but she did if robert muller i don't see how robert muller can conclude his investigate by the way the other thing the president said in that news conference with the prime minister of norway was there is no collusion no collusion no collusion everybody agrees everybody knows that's not true that robert muller has not made that finding yet and we don't know what he's got so trump keeps saying that is not true i don't see how muller can complete his investigation without talking to the president number one and number two i don't see how if muller the special counsel request a meeting with the president of the united states is the chief target of this investigation i don't see how the white house can refuse that i'm not a lawyer but i think they would have to come to terms with it maybe they'll try to limit it say it's got to be you know no cameras or it's got to be secret or only certain questions are allowed but i think you're going to see in the white house robert muller sit down with donald trump where do you see this whole thing going. ice here here's what my guess is and there's a

arguably the most important, the work of this man, robert muller. he is leading an investigation into those alleged ties between the trump campaign and russia. we have an update on that, in the last few minutes this copy has come into the newsroom , minutes this copy has come into the newsroom, telling us that mr trump's campaign manager paul manafort has sued robert muller, saying it exceeded his legal authority. tell us exceeded his legal authority. tell us more, that sounds significant. as you remember, paul manafort has been indicted for money laundering and corruption charges dating back to when he was before donald trump was my campaign manager to his lobbying activities on the part of ukrainian government officials. here he is now attempting to challenge that indictment, saying robert muller had overstepped his bounds. saying he should surely be focusing on this russia collusion investigation. it echoes a lot of what the white house is saying, that independent investigation is running wild. here we have a legal challenge authority. i don't th

muller's team that was looking into suppose the collusion between trump and the problem prior to that the clinton e-mail investigation which went nowhere and then there's lisa page a lawyer for the department of justice who also worked for robert muller the couple came into prominence back in december when their private text conversations were released to congress god hillary should win. i know. and maybe your man just the way you are because your man to protect the country from that man asked. thanks it's absolutely true that we're very very fortunate and of course i'll try and approach it that way. these text messages prove that both struck and page were biased in favor of hillary and the messages even hint at some nefarious political activity so when they wanted to dig deeper it turned out the rest of the converse.

muller's team that was looking into suppose the pollution between trump and the problem prior to that the clinton e-mail investigation which went nowhere and then there's lisa paige a lawyer for the department of justice who also worked for robert muller the couple came into prominence back in december when their private text conversations were released to congress girls hillary should win. i know. and maybe your mom just the way you are because your mom to protect the country from that man. trying it's absolutely true that we're very very fortunate and of course i'll try and approach it that way. these text messages proved that both struck and page were biased in favor of hillary and the messages even hint at some nefarious political activity so when they wanted to dig deeper it turned out the rest of their conversation had disappeared the f.b.i. described the dates last misconfiguration issues relates it's rollouts provisioning and so for upgrades the conflicts with the f.b.i. his collection capabilities but let's look at the time frame these text messages december fourteenth two th

muller's team that was looking into suppose the pollution between trump and the problem prior to that the plane did e-mail investigation which went nowhere and then there's lisa page a lawyer for the department of justice who also worked for robert muller the couple came into prominence back in december when their private text conversations were released to congress god hillary should win.

muller the couple payment to prominence back in december when their private text conversations were leased to congress girls hillary should win. i know. and maybe your man just the way you are because you're a man to protect the country from that manifest. thanks it's absolutely true that we're very very fortunate and of course i'll try and approach it that way these text messages prove that both struck and page were biased in favor of hillary and the messages even hint at some nefarious political activity so when they wanted to dig deeper it turned out the rest of their conversation had disappeared the f.b.i. ascribed the dates lost to misconfiguration issues related to rollouts provisioning and so for upgrades the conflicts with the f.b.i. has collection capabilities but let's look at the time frame of these text messages december fourteenth twenty sixteenth roommates seventeen twenty seventy and when did muller's investigation into question well you can start oh look may seventeenth twenty seventeen surprisingly convenient the timing is just too coincidental seems that they were

muller.... and at that same newser, the president insisted on funding for a border wall was necessary to move forward with an agreement on daca. abc's lana zak is in washington this morning. new this morning. disgraced movie mogul harvey weinstein is heading mogul harvey weinstein is heading for court-- divorce court. tmz reports weinstein and estranged wife georgina chapman reached a divorce settlement. the couple hashed out both a property settlement agreement and a custody arrangement for their two children. neither party filed a divorce petition, but that should be coming soon now that they have settlement. coming up-- a traffic stop turns into a running gunfight, with dozens of drivers caught in the crossfire. plus, you won't find this taco on any value meal. whats inside this dish, that makes it more expensive than a steak dinner. thanks for coming! congratulations! my first customer! the egg white grill. so you can bring on the day. more. you're doing great. [laugher] you lo

