it's not just robert mueller and berman, the u.s. attorney in new york, it's the judges who approved the search warrant. >> true. >> they also were a check on the process. so the idea that this was just robert mueller is simply not true. >> >> everybody stand by. we have a lot to assess but right now i want to bring in congressman will hurd, a republican member of the intelligence and homeland security, former clandestine officer for the cia. what's your reaction to what we just heard from the president of the united states, congressman? >> well, i think bob mueller should stay, he should be allowed to turn over every rock, pursue every lead and this was obviously -- if you're investigating something and you find some potential criminal misconduct you can refer that but as all of the previous speakers and guests have highlighted, this was done by the u.s. attorney in new york city and a judge is the one that agreed that there was probable cause for going into the lawyer's office and home so it's been a pretty wild day in, no. you hav

republicans are concerned about any move to fire robert mueller or rod rosenstein. the deputy attorney general -- they believe it is political by damaging to the party and presidency but making something very clear. they are not ready to confront the president on this yet. because they are placing blind faith in the white house that the president will not move to fire robert mueller. >> i think that would be serious repercussions and it is hard to predict exactly what that might look like. but so i think director mueller ought to be free to do his job and let the courts and let the lawyers and -- work it out. >> why not pass legislation proactively to protect him given the president's threats here. >> i don't think it is necessary. >> are you concerned that the senate is not doing enough to prevent this possible outcome. >> it is still my view that mueller should be allowed to finish his job. i think that is the view of most people in congress. i haven't seen clear indication yet that we needed to pass something to keep him from being removed. because i don't think

robert mueller has been asking questions about stone. tonight he joins us to answer them. >>> first, our breaking news. cnn has learned president trump has begun taking some preliminary steps preparing for a possible interview with the special counsel. our senior white house correspondent pamela brown joins us with that. explain what you've learned. >> well, we have learned that the preparations between the president and his legal team have been short and informal and included going over potential topics with the president that robert mueller would likely raise in an interview, according to two people familiar with the situation that i have spoken with along with my colleague, gloria borger. while the president has not formally agreed to a sit-down interview with mueller, these preparations under way are a sign that the president's legal team is intensifying deliberations over whether to allow him to come under robert mueller's questioning, and it's the clearest sign yet that trump and his team remain open to the

robert mueller. 13 think that he should fire robert mueller. republican senator thom tillis is now pressing the senate for action on his bill, legislation to protect robert mueller's position. and also, tomorrow night there is a scheduled meeting at the white house. a dinner at the white house. this is for multiple sources saying that it's for speaker paul ryan, majority leader mitch mcconnell, house majority leader kevin mccarthy, senate majority whip john cornyn will dine with president trump tomorrow evening at the white house. the white house official schedule lists the dinner to take place at 6:30 p.m. that is the preferred dinnertime for junior high school students and 71-year-old presidents. and so what would you expect the congressional leadership, the republican leadership to be saying to the president about firing the special prosecutor tomorrow night? >> if they cared about the country, lawrence, they would tell the president remember who you told the country you were going to fight for. y

robert mueller is thorough. when he did the investigation of ray rice, when ups packages arrived, he is thorough. and that will help when he's done and finds there is no collusion or crime committed. that will maybe everybody rest that much easier. >> and angela, your reaction to michael cohen's office being raided as part of robert mueller probe into a host of things it looks like. >> i don't know if i should react to that or david's confidence -- >> it's fake. >> i want this to be on the air -- >> and apple an apple. so no, i think what is interesting and i'm looking at the new york times piece and the search does not appear to be related to the robert mueller investigation. however, what i think is alarming and what should alarm the american people is that there are so many issues of ethics or the lack there of and potential collusion and there are so many issues surrounding this president that it is -- it is just phenomenal at this point that he's able to get anything done. there is issue after issue and the

