former special counsel robert muller recently appeared before the u.s. congress to answer questions about his investigation of president trump and russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign president has repeatedly claimed your ford found there was no obstruction and that it completely and totally exonerated. that is not what your report said is it. correct it is not what the report said. the report did not include he did not commit a structure of justice that is correct for many democrats there are strong grounds for impeaching donald trump but with republicans remaining firmly in his corner it's becoming symbolic of america's partisan divide it's starting to look like you having desperately tried and failed to make a legal case against the president you made a political case instead you put it in a paper sack lit on fire dropped it on our porch rang the doorbell and ran i don't think you will view a report that is as thorough as fair as consistent as a report that we have in front of us history is repeating itself i would say the trumpet mi

muller. to sit on the 9th of april 2018 a new york attorney becomes the latest target of bob mullen michael cohen donald trump's personal lawyer michael cohen is donald trump's longtime personal lawyer and fixer is the city present the secret and he has as the keys to the kingdom he knows all the secrets about donald trump. card with. the f.b.i. search cohens office at the request of a local prosecutor on charges of financial fraud. the move initiated by bomb miller as a direct challenge to the president himself. so i just heard that they broke into the office busy of one of my personal attorneys because man i said that it's really valid at all. new level of unfair. cohen to someone who might know about trump's alleged real estate dealings in russia. that was fairly common knowledge in the real estate community and the international finance community in the political community the russians were funding in various ways many major trunk real estate projects cohen my also know if the president l

an october 2017 special counsel robert muller issues his 1st indictments against people close to the president. meant for trump's campaign director and gates deputy director of the campaign are both charged for breaking a series of laws papadopoulos foreign affairs advisor to the campaign is charged for having lied to the f.b.i. . for promotion festive season and 0 d. and on his 1st targets to the. right here by the f.b.i. . for each. field. about his contacts with foreign nationals he's had a series of people in d.c. suddenly in deep deep trouble but those charged by muller become fair game for the press even if they're not directly linked to the russian. ference and in 2016 election. when the initial indictments were issued by miller people rightfully said wait a minute this is supposed to be about russia so what's going on and a lot of people have said none of this is collusion who cares why is moller charging these crimes if it's not collusion no collusion there's no collusion it seems to be the focus don't delude you know of russia no nothing no police no proof whatsoever presen

only 8 days after the firing of james combing the justice department appoints robert muller to take over the russian probe. for this mission robert mueller was called out of retirement he had been director of the f.b.i. for 12 years and in 2013 he had left the law enforcement agency with full honors and his farewell speech he proclaimed his unshakable faith in the rule of law. have always been proud to say that i work for the department of justice because of that for which it stands which is an unyielding commitment to the rule of law and to the safety and security of the citizens we serve a know. quite well. i worked with him for about 4 years when i was the cia deputy director and he was the director of the f.b.i. . he's not a self promoting individual and he has a very high standard for what is true and what is not true administrator pistole he pointed me as his number 2 person in the f.b.i. as a deputy director and so i had the chance to get to know him and then. work with him so let me say a few words about director ball or politics or just don't play any role in his calculations so

department of justice released the redacted version of special counsel robert muller report. it concluded there was no conspiracy between the truck campaign in moscow. the democrats demanded the unproductive report and for mahler to testify before congress. on july 24th 2019 now former special counsel robert mueller testified before 2 congressional committees. or concluded there was insufficient evidence to charge any trunk campaign member with conspiracy but he cannot exonerate president trump on obstruction of justice and what about total exoneration you actually totally exonerate the president. there was no defense to this ridiculous hoax just what china has been going on for. a long time. the bitter battle for washington still continues. however we've got no shortage of subtle storms on the cars folia us as we go on through the next couple of days and even north of the border because say some showers into central and eastern parts of canada have had a society off the continent saying some very heavy rain labview down poles temp just getting up to around 3132 celsius set i