muller's team that was looking into suppose the pollution between trump and the problem prior to that the clinton e-mail investigation which went nowhere and then there's lisa page a lawyer for the department of justice who also worked for robert muller the couple payment to prominence back in december when their private text conversations were leased to congress girls hillary should win. i know. and maybe your man just the way you are because you're a man to protect the country from that manifest. thanks it's absolutely true that we're very very fortunate and of course i'll try and approach it that way these text messages proved that both struck and page were biased in favor of hillary and the messages even hint at some nefarious political activity so when they wanted to dig deeper it turned out the rest of their conversation had disappeared the f.b.i. ascribed the dates lost to misconfiguration issues related to rollouts provisioning and so for upgrades the conflicts with the f.b.i.'s collection capabilities but let's look at the time frame of these text messages december fourteenth

muller the couple payment to prominence back in december when their private text conversations were released to congress girls hillary should win. i know. and maybe your man just the way you are because you're a man to protect the country from that manifest. thanks it's absolutely true that we're very very fortunate and of course i'll try and approach it that way these text messages proved that both struck and page were biased in favor of hillary and the messages even hint at some nefarious political activity so when they wanted to dig deeper it turned out the rest of their conversation had disappeared the f.b.i. described the dates last misconfiguration issues related to rollouts provisioning and so for upgrades the conflicts with the f.b.i.'s collection capabilities but let's look at the time frame these text messages december fourteenth twenty sixteenth roommates seventeen twenty seventy and when did muller's investigation into question well you can start oh look may seventeenth twenty seventeen surprisingly convenient the timing is just too coincidental seems that they were tryi

muller's team that was looking into suppose the pollution between trump and the problem prior to that the clinton e-mail investigation which went nowhere and then there's lisa paige a lawyer for the department of justice who also worked for robert muller the couple came into prominence back in december when their private text conversations were released to congress girls hillary should win. i know. and maybe your man just the way you are because your man to protect the country from that manifest. thanks it's absolutely true that we're very very fortunate and of course i'll try and approach it that way these text messages proved that both struck and page were biased in favor of hillary and the messages even hint at some nefarious political activity so when they wanted to dig deeper it turned out the rest of their conversation had disappeared the f.b.i. described the dates last misconfiguration issues related to rollouts provisioning and so for upgrades the conflicts with the f.b.i.'s collection capabilities but let's look at the time frame of these text messages december fourteenth twe

muller the couple payment to prominence back in december when their private text conversations were released to congress girls hillary should win. i know. and maybe your man just the way you are because your man to protect the country from that manifest. thanks it's absolutely true that we're very very fortunate and of course i'll try and approach it that way these text messages prove that both struck and page were biased in favor of hillary and the messages even hint at some nefarious political activity so when they wanted to dig deeper it turned out the rest of their conversation had disappeared the f.b.i. ascribed the dates lost to misconfiguration issues related to rollouts provisioning and so for upgrades the conflicts with the f.b.i. has collection capabilities but let's look at the time frame of these text messages december fourteenth twenty sixteenth roommates seventeen twenty seventy and when did muller's investigation into prussian blue should start oh look may seventeenth twenty seventeen surprisingly convenient the timing is just too coincidental seems that they were try

muller so it is a huge opportunity for president trump now to lay out his political agenda to achievements and to make a case for his ambitious infrastructure plan for his ambitious immigration plan and according to a senior white house officials who briefed us on the speech it's going to be a very optimistic speech its main theme is building a strong safe and proud america and this official told us that president will be trying to convince his audience that all americans are benefiting under his presidency that all americans of all backgrounds of all incomes are being lifted up by he's paul this is how we're over it is going to be a tough sell with many americans when we look at the approval rating which is that the record low right now and many people he opposed his divisive and controversial remarks in the past and that is a reason for many democrats to boycott this state of the union address right through because that's a point i want to pick up because this is traditionally is a considered vision for a political agenda rather than the sort of barnstorming the parties are. used to addr