following a referral from the special counsel robert mueller. federal agents seized, e-mails attacks documents, business records related to a number of issues, including perhaps payments from cohen on porn star stormy daniels. we have been told privilege communication between cohen and his client. cohen's attorney blasting raid. we take up what president trump has called mueller witch-hunt with judicial watch president tom. and attorneys. also tonight, an obstruc obstrut and insulting response. doj appointing a federal prosecutor to oversee release of fbi documents about clinton e-mail probe and fisa court abuses, 5 months after house judiciary committee, and house oversight committee demanded access to 1.2 million documents, they have received approximately 7,000 to date. half of which were delivered today. our top story, outraged the word of the day. mounting evidence of a corrupt justice department leadership. an fbi that is been out of control for years. and president trump tonight just voicing his outrage over the latest development in muel

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in the '80s let's work out a deal that's not going to work with robert mueller. he'll treat giuliani with respect but the idea that their prior relationship will buy him anything struck strikes he as extremely extremely unlikely as does the idea that this could somehow wrap up in a couple of weeks. given the magnitude of cases outstanding, that just seems like completely dream land. >> yeah. chris, when he tells "the washington post" giuliani, i hope to negotiate an end to this for the good of the country and high regard for the president and for bob mueller, what say you? >> well, i mean, first of all i think dana's point that giuliani made to her is he does have -- he is one of a relatively small number of people who have a preexisting at least relationship with rudy giuliani. excuse me. with bob mueller and someone who the president trusts and personal friends with the president so he meets this sort of xhnexus not many people in tt circle. i think it's broadly consistent with what we have seen the president do, in the cabinet or staff or legal team, bring in

robert mueller, iii is born in new york city. raised in philadelphia, mueller spends his formative years at the prestigious all boys prep school st. paul's. >> a fun guy. it was not somebody that would dominate conversations among students, among the guys. but he was attentive, engaged, fun to be around. >> he was an exceptionally accomplished as a student and as an athlete. but he was completely unpretentious and very authentic as a person. >> an emphasis is placed on athletics. mueller joins the lacrosse, soccer and hockey teams. >> he was a great leader. you could tell from playing with him that winning, but winning the right way was important to him. >> at a school full of the bright and ambitious, mueller stands out. but he is not the only future d.c. fixture in his class. >> one of bob mueller's classmates was john kerry, who obviously had a distinguished career in his own right. >> john was more of an openly ambitious young man. >> john kerry was in some ways more forceful or more visible character in the school. but bob m

robert mueller would trap him. if he walks in there and tells the truth how could that possibly be a trap? >> that wouldn't be a trap, there is a technical term called a perjury trap. that's only when you subpoena a witness to a grand jury for the sole purpose of getting them to lie. that's not what we have here, there's no -- whether you talk about a voluntary interview or a grand jury subpoena, we're not talking at all. >> so they're misusing the term? >> they're completing misusing the term there's an active investigation on multiple fronts that relates to donald trump, he's a subject. once you're a subject of an investigation, there can be no way there's a perjury trap, that's just completely falacious. what's interesting about what came out this week about the subject. and the fact that john dowd is no longer on the team. trump needs a very experienced and qualified white color defense lawyer to parse what that means. the land of subject is vast, and you can be a subject that's much closer to a witness, a subj

we've talked about robert mueller. stormy daniels. we're talking about tariffs and the stock market crashing. we haven't even gotten yet to what's happening down at the border, which dominated a good part of this week. news now that secretary mattis is going to send 4,000 troops to the border, matthew. >> that's right. it's easy to see how that sort of fell off the radar with everything else that's going on, but this sort of stems from the president's anger over not getting money in the omnibus to get that wall construction going, and we know his obsession with the border quite well. so he sees this as a way to try to tighten things down there without a wall, deploying large amounts of national guard troops, perhaps in response to some fox news reporting about border crossings, but, again, this is a way for him to say he is taking action on the issues that are most important to him and his base, even though his long promised solution, the wall, doesn't seem to really be coming together quite yet. >> matthew, big question, what's on th