an october 2017 special counsel robert muller issues his 1st indictments against people close to the president. meant for trump's campaign director and gates deputy director of the campaign are both charged for breaking a series of laws papadopoulos foreign affairs advisor to the campaign is charged for having lied to the f.b.i. . robert motion festive season and 0 d. and on his 1st targets to the. right here by the f.b.i. . about his contacts with foreign nationals and a series of people in d.c. suddenly in deep deep trouble with those charged by muller become fair game for the press even if they're not directly linked to the russian. ference and in 2016 election. when the initial indictments were issued by mueller people rightfully said wait a minute this is supposed to be about russia so what's going on and a lot of people have said none of this is collusion who cares why is moller charging these crimes if it's not clues you know collusion or you know collusion that seems to be the focus don't pollute you know of drugs you know nothing no please no proof whatsoever present trumps

we now know negotiated not to read sections of his report so they're not going to have robert muller like at you know somebody doing an audio version of their book providing written you know reading certain segments of that which would have been very powerful for t.v. and so all of that is gone and so what we've had is a somewhat bumbling occasionally lost. person testifying in congress rapid fire questions from committee members sometimes confusing and it's been sort of messy and i think in that i think the objectives that the democrats have had of creating a moment of theater that would explicate and show really outrageous behavior from the white house is just not turned out to be the kind of storytelling that they had hoped for and we're going to see is it more of the same in the hearing this just got under way how does this one differ from the house judiciary committee. well adam adam schiff whom i talk to many times about this is very obsessed with the russia dimensions what they did the malfeasance of the russian involvement and the really the shrug of the shoulders that that d

muller with his excellent reputation really laying out the case against the president they didn't get that and democrats were really hoping that they would get that because they need the leadership needs to see the country move in one and impeach the president before they'll bring that up so the democrats on the job.

muller prior to this hearing beginning and we heard these special counsel robert mueller saying in his opening statements that he would be a hearing to the request by the department of justice essentially saying that he would only be testifying about what is in his report and i think that's why we're not seeing the fireworks perhaps that many of the democrats had hoped would come from this witness and even from the side of the republicans as well it appears that this prosecutor is playing straight down the line sticking to his testimony in fact we're seeing more grandstanding in this hearing coming from the lawmakers then from the witness robert mueller himself so it appears on that have that the president has so far through his department of justice and through his tweets successfully shaped this testimony if you will having said that even as robert mueller sticks to his report there is information in that report that contradicts the president you heard the democratic chair there jerry navl are stating that off the top of this hearing that despite the president's claims of no obstruct

obstruction of justice by the president robert muller is not spelling any of that out so what we're seeing here is the democratic members of congress are basically reading his report and he is basically saying true this is not exactly must what must see t.v. public and do you see louie gohmert there the republican trying to go after more of his team his credibility and trying to basically say that he shouldn't have even looked at obstruction of justice because that wasn't his mandate because muller is basically saying look. president could face obstruction of justice charges which is no longer president but the justice department says the sitting president can't be indicted that's probably the biggest takeaway from the hearing that's far which i think a lot of people expected would be a little bit more. a little bit more exciting than it actually did. pass the let's go over down to elizabeth sign because she's an associate professor of american studies and political science at george washington university joins us from washington d.c. good to have you with us let me start 1st of all elizab

special counsel robert muller is about to go before congress to answer questions about his investigation into russian interference in the 2016 presidential election let's take you to these live pictures coming in from capitol hill you can see there robert mala the former special investigator. making his way to his seat where he will shortly we understand after some introductory speeches be addressing members of the congress then the house judiciary committee he's got 2 hearings today well this all comes about 3 months since he handed in. his report on the nearly 2 year probe ended with moloch concluding russia did interfere in the 2016 u.s. presidential election during a may press conference maher added that while the report does not conclude president donald trump committed a crime it also does not exonerate him president trump is tweeting meanwhile about mother's testimony even before it begins here's a little bit of what he's been saying so far so democrats and others can illegally fabricate a crime trying pinning it on a very innocent president and when he fights back against this il

