President know about the meeting. he said and the white house said he only learned about it last weekend when that new york times story came out. there is growing suggestions and evidence that people inside the white house had known about it for weeks and were crafting this response. that s why there s worry if they will be brought into this widening investigation. did they keep the president in the dark or is the time line off about when the president knew. great to see you, jeff. thank you soft. with me, white house reporter for the new york times, julie. robert mueller s former special assistant, michael zelden and jeff baker. why the time line of the don jr. meeting and who knew what when is becoming increasingly more and more important. if aides were working with kushner back in june and the president didn t know about the meeting until a few days ago,
Put it up, at admitting he s under investigation, calling it a witch hunt. you talked to a lot of supporters. are they concerned about the widening investigation or not? let s calling it for what it is and stop the nonsense, john. by the way, joe, happy birthday. thank you, john. this is a soviet style inquisition against the president with one objective, get him out of office, remove him from office. in some way it is like the malcolm x strategy, by any means possible. necessary. make him resign, make him quit, fatigue him, get him out of there, impeach him. i mean this inquisition by robert mueller, who has all of this power with unchecked power, unchecked resources, hiring now clinton era big-time lawyers who were big-time clinton donors to do what? there s no evidence of anything. there s no evidence of any crime. no collusion. no obstruction of justice. no nothing, and yet we have this
Madison is here. contributor selena zito and john fredricks here as well. happy birthday. 29 i think you are. well, no, 39. a little younger than you. oh, okay, great. yeah, i wish. john, we ll get to you. another round of tweets today from the president, and you can put it up, at admitting he s under investigation, calling it a witch hunt. you talked to a lot of supporters. are they concerned about the widening investigation or not? let s calling it for what it is and stop the nonsense, john. by the way, joe, happy birthday. thank you, john. this is a soviet style inquisition against the president with one objective, get him out of office, remove him from office. in some way it is like the malcolm x strategy, by any means possible. necessary. make him resign, make him quit, fatigue him, get him out of there, impeach him. i mean this inquisition by robert mueller, who has all of
Certainly tensions are rising at the justice department as the probe led by special counsel robert mueller is widening. that probe now looking into whether or not the president may have interfered with the justice department s investigation into ties between trump campaign associates and the russian government during the 2016 election. all of this has led to questions about whether the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein should potentially recuse himself from this investigation. you will remember, of course, that rosenstein recommended that the president fire james comey from the fbi and that firing may very well be a key focus of this widening investigation. rosenstein has said in the past he would recuse himself if necessary. that s not the only instance where we have seen rosenstein have a role here. he recommended that jeff sessions, the attorney general, recuse himself from the russia investigation and of course, rosenstein also appointed
In fact there was a change within the fbi and they were investigating him for potential obstruction. and what we learned also is that there were a series of interviews that the special counsel had arranged with top intelligence officials potentially as part of that investigation. and based on your reporting, that change came about, as i understand it, because of the firing of comey. and obviously comey testified that that was his intention in leaking the memos, detailing his communications with the president. and so, you know, it s what we learned is actually that this decision to open this file if you will on trump was made actually before the special counsel was actually named, which is just a few days later. but, i mean, for president trump, the irony is his own actions in firing comey actually led to then this evolution of