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We begin at the white house where last night the white house faulted the media for questioning whether president trump will fire special counsel robert mueller. now, after the president and one of his top lawyers offered unprompted criticism of mueller this weekend, amid a number of tweets about andrew mccabe, a potential witness in the mueller probe just hours before his full pension eligibility, president trump issued his first tweet specifically attacking mueller by name. quote, the mueller p...

Very foolish to sit down and be interviewed on these questions because its the follow through questions that could be so damaging to him. >> what do you mean by that? >> well, hell answer a question and then theyll say but what about this? what about that? and my guess is there is not a person the president, who can be really prepared for an interrogation by very sophisticated prosecutors. >> i want to circle back to something you said. you read these questions as showing that mueller has a lot ...

Why is the president attacking mueller by name now? its personal. its just about destroying this guy. he doesnt have a legal case. that why he is doing it? >> its absolutely a shift going on. and the new lawyer he has brought on to his legal team is a fighter who is pulling no punches, who believe theres is a conspiracy in the fbi to go after the president. >> says he believes. >> yes, says he believes. this is just the beginning. >> joe di geneva. >> in 92 he worked on the passport scandal. >> ...

President and certainly for some on his legal team is that the special counsel has gone outside of what they think is his per purview, which is maybe some of the trump organization stuff, which we know there has been a subpoena served on them. some of the business dealings that the president had been involved in in his personal life before he was president. so all of that seems to have perhaps played into some of what is going on within the legal team right now. >> and as we mentioned, those fou...

His ignorance led to the special counsel to begin with, especially dramatic firing of james comey and saying to lester holt on our air he did it because of the russia investigation. donald trump in essence was in a way admitting to obstruction of justice on national television. now the question is whether that will be politically muddied by the effort to discredit comey. thats what the white houses strategy to get out of trumps own ignorance is all about. >> other point that comes up, donald tru...

Mike pence has just announced that he is delaying a trip to the middle east to stay in town in case he has to cast a deciding vote. and dont forget, at the end of this week, the republicans still have to avoid a government shutdown when the government runs out of money on midnight, friday. still no development there as to how that is going to be avoided, wolf. >> the vice president was supposed to be in israel and egypt later this week. now that trip has been delayed, at least until mid-january....

Russia and china, that seek to challenge american influence, values, and wealth. we will attempt to build a great partnership with those and other countries, but in a manner that always protects our national interest. >> reporter: but in the presidents roughly 30-minute speech, there was no mention of russias meddling in the 2016 election, despite the fact that theres a reference to moscows interference included in the written version of the white house strategy, stating, actors such as russia a...

Himself being under investigation for obstruction. and so i think that what were seeing here is the president and his allies. because this is also a media campaign. its not just the president echoing the lines, attacking mueller and the fbi, but you also have other networks, fox news, conservative radioing cooing the same attacks. and i think theyre laying the groundwork for firing mueller or trying to shut down the investigation by defunding it. and i think that as american citizens we have to ...

Accomplish that, trump makes his opposition look silly and hysterical. trump, now aided by some mainstream republicans who are jumping on the bandwagon, he could end up the victor by calling the entire investigation and its conclusion into questions as politically motivated. >> lawyers for trumps transition team are charging that muellers team obtained e-mails they shouldnt have. forcing muellers team to issue a rare statement. when we have obtained e-mails in the course of our ongoing criminal ...

Us? a man who led the classified program, lets go out front. team trumps mission to undermine muellers probe. coming straight from the top. lets start with this slamming of the justice department and the fbi. hes called the state of the agency the worst in history. adding that it was in tatters. >> its a shame whats happened with the fbi, we are going to rebuild the fbi it will be bigger and better than ever. when you look at whats gone on with the fbi and the justice department, people are ve...