well i think seeing muller himself and getting a chance to see the man himself speak to what he found i think is potentially extremely powerful because there are lots of cover and little corners of his report that in very precise legal language say words to the effect of we were not able to find this double trump refused to sit for an interview with us and so there are all kinds of incriminating details in the report in fact there's a pile of evidence of what could and should be called collusion there where you have the trunk campaign aware that a hostile foreign powers trying to interfere in our election and in fact encouraging that concealing that facilitating that in a variety of different not provably criminal ways but nevertheless enthusiastic ways and i think to see robert muller who has been held up even before this assignment as sort of a paragon of rectitude and right thinking and right behavior in our country to see him react in the moment so what he found i think could be politically explosive ok john f. ing or thank you so much for joining us. you better show here secretar

you bar has defended his actions over the handling of the russian report submitted by special counsel robert muller he made the comments while testifying before the senate judiciary committee barr released a controversial short summary of the report after miller completed his four hundred forty eight page findings in march now on tuesday it emerged the attorney general received a letter from special counsel muller expressing concern over that summary mueller said barres conclusions did not fully capture the context nature and substance of his report that's from the letter to moronic senators are now pressing bar on his finding a chick. rather president obstructed the investigation the letter that special counsel muller sent to barr expressed his concerns and it he tells are the summary letter provided to congress and released to the public on march twenty first as we just said did not fully capture the context nature and substance of his office's work and conclusions and he said that had led to public computer about critical aspects of the results of the investigation and his opening stateme

well bill barr is placing the blame with the media he is seeing that robert mueller was upset at the interpretation that the media was putting on what came out is a four page summary and bill bonde is saying that it actually wasn't a summary of the four page summary that he came out with and said no collusion which remember is not what robert miller was investigating he was investigating whether or not there was a conspiracy between the russians and the trump campaign so he said there was no collusion nor struction of justice robert miller itemized ten places where he believed there could be a case made for obstruction of justice and he left it to robert mueller to bill barr and the justice department to make a decision and bill barr decided that there was no obstruction this is been a very informative couple of hours a lot of it is quite dense but there are so it appears very polite on the surface but there are a number of spiky exchanges particularly between the democrats and bill by the democrats believe that bill barr in the four page letter that he put out which is what robert m

robert muller wrote to you expressing very specific concerns that your march twenty fourth letter from here testifying on a per night at your march twenty fourth letter failed to capture the. quote mr maule or the context nature and substance of course of his report. and or died it really struck me stronger wrote the church letter threaten to undermine the central purpose for which the department pointed the special counsel sure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigation. why did you test find it for night that you didn't know the concerns being expressed mahler's team would have backed you heard those concerns directly from mr paul or two weeks before. well as i said i talked directly to to bob muller about his letter to may and specifically asked them what exactly are your concerns are you saying that the march twenty fourth letter was misleading or inaccurate or what he indicated that it was not he was not saying that and that what he was concerned about and my question well i'm i'm i'm getting to the question which is the question from crist was reports have emerged

robert muller support is out but the controversy over donald trump's ties to russia is far from over this attorney general the senate is boss on thursday that democrats and many journalists accuse him of misleading the public to protect the president this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm richelle carey yes president on this declaring total victory after the release of a censored version of robert mahler's report on collusion between his two thousand and sixteen campaign and russia but outside trump's inner circle many are reacting very differently and again with al-jazeera and jordan on what the long awaited mullah report does and does not tell us. donald trump's two thousand and sixteen campaign team was dogged by charges it was working with russia to throw the election his way but when robert muller was chosen to investigate those allegations this was trump's reaction oh my god this is terrible this is the end of my presidency now bowler's investigation is done and the four hundred forty eight page report with many sections blacked out is now public the special

