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Renewed government shut down. if he gets congressional proposal without money for the wall, he wont even read it. declare a national emergency and face legal challenges? the president says hes not worried about that. on the russia investigation, the president says he will leave that to the justice department to decide whether to release the special counsel robert muellers final report. in an interview with the daily caller, the president insisted that he has the right to get involved and shut do...

We have no expectations thats happening. >> also the southern district investigations. so its more than just mueller. so thats one thing. remember, youre putting up there a nominee who about william barr who is famous for his really ridiculous constitutional views which are the president controls the prosecution power entirely. even is barrs promise worth even the paper its printed on, because if trump orders him to say shut down mueller, shut down southern district of new york, barr has said in...

Because hes not considered seriously by the legislative attorney community, et cetera, et cetera, has made statements already and the reason we think he has been chosen as acting director is because he has written that he does not believe that a sitting president can be indicted. bar is in the same kind of space on all of this. these are people that we think could come in and fire mueller. this is what the president would like to happen. the closer we get to the president and his criminal activi...

Whitaker impact the investigation here? >> well, whitaker has the authority to ask mueller to provide an explanation and justification for investigative steps he takes. and then, in certain circumstances, if he thinks that mueller is straying too far afield, going outside the bounds of justice department guidelines, he could overrule mueller. so you could imagine if whitaker really had in his mind that he wanted to impede mueller, he could start asking him to justify everything he does. because ...

Install this loyalist, who is an opponent of the mueller investigation, can we see -- are we allowed to tell whether and when and how this is a live, active white house effort right this second to shut down muellers investigation? now, i said those were questions we need answers to. i think we can get answers to all of those questions tonight, and were going to try to over the course of this hour. i said there was one thing i think you should know that im going to tell you about this tonight, an...

Investigation, can we see, are we allowed to tell whether and when and how this is a live, active white house effort right this second to shut down muellers investigation? now, i said those were questions we need answers to, i actually think we can get answers to all of those questions tonight and were going to try to over the course of this hour. but i said there was one thing i think you should know that i want to tell you about this tonight, one thing i want to tell you is that there are grou...

Quotes, and if they stop the investigation, thats obviously not doing that. so -- and i think hes already floated some names of people that, you know, would probably be people who would not, you know, let the investigation go on. >> having worked in justice, and im always fascinated by what the line attorneys and the civil servants in that entity are thinking every day, as they watch all of this unfold, eliot. what would be the reaction, i think, do you think in that building, if the president w...

Place to support to shut down mueller and he is a subject of that investigation. thats why he wont fire him and lastly is the point that -- ill raise this point. maybe trump knows he cant fire him for political reasons, maybe he wants to force sessions out. maybe he wants sessions to resign to make his life easier and to give himself some political cover. interesting to watch. >> ill say thats -- >> 25 years in the senate. hes not going anywhere quick. >> thats something we have been talking abo...

Time. we dont know who the mueller teams next witness would be that they might call. we know they plan to wrap up their case, rest their case sometime this week. sandra. >> sandra: well look for that to begin a few minutes from now. >> bill: new developments in the mueller matter. sources confirming that president trumps legal team is getting ready to prepare a response for the request for an interview. it may come as soon as today. president trumps lead attorney saying they havent turned down m...

The person he just interviewed and who the president said he had a past dispute with over golf club fees could be now investigating him, he said. we dont know if trump turned down mueller for the fbi job at this point, but christopher wray wasnt named to be director until a month after muellers appointment on counsel. its likely mueller was in the running when he was named to investigate the trump team. bloomberg notes, from that moment on, trump campaigned to aides about a perceived grudge. of ...