The Attorney General was questioned for several hours by muellers Team Last Week on wednesday, according to a source close to sessions. Former fbi director comey, he spoke with investigators last year. The interviews, we know, focused on two things. First, russias meddling in the election. And second, whether or not President Trump obstructed justice since taking office, especially as it concerns his firing of james comey in may. Jeff sessions and james comey, they are of key interest. Sessions for his meetings with the Russian Ambassador during the campaign, and of course the fact that he was involved in the firing of james comey. Of course, as for former fbi director james comey, he took many notes that hes talked about, about his interactions with the president , and of course the Special Counsel will be interested in comey expanding upon those. The president weighed in on sessions interview on tuesday. Are you concerned about what the Attorney General told the Special Counsel . Not
East coast, President Donald Trump has a busy week ahead of him. On monday hes expected to take questions from reporters in a joint News Conference with the visiting Prime Minister of italy. Mr. Trump will likely be asked about his latest twitter rant against the Special Counsel, Robert Mueller. The president now claiming mueller has multiple Conflicts Of Interest in the russia investigation. In addition to that, there are still questions about the tapes the president s former attorney just released as well as mr. Trumps threat to shut down the government to get funding for his border wall that he said mexico would pay for but in fact he means the taxpayers will pay for. Cnns Boris Sanchez is traveling with the president , or he was in new jersey. He has more on mr. Trumps twitter tirade. Thats hard to say. Reporter cnn has reached out to the white house to get clarity on specifically what President Trump was referencing when he mentioned Business Conflicts with the Special Counsel Rob
Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. Primary, Cnn Projects State Attorney General Bill Schuette will be the republican candidate in november. Former state legislative leader Gretchen Whitmer will be the democratic candidate. And cnn projects john james has captured the gop nomination for u. S. Senate in michigan. James, an africanamerican iraq war vet endorsed by President Trump. He will face off with democrat Debbie Stabenow in november. Former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manaforts longtime righthand man back on the witness stand today. Manaforts Defense Lawyers expected to pick up where they left off yesterday, trying to undermine rick gates credibility in the eyes of the jury. Gates admitted to a host of transgressions. So far, manaforts defense team has not done much to pin the bank and tax fraud their client is charged with on gates alone. That part of their Cross Examination may come later today. More now from cnns jessica schneider. Reporter christ
All the big moments and the networks new mission. Welcome back to early start. Im dave briggs. Im christine romans. It is tuesday, august 21st. 5 00 a. M. In the east. Lets start with the latest. Conservative think tanks in the u. S. Senate. United States Senate the latest targets of hackers linked to military intelligence. Microsoft stopped the attack last week. The company took control of six web sites operated by the same group behind the 2016 dnc hack. Lets bring in fred pleitgen. Reporter the organization that were talking about, the Hacking Group, called fancy bear. That is the group that hacked into the dnc and Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016. U. S. Intelligence highly likely believes this group is linked and possibly directed by Russian Military intelligence known as the gru. As far as the organizations and groups targeted by the attack, apparently, parts of the senate and then two think tanks. Hudson institute and International Republican institute. Both critical of President
Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. 11 00 p. M. In hawaii. We will have the projections of Hurricane Lane. We start with the white house. The white house struggles to contain the fallout from the Michael Cohen guilty plea. President trump is turning to personal attacks. Cohen implicated trump for coordinating Hush Payments to a porn star to sway an election. Yesterday with an interview with fox news, the president tried to minimize cohens role in life and in business. He was one of many lawyers for me. They say the lawyer and they like to say the fixer. I dont know where that term came from. I dont know if he was a fixer. He has been a lawyer for me. He did not do big deals. Small deals. Not somebody with me that much. Somebody who said i did not live without him. I understood Michael Cohen very well. He turned out not to be a very good lawyer. Thats what the president says now about the man who once
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