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All right. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein says the department of justice will not be intimidated. thats amid reports that house republicans allied with the president had drafted articles of impeachment against him related to document requests about the russia and clinton e-mail probes. rosenstein said yesterday that people in his department would be guided by the law not political pressure. >> any reaction to the news that certain members of the house freedom caucus have talked about dra...

Well see. so, maybe its going to end, you know, hot summer. we dont know. but its not over yet. when rudy guiliani joined the presidents russia legal team recently, he said he would have the whole mueller investigation shut down, he would have it over with by the day after tomorrow. um, if that were going to happen, we probably wouldnt have mike flynns sentencing delayed yet again today for another two months. and we probably wouldnt see this remarkable spectacle unfolding today at the very tipp...

Asked about the house of representatives, some people in the house of representatives moving the idea of impeaching him. he was at a seminar where he was discussing various public issues. he was asked about that. lets listen to this. >> any reaction to the news that certain members of the house freedom caucus have talked about drafting up articles of impeachment, despite your best efforts to comply with their document requests? >> they cant even resist leaking their own drafts. >> would you care...

Can take that entire topic off the table. >> thats brilliant. you think he needs a constitutional lawyer and focus on this. the constitution defines the powers these ways. if he cant exercise the powers and you call it obstruction, its not constitutional. youre taking away the powers of the president, right? >> correct. president trump has an obligation in my mind to do this not just for himself but actually to protect the office of the president and the executive bran. because we are already no...

Cohen that hes taking the fifth in this thing by wednesday of next week, all wrapped up before he makes a decision. is that standard? >> its standard. he will say, i plead the fifth. if the court does not grant the stay, which i think the court will, mr. cohen can still plead the fifth throughout the entire civil case. if he gets a deposition, if he gets discovery, document requests, hes well win his legal rights to plead the fifth and say im not answering questions, not producing documents, not...

Answer four simple questions. asking four questions. what is the documents we need? the approximate number? what is redacted? >> we are not sure. the big question was they had no clue, when will we get what we are entitled to. that did not inspire confidence. everyone, top to bottom, mr. sessions, rosenstein, have to do a much better job in giving us the information we deserve. the good news this week, when chairman devin nunes got the communication that launched the entire investigation into pr...

Emails regarding investigation, they are not happy about this. some of the other members said this is an efficient, and the hillary clinton investigation from the fbi and doj suspect they dont want congress, what was handled. >> appointing -- i struggle to understand what is happening over the previous months, they were working on document requests, request these documents months ago, the production was in congress. >> republican member of congress complaining in a background, it was jeff sessio...

To try to answer these document requests. theyre trying to get it done. i dont think this presidential pressure really helps anything in this situation. >> tim, we have reporting here on cnn in the last 24 hours that the president has begun preps for a, perhaps, historic showdown with bob mueller. hes also prepping for a historic meeting with kim jong-un of north korea. this is the world that we live in now. youre the historian. you ran the nixon library. of course, nixon made history going to c...

Counsels investigation and how it is intensifying. robert muellers team questioning russian oligarchs, stopping and interrogating two of them on u.s. soil. special counsel looking at whether wealthy russians were illegally funneling money into president trumps campaign coffers. kara skinle is following the aggressive strategy. what more do we know about this? >> we learned muellers team is starting to target the russian oligarchs and stopped two when they came in on their private planes. one ind...

Now, there might have been previous subpoenas we are unaware of. they certainly have had a lot of document requests. this was a subpoena and not just please turn this over. >> and if youre looking for a lighter touch on this, im told the president is being counseled that he cant not go to the trump organization and do a complete investigation. >> they have said that to him. >> he is doing it late, assuming this is late in the process, is a good sign because it means its not what the big branch i...