muller fake news the new york times says trump wanted to sign in june of last year but he backed down when the top white house lawyer threatened to resign while is leading the probe into allegations of collusion between the trunk team and russia in the twenty sixteen election so in a moment going to get more reaction to that story from washington where we have alan fischer standing by first though let's head to dab also we have a diplomatic editor james bays and so we're hearing a merica first speech there from china no surprises there but what was interesting was that he did stick to his script and it was perhaps a tone that we are not accustomed to hearing from president trying yeah he was being very careful in this speech as you say he was sticking to the words in the speech the words that appeared on the teleprompter in front of him i think will be a sigh of relief from the white house which didn't need another problem right now anderson relief from those here of the world economic forum because they know what president trump has said about global trade in the past in this body wh

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what i think robert muller will want to know, was there a clear causal relationship? was james komi know, was there a clear causal relationship? wasjames komi fired because of russia and if that was the case, was there and obstruction ofjustice. if there is an obstruction ofjustice ofjustice. if there is an obstruction of justice and ofjustice. if there is an obstruction ofjustice and an attempt to obstruct justice, well then that is one of the crimes are misdemeanours that could lead to impeachment. but that is clearly the direction in which robert muller is travelling and having interviewed a lot of relatively junior travelling and having interviewed a lot of relativelyjunior people, it is now getting a lot closer to donald trump. 0k, jon sopel, thank you very much forjoining us. a quick look at other news around the world. on the fourth day of its afrin offensive, turkish troops been targeting kurdish positions in northern syria with air and artillery fire. turkish media reports ground troops pushing several kilometres into the enclave. kurdish leaders in afrin hav

muller so it could affect very much donald trump. this is a midterm election year in the u.s. but the democrats don't seem to have gone all we have talk over this book why. well feel this is clearly a conflict between republicans so i can imagine that democrats are just sitting watching and probably smiling because these are two different parts of the republican party who are right now in a quite deep conflict i would say alina cho boy in washington thank you. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world in the congolese capital kinshasa residents of a shanty town of picking up the pieces after at least forty four people died in mudslides interventional rainstorms authorities say victims were killed by collapsing walls and by drowning only homes in the city of ten million are built on hillsides where lack of drainage makes some foldable to flush. france's president emanuel macro has told his turkish counterpart raja tired that democratic countries must respect the rule of law in the fight against te

muller. >> it's fake news, folks. >> the president discussed conflict of interest concerns with robert muller, but his staff convinced him that firing him would be politically catastrophic. president donald trump maintains that there is been no collusion are russia and he said he looked forward to being interviewed. >>> a bombing happened in kabul, afghanistan killing 95 people. tonight, the taliban is claiming responsibility for the attack. several hospitals are treating more than 150 people who were wounded. >>> a woman gravely wounded in the las vegas attack is home from the hospital after her family was told she was not likely to survive the attack. we have more on the woman's remarkable recovery >> reporter: the woman was all smiles, three mons after she was shot in the head in the deadliest mass shooting this united states history. >> what are you going to do when you go home? >> go to disney land >> the couple attended a music festival last october. the bullet injured the left side of her brain, damaging the area that processes language. >> from october 1, a part of me changed.

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that is why the special counsel robert muller is now looking into that possibility all of obstructioion of justice and that is again where the attorney general comes in because he wawalls the atattorney general. at the time of the firing the attorney general as the top rule enforcement official in the united states sense he hadd recused himself from ay investigations. but is now being investigated overall as being interviews himself as part of that investigation it's a pretty complex one this one but it does sound like it is getting that little bit closer. to some concrete conclusions it thank you very much fitted crowther that in washington. well frozen the united states of a stepping up the pressure on syria of the use of chemical weapons following another suspected gas attack from his imposing sanctions on twenty five people and companies with links to the regime's chemical weapons program. the united states claims the regime used chlorine gas to kill civilians in rebel anti native mass is just yesterday. and speaking at the summit here in paris today said the state rex tillerson sai

mohler of course robert muller what's your reaction to coming to the basically saying that. it was arbitrary and capricious not in accordance with the law very direct language. well it's a little bit difficult when you're going after claiming that your prosecutor somehow is violating the rules being an x. prize of your myself good luck with that one i will tell you they don't person who is really having buyer's remorse so to speak is general lender and mr papadopoulos who pled guilty to lying to the police one of two to the f.b.i. when it turns out that the basis of the their testimony may have been. a five so warranted that sort of information gathered from the famous doxy so right now going back to your question or the department of justice the f.b.i. are in a tailspin they don't know what's going on so far muller has had four total catches man of four in gates regarding something pretrial that's. income tax or taxes not reported or money that's pretrial and then general flynn and papadopoulos who were charged with lying to the f.b.i. and as you can imagine it's not a good

