Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. January of this year, the president s lawyers tell the special Counsel Robert Mueller in a letter that mr. Trump dictated the statement himself. Fast forward to late last month, cnn reporting that Michael Cohen is willing to tell the Special Counsel that the president did know about the 2016 Trump Tower Meeting in advance despite numerous denials from President Trump and his team. And that brings us up to speed. The president now admitting the meeting was designed to get information on an opponent, but once again claiming he did not know about it. Now jay sekulow admits he was wrong when he denied the president was involved in that first misleading statement. Listen. I had Bad Information at that point. I made a mistake in my statement. I talked about that before. That happens when you have cases like this. I think its very important to point out that in a situation like this, you have, over time, facts develop. T
And on the spot. How politics is having an impact on what kind of ads youre going to see during the super bowl. We begin with a live picture of the white house just moments ago pushing back on growing concerns by democrats that President Trump will soon move to fire Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein. Does the white house feel that Rod Rosenstein is a man of integrity . The white house believes that Rod Rosenstein serves at the pleasure of the president and right now hes in his position. There is no conversation, there is no consideration for him to leave at this time. But a former fell prosecutor telling me earlier firing rosenstein would no doubt set the wheels in motion for the constitutional crisis democrats have been warning about. If Rod Rosenstein had any significant involvement in this at all, it was only to say, yup, this is an investigation uncovering relevant information and that it should continue. If that is used as a pretechs to remove Rod Rosenstein, then we have nak
Are you back today . How should we work this . So everybody can live here . We could do that. Have you ever been in the part living in a dorm. Ali velshi, ill see you at 5 00. Good afternoon, good luck. Thats the answer coming from Rudy Giuliani. Does he want to interview the president . Good luck. After what they did to flynn, the way they trapped him into perjury. When you say good luck, you mean, no interview. Thats a joke, over my dead body, but you know, i could be dead. Making the tv rounds, giuliani seemed to cause more harm than good. Things went awry when discussing building a trump tower in moscow. Those discussions went on until the election. According to the answer that he gave, it would have covered all the way up to november of 2016. Earlier they sent those conversations stopped in january of 2016. The date now, the whole point of giuliani going on tv was to discredit Michael Cohen, sentenced to three years in prison last week. By all accounts it didnt work. The president
To help President Trump win the white house. And researchers say the interference is still happening. Also, just a few days left to avoid a partial government shut down. Neither side is backing down with thousands of workers caught in the middle. Right before christmas. And there will be a christmas rhyme because someone wrote it in the b block tease. Our reporting begins now. And our reporting begins with President Trump and his personal lawyer unleashing a sort of counter narrative against the investigators after a week of revelations in the russia case. In addition, the president s personal attorney, rudy guliani, told Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday there is no way he will let President Trump meet with the special counsel, Robert Mueller. Theyre a joke. Over my dead body. You know, i could be dead. Shepard for months, muellers team and the president s lawyers have gone back and forth about whether President Trump would sit town for any interview. The special counsel is looking to
Mueller is still not recommending jail time. Bill a flurry of tweets already today. President trump sending that. Good luck in court today to general Michael Flynn. Interesting to see what he has to say despite pressure put on him with russia collusion in our highly successful political campaign. There was no collusion. Former a. G. Michael mukasey has analysis. Peter doocy has the report outside u. S. District court and lets begin there with what else we have learned from the f. B. I. Interview. There was another document released late last night with a ton of redactions but it shows that f. B. I. Agents were helping flynn fill in a lot of blanks about conversations that he was having with the Russian Ambassador Serge Kislyak because the f. B. I. Was monitoring flynns communication and suggest that flynn knew his communications were being monitored because multiple times he thanked the f. B. I. For helping refresh his memory. The mueller team has problems with inconsistencies in the t