some so i only know they are officially one hundred percent renewable. look at that this is. the energy right. this week. on al jazeera. santa maria here in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera the indian pilot taken captive by pakistan has been released in what is law about calling a gesture of peace wing commander the man who walked back across the border two days after his plane was shot down in the disputed kashmir region. one of you all of us all indians are happy to have him back so long as he will be back on his country.

was already evident analysis here from jeff stacie who is a former u.s. state department official he says both sides need to act to diffuse the situation and that the u.s. is taking a backseat role compared to before. india might try something else i mean they seem to be celebrating it in their pilot back but they lost two aircraft overall for this thing to resolve you know moving forward pakistan has to rein in joshua homage in a couple of other groups in the indians need to pull back some of their troops in you know respect human rights a little better both have nuclear weapons now yet they do things that the u.s.s.r. and us would never have done during the cold war in gauge each other like this and that's what the international community has been so concerned about you've got things like the u.s. sitting this one out which is a big surprise normally the u.s. is right in there with secretaries of state even presidents getting on the line with both sides and that's been virtually absent in this instance partly because

the trumpet administration is so neglectful in state department terms and partly because they're probably sitting this one out you've seen the u.s. south asian strategy target pakistan in a way that node ministration has done before except in private so there's that sort of amateurish element that we've seen on display in north korea recently washing say vietnam to other news the taliban's claimed responsibility for an attack on an army base which killed at least twenty three afghan soldiers but base in helmand province is shared by afghan and american troops that the u.s. says it's sent to didn't come under threat. and security forces in somalia have shot dead three. then during a standoff following a bomb attack on a hotel the fighters held up for several hours in a building next to the central city hotel in mogadishu before being overwhelmed by special forces and the army at least twenty nine people have been killed in the

suicide bomb attack on the market till on thursday night. the government has failed the security of the city is they did not stop this attack they should not be happy to see people dying especially after they fired security experts and recruited young inexperienced replacements tens of thousands of people around laid across algeria over president up disease beautifully because planned to run for a fifth term police fired tear gas at some protesters in algiers but the demonstrations were mostly peaceful u.s. president donald trump's asked china to lift all tariffs on american agricultural products he says it's because trade talks between the world's two biggest economies are progressing well china in the u.s. a negotiating a way out of a trade war that seemed to it for tat increases in tariffs since last year canada has begun the process of extraditing a top while away executive to the united states among one job is under house arrest

after being detained at washington's request she's accused of conspiring to violate sanctions on iran. chlorine was used as a weapon in the syrian town of duma but an investigation into the deadly attack doesn't say any blame the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons says it found reasonable grounds the toxic chemical was used but can't say who was responsible whom it was the final target of the syrian government's campaign to regain control of the suburbs of eastern ghouta damascus from opposition fighters and kurdish forces in syria say they're about to launch the final push against eisel in their last stronghold in the country men from the area and their families have been surrendering to the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces the s.d.f. close to the village of lose. those are your headlines battlefield washington is next.

adamo trump do solemnly swear. trump do solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states also has the president of the united states the day trump this morning and the two thousand and sixteen election that secured his victory is already under investigation did russia help them get the presidency. so help me god directly.

as he walks on pennsylvania avenue from where he took the oath of office towards the white house he steps onto a political battlefield. pennsylvania avenue is the heart of washington it connects major political players congress the f.b.i. the department of justice. the press. the white house. this is the story set at one of the most powerful capitals in the world a political and judicial conflict. a battle that has pitted tromp against those who believe he was an accomplice. russia's interference is. a battle for the truth about the president of the united states and for the principles of american democracy.

according to top u.s. intelligence chiefs the russians interfered in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election putin they say developed a clear preference for trump over clinton so russia's intelligence services stole and leaked thousands of clinton's e-mails to discredit her. two weeks before his inauguration they brief trump. trump rejects their conclusions he does not want his victory to be questioned. the intelligence agencies maintain their findings and partially release them to the public they say putin ordered an influence campaign to help trunk win the election. putin's role is immediately raised in congress which calls the chiefs of the

intelligence community to testify. in. their question by democratic party senator i just go down the line in. any of your careers have you ever seen this level of russian interference in our political process and start would recommend just going on the lord no. oh i have known. you know. i think very few documents that i can remember would have had the political weight and the political influence of this particular document. the purpose of making that report paul blood was to make sure the american people

