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Appointed. the appointment i made was to rob mueller, so i recommend you tell your constituents that rob mueller, rod rosenstein and chris wray are accountable, and well make sure that theres no bias within any matter of the jurisdiction of the justice department. when we have any evidence of inappropriate conduct, well take action. thats what mr. mueller did as soon as he learned about the issue. i anticipate thats the rest of our prosecute owes, our new group of u.s. attorneys, justice departm...

>> that decision was made by our inspector quenelle -- pardon me, our solicitor general. >> you described the special counsel as a her heroic figure served his country confirmed eye nan mussily assed fbi director. i take it your judgment on mr. pluler has not changed today. >> correct. >> you would not have appointed mr. mueller if you thought he was going to engage in a witchhunt, correct? >> correct. >> so you then would disagree with the presidents labeling of the special counsels investigati...

Democrats, and the press in some cases, when they continue to report on false allegation after allegation after allegation. in fact what you see from the democrats is they move from one allegations, thats proven to be false, they move to the next one, and to the next one and the next one, because theyre unhappy with the results of the election. can you tell me why the independent counsel was actually appointed? >> special counsel, congressman. ive explained publicly that i appointed the special ...

>> all right. anybody been to russia? got a cousin in russia. >> all right. so nathan a lot of people in the room were laughing but is this a laughing matter for mueller and his team and even members of congress who have not been able -- who have expressed being frustrated they dont get the right story or a consistent story out of jeff sessions. >> the attorney general, his -- at the hearing earlier in week i thought it was remarkable every republican was asking about everything ebs september fo...

Administration. >> and then, lynn, also very close, hope hicks, the white house communications director, shes been with trump before he was a candidate. so that relationship may be filled with a lot of interesting information that rob mueller may want to know. apparently, hicks is preparing to sit down with muellers team. what kind of information would they want out of her? >> what they want is that she has been the ubiquitous hope hicks. shes been at everything. she should know almost everythin...

Difficult. no one knows really what youre doing or what big foreign deals mean for you. whether its a success or not, we can debate that, but coming out and describing why you were in asia and what you were doing that is a smart tactic for any president. >> i want to bring in cnns boris sanchez, hes at the white house. boris, you have some reporting. why does president trump feel the need to make the speech? you just heard jen psaki, former communications director in the obama white house say th...

Messy would this process be? >> it could get very messy. look, jeff sessions could reclaim his title as an alabama senator again in two ways. he could run as a write-in candidate against roy moore and democrat doug jones, counting on his immense popularity as a 20-year senator from that state to knock them both out in the december special election, or if he waits and moore wins, two-thirds of the u.s. senate could appoint moore unfit and then sessions could be appointed by alabama republican gov...

Is the president considering dropping the amount of pretax contributions that americans put into their 401(k) at about $18,000? seems like this is up for negotiation. does the president lower it? >> as i said this week the president wants to continue to fight and push for protectionha beyond that. but thats the presidents position and thats the same today as it was earlier this week. >> thanks, sara. there has been a number of politicians over the past week, including chris christie here at the ...

Investigation into donald trumps campaign ties to russia. that revelation reportedly from in documents including e-mails turned over to special counsel of rob muellers team. not clear if he got to the billionaire. his name, oleg daraposka, widely seen as a close ally of vladimir putins. another e-mail exchange manafort refers to the positive press received after becoming the campaign strategist, writing you how do we use to get whole? debts believed eastern european clients owed him. confirming ...

Statements, important signs of life and that is what weve been seeing on the ground here in mexico city. ali? >> mariana who is covering this from mexico city for us. tragedy all around, but they are trying very hard to rescue people from that building behind mariana without collapsing it because they believe there is someone, at least somebody alive in that building. reporting is varied on this. there may be more than one person. there may be up to five people but theres a rescue mission under ...