Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. Interesting. And roger stone says he has no plans to testify against the president. Lets listen to what he said on ac 360 this week. I have not been contacted by the special counsels office. Ive made it abundantly clear that theres no circumstances under which i would testify against the president. I would not rule out cooperating if they think i could be helpful in some area. But beyond that, i have not spoken to them. And laura, what happens if roger stone is subpoenaed . I cant imagine he can flout a subpoena. Hell have to show up and say what he knows. He will, and again, youre seeing this theme play out from Rudy Giuliani and the like, to say that you can just thumb your nose a the a subpoena. Perhaps roger stone is becoming emboldened by this concept, which is actually a fallacy, that you can say, i just dont feel like doing it, im not going to show up. If i do come, here are the ways i will dictate the term
Dana we miss having colin allred on, congressman from texas 32. Well have him on again. But we had Breaking News with the Attorney General resigning from his position at shepard continuing coverage as the Attorney General, Jeff Sessions has resigned. A replacement is at the ready. The ramifications are many. Reporting begins now from capitol hill. Justice, the wise house and beyond. First to the man that broke the story, john roberts live on the north lawn. John . Only by virtual of our terrific producer at the Department Of Justice, jake gibson who said he had information. We got it confirmed. So the president this morning asked for the resignation of Jeff Sessions. This was before he went in to that sometimes crazy Press Conference that was scheduled for 11 30 a. M. He knew that there was going to be a Resignation Letter that was coming over from Jeff Sessions
at the Department Of Justice at any moment. We have confirmed with sources that Matt Whitaker and the president has tweeted a
still having conversations through his business with russian officials during this campaign late into the campaign. he denied that during the campaign since he has been inors. michael cohen stretches the timeline into a problematic area for the president. again, it reminds us often that we don t know what mueller knows. he has so much more information. he was clearly waiting until trump put his own accounting of the timeline on paper and gave it to the special counsel and we re starting to see what mueller has that could potentially contradict what the president put. the president s even increased rage at the special counsel behind bars. the treason and the tweets that have taken constant rage. new information about business dealings, michael cohen lays out and possible collusion in the focus on roger stone and jerome
knocking on whatever door he s knocking on, it could very well be obstruction of justice which generates another investigation. shepard: are we expecting something else to happen today, tomorrow, sometime this week or very soon as relates to the mueller investigation? we don t know a timeline. when you talk to people in the know and obviously we all know that the mueller folks have been pretty tight on releasing information, but there has been activity. a lot of focus on roger stone. there s been interviews. we ve heard of grand jury testimony. but it wasn t didn t sound like it was imminent. but for the mueller probe, we don t know until it happens. i know on capitol hill, they expected after the mid-term that some action would likely start to happen one way or another. the question then becomes, if there s not another indictment, if there are more indictments,
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