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Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Allegedly had affairs with, in order to conceal that information from the public in connection with the election. What i think a critical difference is, is the timing of this and how closely related it to the election and concealment of bad information. That differentiates it from the obama case. If i could just go back to the tweets for one second, ha...

We are back. democrats may have won back control of the house, but president trump didnt wait until they actually took control to fire jeff sessions. so what, if anything, could congressional democrats do to protect special counsel robert mueller in his investigation before january 3rd when they officially take power? a democrat from illinois won re-election and isco chair of the democratics committee and may be running for something else. congresswoman, first of all, crawls on your getting re-e...

Williams who has the latest on the attorney generals ouster. pete, obviously, there is not an acting attorney general. i assume it means he has the new responsibility, that is to be robert mil muellers boss, rod rosenstein doesnt have to oversee that anymore. >> not only has to, but cannot. we think jeff sessions is at the justice department tonight and will be leaving and the new acting attorney general will be the man for the last year or so will be his chief of staff. matt whitaker a republic...

Been an element of, oh, nancy pelosi as the fidel castro of the democratic party. you dont want to hold on be that 90-year-old guy. grip it. gripping the gavel. >> i was wondering where you were going. glad you made that turn. >> its an act. >> all right. well pause. were going to pause here. up ahead, can house democrats protect the special counsel, robert mueller, from being fired, if hes fired before january 3rd? well be right back.

So the, what does it mean? it means that there is still a special counsel, robert mueller still does the job. but all the major decisions he has been clearing with rod rosenstein he clears with mat whitaker. >> at a minimum, he may have his sails trimmed a bit? >> its possible. >> thats probably the most outcome for a while? >> potentially. remember, when mueller is done, under the rules, he submits a report to the attorney general, who then decides what is to be done with it. >> right. i assume...

From the white house, saying, now is the time. i think it was breath taking that it happened so quickly. not that it happened was the surprise. follow me through. trump is elected. jeff sessions becomes attorney general. hes still attorney general, short live after he becomes attorney general, he concludes he has to recuse himself from overseeing the russian meddling investigation because he campaigned for the president and the justice department rules say you cant investigate somebody if you we...

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Reporting was that michael cohen has been telling people he was willing to testify to robert mueller that donald trump had knock of the trump tower meeting before. the president of the united states had knowledge of the trump tower meeting beforehand. well now i just spoke to lanny davis, he was on tv, lanny davis is saying thats not the case, cohen doesnt have information exactly the that president trump knew beforehand and richard burr of the intelligence community yesterday and mark warner ca...

Finish his investigation, let him make a full and fair report to all of the american people. and when weve got that, then we can make a decision on what the appropriate next step is. >> theres a report in nbc news that theres essentially a democratic -- in case of emergency break glass plan if the president figures out a way to fire robert mueller. is that true? are you party to that? what would it be? >> i think theres no doubt that if the president fires robert mueller he creates a constitutio...

Substantial amount of time. the question is whether he makes the calculation that its better to cooperate. >> this is a tremendous victory for muellers team. >> announcer: this is "new day" with alisyn camerota and john berman. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to "new day." its already been a long morning. its wednesday, august 22, 8:00 in the east. sources tell cnn the white house is stunned and blindsided by the news that president trumps personal lawyer directly implicated the president of ...