Hello, everyone. Thanks so much for joining me this sunday. Im fredricka whitfield. We begin yet another shuffle to the president s legal team. Today trumps attorney announcing the powerful d. C. Attorney Joseph Digenova will not join the president s team for the russian probe. This coming just days after digenova and his wife, also an attorney, met with trump. The president tweeting today in part, many lawyers in top law firms want to represent me in the russian case. Adding, quote, i am very happy with my existing team. Besides there was no collusion with russia except by crooked hillary and the dems. Of course, all of this after the massive marches across the country for gun safety. Americans are being attacked in churches, nightclubs, movie theaters and on the streets. But we the people can fix this. A powerful moment as young people called on lawmakers for change. The demonstrations launched by the teens who survived the parkland, Florida School shooting. Later today the president
Legal team. The announcement today that Joseph Digenova will not join the husbands team for the russia investigation. The president telling cnn that there are conflicts with Joseph Digenova and his wife victoria toens i toensing after being interviewed last week. Boris, you first. The president lashing out at that Russian Investigation and money for his border wall in a series of tweets this morning, but no mention of the upcoming Stormy Daniels interview to air tonight. So what is the president s frame of mind . Reporter hey there, fred. Yeah, no signal from President Trump how he feels about this Stormy Daniels saga. Cnn had previously reported that he had been talking to Close Friends and advisers asking them for counsel on how he should respond to allegations he had an affair with the adult film actress and further that he allegedly paid her, through his attorney michael cohen, 130,000 to keep quiet in 2016 just weeks before the president ial election. The president clearly opting
Once again from our nbc news headquarters in new york, day 425 of the trump administration. The president s telephone call with realization president Vladimir Putin, who was just elected to another sixyear term, though no one believes the election was an actual contest. The Washington Post reports president Trumps National security advisers warned him not to congratulate putin but he did so despite the warning. I had a call with president putin and congratulated him on the victory, his electoral victory. And i suspect that well probably be meeting in the not too distant future to discuss the arms race, which is getting out of control, but we will never allow anybody to have anything even close to what we have. Washington post says the president s briefing Materials Included a section that had all capital letters stating do not congratulate according to officials familiar with the call. The piece goes on to say trump chose not to heed talking points from aides instructing him to condemn
Here we are tonight covering breaking news out of this white house. As we said, two men who were members of this president s inner circle at this time last night are gone tonight. His lead personal lawyer on rush ai is gone, and of greater impact to our country, so is his National Security adviser. H. R. Mcmaster, the threestar active duty u. S. Army general and combat veteran is out, and will retire from the u. S. Military. And john bolton is in. Bolton is a former u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. , well known as a neocon and a hawk on military matters. Hes advocating iran and north korea, and then some. John bolton will be trumps National Security adviser in 14 months. The president announced this latest move on twitter, his medium of choice, saying the change will be effective april 9, thanking mcmaster for an outstanding job on the way out. We mentioned john boltons service as u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. He was a recess appointee from george w. Bush, serving from august of 2005 to d
With their own lawyers. There is the looming threat of impeachment proceedings which grows by the day by the likelihood of a Democratic House of representatives. But while the president s legal jeopardy is drawing his legal team as were seeing is shrinking. After the announcement last week of two additions to the president s defense team for the russia probe, were now learning that near Joseph Digenova nor his wife Victoria Toensing will be taking the job. Jay sekulow said the president is disappointed that conflicts prevent joe digenova and Victoria Toensing from joining the president s special Counsel Legal team. However, those conflicts do not prevent them from assisting the president in other legal matters. While this follows the news last week, trumps lead attorney john dowd resigned and reports he had butted heads with his president. Also after reports ted olson turned down an offer to represent the president as did impeach lawyer. Despite all this, trump reverted to his bragging