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A recap of the day's news.

>> jeremy diamond at the white house. thank you very much. trump attorney rudy giuliani is defending efforts by the president's legal team to discredit the russia investigation. giuliani claims the basis for robert mueller's investigation is invalid. he points to the memos written by fired fbi director james comey. >> you get the comey thing which is a leak of a confidential memo which is illegal for an fbi official do. that becomes the basies for appointing mueller -- the basis for appointing mueller. i'm not saying mueller is illegitimate. i'm saying the basis on which he was appointed is ...

Hostage taking. and that can embolden more threats and hostage taking. rod rosenstein, he may have been slow to learning that lesson about house republicans. this is the man, after all, who effectively got bullied into joining trump's cover story for comey's firing. you see his name there on that infamous letter about it. and then of course he fled from that mess by appointing mueller. but lately, and this is very important tonight, lately rod rosenstein says he's had enough. >> i can tell you the different people who have been making threats privately and publicly against me for quite some ti...

The regulations require a crime. criminal activity be investigated. no crime or criminal activity was stated in the memorandum appointing mueller. that's because there was no crime. rod rosenstein pointed mueller to get rid of a hot potato. it had nothing to do whatsoever with criminal activity. he didn't want the responsibility, like jeff sessions had done, by appointing mr. hubert to investigate crimes inside the justice department about fisa. rod should have done that. he didn't do that. he appointed a special counsel where none is justified under those regulations. as far as i am concerned...

They do not set a punishment or sentence. instead, grand juries reveal evidence. they issue subpoenas and basically determine if prosecutors have enough evidence to charge someone with a crime. now, if the grand jury does think there is enough evidence, they issue an indictment. after that, the prosecution can formally charge a subject, and then the trial can officially begin. and the defense can finally present evidence, something they can't do while the grand jury is in session. now, let's take a look at the scope of robert mueller's overall investigation. back in may, deputy attorney genera...