president, do not sit down with robert mueller. it may be there's been negotiations between the legal team of the president and robert mueller's team that have moved closer to an interview that we know and perhaps those preparations are getting ready for very real possibility even though the president has been told that is not place he wants to put himself in. >> carol who is he listening to? the legal team that works with him behind closed doors, off camera or the unofficial legal team that talks to him on camera, mostly on fox news? >> i think it depends on the moment, the day, what channel the tv is on. he's also of his own mind on this. we see he has a legal team. all of those clips where people say do not do this interview. it's a trap. you shouldn't do this. we know the president has said he wants too do the interview. there's a growing sense he feels like the idea that he can't do it is some sort of question of his abilities. he can't handle robert mueller and so we see him kind of pushing back and saying he thinks he could

the only man who stands between the president and robert mueller. firing rosenstein is something that could put trump in saturday night massacre territory. but officials say even that may not be enough for a furious president. i want you to listen to this exchange from today's white house briefing. >> does this president believe he has the power to fire special counsel robert mueller? >> certainly believes he has the pow tore do so. we've been advised that the president certainly has the power to make that decision. >> so the president believes he has the power to fire mueller. even though the code of

you worked for robert mueller and i saved the last question for you. talk to me about the tactics he and his team could use here. >> in terms of whether they guest an interview or the -- the course of an interview? >> either way. go on. >> so i think that mueller and his team wants an interview of the president because there is no way they can write the final report at least on the obstruction matter and perhaps on the coordination and conspiracy matter without hearing from him. i don't think there is evidence that exists outside of the oral testimony of the president that would allow them to skip the interview. so i think they're going full force at getting this interview. and whether they have to do it by grand jury subpoena or by voluntary cooperation, we'll just be -- will determine on what the president says. during the course of the interview, it will follow as all interviews follow which is they will ask for a testimony, they'll get what the answer is, and they'll present the witness with documents in respect to what they have said orally and to

the only man who stands between the president and robert mueller. firing rosenstein is something that could put trump in saturday night massacre territory. but officials say even that may not be enough for a furious president. i want you to listen to this exchange from today's white house briefing. >> does this president believe he has the power to fire special counsel robert mueller? >> certainly believes he has the

our big question, what happens to robert mueller's report once he submits it? in just 30 minutes we're set to hear from the white house for the first time this week. before that begins, let's get to our team of reporters. ken delainny, betsy wood ruff, carol leng. ken, first to you, what is the difference between being a target and a subject of an investigation? >> i think chuck rosenberg may have said it best. prosecutors use the term target when they're about to diet someone. the term subject is much more broad and more commonly used. another chuck rosenbergism is there are small "s" subjects and capital "s" the subjects. paul manafort was a subject of the investigation before he became a target and now he's facing multiple felony counties. it may be robert mueller can't designate donald trump as a target until he leaves office, but that does not mean robert mueller hasn't developed substantial evidence of impeachable evidence. >> this is "washington post" reporting, carol. walk us through what exactly you guys were able to find that mueller's team is telling

thepg he's too stupid to talk to robert mueller because i guess they think robert mueller has a better education than donald trump. wouldn't you be insulted? >> i would be deeply insulted by that. i think the president's believes he is his on best advocate and would love to sit in the room with bob mueller. somebody said remember in watergate we had the tapes, we had find the tapes. >> right. >> in this case the tape was on the "nbc nightly news" with lester holt on may 11th, 2017, where the president said, yes, i fired james comey because of the russia investigation. >> right. you remember the fugitive, that great movie with harrison ford. >> sure. >> it would be like the dude like standing in front of everybody at the beginning of the movie. i did it. you know? because that's what donald trump has already done. >> right. >> by the way, alex, get the russian tape because the confession and him smiling with the russians, that's just the best where he is confessing to the russians, hey, i get pressure off of all of us because i fired comey. he is a nutjob. >> relieves the pressure. >> i

