Feeds and minds, Vladimir Putin paying to write garbage and spread it on social media. Today, the troll farm at the very heart of the russia probe. Welcome to the lead. We begin with breaking news in the russia investigation involving president Donald Trumps own family. Cnn has learned that special counsel Robert Muellers interest in the president s soninlaw and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, has expanded now beyond kushners contacts with russia and now includes his efforts to secure money for his company from Foreign Investors during the president ial transition. This according to multiple sources. During that time, kushner was also the lead contact for foreign governments trying on reach his fatherinlaw, the president elect. Joining me to break this story, also with us, sarah murray on a key new development. Though i want to start with you. What is at the center of what youre learning in terms of muellers investigation . Thats right. Cnn has learned that mueller is asking questions a
Interview trump in person. Lets go to wolf blitzer and jake tapper who are standing by. The president we are told doesnt want to talk about russia tonight. Wont even mention the investigation. But you never know if he veers off script. It has been blasted by the right and the left and we are told the president will announce that he is keeping the prison at gaun tan mobay. How do you see his basic message unfolding . He told, and he wants it unify the country. In washington d. C. There is brittle tension. We expect the president will talk about taxes economy, trade, and infrastructure. We do not think he is going to mention the russia investigation and that is one of the reasons that investigation and his reaction to it that will make his goal of unfieing the country such a tall order. I want to go to our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta. Reporter the president is not expected to address the russia investigation. He remains furious about the russia probe and he can still fire
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This breaking news. A surprising claim by the president s attorney. Giuliani is telling cnn tonight he has been told by the special counsel that they cannot indict a sitti inting president. Saying quote, all they get to do is write a report. They cant indict. At least they acknowledged that to us after some battling. They acknowledged that to us. Thats a stunning thing to say, right . Its a conclusion that is likely based on Justice Department guidelines, it didnt mean though that the president is in the clear and i want to go to dana bash outfront live in washington. You spoke to giuliani. So, you know, explain first of all, why this is such a big deal . The reason, erin, is because as you said, it has been Justice Department guideline. Precedent since the nixon years. The it was a guideline written by the office of Legal Counsel inside the Justice Department. Stating that a sitting u. S. President cannot, should not be indicted because the because has things of National Security othe
There is no evidence that anyone was spying on the trump campaign. A Counter Intelligence investigation was underway. And for the president who still doesnt seem to know what that means, lets try this. The good guys, american Law Enforcement agencies, were closely watching the bad guys, american adversaries like the russians. The reason Trumps Campaign is in the mix is because they ended up in close enough cahoots with russians to raise suspicions. With those facts in mind, heres the president S Performance today. All you have to do is look at the basics and youll see. It looks like a very serious event. But well find out. When they look at the documents, i think people are going to see a lot of bad things happened. I hope its not so because if it is, theres never been anything like it in the history of our country. I hope i mean, if you look at clapper, he sort of admitted they had spies in the campaign yesterday inadvertently. But i hope its not true. But it looks like it is. Everybo