Nontexting app to communicate with foreign leaders. Is it gods will . The president s view of iran and a broadcast from the christian broadcast network. Could it be that President Trump was raised for such a time as this, just like queen esther, to save the jews from iranians . I do think thats possible. We begin today with the question from washington. Might this friday be different from other fridays . Pundits have pegged today as the day when Robert Mueller will give his report. The president says hes just as clueless as the rest of us. I have no clue about the Mueller Report. It will be interesting. Well see what happens. There was no collusion, there was no obstruction, Everybody Knows it. Its all a big hoax. Thats why i call it the witch hunt. Its all a big hoax. Well see what happens. I know that the attorney general highly respected ultimately will make a decision. Robert mueller has been on the job for 675 days, and the president has raised hell about what he considers unfair treatment since day one, calling muellers investigation a witch hunt starting on day two. The constant complaints have always been about politics. And today , in that respect, no different. I have a man who is a deputy who i dont know, who i didnt know at all, and he appoints a man who had just left my office. I didnt give him the job at the fbi. Comey is his best friend we covered everything. Listen, and you know better than anybody, youve been very fair. But think of it. I have a deputy who reports a man to write a report on me and my presidency . People will not stand for it. Cnns abby phillip is at the white house. Abby, there are some factual errors on the president s take there, but his grief is well known. What does the white house expect . Reporter the white house is looking at the situation just like the rest of us. Multiple officials over the last several days say theyre literally, like us, watching the News Coverage waiting for something to happen. Theyre not sure how exactly this will go. There is no precedent, really, for the situation that they are in. Theyre not sure if they will get any kind of heads up an announcement is coming, and that they might very well be surprised when it comes out just like the rest of us. But in the meantime, President Trump is taking the lead on the communication strategy around this. And its twofold. It is, one, attacking Robert Mueller, the person, repeatedly this week saying that hes conflicted. Thats familiar to most people paying attention to this. And secondly attacking the report itself. The president , in those clips you played, is suggesting that mueller, because he is an unelected investigator here, did not have the right to put out a report and hes undermining the credibility of this report even before it comes out, even before it is sent over to the Justice Department and potentially made public to the rest of the world. So i think that the white house is letting the president take the lead on this, and frankly, theyve been planning behind the scenes, lawyers have been going through various scenarios for what they might say given all the possibilities about what the report might say, but at the same time im hearing from aides that obviously President Trump could weigh in immediately on social media immediately to reporters and a gaggle of some kind, and that could throw up all the best laid plans. There is a sense of anticipation in the white house. Theyre going to play it by ear depending on what the Mueller Report says and how the president responds, john. We dont know a lot about the timing, but we do know the president has, shall we say, knocked over the apple cart when he thought they had a plan. Cnns dana bash, rachel bay with the washington post, cnns pamela brown and lucy with the associated press. Typical friday . It seems like there is always activity on friday, so the team is certainlily on hiy on high a. Look, we expect it to happen any day now. I know it gets old when you dont hear anything. Another day passes and you think, is this report ever going to come . But when you look at all the signs, you put the pieces together, yes, this investigation is certainly nearing the end. You see prosecutors in miuellers offi office, prosecutors leaving with boxes that are clearly not their desks. The grand jury hasnt met in two months. Youre really seeing all of these signs, and our reporting is, in fact, yes, it is going to wrap up any time now. But look, its a wait and see approach not only for us in the media, but also, as you heard abby say, in the white house. Its really quite interesting. Youre getting phone calls from all kinds of people saying, what have you heard, what have you heard . Thats really the state of play right now. The president knows its coming soon, whether its today, next week or whenever, and people will not stand for it. The president sending signals to his political base, if this is critical of me, dont believe it and be mad about it. Heres more with the president trying to lay the table for his political argument. Hes assuming there is some bad news foicr him in this report. For two years weve gone through this nonsense. There is no collusion with russia. You know that better than anybody. And there is no obstruction. Theyll say, wait, there was no collusion, that was a hoax, but he obstructed in fighting against the hoax, okay . Think about that one for a second. He says it as if he knows thats what the report