muller's report by may first on a working visit to northern ireland during a congressional recess nancy pelosi the top democrat in the u.s. house of representatives again played down talk of impeaching the president that this time she didn't rule it out the congress of the united states will honor its oath of office to protect and defend the constitution of the united states to protect our democracy we believe that the first article article one the legislative branch has a responsibility of oversight of our democracy and we will exercise that the conclusion of congressional democrats after reading what they call the selectively redacted four hundred forty eight page report is that while the special counsel declined to prosecute a sitting president did call on congress to investigate whether trump obstructed justice and tried to stop the investigation into russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. election on friday morning trying tweeted using profanity he lashed out at recollections of his statements in the report calling the fabricated and the investigation an illegal hoax congr

robert muller support is out but the controversy over donald trump's ties to russia is far from over this attorney general offended his boss on thursday democrats and many journalists accuse him of misleading the public to protect the president this is inside story. into the program i'm richelle carey yes president declaring total victory after the release of a censored version of robert muller support on collusion between his two thousand and sixteen campaign and russia but outside trump's inner circle many are reacting very differently in a game with al jazeera jordan on what the long awaited mullah report does and does not tell us. donald trump's two thousand and sixteen campaign was dogged by charges it was working with russia to throw the election his way but would robert muller was chosen to investigate those allegations this was trump's reaction oh my god this is terrible this is the end of my presidency now bowler's investigation is done and the four hundred forty eight page report with many sections blacked out is now public the special counsel's conclusion stated at least t

muller it reveals trump tried multiple times to impede an investigation into his campaign's links with russia not us says it is up to congress to address if he violated the law well document was officially released by attorney general william bob he received a copy of it last month and has been criticized for drawing his own conclusions over whether trump had obstructed justice the report recounts ten episodes involving the president and discusses potential legal theories for connecting those activities to the elements of an obstruction offense after carefully reviewing the facts and legal theories outlined in the report and in consultation with the office of legal counsel and other department lawyers the deputy attorney general and i concluded that the evidence developed by the special counsel is not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction of justice offense. democrats and accused of protecting tom they want to testify before the house judiciary committee even it is incomplete form however the mother report outlines disturbing evidence the president krumpin

special counsel robert muller into alleged russian interference and the two thousand us press two thousand and sixteen that is u.s. presidential election their best occasion is two years in the making and edited version of the four hundred page report is expected to be released let's go now to mike hanna who is live at the department of justice in washington so mike the order of this is there is a bit unusual the attorney general bob barr is going to address the media about his edited version of a report that the journalists in the room would have read by this point the release for his report is actually going to come after so what do we understand is actually going to happen with this. as conference today. well it's certainly unusual and very very controversial opposition democrats arguing very strongly that it is completely just for the head of the department of justice to be talking about a public report which the public have not yet seen not even members of congress will see it until a few hours time when it is put on floppy disks we are told and delivered to capitol hill there's going

muller exposing the russia collusion conspiracy theory for the sham that it always was and catching democrats in an elaborate web of lies and deceit so again trump his reelection campaign his spokes person have all been doing this and have all been communicating the same message with these forceful words that the president in their words has been completely exonerated however that ignores the fact that within this report from miller that was summarized by web it states in black and white that while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime it also does not exonerate him so what we have now with is very confusing read that are completely in contrast with each other of the same words in this report and it really shouldn't be a surprise given the partisanship that's been dominating washington and what this allows is democrats in congress who have been champing at the bit to have some sort of. true evidence to further their investigations of trump gives them that little bit of leeway to do so and certainly i'm sure they will explore this question of obstruction

muller's conclusions with respect to robert muller's role as a prosecutor which means that he doesn't necessarily deal in exoneration he deals in what can he prove in a court of law and that is something that is very difficult to do in cases where it requires a guilty conscience and guilty understanding where men stray requirements so the fact that mahler could not did not believe that he could prove true or jury beyond a reasonable doubt that trump is guilty is so far and away from evidence that he was in fact not guilty all it means is that he cannot be charged that's what it means it should be taken to mean no more or no less than that and yet you see people in the mainstream media as well as the president weeping to the conclusion that trump has been exonerated it's worrisome it's ignorance of the law and it is kind of really just it's a problem for america. jeff hauser obviously this is going to have lots of political as well as the eagle implications for the moment jeff houser thank you for sharing your expertise with us. and we're just going to take a short break do stay with u

