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The program. tune into tucker carlson later tonight for the interview with his father. if we did not know as a government that warmbier was in a coma for 15 months what do we know about the nuclear program in north korea today? big questions for our leaders and well get that coming up in 20 minutes. >> shannon: on top of all this a new leak in the russia investigation. special counsel robert mueller sin vest gaiting president trump for possible obstruction of justice. the newspaper cites various...

Looking into whether president trump himself tried to obstruct justice. robert mueller is looking into interview three intelligence officials as early as this week about their interactions with the president. nbcs peter alexander is at the white house. peter, the president has taken to twitter this morning responding. tell us more about it? >> lets be clear, this could be one of the biggest developments to date in this investigation. president trump lashing out on the reports hes being investiga...

Back on the notion of collusion. it looks like he may have used these -- tried to use these folks from the intelligence community to do that. it was notable the way that the white house responded to this yesterday, instead of saying, look, we have nothing to hide here -- actually it wasnt the white house responding, it was the outside counsel spokesman. its not like they were saying we have nothing to hide, they went immediately after the fbi. this is similar to their attacks on mueller and thei...

That fact that theres investigation into obstruction of justice. the lawyer said this. fbi leak of information regarding the president is outrageous, inexcusable, illegal. the president lashed out against special counsel, called the investigation a witch-hunt again and seemed to attack muellers team by calling them very bad and conflicted people. the president is also pushing this narrative, that part of the investigation is somehow over. quote, they made up a phony collusion with the russians s...

Obstruction of justice to me is of huge import in that weve talked about trump aides. weve talked about trump allies. weve talked about former trump staff. who weve never talked about in terms of being investigated is donald trump. we are now talking about that. that makes it fundamentally different. donald trumps reaction to this is his reaction to many things, which is dismiss, detract, move -- >> tell your story today, phony collusion with russia you said you made -- >> but -- so she doesnt h...

Fired. the president tweeted moments ago, they made up a phony collusion with the russian story, found zero proof. so now they go for obstruction of justice on the phony story. nice. and the trump legal team responded to "the post" report by saying, quote, the fbi leak of information regarding the president is outrageous, inexcusable and illegal. the paper also sources five people who say director of national intelligence dan coats and mike rogers, head of the nsa and his former deputy have agre...

The focus of this obstruction of justice investigation led by the special counsel bob mueller. the president tweeting, quote, they made up a phony collusion with the russian story. found zero proof so now they go for obstruction of justice on the phony story. nice. and then, "you are witnessing the single greatest witch hunt in american political history led by some very bad and conflicted people." developing now on capitol hill, cnn is learning that the senate intelligence committee will not lo...

Reported robert mueller is investigating the president for possible obstruction of justice. live at the white house with all of the latest. what have you learned? >> reporter: good morning. what we know is that the president has been frustrated and continues to be frustrated about these investigations and is clearly not happy with this latest report out of the washington post. he took to twitter early this morning before 7:00 tweeting they made up a phony collusion with the russians story, found...

Last night with the president and also we must say with speaker ryan and nancy pelosi and democrats were there too. speaker ryan hit all of the right notes for the american people. that is where we want the dialogue to be. then this morning, we see where it is, anthony. president tweeting about the news mueller is looking at possible obstruction. he could have said a lot of things. what he chose to say is phony collusion with the russians. zero proof. now they go for obstruction of justice on th...

These legal matters. yet as the stakes continue to rise, the president keeps tweeting. >> good morning, joe. the stakes are continuing to rise. its clear that robert mueller is moving forward. hes trying to paint a bigger picture in his investigation about what drove president trump to have these sorts of conversations with intelligence officials. was it merely a position that he did not believe there was collusion and those investigations should stop or was there a bigger context for that condu...