you worked for robert mueller and i saved the last question for you. talk to me about the tactics he and his team could use here. >> in terms of whether they get an interview or in the course of an interview? >> either way. go on. >> so i think that mueller and his team wants an interview of the president because there is no way they can write the final report at least on the obstruction matter and perhaps on the coordination and conspiracy matter without hearing from him. i don't think there is evidence that exists outside of the oral testimony of the president that would allow them to skip the interview. so i think they're going full force at getting this interview. and whether they have to do it by grand jury subpoena or by voluntary cooperation, we'll just be -- will determine on what the president says. during the course of the interview, it will follow as all interviews follow which is they will ask for a testimony, they'll get what the answer is, and they'll present the witness with documents in respect to what they have said orally and to confi

the robert mueller investigation but the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york and manhattan. he's got a separate investigation under way. does the president make his problems go away if he interferes in the mueller investigation now that the second investigation is under way? >> no, he does not. last month congresswoman kathleen rice and i wrote a letter to the fbi asking them to investigation michael cohen as well as the enquirer for making two payments to two women to silence negative stories. those are massive violations of campaign laws. that's what they are investigating. that investigation will continue regardless of what happens to mueller, rosenstein or sessions. >> you heard michael cohen's reaction to don lemon, pb raid that went down yesterday. he said he's unhappy to have his office raided. >> certainly he would be unhappy and acknowledges he would have done things differently pr fp this to have happened, an independent federal judge had to look at the evidence and conclude it was probable cause that ev

. >>> breaking tonight, is the president starting to make his public case to fire robert mueller? the white house press secretary claims for the very first time today that the president has been advised that he has the authority to do so. >>> also breaking tonight, "the new york times" reveals that donald trump wanted mueller out back in december. it's the second time that we know of that the president sought to shut down the investigation. one of the reporters who broke that story is here. >>> plus news that stormy daniels, the porn star paid off by the president's lawyer, is now cooperating with the feds just one day after the fbi raided the office of trump's attorney. michael avenatti, stormy daniels' lawyer, joins us live. "the 11th hour" begins right now. >>> good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. i'm nicolle wallace in for brian. it's day 446 of the trump administration, and "the new york times" reports tonight that the president wanted special counsel robert mueller's investigation shut down in december. the times reporting tonight, quote,

awesome. >>> does he believe he has the power to fire special counsel robert mueller? does he believe that's within his power? >> certainly he believes he has the power to do this. >> they said rod rosenstein oversees special counsel and only he has the power to fire special counsel? >> again, we've been advised that the president certainly has the power to make that decision. i can't go anything beyond that. >> the press secretary saying the white house has been advised that donald trump has the power to fire bob mueller. and the president is no longer denying that he's considered doing just that, but the question remains can he? and what would the fallout look like from republicans who have been reluctant to stand up to the president on anything? joining the conversation now is mimi rocha, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. jeremy bash is also with us. jeremy, you and i started this conversation at 4:00. you do not think that the regulations permit for the president to fire a special counsel? >> well, the regulations make clear that

at do we know about robert mueller? who shuns t spotlight for himself and his elite team. >> as i flekt upon my career i can say that i never could have anticipated where i ended up. >> the justice department announced a special counsel to lead a new investigation into russian influence in the election. >> name special counsel in the spring of 2017, robert mueller is in charge of one of the most consequential investigations in political history. into a boldface name in washington dc. mueller looms over an expansive investigation that could detonate a presidency. >> he knows when his mandate is. he'll focus on what he was asked to do. no different than he's done in other investigations throughout his life. and deliver results on that. >> this is big stuff. this is looking at whether a foreign country tried to influence the u.s. election. whether the person in the white house should continue to be president. it's about the toughest thing there is in law enforcement. and bob mueller is the guy to do it. he's not going to s