world where some of the dynamics going on behind the scenes this is the first time that a major covert action major clandestine action against the united states. at the very heart of our democratic process had been tempted because of the sophistication. and then the pervasiveness of those attempts to have a widespread impact it was broader than anything that had been seen in prior actions. by the. u.s. intelligence community you go fish which is blaming bush and president vladimir putin to win the game are going to russia tried everything possible to get through to the election so it's high quality intelligence and there are multiple sources. only three days after the intelligence report a new classified document makes the headlines i want to be very perfect precise

here multiple u.s. officials with direct knowledge of the briefings tell c.n.n. that classified documents included allegations that russian operatives claimed to have compromising personal and financial information about mr trump this is a confidential report written by an ex british spy christopher steele on secret links between trump his businesses and the russians. it claims moscow has been helping trump all along with the regular flow of intelligence and that the russians have compromising material on. the main point of the steel dossier that there was an ongoing attempt by the russians to get close to the trump campaign is undisputed at this point he doesn't like the fact that the press said it but it is out there now mr president like go ahead present it as if you were to add up or not you did say should not you know

with the still dossier made public news trucks battle with the press intensifies our guys are going to do it mr president you say categorically why should the president like can you give us are going to be routing us can you give us are going to. he you know yesterday. during his first weeks at the white house trump is on the defensive the man he just appointed national security adviser general michael flynn is caught in the eye of the storm. he lied about his contacts at moscow and the russian embassy and washington. the press reveals it and trump has to retreat mike flynn is a fine person and i asked for his resignation he respectfully gave it flynn is the first victim of the battle of washington but firing flint is not enough a question remains what are the relations between trump and moscow did say

knowingly cooperate with a hostile foreign power to take over the leadership of the united states. for many months to come finding the truth will test the pillars of the american political system the independence of justice of the freedom of the press and the rule of law. under pressure from the press and from the democrats congress gets involved. and congress before the two thousand and eighteen midterm elections the republicans trumps party are the majority and the democrats are the opposition but on some crucial issues it's a tradition for the two parties to work together this is the spirit of bipartisanship just. it's just. since keeping the american people safe and maintaining a such

a strong homeland in national security is so important to this country it is the issue that demands the most bipartisan support and so democrats and republicans demanded that there be a bipartisan investigation demanded that there be bipartisan hearings and i was hopeful that this would lead to bipartisan action congressional committees have power and they can summon whomever they want as witnesses and lying to them is a crime the public hearings are followed by millions of americans and so high ranking high level government officials came to the congress the united states in front of the american people under oath and gave their assessment about russia's interference in our election a key figure of these hearings is james combing the director of the f.b.i. who heads up a staff of more than thirty five thousand men and women. i have been authorized by the department of justice to confirm that the f.b.i. as part of our counterintelligence mission is investigating the russian

government's efforts to interfere in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election and that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the trump campaign and the russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russia's efforts and early may two thousand and seventeen as he is grilled over the involvement of tromping and komi himself this gets into a minefield and have you ruled out the president out of state but i don't. i don't want people over interpret his answer i'm not going to comment on anyone in particular so potentially the president ited states could be a target of your ongoing investigation. i just worry i don't want to answer that direct that's seems to me unfair speculation we will follow the evidence will try and find as much as we can will follow the evidence wherever it leads by refusing to say publicly that trump is not under investigation komi is just put himself on

a collision course with the president. this is an n.b.c. news special report here's mr holmes and good day everyone we learned a short time ago that president trump has fired f.b.i. director james carville we are in a less than a week after coleman's hearing in congress trump fires him an attack against the f.b.i. and explosive news. bombshell from the white house wait to be i director james cool be fired by president we can we don't know this is something that caught all the law enforcement community by surprise and it caught the intelligence community in washington d.c. a surprise. and the dismissal came in harsh terms in a letter signed by the president you are terminated immediately.

i was stunned i think most of the american public was stunned i didn't even realize the president could fire the f.b.i. director the f.b.i. director serves by law for a ten year period and so it came as a shock i talked to a number of friends colleagues after that happened who are still in the f.b.i. and it was this essence of i can't believe the president did this bought i think he was just exercising what he believed was his authority just as if he was the c.e.o. of trump enterprises. and congress one question needs to be addressed by the investigative committee why did trump fire james komi. why do you believe you were fired. so i don't know for sure i believe the prick think the president at his word that i was fired because of the russian

