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What was the original memorandum that gave mueller his authority. remember, a special prosecutor is a person of limited authority that is dictated by a memo that no one has seen. the question is, what is his authority. can he indict the president. if his authority was to conduct an investigation concerning russian collusion and he has evidence the president engaged in russian collusion, then hes within the scope of his memo. after that it gets fuzzy. >> harris: we learned as breaking news this h...

Figure out what happened here. for example, we would like to see the august 2 memo. mr. meadows and i wrote a letter a month ago asking the justice department to let us see the august 2 memo, some change to the scope of the special counsel information. two weeks ago the federal judge says he wants to see it as well. this is the kind of thing we need access to. the only way to do it now is for the president of the united states to tell the attorney general to give us the information. >> harris: i...

Is the august 2 follow-up order because the special counsel went back to ask for jurisdiction. so he wanted to see the ruling, the judge said, ill be the one to do that and that led to a repercussion. what is missing for the republicans in midterms? well tell you about that, next. . but then one night, a truck didnt stop. but thanks to our forester, neither did our story.

Powers he gave mueller, thats blacked out. and were only learning about this right now because paul manaforts lawyers filed a legal attack on muellers authority that backfired, leading to this news as rachel maddow reported. >> in the middle of the night we got a new court filing from muellers prosecutors. we learned from this new court filing that there was also subsequent to that public statement establishing the mueller investigation there was also another bit of instruction. august 2 last ye...

Greatness. and the president interviewed a lot of people for this position, former prosecutors, law enforcement officials and this was his man, christopher wray. >> bill: a lot of people not familiar with him. he has only been on the job for four most took own for comey. wray was sworn in august 2. he stood and get sworn in in the committee. lets drop in. >> my first opportunity to appear before this committee. and i look forward to our discussion. let me start by saying that it is for me the ho...

Tracy has the record-breaking details, way up and good news. >> it doesnt become official until it closes at the 23,000 mark but we did touch the record high of 23,000 and the last time we had a record was august 2, 22,000. so it only took 53 days to get there and this is the fourth shortest stretch of time we have seen a 1000 point gain. here is what the president had to say after we reached the milestone. >> at the stock market, and all-time record high, for the first time ever, 23,000, very h...

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Distinction. he wrote a letter saying the man wont comply. you have to do what you have to do. >> joe, jump in. >> this goes back to august 2, 0026, months before the war beg began. a man we all know would never speak out of turn about bush 43. he came out six months before the invasion and said dont attack sadam. there was obviously clear antipathy not only between rumsfeld and bush going back to the mid-1970s but between the bush 41 team and bush 43 team in real time. this is not monday mornin...

There had been covert actions against north vietnamese and directed by the united states and the north vietnamese were responding to that on august 2. >> this is a special report from cbs news in washington. today just past the midday point, unofficial sources started to report additional naval combat action in the same tonkin gulf. >> now i would like to review briefly in chronological order, the unprovoked attacks that took place today, august 4th. >> we know now for sure the second tonkin gul...

More than 13,000 a year later. >> when you look at the range of drugs that you have to deal with here in the state of florida, which ones concern you the most? >> molly, of course. >> other synthetics include molly and ecstasy both nicknamed for mdna an illegal stimulant popular at raves and electronic dance music festivals. >> it has been glamorized in songs we are hearing by singers. >> madonna for example. >> miley cyrus is singing about it. >> she said molly is quote a happy drug. >> thats a...