Page 46 - Wash Post News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Good day, everyone. it is 1:00 in the east. a secret memo. why president trump warrants it released. the justice department does not. and how it figures into the russia investigation. >> they've found something else. i've gone down and read it. >> the firing line. did he or didn't he try to find robert mueller? it is dominating the sunday talks. >> i'm not aware of the president ever intimating that he tried to fire robert mueller. >> i think the president would be best served by every discussing the investigation. ever. >> addressing the nation. what the president must say to unify a very div...

Russia probe and the elected republicans who appear to be helping him do it and frankly in some cases you would think know better. mr. trump fired the fbi director last year after allegedly asking him to pledge his loyalty. and as the wash post now reports, that he then quickly summoned the fbi acting director andrew mccabe to ask him who he voted for in the 2016 election and expressing his wife's political affiliation and to make k -- mccake and then he smeared mccabe who is a 20 year respected veteran. mccabe is going to retire after republicans followed the president's lead by appreciating ...

Throws things robert mueller and his team will be looking at if and when they can question the president. those trerms still being worked out. and sarah sanders, the white house press secretary addressed this today during the press briefing. >> as we've said, probably just about every day this year since we've been here that we will be fully cooperative with the special counsel, and we're going to continue to do that throughout the process. we're also not going to comment on who may or may not or could be interviewed. but we'll be fully cooperative with the process. >> and what sarah sanders r...

Heinz. and our specialists are all standing by with full coverage. let's begin with pamela brown. what are you learning? >> we've learned that the wash post robert mueller, special counsel, is seeking to interview president trump in the coming weeks about two specific topics. the firing of former fbi director jim comey and the firing of former national security viladviser michael fly. and this indicates that they're really intensifying on obstruction of justice. what the president's mindset was. his intent when he fired jim comey. was to it obstruct justice in the russia probe? as you'll also,...

Certainly doesn't show an intent to try on withhold anything. we just have to wait until we find out. >> the department of justice has already handed over hundreds of pages of these text messages. while some republicans rs seizing on the five months of missing texts as more evidence of wrongdoing, they continue to say the focus on the texts are just an effort to undermine the special counsel's investigation which despite that, wolf, it seems to be going full steam ahead with attorney general jeff sessions last week. james comey last year and now wash po "washington post" saying they home to in...