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Honored that recusal with regard to matters pending the Department Of Justice, but i just want to comment on what may have been on anybody elses mind or offer any opinion about that because its not for me to make those decisions. Well, it is exactly, i think, why Senator Schatz asked a whole series of questions about the scope of recusal, because i am a lawyer. Senator schatz may not be. He asked better questions than i did, but i also am having real difficulty understanding the scope of the rec...

Today the russia investigation took a major step forward. For the first time a member of the president s inner circle faced questions on capitol hill. Put another way, this investigation has now come within one man of the president. He is arguably the closest man to the president. White house Senior Adviser and soninlaw Jared Kushner spent more than two hours with the Senate Intelligence committee and then he made a Public Statement saying he never colluded with russia. It comes as trump pours t...

Democrats. Members of congress here here from both sides of the aisle to talk about wa happened today. Lets turn back to the breaking news, the Washington Post explosive report that the president of the United States is currently under a Criminal Investigation for the Obstruction Of Justice. Responding in a statement, a spokesman for the president s attorney did not dispute the post report, saying only the fbi leak of information regarding the president is outrageous, inexcusable, and illegal. J...

Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Bookminder, executive director for citizens for responsibilities and ethics. And Midwin Charles is an attorney. President trump reacted to cohens plea this morning on twitter where he writes if anyone is looking for a good lawyer, i would strongly suggest you that dont retain the services of Michael Cohen. Okay. Lets remind our audience, the president is downplaying this. Being funny, almost cute. Theres nothing cute about ...

Anymore. >> i dont know about that, sean, but thank you very much, i appreciated. the the testimony of special counsel robert mueller is about to devour capitol hill beginning at 8:30 wednesday with an opening statement by mueller, we are told that they are still negotiations about the terms of engagement for the hearing. you tonight, a letter from the justice department to mueller. the doj tells mueller "any testimony must remain in the boundaries of your report, because matters of the scope of...

Juliette, in the new court filing from cohens attorneys they say in addition to his interviews with the special counsel that cohen is cooperating with prosecutors from the u.s. attorneys office concerning an ongoing investigation. the new york state attorney generals office civil lawsuit against the trump foundation and state tax authorities. so how worried should the president be? because this is one he cant pardon anybody for, right? >> thats right. and this is part of the theory that renato a...

So that theres not one single point of failure. in other words, if trump fires mueller theres still going to be a whole bunch of other stuff going on. what you see this week is the panic attack trump was having quite publicly on twitter, is what i call -- what ive been calling the 4 m problem. its mueller, manafort, michael cohen and now michael flynn. michael flynn has not been seen or heard from for a very long time. tomorrow is a big day. that is when mueller is going to show what michael fly...

Shoed political operator, he can read the polls as well as anybody, he knows there are a lot of traditionally republican leaning voters who may like some of the economic policies that have been pursued over the last 20 months but who are very uneasy about the president ecommitment to the rule of law, very uneasy about kind of all the windows breaking and norm shattering thats going on and i think he correctly understands that firing sessions between now and november would really underscore the s...

Have been liable to a russian operation. what i find really striking, though, is the refusal to come to grips with the really big news of the day which is what happened with michael cohen. because this is not about collusion. this is not about robert mueller. this is about the way the president what seems to be an unindicted co-conspirator in criminal activity. felonious violation of campaign laws. which seems to be happening whether or not the president fires mueller or not. >> to bretts point ...

The special counsels work. and so i have heard from capitol hill a lot of red line from republicans on whether the president fires mueller, or even attorney general jeff sessions, rosensteins boss. i have not heard a clear red line on rosenstein. thats what im watching for today. i think youre right, poppy, to zero in on that. >> thank you, all. amber philip, laura jarrett, josh campbell, stick with me as we wait for this hearing to get under way of christopher wray and rod rosenstein. but, look...