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Special counsel robert mueller reportedly giving president trump's legal team a list of questions as investigators eye an interview with the commander in chief. lawyering up, fired fbi deputy director andrew mccabe hiring a powerful d.c. attorney, and there's fierce new reaction today from lawmakers. >> 48 hours to go before retirement, i would have certainly done it differently. >> we have to be very skeptical about the reasons for the mccabe firing. >> a new bombshell as the stormy daniels drama continues on just how many years the trump attorney tried to keep that story% a secret. we begin ...

Nunberg enmeshed himself among so many powerful d.c. media figures is because unlike many people in the trump orbit in the white house, he understands trump on kind of a gut level. one of the claims that sam made during his media blitz on monday was that he was the one who came up with the idea of having trump build a wall on the southern border, and also with the idea of a muslim ban. i have reason to believe that's true. that sam is the embodiment of president trump's id. if you want to understand trump, pay attention to sam andway he does, how he frames things. that's part of the reason i t...

Cnn's boris sanchez has been looking into that. what are you learning, boris? >> reporter: the name of the new attorney added to the white house's legal team is ty cobb. he is a powerful washington, d.c. defense attorney who has handled some pretty high profile clients in the past, including defending two officials with connections to the clinton white house. he has also defended major corporations and ex-cia officer and someone with a lot of experience defending white collar crime. he is actually a former federal prosecutor. up until taking this job at the white house he was a lawyer at a pow...

T 22 years ago. >> it really is extraordinary. we're going to be watching that to see what happens when the polls do close there in about three hours. phil black, thank you for that report. for our international viewers "amanpour" is next. for our viewers in north america, "newsroom" with poppy harlow starts right now. hi everyone. i'm poppy harlow in today for my friend brooke baldwin. we begin this hour with breaking news in that d.c. mansion murder case. the suspect is due in court soon for the first time since his stunning capture after a widespread manhunt. daron dylon wint is accused o...

Issued the following warning. the draft rules sent to the white house for review could expand the epa's regulatory power to give the agency unprecedented new authority. a view echoed by other republicans at a recent hearing with epa administrator gina mccarthy. >> making matters worse, the courts defer to the epa especially when questions involve the analysis of science. >> the powerful d.c. circuit court is set to hear several important case that is will directly impact the epa and its ability to enforce clean air and water regulations that some big businesses worry will affect their bottom l...