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Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. And commerce committee. Collins lawyer is saying, we are confident that hell be completely vitamndicated and exonerated. Lets start with tom outside the courthouse. Tell us about the fbi investigation, what did they say Chris Collins and his son did . Reporter the key thing they say is the congressman came into a possession of privilege material inside information. He was aware of Material Information of this company specifically that a major drug tr...

They'll not do the interview. all right, enough is enough. i can see here that we are not going to come to terms on the interview, i am going to subpoena the president. setting off this fight or do the president's lawyer come back and say formally, say, look, we are not going to do that. are we at a breaking point or will they continue to negotiate. there is some question. does mueller want us to subpoena the president closer to the m midter midterms. i think there are some thoughts that mueller would not want to be seen entering as some folks call it as comey's territory. >> comey was forced ...

To speak openly with mueller. mueller has learned these things from that into michael schmidt one of the by lines along with maggie haberman in that "new york times" article, the headline breaking at this moment, trump ordered mueller fired but backed off when white house counsel threatened to quit. thank you so much for popping on the phone, michael. appreciate it. i want to go back to barbara mckad and asawin. the idea, barbara, that the white house has allows their folks to talk to mueller and the president is now saying he will talk to mueller, what do you think about the likelihood the ...

One of the reporters that broke the story "the new york times," a remarkable bit of reporting, michael. >> well, if you look back at june, it's a month after mueller has been appointed and the white house has experienced the firing of comey and seen the enormous impact that that will. and mcgahn was deeply concerned about it and was willing to put his job on the line to try and stop it. >> you have four different people telling this. what was the context or the trigger for the president wanting to fire mueller? >> well, the president thought that mueller had conflict of interest issues. the pr...

Abreal rule of law questions, what does that say about what he's learned over the course of his presidency about the rule of law and about what he did wrong in firing comey? >> well, i guess he didn't make the same mistake twice. i guess that shows he's a little bit coachable, that he ultimately took the advice of white house counsel. if it's true that white house counsel had to threaten to resign to get him to stop, then maybe he was just limiting his political damage at that point realizing how bad it would look and so i'm not sure he's learned any lessons. he just knows what a political dis...