is going to say. I assume the president there is just conjecture and hes getting out there. There was no collusion, you know that as well as anybody. Lets see what mr. Mueller reports to us but he obstructed fighting against the hoax. Think about that one for a second. We thought about it for a couple years now, and watching jim comey get fired, watching the attacks on jeff sessions, watching the president s attacks on institutions and the president saying things he knows are not true. Thats an important point to make because there are two major things well be looking at in this Mueller Report. First is his mission, which is collusion between anybody in the trump orbit and any russian. And that is an area where there is a feeling among and pam has been doing, obviously, amazing reporting on this. She and i and others are hearing there is a feeling of a sense of relief on that. They dont know, they might be completely wrong when they see the report, but they might be on safe ground on that. The big unknown and the big concern, frankly, among trumps attorneys is obstruction. Not that he, the president , can be prosecuted or anything like that because thats a whole different question, but that the language in the Mueller Report will be critical of the president , all the things you talked about, the way that he has tried to impede or derail this investigation along the way with the things pgz that he has said and things he has done. Five people sent to prison by special counsel Robert Mueller. Its hard to call that a witch hunt. They can say he found other crimes along the way, one person convicted at trial, seven people pleaded guilty. 37 overall criminal counts filed by the special counsel. You mentioned the work winding down. R 50s as i want to see this grievance glens Robert Mueller. I had one of the greatest election victories in history. Would you say thats true . Yes, absolutely. They came from the valleys, they came from the rivers, they came from the cities, they came from all over. They voted in one of the greatest elections in the history of our country, and now we have a man that, because we have an attorney general who nobody can even believe that he didnt tell me, but he recused himself. Some grievances never die. No. We know this president holds a grudge, and every time he talks about this at length, he comes fwook this. He cannot get past of his frustration that he feelsly betrayed him. He is making a broader skpoint hes been making this point for a long time that this is a mandate that is undermining his presidency. It also tells you what the attorney general is supposed to do, which is to do his bidding. Not follow the facts or the law, but do his bidding. The attorney general in his confirmation hearing said he would look at the report, look at the regulations. We have no idea how much will be made public. Some of it will be classified because of the counterintelligence, what were the russians doing with all that. Former deputy at the fbi under Robert Mueller writing in usa today. A public narrative has built an expectation that the special counsel will explain his conclusi conclusions, but i think that expectation may be seriously misplaced. Thats not what the rules provide, and i really dont see him straying from the mission. Thats not who he is. Democrats said we have to wait for the Mueller Report to see if were going to start impeachment proceedings. In the last few weeks, theyve been downplaying that, and in the last few days suggested they may not even see it for a long time. Theyre gearing up for Court Battles right now. Are we supposed to send a storm . There is a fear that if Robert Muellers report does not come out right away, dont go through those documents that theyre trying to get through court. But folks are gearing up for the fact that we might not see anything for a while. It was real interesting he suggested maybe he wants it to be public can which is maybe ant. My mom said things leak. Better have it out there in full rather than democrats in the house leaking it out. Ultimately you hear the president say, put it out there, i have nothing to hide. But my reporting is behind the scenes at the white house, the lawyers have been gearing up for a fight to keep as much of the report as private as possible. The concern is, as dana pointed out, there could be some derogatory information or information that would look bad for the president , particularly on the issue of obstruction. So not only do white house lawyers want the opportunity to assert privilege, but the lawyers are also gearing up for a subpoena fight over the report, because the expectation is brought up, and theyre talking about bringing bill barr to capitol hill. Theyve already talked about ways of getting around what barr would like to do. Theyre calling it a potential legitimate coverup if the Justice Department does not release this information. General barr has said if he doesnt bring charges to anybody, he doesnt want to release negative information nor any many. Republicans are really counting on him. They voted last week for the Mueller Report to become public, but they did that privately thinking that barr was going to withhold any information that Congress Might use to potentially impeach the president but might not rise to the level of a crime. Well just have to see if he does that. You saw the president landing in florida. Hes at marc maralago. D trump says democrats are wasting everybodys time. Me . Do you love me now that i can dance . Watch me now work, work, ah work it out baby applebees 3 course meal starting at 11. 