wound? turkey, the head. thank you. there have been unconfirmed reports that the suspect may have taken a hostage in the car. it s been floating around cnn and other outlets. any truth to that? that is not confirmed. mentioned. apparently he thought the shooter might have attended the same church. not true? i m not aware of the shooter attending this church. he had family members that attended. his spouse attended this church. i m sorry, commander, did you say that the grandmother-in-law was not a victim? oh, the grandmother-in-law? we re not aware of that at this time. earlier you told us the suspect had called his father. you expand on that conversation a little bit, tells us if the family has been cooperative, if you re interviewing t ....
answer academy, recited a garbled version of the claim made by his ally. it s a shame what s happened with the fbi. but we re going to rebuild the fbi. it will be bigger and better than ever. but it is very sad when you look at those documents and how they ve done that is really, really disgraceful. and you have a lot of very angry people that are seeing it. they ve found tremendous things on the other side. when you look at the hillary clinton investigation, it was you know, i ve been saying it for a long time. that was a rigged system, folks. all right. in isolation, it s actually hard to figure out what he s even saying. but it s not hard to figure out where the president picked up those talking points that he was fumbling around with. those talking points have been airing around the clock on trump tv. it s also hearing them directly from people like congressman matt gaetz, a republican on the house judiciary committee who took a ride on air force one with the preside ....
Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. government had informed state election officials that russians tried to target election systems in 21 states in the leadup to the 2016 election. of course, the other thing we know the u.s. deterrence campaign isn t working based on the reporting of the daily beast that russians trying to infiltrate the e-mails of staffers of senator claire mccaskill. they were sunsuccessful. that s why they say there need tos to be a co-heercherent strategy can i ask you, though, about the mood in that building behind you there, geoff. in terms of the headlines that involve former trump attorney michael cohen and the trump tower meeting and russia and his allegations that president trump knew about that meeting in advance. what s the mood there? reporter: well, a source close to the president described that is a crime. and it also opens up all sorts of possibilities because, if the president knew t ....