versification something about the way i was conducting it the president felt created pressure on him they wanted to relieve he was asking for something and i was refusing to give it. and fact early in his term trumpet asked to speak to me in private. there was a meeting at the white house a one on one meeting between trump and call me call me must have had his antenna up because he felt like something was wrong because as soon as he was done that meeting he wrote up these memos. after meeting with trump call me sat in his car and wrote down what was discussed the meeting was about general fled the advisor who had lied about his contacts with russia trump said he hoped komi come let the matter go. i hope you can let this go now those are his exact words is that correct correct and you wrote them here and you put them in quotes correct ok he did not order you to let it go it is

a present united states with me alone saying i hope this i took it as this is what he wants me to do now i mean i didn't obey that but that's why it took. colin's account is correct if the president calls in the director the f.b.i. and says can you can you drop the case you guys have against this person for political reasons i think that absolutely is obstruction of justice. american law says anybody from an average citizen all the way up to the president who tries to block in a criminal investigation for the wrong reasons with what we call corrupt intent a bad motive. is guilty of obstruction of justice did you at any time former f.b.i. director james comey in any way shape or form to close or to back down the

investigation into michael flynn and also as you will know next question next question. soon after firing the f.b.i. director trump is about to face a new challenge. feature breaking news right now tonight a bombshell announcement just disappointing the special counsel that scale to counsel robert. bobb holder to now oversee the pressure probe and look at the possible connections between top campaign associates and rush it this is. 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 play any role in his

calculations so he is all about finding the truth and doing it under the rule of wall so yeah he's a man who told you that. robert muller was placed under the authority of the department of justice and its deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. his new orders give him far reaching powers. moller can investigate moscow's relations with the trump campaign and any other matters. most are wastes no time immediately orders the preservation of millions of official documents forbidding the destruction of records that could be useful in the russia probe e-mails phone records audio recordings metadata and storage devices recordings eventually or exit of the building's video surveillance. once a person or a company or or

a bureaucracy knows that there's a criminal investigation to destroy evidence after that becomes a federal crime and so i think mahler's first move was a smart one but the order also shows that there is a concern that these documents might be destroyed by a white house that is trying to hide the truth from investigators. was only the beginning of a bitter struggle between muller and the president of the united states. so we have mr miller who's known as a tough cop he's a big impose in six foot something experienced justice department official he's a tough cop the press was saying he's a tough cop he always gets his man. and he will press and squeeze and he will find what is truth and what is fiction he is

careful he is by the book he does not speak publicly other than his court filings he is incredibly hard working and focused mr trump on the other hand is a bulldog and it is impulsive where i could stand in the middle if if they have a new and shoot somebody and i wouldn't lose any voters ok it's like incredible there are not two more different people on earth than bob mahler and president trump and very early on in the in this whole process i think the trunk people realize that the best defense would be a political one and not a legal one legally they really don't have a lot to stand on trump and his people made a determination very early on we're going to claim that this whole thing is politically motivated is a witch hunt that all the way if they were the witch hunt i would call it the rigged to which i don't. know what you're saying if only to when she was a democrat gets fired when you don't add something that is not on the phone to you

which you truly was. is washington celebrates the fourth of july and. and instead a major offensive against the president is about to be launched. the surprise attack comes from the center of washington from the press. the new york times claims the trump campaign was in secret contact with russian officials five months before the two thousand and sixteen election a major scoop. this was the work of our washington best it was over and over weeks that we learned more and more about the meeting and the fact is it

occurred. so yes it was very exciting to have that scoop again we didn't know that much about the meeting we didn't learn it all at once but we've built on it since then and mahler is looking at that meeting the meeting is organized to be a emails between the son of the president and an intermediary who offered quote information that would incriminate hillary and would be very useful to donald trump ultra sensitive stuff he adds don jr answers if it's what you say i love it the meeting takes place on the ninth of june two thousand and sixteen in new york at trump tower around the table donald trump's son his son in law his campaign director paul manna for intermediary and for russian nationals the news spread like wildfire according to the new york times the residue york times report on the new york times reports the president's son donald trump jr was promised damaging information about hillary clinton for agreeing to meet last summer with

a russian lawyer a russian lawyer question has been actions with the front line when donald trump jr responded enthusiastically to the idea of receiving information that would be harmful to hillary clinton i think that was a gift to russia it represented an attempt by. russia to have a base of influence if you will. the news comes at a time when trump was in hamburg for an international summit where he had a meeting with vladimir putin and. the cold who are a lot of very positive things for russia for the united states and for everybody. would want to be with you if you. immediately after this hand shake the trunk can pass to do damage control over the new york times. they put out a statement saying the story was wrong. you know from air force one they were very very alarmed by it on the plane ride back to the united states is when the