muller's finding and democrats are not going to be able to basically diminish robert mueller because they have been saying along with republicans up until recently that robert mueller is a man whose character is a beyond reproach he was the f.b.i. he's a first of all he was a marine commander in vietnam he came from a very wealthy family didn't should have to go to vietnam he chose to go into the marine corps and lead men in vietnam he was the. f.b.i. director for both republican and democratic presidents you took over the f.b.i. just before the nine eleven attacks he was credited with transforming the federal bureau of investigation he is considered one of the most gifted and honest lawyers in the country so the democrats cannot say well robert mueller got it wrong for political reasons because they've spent the last twenty two months holding him up as someone whose character again is beyond reproach so this means that the president will probably i would think soon start tweeting but it's by no means means that it's over because again this line does not conclude that the president c

fellow special counsel robert muller has finessed as investigation into russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election and whether donald trump's campaign colluded with those efforts the report's been handed to the it's for any general whole decide how much to share with the public trump as long to write it that investigation as a witch hunt takes us through the key developments. this is the man who has the u.s. president clearly worried robert mueller the special counsel investigating him his family and his campaign president donald trump has complained and tweeted about him and his investigators more than eleven hundred times by one count calling it a witch hunt hoax the greatest political scandal of all time but trump can actually blame himself for muller having the job in the first place the f.b.i. had already started a national security investigation into potential collusion between russia and the trump campaign the man who launched it was later fired andy mccabe is making some very serious claims as to why we had information that led us to believe that there might be a thre

hello this special counsel robert muller has focused his investigation into russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election and whether donald trump's campaign colluded with those efforts the report's been handed to the attorney general holder side how much to share with congress has long to write of the investigation as a witch hunt. takes us through the kids of elements. this is the man who has the u.s. president clearly worried robert mueller the special counsel investigating him his family and his campaign president donald trump has complained and tweeted about him and his investigators more than eleven hundred times. by one count calling it a witch hunt a hoax the greatest political scandal of all time but trump can actually blame himself for miller having the job in the first place the f.b.i. had already started a national security investigation into potential collusion between russia and the trump campaign the man who launched it was later fired andy mccabe is making some very serious claims as to why we had information that led us to believe that there might be a threat to nat

you just a quick look at the top stories this hour as we've been hearing special counsel robert muller has concluded his investigation into russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election is reporters now been delivered to the u.s. attorney general william barr you might submit the summary to congress by this weekend senior democrats and republicans of call for the report to be made public but it is up to the attorney general to decide how much of it will be disclosed aid agencies in mozambique are racing to rescue and feed survivors of cyclon a diet which has killed more than five hundred fifty people in southern africa the first cholera cases have been reported in the mozambican city of the era as sea is said of the international federation of the red cross and red crescent societies has just been in mozambique and says the country is a ticking time bomb of disease unfortunately many people their livestock and they left what under what many were lost their lives the meant by these people to be the covered but i mean why thousands thousands of people that are great

muller start to his investigation this report from patty culhane. this is the man who has the u.s. president clearly worried robert mueller the special counsel investigating him his family and his campaign president donald trump has complained and tweeted about him and his investigators more than eleven hundred times by one count calling it a witch hunt hoax the greatest political scandal of all time but trump can actually blame himself for miller having the job in the first place the f.b.i. had already started a national security investigation into potential collusion between russia and the trump campaign the man who launched it was later fired and he mccabe is making some very serious claims as to why we had information that led us to believe the. there might be a threat to national security in this case that the president himself might in fact be a threat to the united states' national security but it was only after the president stepped in to fire his then f.b.i. director james comey the moeller was appointed now looking into collusion and possi

