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democrats. members of congress here here from both sides of the aisle to talk about wa happened today. let s turn back to the breaking news, the washington post explosive report that the president of the united states is currently under a criminal investigation for the obstruction of justice. responding in a statement, a spokesman for the president s attorney did not dispute the post report, saying only the fbi leak of information regarding the president is outrageous, inexcusable, and illegal. joining me now, the washington post s sari horwitz, one of the reporters who broke this tire. sari, this would seem to confirm what james comey appeared to indicate, what many have been sort of hinting at, but squarely you guys have nailed down that apparently robert mueller is looking at obstruction of justice. yes. you re right, chris, that the former fbi director in his testimony did seem to be laying out a case of possible obstruction. but what we found out that, indeed, the speci ....
as emotions are running high on this day they ve already seen so much violence. not just today but also in that rally you saw white supremacist leading to the university of virginia campus. and a lot of locals here having a hard time grappling with the images coming out of this otherwise quiet college town. we have seen the verbal altercations between, yes, of course, protesters and counterprotesters, in addition to the violence, but also i ve seen verbal altercations between members of this community telling people visiting here from outside to go home. to leave them be and to let charlottesville return to the college town it normally would be in the lead up to school starting back up again later this month. all right, kaylee hartung reporting live from charlottesville. thank you. i want to get straight to athena jones who is in new jersey where the president is having a working vacation. after waiting for him to respond to the violence in charlottesville for quite some tim ....
everything i have been a able to decipher up to now, half the benefits go to the top 1%. i have been in congress a long time. i remember another president who was able to railroad a tax code through the congress during the 1980s. and the wall street bankers the corporate presidents took that money and outsourced our jobs from the region of the country that i represent. so there s no requirement that money be invested in america. even if they get it. so it s a really lopsided to the top to the same class that is has cause sod many of the problems we re facing today in regions like i represented. frankly, as a member of the defense committee, i have to say we re a nation at war and for any president who be sort of hanging out at a tax cut to the very wealthy at a time we re at war, there isn t a veteran in his family. i think it s really dangerous and no matter who they are, trump or the establishment character like mitch mcconnell, they are obsessed with the estate tax. they ....
involved in the investigation. as of about 90 minutes ago, investigators legitimately had no idea why stephen paddock committed mass murder. he did not seem religious. he didn t seem political. that s true. the crime still makes no sense at all to the people looking into it. and that may be the scariest part of all. now, all of that could change at any minute, of course. as we said, we are waiting for investigators to begin that news conference in las vegas. it is possible they will reveal new evidence then. we will go to that, obviously, when it begins. a few minutes ago we received the very first statement from the shooter s girlfriend recently arrived back in the u.s. from abroad. we will play that for you in just a minute. in the meantime though we want to show you a new tape we have received. it doesn t answer why this happened, but it does provide some context for what it was likes a it was happening. here is footage from police body cams taken on sunday night. [gunfire] [ra ....
firing from first round to last? do we know that? that s the thing we don t know. what we know, it s an hour and 12 minutes from the time the first shots are phoned in to the police, police get the first call that shots are fired until the door is breached on the hotel room. what we don t know is was he still shooting at the time he broke into the room. police have said as soon as they got on the 32nd floor they knew immediately that s where the shots were coming from. the elevator doors opened and they know immediately that s where the shots are coming from. we don t know why that is, whether it s that they smelled gun powder or they can hear shots being fired. so we can t from that time line we simply can t tell when the last shots were fired, whether it was right up until the time that they blew the door off and he shot himself. brief note to our viewers, we ve just stretched across the top of the 2:00 p.m. hour here on the east coast, obviously covering this national tra ....