protect trump from a special prosecutor. that s right. he blames him for two things number one, the president is a combatant. he likes people who fight. so he doesn t like that instead of fighting, sessions recused himself. but he believes initial step what set in motion the process that led to special counsel robert mueller who is causing tremendous headaches for the president and his family. his understanding of the role of the attorney generalship. can you square that what most people think an attorney general should be today? man or woman since at least janet reno, they re seen as the country s attorney general, not the president s personal lawyer. that s right. there have been people very close to them as the attorney general, like kennedy. or bobby kennedy. he would be the prime example but that s not what we think of. we don t think of the attorney general being the president s lawyer. we think of him being the lawyer
for the country. in a way that s very important
put what on the president? this idea that you just said the the new york times is reporting that the president approved either wrote or approved the that is not an outlandish suggesting. i take the the new york times reporting on its face and why wouldn t a father that s president of the united states want to have a say in what his son was putting out that involves him and his presidency. seems like a legitimate thing that s why i asked. 39-year-old son whose running the trump corporation and the trump organization, so he doesn t need to be looked over the shoulder by his father. here s what i think we need to really focus on and obviously i appreciate you having me on. i need to be clear about three things here. number one, the president was not aware of the meeting, did not attend the meeting and was only made aware of the e-mails very recently by counsel and not seen the e-mails. in fact, you know, i didn t see the e-mail until yesterday and i m one of the lawyers.
premptive strike by the united states. the president also is publicly declaring that he has no plans to fire robert mueller as his russia investigation heats up. fbi said he was surprised the raid of the home of paul manafort. and pouring more feud on the top republican in the senate. he called mitch mcconnell s failure to get obama care repeals and replaced a disgrace. this after he posted multiple tweets slamming the majority leader and urging him to get back to work. this hour, i ll talk about the north korea situation with our today, trump said he would consider diplomatic efforts but offered a pessimistic view of their odds of success. we will always consider negotiations, but they have been negotiating for 25 years. you look at bush and obama imploring china to step up their pressure on pyongyang. i think what noo can do more and i think they will. his secretary of state, rex tillerson, taking a different approach. offering reainsurances to the american people.
all year round. so call today. because now s the perfect time to learn more. go long. i m jim accoosta for wolf blitzer. maria on the move. churning north and gaining steam. what the storm is leaving behind and who is next. the hunt for survivors after a deadly earthquake grows more frantic and we will take you there live. turning to trump. the special counsel seeks new documents about the president s actions in office including a meeting with the russians. we begin with hurricane maria s rampage with $3.3 million u.s. citizens. it has been devastated and president trump approved a
system. in san juan, what is the situation there right now? it s strange because people are beginning to move around again. you see people stopping to pause and look around and take stock of the scope of what s changed in a little over 24 hours. we were here before the rains moved in to see a perfectly functional city, but there is a puerto rican flag trying to go in the breeze. part of today has been
could still see the potential for damage with flash flooding as well. the yellow track irma, the red track, maria. maria will make a right-hand turn, at least we think so. we always wait for that turn, guys. right now we hope it s a gutter ball between bermuda and the u.s. 48. with all of the attention on maria, we seem to have forgotten for a second about hurricane jose. is that doing anything right now? yes, let me get to it. it s here on this graphic. hurricane jose, it will eventually die out in the atlantic, but right now a category 1, category 2, somewhere in there, and then dying to a category nothing in about 48 hours, but will take a long time. this is sunday. it s almost five days away now and it s still sitting in the same place making waves and wind. the waves and the rip currents across the northeast are tremendous today. stay out of the water, please. that s all you need to do. chad meyers, we will take your advance. thank you. puerto rico is bracing for a direct