carol and robert further report tonight that special counsel robert mueller is preparing a report about the president's actions while in office and potential obstruction of justice. noting just they just note late in the piece quote some of trump's advisors warned white house aides they fear mueller could issue a blistering report about the president's actions meaning don't be psyched about this, guys. that's important news. that's just broken. the president is a subject of mueller's investigation. >>> i want to alert you to one other thing that happened today that we learned from a court filing. late last night after joy reid finished sit income for me in the middle of the night we got a new court filing from mueller's prosecutors that related to the paul manafort case and you probably heard something about this today, big headline out of that filing today was that in addition to the publicly available document that set up the special counsel's office and hired robert mueller and laid out the scope of mueller's investigation, we learned from this new court filing there was also, subseq

carol and robert further report tonight that special counsel robert mueller is preparing a report about the president's actions while in office and potential obstruction of justice. noting just they just note late in the piece some of trump's advisors warned white house aids they fear mueller could issue a blistering report about the president's actions meaning don't be psychosiked about this. that's important news. that's just broken. the president is a subject of mueller's investigation. i want to alert you to one other thing that happened today about -- that we learned from a court filing. late last night after joy reid finished sit income for me in the middle of the night we got a new court filing from mueller's prosecutors that related to the paul manafort case and you probably heard something about this today, big headline out of that filing today was that in addition to the publicly available document that set up the special counsel's office and hired robert mueller and laid out the scope of mueller's investigation, we learned from the court filing there was also subsequent to th

robert mueller other than robert mueller making a criminal referral, which by the way people do all the time. and then it would be up to the sitting u.s. attorney to decide is this something i'm going to go into court on. >> the sitting u.s. attorney appointed by the president. >> exactly. and this is what i think jeff is rightly pointing out. what's so strange about this is the president is sort of drawing this conspiracy theory but all the conspirators are his people. right? there's something about it that really doesn't make sense. his u.s. attorney, his fbi right now. i don't believe that the u.s. attorneys or the fbi are biased, but under the president's theory if he believes people are politically motivate td makes absolutely no sense. >> josh, you're formerly with the fbi. what also stuck out to me is how the president characterized this raid, saying the fbi broke into cohen's office. you though, the fbi had a warrant issued by a judge here. >> that's correct. and that is the major point. in the united states of america the fbi can't just go in and snoop around and gather wha

he might be able to convince robert mueller that there was no corrupt intent here. but it sounds like, if robert mueller is ready to move on, that he has satisfied himself based on the evidence of others and statements in other things that president trump has done, that there is enough circumstantial evidence to establish that element of intent here. >> julie ainsley, what is your sense of what the president's reaction might be to a report that -- i'm just thinking about -- just look at the abuse that jeff sessions has taken. i think the very first account about president trump's rage at him and now he just says openly in public, he said it this week, if i knew he was going to recuse himself i wouldn't have picked him in the first place. it was a pretty dramatic break up when we first learned of the president's rage at jeff sessions. i believe there is some reporting that he was emotional, near tears, offered his resignation and reince priebus and don mcgahn and others got him to stay. can you just sort of take us inside how much mueller knows and whether you think

>>> breaking tonight, is the president starting to make his public case to fire robert mueller? the white house press secretary claims for the very first time today that the president has mueller? the white house press secretary claims for the very first time today that the president has been advised that he has the authority to do so. also breaking tonight, a new york times reveals that donald trump wanted mueller out back in december. it's the second time that we know of that the president sought to shut down the investigation. one of the reporters who proek that sto -- broke that story is here. plus reports that stormy daniels is now cooperating with the feds, just one day after the fbi raided the office of trump's attorney. michael avenatti, stormy daniels' lawyer joins us live. "the 11th hour" begins right now. >>> good evening. i'm nicole wallace. in early december, president trump furious over news reports that a first round of subpoenas told visitors in no uncertain terms that mr. mueller's investigation had to be shut down. the president's anger was fuelled by reports o