muller the special counsel if congress has passed sanctions and just a day or two before the state of the union this president pretty much said he's not going to enact them mention that either he didn't mention that either of course so i think the strategy is clear the republicans are trying to muddy the waters and clearly drag down the f.b.i. and the confidence in the f.b.i. and the federal government in order to make sure that it's just you know so muddy down that people not going to be able to differentiate and who's right and who's not in the co how do you explain to people here in europe when they're looking at the leader of the united states who in one of his most important speeches does not even mention the reality of the russian threat be it cyber or be it to nato whatever how do you explain this well he talked about all kinds of other things and the talk he gave basically focused mainly on an audience in the united states is not and so by focusing on his success for example in the economic sphere even though not all the facts that arrives he very much take the impression off

what you think. >> knowing robert muller he will go full speed ahead on his mandate and that is to turn over every rock and see what happened. if criminal activity was afoot. >> but the criminal activity, i just want to be clear from what i heard from investigators, especially if you are the president your clinging to obstruction of justice. proving anything else might be more problematic. do you agree? >> i actually think the interview, the act of giving the president a chance to get his statement on the record, i'm one of those people who believes the president is not the actual target. i think they are getting ready for an indictment of some kind. i don't it will get to the level of the president. he's been giving statements every day on twitter and there's really no need to interview him. and it's just something that has to do an investigation like the. >> i've heard from those legally advising the president , some feel it's a trap. you say. >> i say he's been giving interviews every day to the fbi, every time he put the statement on twitter, every time he says something to somebody

muller is of course an independent is not really tied to the f.b.i. but of course both are him you know kind of at odds with what donald trump so no one knows what what's president trump will do in the future i mean of course he has reportedly tried to fire robert morvillo last year. but later backed off of that so it's not clear it's not clear what trump would do most people think that trump will not will not try again to fire him all of this late in the in the ongoing investigation but of course nobody really knows to be honest no one knows what the u.s. president is going to do the that's definitely the case or at a correspondent michelle can you get on the story for us in washington thank you. here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world observers say at least sixteen civilians have been killed in government airstrikes on syria's province now that brings the death toll to some thirty three people since sunday it libya is the only province in syria under the control of opposition forces government troops have be

muller so it could affect very much donald trump. this is a midterm election year in the u.s. for the democrats don't seem to have gone all we have talk over this book why. well feel this is clearly a conflict between republicans so i can imagine that democrats are just sitting watching and probably smiling because these are two different parts of the republican party. right now in a quite deep conflict i would say alina cho boy in washington. still to come the day d.w. gets a message from the turkish jail where i german journalist accuses of holding him hostage so well dennis usuals continued detention without charge me but he's rocky relations with germany. all this week d w has been looking at the year ahead for the world's major geopolitical players today it's the turn of the european union the e.u. faces a variety of tough issues but there are opportunities as well if germany can get a stable government take coat along with france lead efforts to reshape a bloc deeply shaken by breck's it the w. brussels correspondent max hoffma

muller in order to get him to narrow the scope of the investigation of course not a fart he has been indicted for for money laundering it within the scope of the investigation where do you think that that all of this leaves the pro. i think that there are many republicans who are basically conservative they are not russia friendly they want to have the state run in an efficient way so they they might might see all these like intermingling the financial interests that come into play there the backdoor politics they might see this. as disgusting and so actually this might also strengthen support on the republican side metaphor does of course he's trying to clean his own sheet with it and it's about his own career and his own role in that so i would assume one of four does not do the core republican that is that is represented here and just briefly before we go you're an expert on transatlantic relations leaders here in europe how are they dealing with all the traumatic the united states it's of course impossible for them because the all this is dragging away attention and energy from t

