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Welcome back everyone. a pentagon investigation found the u.s. military air strike in mosul and iraq a couple weeks ago killed more than 100 civilians, likely the largest incident of civilian deaths since the campaign began in 2014. they found it triggered secondary explosions planted by isis fighters, causing apartment kbild dings to collapse with hundreds of people inside. they say the islamic state knew civilians were inside the building. former senator joe lieberman once a top contender wi...

Stopped and stared, and every stood there not knowing what to do and awkward chalting ensued. >>. >> you were standing alongside the democratic contender. some three hours away in the part of the state. you raced to get there for the after math, what is happening there? >> people have been flabbergasted by this. theyre reading it on the newspaper, seeing it on local television. it is tough to tell what the political impact of this will be. this is an 85-day special election. the most expensive i...

This investigation continues. >> okay. so that leads us to naming a new fbi director who would then be spearheading part of this investigation. seems like it is going to take longer than what president trump had initially predicted. >> yeah. do you guys remember last week before he went away on the foreign trip we were hearing the aids were saying maybe we will have a name for you before he gets on the plane. we were trying to move through this quickly because of all the blow back from firing co...

He would not directly answer whether he was asked to go public with the denial on collusion. cnn has learned presidents team has restarted the search for a new fbi director. were told the president wants to see a broader range of candidates. former senator joe lieberman, once a leading contender works at the same firm as mark cassowitz who trump is expected to bring in to advise him on the russian probe. cnn is told thats not the reason trump is changing course. the white house plans to bala...

Contender. hes known mr. trump for decades and represented him in a number of cases. but the senior counsel at his law firm is joseph lieberman, who is the leading candidate to head up the fbi. so if you have lieberman heading the organization investigating the russian collusion and you have cazowicz giving him advice, having them in the same law firm could be a conflict. this outside legal team is separate from the white house counsels office. shep? >> shepard: trace gallagher. thank you, sir. ...

But rosenstein himself made it clear on capitol hill to those senators that he was not the driving force behind the decision to fire comey? >> david, rosenstein has been eager to set the record straight. senators tonight tell us that rosenstein told them that he knew the president was going to fire comey even before he wrote that memo, david. >> mary, thank you. and while were at the white house today, the president did reveal to us something else, he says hes very close to naming his pick to ...

So, if joe lieberman is to become the next fbi director, hes not going to get there without hitting more than a few speed bumps, some of them thanks to his fowl former democratic peers in the senate. a senate leadership source tells cnn that "the overwhelming majority of democrats will be against him," him being the man to emerge as president trumps front-runner for the job. its quite a challenge for lieberman who was the democratic partys vice presidential nominee in 2000. >> here to discuss, d...

From democrats necessarily. even dianne feinstein on our air last night saying she really likes joe, but wondering if this really should be out of the realm of a politician and really from the realm of somebody in the ranks. heres the thing, the senate can actually get this through, fbi director nomination, without any democratic votes, but its part of the white house thinking about joe lieberman, about why hes the leading contender is to have sort of a kumbaya truly bipartisan moment that peopl...

Committee and on the house side say they will continue their work and their investigations will go on. jake? >> sunlen serfaty, thanks. lets bring in cnns jeff zeleny. were going to monitor what is going on at capitol hill. i apologize if i have to interrupt from you. the president could be making a big announcement in naming a new fbi director very soon. any minute, really. >> reporter: indeed, jake. as he told you and other anchors earlier today, he is very close to making a decision and told ...

Mueller is going to proceed forward with the idea of a criminal investigation versus a counterintelligence investigation. there was no facts laid out as to why you would change that but appointing a special counsel has created a dynamic for congress thats going to have to be very leery of crossing into mr. muellers lane. >> the judiciary committee wont be able to get moemos required yesterday? >> i think mr. mueller will tell us what we can get and not get. >> while youre inside, you may not hav...