Speaks perfect english. Good morning, im Chris Jansing in for stephanie ruhle. This morning, executive power. The president asserts he is, quote, totally out to be involved in the mueller investigation. Even saying he could run it if he wanted to. But despite months of claims that hed sit down with the Special Counsel, hes now worried it could be a perjure trap. They simply dont have any evidence of collusion and they have no evidence of obstruction other than their version of the truth. Going fishing. Microsoft seizes control of websites created by Russian Hackers intended to look like conservative think tanks and the u. S. Senate with the intent of Stealing Passwords and yet deny chuls of users. And courting support, documents on the Supreme Court nominee are released as judge Kavanaugh Heads to the hill. Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. He said he believes he has the authority, for example, to fire rod rozrozen rosenstein. He cant technically
he said he believes he has the authority, for example, to fire rod rozrozen rosenstein. he can t technically fire mueller. he could push rosenstein to do it. rosenstein has indicated he is not going to do that. the president, though, could also try to essentially defang mueller. essentially take away his security credentials. something he did to former cia director brennan. he was asked about that in that reuters interview as well. he said he hadn t really given that a whole lot of thought. we try to drill down exactly what the president meant. the other big headline here is president trump seeming to indicate that he s now leaning against doing an interview with special counsel robert mueller. saying what his lawyers have been pushing for a number of day. that he s concerned about a so-called perjury trap. the president also neglecting to say again that russia meddled in