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The fisher director who is the only person who is independently leading this moving forward when you dont have him doing that you need an outside group doing it. Republicans should call for that shouldnt be a partisan thing. Cnn live coverage of this breaking news is obviously going to be continuing all night. Jake tapper along at 11 00 p. M. Eastern with a special report. First don lemon and cnn tonight with the latest. Anderson thank you very much our breaking news tonight, President Trump bom...

Washington. Im elizabeth prann. Leland im trying to figure out a saturday that wasnt busy in recent memory. Nice to be with you. Im leland vittert. Its the weekend, but President Trump is getting ready for the election mode. We have endorsements for republicans ahead of primary elections this year and new details for the president s plan for hitting the Campaign Trail for some g. O. P. Candidates in vulnerable districts around the country. Ellison barber travelling with the president up in new j...

The idea of possibliy resigning. Whats unclear is how serious that was. Whether he said Something Like i am willing to resign if the president wants me to or whether he said i intend to resign and im going to do it on monday. We dont know the exact nature of those conversations. Eli, i want to hear about your reporting. I want to show our viewers what phil rucker is talking about. Lets watch. I have a message for the president tonight. Under zero circumstances should the president fire anybody. ...

Executive branchs ambit, you have to get over those legal hurdles and that means you have to go to court and that means you have to do it quickly. time is running. >> and michael schmidt, the idea, the notion, just the idea of floating a pardon has been a large part of your body of reporting during the trump years. am i correct in saying that the trump defense on this dhs pardons story is that he was joking and am i correct in remembering that it was rosenstein who said he was joking about weari...

This. congress may hear from people who werent in the executive branch. perhaps the folks involved in the hush money payments. but if it comes to pardons or mcgahn or things within the executive branchs ambit, you have to get over those legal hurdles and that means you have to go to court and that means you have to do it quickly. time is running. >> and michael schmidt, the idea, the notion, just the idea of floating a pardon has been a large part of your body of reporting during the trump years...

Does resonate with what rosenstein had said. but we know from the mueller report and from our own reporting that pardons are something that the presidents folks and, you know, himself had discussed and pushed as the session got closer and closer to the white house. and theres nothing really new here to it. its hard to see and hard to parse out, what is congress trying to do here. they have the mueller report. in that document they have even more stark examples of what happened with the acting de...

You have to do it quickly. time is running. >> and michael schmidt, the idea, the notion, just the idea of floating a pardon has been a large part of your body of reporting during the trump years. am i correct in saying that the trump defense on this dhs pardons story is that he was joking and am i correct in remembering that it was rosenstein who said he was joking about wearing a wire and is joking a defense? >> yeah, certainly a lot of joking in the trump administration about some of the most...

Op-ed by mr. matt whitaker is, he doesnt know the basis on which the mueller investigation may have been looking at the finances of the president. right? the appointment letter by rod rosenstein makes very clear that the scope of the investigation was supposed to be relating to the campaign and possible collusion. but then also says, and also any matters that arise from this investigation. so, for example, if there were things that happened in the course of the mueller investigation that brought...

Former fbi agent now fired for lying to fbi invey in washingto, for perjury andrew mccabe said it was serious. james baker, general councils of the fbi who was just told the house committee he believed rosenstein statement was serious was not in the room when it was said. his source is probably andrew mccabe. what did he say? we dont know what he said but congressman meadows said he, baker, contradicted what rosenstein has said under oath. lying to a congressional committee as a basis for firing...

This before then? the american people need to know. >> look, he ordered it done. three weeks ago. he said he wanted, he was ordering immediately, with no reductions. and then what happened? a few days later had rod rosenstein convene all of the top people, the same people involved that signed the fisa, they have been blocking congress from getting information. they all met with the president and told the president we cannot do it because allies might get concerned. none of this, you cannot buy a...