muller than they are to believe the president we're also hearing and this is somewhat surprising but he in bars reportedly telling people that he could send a concise summary of the findings to the important members of congress joe over this weekend and now when anything goes to congress it leaks that's just what happens and the democrats are going to want to make sure that that is out in the public if there's anything though there's also been a lot of whispering from republicans that they don't think muller found anything and i think that's a little bit disingenuous to be think about it thirty four people three companies have been indicted some of the president's closest aides are going to prison or of pled guilty to lying to the f.b.i. about the campaign so we don't know what robert mueller is going to say we don't exactly know when we're going to find out but we know that it's five o'clock out of friday in the typical washington way we are now hearing that has sent a reports to the attorney general now we wait to see what this attorney general appointed by president trump does. th

only eight days after the firing of james combing the justice department appoints robert muller to take over the russian probe. for this mission robert mueller was called out of retirement he had been director of the f.b.i. for twelve years and in two thousand and thirteen he had left the law enforcement agency with full honors and his farewell speech he proclaimed his unshakable faith in the rule of law. have always been proud to say that i work for the department of justice because of that for which it stands which is an unyielding commitment to the rule of law and to the safety and security of the citizens we serve a know. quite well. i worked with him for about four years when i was the cia deputy director and he was the director of the f.b.i. . he's not a self promoting individual and he has a very high standard for what is true and what is not true administrator pistole the point of me is number two person in the f.b.i. as the deputy director and so i had the chance to get to know him and then. work with him so let me say a few words about director ball or politics or just don't p

only eight days after the firing of james combing the justice department appoints robert muller to take over the russian probe. for this mission robert mueller was called out of retirement he had been director of the f.b.i. for twelve years and in two thousand and thirteen he had left the law enforcement agency with full honors and his farewell speech he proclaimed his unshakable faith in the rule of law. have always been proud to say that i work for the department of justice because of that for which it stands which is an unyielding commitment to the rule of law and to the safety and security of the citizens we serve a know. quite well. i worked with him for about four years when i was the cia deputy director and he was the director of the f.b.i. . he's not a self promoting individual and he has a very high standard for what is true and what is not true administrator pistole the point to me is number two person in the f.b.i. as the deputy director and so i had the chance to get to know him and then. work with him so let me say a few words about director ball or politics or just don't p

the document triggers what's expected to be another lengthy investigation in addition to robert muller's probe into potential trunk ties to russia this latest effort is a coordination by more than a half dozen house committees including judiciary committee chair jerry now looking into trump's decision to fire former f.b.i. director james comey as well as efforts to protect former national security advisor michael flynn it's very clear that the president should be just as it's very clear eleven hundred times he referred to the mole investigation as a witch hunt to try to if fired he tried to protect flynn from being investigated by the by the f.b.i. you fired me in order to stop the russian think the committee's efforts will be punctuated by hearings designed to create a record of public testimony and could expose potential presidential conflicts of interest ranging from trump's hotel in washington to possible money laundering by the president's businesses and well impeachment proceedings are possible they aren't a minute no we have to do the investigations and get all this we do not now

the document triggers what's expected to be another lengthy investigation in addition to robert muller's probe into potential trump ties to russia this latest effort is a coordination by more than a half dozen house committees including judiciary committee chair jerry navl are looking into trump's decision to fire former f.b.i. director james comey as well.