will the president ever meet with robert mueller. we will ask the lawyer who defended bill clinton. steve kor nabbingy is at the big board. "the 11th hour" on a wednesday night begins now. >> good evening once again from our headquarter here's in new york. day 447 of the trump administration and we have breaking news tonight about one-time white house chief strategist steve bannon who was pushed out of the white house last summer. "the washington post" reports tonight, he's back and he has a plan to derail the mueller investigation and protect the president. robert costa who joins us writes bannon is pitching a plan to west wing aides and congressional allies to cripple the federal probe into russian interference in the 2016 election. according to four people familiar with the discussions, the first step these people say would be for trump to fire deputy attorney general rod j. rosen stein who oversees the work of robert mueller and in recent days signed off on a search warrant of trump's long time personal lawyer, michael cohen. bannon is recommending they cease operation with muel

robert mueller. >> harris: to that point, michael cohen's attorneys have said "we've been cooperative." when you see this tone and tenor taken in all of this, it's very aggressive. then the white house has to say you want to sit down with someone would put a legal weapon in the hands of somebody else to go after you? thank you. republican congressman matt gaetz of the house judiciary committee is now with me on some of the spirit congressman, what is interesting about this from john roberts reporting is this isn't the firing of robert miller. there are some other people on that list and you have some definite feelings with what happened to jeff sessions and rod rosenstein. >> i agree with the assessment that president trump should not fire robert mueller. it's a totally separate question whether he should fire jeff sessions and rod rosenstein. i understand with the hypocrisy playing out at the department of justice. rod rosenstein believes he can oversee an investigation into obstruction of justice regarding the firing of james comey. when it was rod rosenstein who wrote the memo reco

try to fire special counsel robert mueller and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. but this morning, he tweeted, quote, if i wanted to fire robert mueller in december as reported by the failing "new york times," i would have

and now he is publicly musing about firing robert mueller. to be clear, there are a few hurdles he would have to jump through to get that done. but our big question today is, if he does try, what are republican lawmakers going to do about it? let's get right to it with our team of reporters and analysts. kristen welker is at the white house north lawn. also with me, tom winter, nbc news investigations reporter who's been following every move of this, and tom hamberg who's a reporter with "the washington post" and assistant attorney general under the trump administration. donald trump has lost all of his balances, his guardrails, hope hicks is not there, john dowd is not there, all of the quote, unquote adults are leaving, he's firing people he doesn't like, he's replacing them. john kelly doesn't have influence any longer. it feels like it's always been chaotic in this white house, but this has got to be the most chaotic yet. >> reporter: it's certainly chaotic and we also learned that tom bossert is out today, this is someone widely regarded

. >> reporter: you said the president has the power to fire robert mueller? >> i know a number of individuals in the legal community and the department of justice that he has the power to do so. we've been advised that the president has the power to make that decision. >> we've been advised the president has the power to make that decision. that is unlikely unless they are getting doj advice run that runs directly against the written rules of the doj. donald trump cannot personally fire bob mueller. he cannot unilaterally fire him. the law states through doj rules that mueller can only be removed by the acting attorney general, in this case rod rosenstein that has to be removed for cause, he has to be removed in writing. rosenstein, of course, has recently said there's no reason he's seen for removal. we're also told rosenstein green lit the raid on the president's lawyer's office. before we go to an excellent panel if i say so myself i want to show you where we're at. trump's lawyer under investigation in manhattan. jared kushner still being scrutinized by p

it doesn't matter, it appears, how rogue robert mueller is. doesn't matter what he did with "whitey" bulger in boston. four innocent people that went to jail, two died in jail because an fbi informant in his office working with mueller ando his team. after two died, there was over $100 million paid out in that case. doesn't seem to matter to anybody in the liberal media that mueller's pitbull, as described by "the new york times," andrew weissmann, that he was involved in tens of thousands of people losing their jobs, theirob careers, at arthur andersen accounting. doesn't matter at all. the supreme court overturned andrew weissmann 9-0. how often does not happen? it doesn't matter that four merrill executives went to jail for a year and that the fifth circuit court of appeals overturned their convictions. doesn't seem to matter thend courts have excoriated mueller'n pitbull for withholding exculpatory evidence.ol it doesn't matter that mueller's team almost exclusively donated money to obama, hillary, and the dnc. after all, why would robert

