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Administrations. The decision to appoint mueller came from Rod Rosenstein and the white house was notified charlie before the announcement. This comes as rosenstein heads to capitol hill today for an all Senate Briefing on the comey termination. Jon meantime, the white house is facing more questions about the firing of Michael Flynn. After the New York Times reporter alleges that the Trump Transition Team new trump stomach to my stomach let me say, hearing that story today was the first i heard ...

Go. Anne thompson in new york, Mike Viqueira on capitol hill and Kelly Odonnell and Vivian Salama with the associated press. Breaking news coming out of new york, Anne Thompson following the news that roger ailes died at age 77. Walk us through what we know and any reaction so far. The news ce from roger ailes wife l elizabeth. Saying in part roger was a patriot, grateful to live in a country that gave him so much opportunity to work hard, to rise and to give back. During a career that stechd mo...

Russian interference in the 2016 election. This morning the reaction over that move from the white house to capitol hill. New questions emerging over former National Security adviser Michael Flynn and who in the trump team new what and when and his ties to turkey. Demonstrators take to the streets in tulsa, oklahoma, after a Police Officer is acquitted in the shooting of an unarmed black man. Good morning. Its thursday, may 18th. Im Ayman Mohyeldin in washington, d. C. Jasmine is in new york alo...

Very strong recommendation, as you know from the Deputy Attorney general, Rod Rosenstein. To dispose of that first claim about him being unpopular. Acting fbi director mccabe said that was not true and he was widely respected. Keeping them honest to somehow the president describes it. The Deputy Attorney general, Rod Rosenstein wrote a memo and he read it and persuaded to one extent to fire comey. That was his account today. So was this just seven days ago. I was going to fire comey. Theres no g...

This. I waspposed to the appointment of a special unsel. However, if you are going to have a special counsel, you cannot have a better person than bob mueller. His choice was the right choice for the job. Im very happy with the selection of bob mueller. I think he brings a recovered integrity and independence and i think bipartisan support. I think everybody is really, whether openly or secretly, that Robert Mueller has been appointed. Mueller is a great appointment. Is this a big deal . Yes. I ...

Down a little bit. I feel like washington, d. C. Ex exhaled. The entire town. Congress, the white house. Now theres a process. The investigation into russias meddling now in the hands of the former director of the fbi. Robert mueller appointed special counsel. He has the power to investigate, to question, to issue subpoenas and prosecute federal crimes if any discovered. Mueller appointed by deputy Rod Rosenstein. Rosenstein said the move was not a finding crimes had been committed, but quote ba...

John heilemann, senior Political Editor for the huffington post, sam stein, National Political correspondent for the Washington Post karen tim mull tea along with willie geist and Mike Barnicle in new york. So much has happened even in the past 24 hours, former fbi director Robert Mueller immediately takes over the Justice Departments investigation of russian interference in the 2016 campaign. He is now in charge of prosecutors and fbi agents in multiple field offices. Deputy attorney general Ro...

Dont know what the answer is. I dont know if he knows at this point. Certainly allan was saying we will never know. He will either indict or fold up shop. I dont know thats the case. I can tell you the fear in the white house is that there will be answers to questions we didnt know we had. Thats the fear of a special prosecutor. The other thing that i want to add to the idea of him lawyering up, that my understanding is that the advice that he is going to get is he should do that immediately, no...

Dont know what the answer is. I dont know if he knows at this point. Certainly allan was saying we will never know. He will either indict or fold up shop. I dont know thats the case. I can tell you the fear in the white house is that there will be answers to questions we didnt know we had. Thats the fear of a special prosecutor. The other thing that i want to add to the idea of him lawyering up, that my understanding is that the advice that he is going to get is he should do that immediately, no...

Have we held in this country. The answer to that is 58. A lot of twotermers and one four termer. We started having them in the 1700s, 1789. In terms of which american president ial election has been the most contentious, that is up for debate and every century has its candidate. Which one was heavily scrutinized after the fact, that is pretty clear that were living it right now. There were hints before the november election that something was off, something was going on in this one that was diff...