only eight days after the firing of james combing the justice department appoints robert muller to take over the russian probe. for this mission robert mueller was called out of retirement he had been director of the f.b.i. for twelve years and in two thousand and thirteen he had left a law enforcement agency with full. loaners in his farewell speech he proclaimed i'm shakable thing in the rule of law. i have always been proud to say that i work for the department of justice because of that for which it stands which is an unyielding commitment to the rule of law and to the safety and security of the citizens we serve a new bob muller quite well. i worked with him for about four years when i was the cia deputy director and he was the director of the f.b.i. . he's not a self promoting individual and he has a very high standard for what is true and what is not true administrator pistole he pointed me as his number two person in the f.b.i. as a deputy director and so i had the chance to get to know him and then. work with him so let me say a few words about director mauler politics just don

only eight days after the firing of james combing the justice department appoints robert muller to take over the russian probe. for this mission robert mueller was called out of retirement he had been director of the f.b.i. for twelve years and in two thousand and thirteen he had left the law enforcement agency with full honors and his farewell speech he proclaimed his unshakable faith in the rule of law. have always been proud to say that i work for the department of justice because of that for which it stands which is an unyielding commitment to the rule of law and to the safety and security of the citizens we serve a know. quite well. i worked with him for about four years when i was the cia deputy director and he was the director of the f.b.i. . he's not a self promoting individual and he has a very high standard for what is true and what is not true administrator pistole he pointed to his number two person in the f.b.i. as a deputy director and so i had the chance to get to know him and then. work with him so let me say a few words about director mauler politics are just don't play

justice department overseeing the special counsel robert muller as inquiry into possible russian collusion in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election a senate vote of laws may along party lines bob could be sworn in within the next few days. the former deputy director of the f.b.i. has revealed that top u.s. justice department officials had meetings in twenty seventeen to discuss removing president trump from office under mccabe says the move was considered because he and colleagues were so alarmed by trump's decision to fire james comey the i directed at the time white house correspondent can really help get reports. it's the first time anyone working on the investigation into u.s. president donald trump's alleged campaign ties to russia has publicly stated there were discussions on whether he should be removed from office the work of the men and women of the f.b.i. andrew mccabe was the deputy director of the f.b.i. and was fired from his job last march for misconduct the white house denied any involvement in the decision even though trump has repeatedly claimed mccabe was out to g

justice department overseeing special counsel robert muller's inquiry into possible russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election the senate voted largely along party lines and bob could be sworn in within the next few days. the former deputy director of the f.b.i. has revealed top u.s. justice department officials had meetings in twenty seventeen to discuss removing president trump from office under mccabe says the move was considered because he and colleagues were so along by trump's decision to fire james comey the f.b.i. director at the time a white house correspondent kimberly healthcare reports. it's the first time anyone working on the investigation into u.s. president donald trump's alleged campaign ties to russia has publicly stated there were discussions on whether he should be removed from office the work of the men and women of the f.b.i. andrew mccabe was the deputy director of the f.b.i. and was fired from his job last march for misconduct the white house denied any involvement in the decision even though trump has repeatedly claimed mccabe was out t

president donald trump has been arrested on charges brought by special counsel robert muller stone is accused of obstruction of justice witness tampering and making false statements. and venezuela's opposition leaders called for new elections in the country as a rally in caracas has claimed to be the country's interim president has produced an international standoff between countries backing him and those against. so let's discuss the arrest of roger stone now with constitutional lawyer bruce fein who was an associate deputy attorney general in the reagan administration thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us so the story today is that roger stone was allegedly an unofficial middleman between truong campaign officials and wiki leaks what does this indictment reveal about possible collusion between russia and the trunk campaign. will it the connection with russia is that it's well known that a son that was close to. putin the russians he really was a primary instrument and having it snowden house now in russia he paid it snow and hotel bills in hong kong and so you can't

muller is a lifelong republican and many members of his team are in fact republicans that said here's what the indictment says it says basically roger stone was the. media that's harder to say than you might think at least today between wiki leaks and the trump campaign and this is one nugget that i think we really need to talk about it says in the indictment that a senior level member of the charm campaign was directed to contact roger stone to get him to contact wiki leaks so that leaves the question are they talking about president trump because who else could direct a senior member of the campaign so the allegation is he was being a conduit between wiki leaks and the charm campaign and that when he was called before the house intelligence committee on this put under oath he was asked flat out were you have communicated he said no no communications no text messages and the problem for stone was before this he would come out and say hey wiki leaks has got this these d.n.c. e-mails or they're going to take a look at this person then when it came clear that the that the investigation