>> tells you about the kind of person that robert mueller is. when eric holder in an interview said no, he knows mueller well and he's sure he will get something on trump, he does know mueller. in fact, though he was appointed by bush, mueller not only finished serving his term as fbi director under obama and eric holder, but they extended him two years. i don't know of anybody else that was as crushed as i was. i knew how much damage this man did to the fbi. i submit he did more damage to the fbi than all the other fbi directors put together since j. edgar hoover. he's been a disaster. while he was fbi director, william jefferson was being investigated. i read the affidavit in support of the search warrant that they got into bust into a congressional office. unprecedented in over 200 years the way you handle a conflict of interest with a congressional privilege being even higher than attorney client. you always would go to the ethics attorneys here at capitol hill and they would take all the things from the congressman's office and sort through

robert mueller's investigation is going to continue as it is. and i frankly think that -- and the bill that's being proposed is essentially just trying to codify into law what are already d.o.j. regulations. >> got it. >> but if robert mueller goes, rod rosenstein can put somebody else in there, presumably, depending on who would happen in terms of how the president did it. >> right. >> it's much more effective and efficient i think for the president to nip this investigation by dealing with rosenstein. >> right. >> because he's the one who is overseeing it. >> and give him less of a fight. daniel goldman former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. >>> the man who revealed that the personal information of tens of millions of facebook users was improperly shared with cambridge analytic is going to be on capitol hill next week. nbc news confirmed that christopher wiley is going to speak to the house judiciary committee next tuesday. and with democrats on the house intelligence committee next wednesday. facebook estimates

robert mueller gets appointed. he says, give me all your casework. so, he started to take that over. and then my understanding is over a period of time he said, okay, some of this is not jermai germane to my case. >> certain potential crimes? >> certain potential crimes, certain avenues of investigation. according to mr. cohen's statement, some of this has to do with statements that were made -- some of this has to do with certain things that pertain to an investigation in new york and some of it has to do with robert mueller's investigation. so, again, that may be things where he says, hey, this has got nothing that's tied to my original mandate, but there could be other federal crimes here. and since the southern district would have venue, we believe that mr. cohen's offices may actually be in another part of this building where we're broadcasting from. that's one of the things we're trying to work on exactly where the search warrant was executed. >> you need to hop up and go run that down. we'll follow you with the camera. >> i have tremendously q

kimba wood is going to be savagely attacked by newt gingrich, who has compared robert mueller to the gestapo and by all of the trump supporters on fox news. fox news will no doubt soon be lying about kimba wood's history and claiming she broke the law when she employed that babysitter in the 1980s. they might try and reach back to 1966 to portray kimba wood as a lightweight because of the time, the very brief time she spent working at the playboy club in london. it was actually a total of only five days when she was training to be a part-time playboy bunny

attorney for the district of new york or robert mueller being a republican. what do you say to constituents who hear this kind of falsehood and ask you, do you think that the deep state is trying to bring down the president? >> well, i do hear from both sides on this issue. there are a lot of concerns out there. but as far as iowa is concerned, i let them know, let the investigation go where it will. follow the evidence. and if there is evidence in another matter, then certainly that should be followed. but bottom line with the mueller investigation, what i want to know as a senator is what was russia's involvement in our election process. was there collusion. that is what we need to get to the bottom of. let's let the investigation go. let's see where it turns up. speci -- certainly there has to be a conclusion to the investigation and i hope at that time the results are presented to congress so we can understand what happened in that 2014 election cycle. >> your comments -- >> or 2016. >> your comments to our constituents sounds like your fellow iowa senior