muller is deepening this this investigation into russian meddling into the twenty sixteen election and potential collusion by the trump administration so you have this coming out at a time when this investigation is deepening and then you have steve bannon making claims that his the president's son potentially committed treason the other thing to keep in mind too is steve bannon also brought this net sort of brought this nationalist movement along with him into the campaign and those people have been very loyal to the president it's been part of his core the question is will those people remain loyal to the president now that he's lashed out at steve bannon and according to sarah sanders she thinks that they will. if you his government has announced it will release all political prisoners i'm close in a taurus prison camp in a surprise move charges against many who are facing prosecution will also be dropped well this follows increased pressure on the government to end its crackdown on opposition voices stephanie decker reports i. hope he has been under pressure domestically and on the

justice department and special counsel robert muller over the rusher investigation man the forces trying to fend off his criminal trial due to start in may he faces laundering charges related to work he did for the ukrainian government his lawsuit accuses mother of going beyond his legal authority by filing the charges against him. and iran's ambassador to the un is accusing the u.s. of interfering in his country's domestic affairs he wrote a letter of complaint to the u.n. secretary general it comes after days of unrest in which at least twenty two people have been killed the government's received to show support in the form of tens of thousands of people who rallied to condemn the unrest matheson reports. on iranian state t.v. pictures of government supporters filling city streets condemning protests and deaths during the day and. it's basically people who are believing that what so what's happening is against that he jeem and they want to support the regime by saying this is a revolutionary jeem and we are in favor of it. the t.v. pictures of these pro-government rallies are a contras

it makes things that much more complicated and that much harder for robert muller a to draw his investigation to a close but b. to draw to a close in a way that all sides are going to say what happened and the results of it are both impartial as well as as should be respected consuming that six trimly are just to add to that i think that's extremely well said what loni just said and eloquently stated the only thing i would add to it is the notion that the f.b.i. there's systemic and bias inside the f.b.i. when both komi and muller are lifelong republicans just seems to me to be a little bit of a stretch and i just think it's kind of i think they're republicans are divided i think there's a group of republicans like lanny who are very responsible here and want to get the facts and that's what we all want the end of the day we just really want the facts and then i think there are another group of republicans like maybe new news and a few others who are kind of a little bit like inspector clouseau here and going down a lot of rabbit holes with a lot of kind of these half baked theories to discre

the subpoena by robert muller for steve bannon to appear before a grand jury is certainly a game changer and marks an escalation in the ongoing probe into trying campaign ties to russia and whether or not there was any collusion it's not likely that bannon will testify before the grand jury but what this does seem to indicate is some strong arm tactics by the special prosecutor essentially there may be some sort of deal making in the works where there is with the promise to cooperate another promise that band will not have to testify before the grand jury but it certainly is problematic for the president given the fact that it is an unraveling relationship between the president and his former chief strategist one that has deescalated into name calling not only has steve van in that book fired fury said that a meeting that donald trump jr participated in with a kremlin linked lawyer was treasonous but of course donald trump for his part has alleged that steve bannon was forced out of the white house because he had in the words of the president lost his mind well this certainly could be so

justice department and special counsel robert muller over the rush or investigation amount of forces trying to fend off his criminal trial due to start in may he faces laundering charges related to work he did for the ukrainian government his lawsuit accuses mala of going beyond his legal authority by filing the charges against him . lots more still ahead on al-jazeera the jury in the u.s. decides the fate of a turkish banker accused of taking part in a scheme to breach sanctions against iran plus. i'm a listener i'm here to report on the western region after car where voluntary doctors together with the country's marines are bringing health services to once conflict ridden areas. and there is still bitterly cold for us in parts of north america here's some pictures from chicago and i feel cold just looking at them look at the amount of ice there own not river that is bitterly bitterly cold and now we're going to see a little bit more in the way of snow as well see this little system in the south is gradually edging its way eastwards that one's bringing us a fair amount of rain acros

i'm saying mohler robert muller who is the head of this was a ronald reagan appointee to a top law enforcement position he was at george h.w. bush appointee to a top law enforcement position he was at george w. bush to a top law enforcement position moeller so this notion about who is on the staff you know the contribution or to a political party is it or thought you were just appointed to the supreme court well i'm not i mean i just i don't know i'm not so worried about democrat or republican guys i'm more worried about the deep state that's what i worry about ok you know john one of the yes exactly one of the things i really worry about here is if you look because the way things are going man a ford in flint seem to have been unfairly treated because they said something that wasn't true i think a whole string of people. in the obama administration didn't work forthright with the f.b.i. you know you got to be the fattest feeling guy right now in the whole world he was doing what everybody else was doing here but what i what i find worrisome and i hope richard can respond to that is a rapidly