99. Now thats eatin good in the neighborhood. 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The beat goes on ask your doctor about entresto for Heart Failure. That was great entrust your heart to entresto. The beat goes on its a witch hunt. They know it, and behind closed doors, they laugh at it. Its just a continuation of the same nonsense. Everybody knows they ought to go to work, get infrastructure done and get a lot of other things done instead of wasting everybodys time. I know nothing about it. Ive never heard that. Ive never heard about it. That last part, i know nothing about it, is in response to a question of his soninlaws use of an app. Others are accused of using personal email as well. Even the personal attorney for ivanka trump and Jared Kushner have revealed things to him. It is said that is not completely accurate. What is significant about the back and forth here between the white house . Reporter democrats are making the case that these individuals, Jared Kushner, ivanka trump as well as former officials Katie Mcfarland and steve bannon, may not have been straightforward. Hes been asking for documents the last two months, he says, and theyve not been compliant, so hes setting a deadline for april 2nd, the white house not providing information by the democraticimposed deadlines. That window about to close as we reach a phase of possible subpoenas that will lead to a legal fight. The political side, of course, is Hillary Clinton, the use of her private email system, that is something the president continues to bash democrats over. Now the use of Jared Kushner using whats app to communicate with foreign leaders not exactly what Hillary Clinton did, but it will lead the democratic hypocrisy, and as you mentioned earlier, john, the president said he is not aware of these reports involving Jared Kushner and something he has done time and again when confronted with controversies says hes not aware about it. Well see what he says when he finally gets briefed on the news. John . Manu raju on the hill, appreciate it. Lawy im joined by politico. Yes, jared and other officials, but this particular conversation was about Jared Kushner does communicate, has communicated on whats app. But a couple things, one that the directive from the White House Counsels Office is that whats app should not be used with classified information. Maybe thats a given, but that was an explicit directive, and also if and when somebody uses whats app for any communication, they must take a screen shot of it and save it for the president ial records in accordance with their pr preservation act and Jared Kushner has done that. I have not heard that before. There is an admission that he did it but not that he is doing anything illegal when it comes to classified information or not according to protocol, which is the president ial preservation act. This is happening at a time we see increased tension between the democrats and the white house over the scope of these investigations. This is a letter from the white House Counsel pat cipaloni. While we seek to accommodate requests, the president must be free to engage in discussions with foreign leaders without fear that these communications will be disclosed and used as fodder for political purposes. And foreign leaders must be assured of this as well. Not a surprise you see tension early on. The question is, will they resolve this peacefully or will they end up in court, subpoenas . I think its highly doubtful it will end peacefully. Youre going to resist as long as possible, and going back to kushner and his use of whats app, he was, as dana said, taking screen shots, but we found out in what came out yesterday from cummings, an oversight was that ivanka as well was using her private emails and she, for a period of time, was not following the president ial records act. So thats something that cummings is going to want more information about. We know there is an april 4 deadline that hes waiting for documents on, and if he doesnt get it, thats when he may dish out those subpoenas. The response you just read, i just want to say, a lot of people were sort of expecting the white house not to give over information when it came to trump and his personal communication with another foreign head of state, putin. When it comes to kushner and specifically these sort of Security Issues like making sure classified information was not shared on whats app, this is the bread and butter of oversight. And, you know, oversight chairman Elijah Cummings has been arguing that past president s, including barack obama, gave a Republicancontrolled Congress a lot of information when republicans started asking, for instance, about benghazi. Right now the white house has not given anything to these chairmen, and if they continued that posture, it would be a new precedent. They could claim executive privilege, but theyre not claiming executive privilege. They just say, no, were not communicating with you and that could have something on oversight. A policy declaration that makes this guy here a little happy. President trump has just made history. I called him. I thanked him on behalf of the people of israel. He did it again. Theyre our parents. Neighbors. Loved ones. 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