and robert mueller, the special counsel. what do all of these have in common? i'm answering my own question. they are all republicans and they were all named to their current positions during the trump presidency, during the trump administration. so when the president says this investigation is a bunch of democrats who are biased and anti-trump, these are all republicans, they were all named by his people. >> absolutely. we should point out that mr. berman, i believe, my colleagues are reporting that he has also recused himself from this particular matter. but it's true these are all republicans, it's true they were all appointed during the trump administration. it seems, talking to people around the president, that that almost makes it worse in his mind. he feels like he should be protected by these people. this has been his beef with jeff sessions all along, that why isn't he protecting me from this? he's my attorney general, i'm the one who put him there. he made it very clear that's how he sees these folks. he can argue, and there are some people on bob mue

they are now cooperating with robert mueller and his probe. this rogue activity from mueller is nothing new. remember in march, former trump political advisor sam lundberg said mueller was seeking information regarding michael cohen's payments, you got it, to stormy daniels. so much for russian interferenc interference. >> did mueller's folks ask anything about payments to women? >> they asked if i had heard anything about it at my answer is i never have. i don't know anything about it. >> sean: sadly, tonight what is happening is mueller's runaway train of an investigation is something we have now been warning you about for over a year. i have told you there are five forces actively working against donald trump. they have from the beginning. it's your corrupt media, the corrupt democratic party that doesn't care about the american people. weak establishment republicans, never trump-ers. and what we describe as the deep state. tonight you have those forces working together to malign the president you elected. we did some digging. reports you'v

special counsel robert mueller had not yet been appointed. that wouldn't happen until directorer comey was fired. so on occasion from this call, you should know comey was still fbi directorer and he was phoning boente to report what had just happened between him and the president. he would later explain he took notes himself on this interaction and briefed otherer senior law enforce omntficials about this interaction with the president and others. because he believed those interactions were, for lack of a better term or phrase important and unusual. you wanted to make sure there was a are record of those interactions. the president would later denounce james comey as a liarer, saying his counts of his interactions with the president were not true but now for the first time we can con -- compare comey's public statements with the notes taken by someone who comey briefed about that same day. you can see the heading here and that's crossed out. and that's crossed out by the head official at the fbi who provides a cover letter showing this top se

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and russia on the special counsel robert mueller. so the president has been all over the place on twitter this morning. but as far as these strikes go, the defense secretary james mattis was asked about that. he said they're still assessing intelligence and stand ready to provide military options to the president. i am told that defense secretary james mattis will be meeting at the white house today. it's unclear -- the president seems to be clear on what his next move with syria is right now, wolf. >> what about the new attacks on special counsel robert mueller, who is looking into the whole russia probe? >> reporter: the president has been very vocal this week about robert mueller, calling him out by name specifically on twitter this morning. that comes in light of that din they are the president had with those senior military leaders, where he was supposed to be focusing whoon they ween what t to do with syria. the president saying it was a disgrace and attack on the country. so we're seeing the president's criticism become quite

according to the "washington post," special counsel robert mueller informed president trump's attorneys last month that he is continuing to investigate trump, but does not consider him a criminal target at this point. of course that could change if trump slips up and makes 50 more mistakes. [ light laughter ] according to the "washington post", advisors are concerned the special counsel robert mueller told president trump's lawyers he is only a subject of the russia investigation to bait trump into an interview that could put him

then, president trump lashes ons at special c robert mueller, after an f. raid on the president's personal lawyer, michael con. and, securing schools in the wake of the parkland shooting. how a district in texas is taking precautionary measures to protect students agast the worst. >> i think parents are open to it. they've seen thatimes have changed, unfortunately, and they do see we're putting children's safety first. >> woodruff: all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> kevin. >> kevin. >> kevin. >> financial services firm raymond james. >> babbel. a language program that teaches real-life conversations in a nea langge. >> bnsf railway. >> consumer cellular. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions: >> this program was made possible by the corporation car public broing. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: we have two major stories tonight. first, the white house now says that president trump believes he has the power to fire