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Youre always welcome on new day. >> lets get to our other breaking story. roger ailes has died. he was ousted with allegations of sexual harassment. on the phone bill carter and also cnn chief political correspondent dana bash. but, bill, our condolences to mr. ailes statement. what more do you know? >> i dont know anymore. obviously we know after he was ousted, you know, he sort of dropped off the radar and people really didnt know what he was up to. we do know he was, you know, a man in his la...

So the status here of course, the most important thing in the last 24 hours is the appointment of rob mueller, a towering figure in law enforcement to lead this russia investigation. >> the white house issuing a statement from president trump, responding to the appointment of a special counsel. the president says in part a thorough investigation will confirm what we already know. there was no collusion between my campaign and any foreign entity. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein naming robe...

Very staged statement out of the white house last night from the president where he really tried to sort of take a more measured tone. nothing measured about this response. this is donald trump the combatant who now feels like he is in the fight for his political life. >> we know the president watches this show. we appreciate the viewer ship. he doesnt want to talk to us and come on the show. but it is a moment to talk to him. you know, the question of whether or not you deserve criticism is ans...

Decline. and why we dont know yet. the statement from his wife just says that he passed this morning and she remembers roger as a husband to her and a father to his season zachary and a loyal friend to many. she points out he was also a patriot. so dana bash, this man overlapped so many worlds. yes, you must give voice to what happened in his career, the allegations from multiple alleged victims of what was done and the influence on the culture there that needs to be changed still. but his influ...

Mustnt mounting pressure. >> he made a recommendation. but regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. >> one source telling cnn rosenstein is throwing president trump overboard with a special counsel, a move is the white house opposed. >> there is no need for a special prosecutor. you have two senate committees looking into this. the fbi is conducting their own review. >> a statement from rosenstein saying the public interest requires me to place this authority under a person that ...

Him? will there be fights oaf access to information, access to records? this certainly suggests that mueller will not get any cooperation. that suggests fighting in court over access to documents, access to people. could stretch out this investigation a long time. >> april, we talked on my show. we take the spicer briefings, right? so with these last couple of cycles with these stories, whether it is the comey firing or classified documents from the russians and now this, it is like you have the...

Lets begin with joe johns at the white house. joe, crickets no longer from the presidential twitter account. he is firing off this morning. >> absolutely. what a contrast from last night when he huddled with his advisors issuing a carefully worded, even terse 57 word statement. this morning a much more visceral reaction from the president of the united states to the news of the last 24 hours or so. this most recent tweet, this is the greatest witch hunt in american history. apparently referring ...

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