president close ally roger stone has been arrested as part of special counsel robert muller's investigation into possible russian collusion in the twenty six thousand election stunt was taken into custody in florida after a grand jury indictment he's facing seven charges including obstructing official proceedings making false statements and witness tampering stone says he will fight the charges. i would not give to these charges i will defeat them or i believe this is a politically motivated investigation i have trouble by the political motivations of the prosecutor. and as i have said previously there is no circumstances whatsoever under which. will bear witness against the president nor will i make that. for myself so i knew you were listening in to that press conference and he seemed to be very defiant in saying that the charges are all politically motivated yes that's pretty much typical roger stone he told the president a lot of you knows it as the last guest just mentioned when the president gets hit he hits back harder that's what you see roger stone do and i think it's important to

that is roger stone he was recently arrested today in fact as part of special counsel robert muller's investigation into possible russian collusion in the twenty sixteen election and he was subsequently released on a two hundred fifty thousand dollar bond so there he is making his first appearance since died in miami florida and stone is facing several charges including making false statements as well as witness tampering. so he's due to make a statement to the media. let's listen in as he speaks. this is still. oh oh oh this is that. this. is the story that's going to get me out of the oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh spoke. about. good story. with let me start out by. spectacle this morning. every. water break. search hearing my dog the. telephone. and the dog. that roger. self caught up in. because roger. well. as i have always said the only thing worse lad. is not talking about. salary. is the action of the charges today relate no way she's rushing from losing wiki leaks elaboration or any other people lack of connection with the frenzy sixty three. i have falsely accused of making false s

muller's investigation into possible russian collusion in the twenty six thousand election stone was taken into custody in florida after a grand jury indictment he's facing seven charges including obstructing official proceedings making false statements and witness tampering the white house had little to say about his arrest what i do know is that this has nothing to do with the president has nothing to do with the white house. beyond that i'm not going to get into your vocabulary learned about political hay and joining us from washington one wonders what the president himself thinks of this seeing as roger stone is a close ally of. it credibly close they have been for decades in fact there's a documentary where paul mann a fourth who also now is in prison was trying to campaign manager said that you are so intertwined it's hard to tell what's roger and what's donald so yes the white house is basically trying to push back saying this is no collusion this is sara sanders actually saying this is ridiculous and insulting to even bring up and of course if you have a twitter account you k

muller who's investigating the truck campaigns alleged links to moscow has cast doubt on the report by by. as fate publications has it standing by the story i can reports. the claims made against president trump are explosive and if true could lead directly to impeachment for suborning perjury that's the precise phrase that was used in the impeachment of president bill clinton the report by two u.s. journalists says trump allegedly directed his longtime attorney michael cohen to lie in testimony before congress according to the report trump wanted cohen to tell congress that negotiations over a trump tower project to moscow during the twenty sixteen presidential campaign happened months earlier than they actually did look that's absolutely ridiculous i think that the president's outside counsel addressed this best and said in a statement earlier today this categorically false report also says trump directed cohen to set up a meeting with russian president vladimir putin to discuss the project a claim he's repeatedly denied there is absolutely no collusion no collusion no collusion n

muller who is looking into these questions of russian interference in the u.s. political process as well as questions about what members of the trumpet ministration including the president himself may have been doing or may not have been doing as regarding their constitutional obligations. all right rosalind thanks that roslyn jordan live for us in washington. now greece is a right wing defense minister has resigned in protest of the deal ending a long running dispute with macedonia over its name panelists kamin or so announced his resignation after meeting with prime minister alexis tsipras he said his party is quitting the government methadone is parliament approved an agreement to change its name to the republic of north macedonia but it still needs backing from the greek parliament. i have decided i haven't formed the president of parliament that we will go swiftly to the procedure that our constitution and the parliamentary rules of the light for the renewal of confidence by parliament in my government will grow in order to proceed with a clear majority on