president and his team come cox this story about how the trump tower meeting was about adoptions. flying back with his father your sends an explanation to the press. at the meeting he says was merely about the adoption of russian children in the united states. so the million dollar question with the trump tower meeting is what did the president know about it and when did his son tell him about the meeting at a time junior called his father and said hey we have this meeting coming up with some russian people that are offering us information and the president said great go for it let me know he's part of a conspiracy that is a not to bring someone into a conspiracy. back. i came up with the term fake news it's a lot of fake news this is fake news put out by the media schooled fake news people

back there you know those very dishonest people back there the. press. the. words have meaning and power and a lot of people myself included good republicans were going to go for pizza don't you still call this the enemy of the people is just going too far the press is trying to report the facts as they see them and the president has decided that he would like to shoot the messenger. one day arrived to the country club and the playground. and certainly if you didn't castro said to show you right show we could. source cuban so far in this magnificent. a chronicle of the

revolution and its aspirations through the prism of its architecture cuba's unfinished space on al-jazeera. the latest news as it breaks hours after the explosions to the point you say the city is safe and the civilians were not targeted. with detailed coverage despite the high cost young men are still volunteering to fight this partly out of a sense of tough you'll see. from around the world it must see it different now that is a view that speaks four to five many many people here in the past a republican. it does look more and more like bangladesh is becoming a one party state give me one good reason why the opposition should have been voted to do part isn't the problem the human rights watch describes how opposition members have been arrested or killed and even disappeared maybe have goes head to head with

a gal who is free to fuck you too you want to do it develop they don't is disputing the economic revolution what i don't recall saying this is a development is not the same as democracy head to head on al-jazeera. here in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera the indian pilots taken captive by pakistan has now been released and what islam about is calling a gesture of peace. walked back across the border two days after his plane was shot down in the disputed kashmir region. all of you all of us all indians are happy to have him back so was he to be back it was a country where you can hear. other countries go through the year and he comes back and it was going to be you're going to think he was doing all of them by emotion.

but happiness in his eyes or very evident of the headlines taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack on an army base which killed at least twenty three afghan soldiers the should robert base in helmand province is shared by afghan and american troops though the u.s. says it sector didn't come under threat and security forces in somalia have shot dead three al shabaab fighters ending a standoff following a bomb attack on a hotel the fighters held up for several hours in a building next to the central city hotel in mogadishu before being overwhelmed by special forces and the army at least twenty nine people have been killed in the suicide bomb attack on the hotel on thursday nights tens of thousands of people have rallied across algeria over president lizzie's beautifully has planned to run for a fifth term police fired tear gas at some protesters in algiers but the demonstrations were mostly peaceful this president donald trump china to lift all tariffs on

american agricultural products he says it's because trade talks between the world's two biggest economies are progressing well china and the us a negotiating a way out of a trade war that seemed to increases in tariffs since last year. a canadian judge will decide next week of a top weiwei executive should be extradited to the united states canada's government has approved an extradition hearing for among one show the chief financial officer of the chinese tech giant who's under house arrest after being detained three months ago at the request of the us. and certainly activists who were arrested on accusations of undermining security and harming national unity last year will be put on trial rights groups say the cases include female activists who campaign for the right to drive news hour for you in about twenty five minutes time here on al-jazeera right now we are back to battlefield washington.

this is the story set in one of the most powerful capitals in the world a political and judicial conflict. a battle that has pitted donald trump against those who believe he was an accomplice and russia's interference. could soon yellowing. cooperate with a hostile foreign power to take over the leadership of the state.

this is the first time. a major covert action major. action against the united states at the very heart of our democratic process. and october two thousand and seventeen special counsel robert muller issues his first indictments against people close to the president. campaign director and gates deputy director of the campaign are both charged for breaking a series of laws papadopoulos foreign affairs adviser to the campaign is charged for having lied to the f.b.i. . investigation and zero d. and on his first targets to the. right here by the f.b.i. . on. interfered slapped with a civil indictment including conspiracy against us conspiracy to launder money

riches story is a for each. campaign official. appeal. to a place lied about his contacts with foreign nationals 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 interference in the two thousand and sixteen 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 and it just seems to be the focus no pollution no of russia no nothing no police no proof whatsoever present trumps reactions or that any time one of his colleagues or

friends has been indicted or even pled guilty for him the litmus test of the bottom line is did the establish that there was collusion between president trump and his inner circle and the russians and thus far that has not been charged publicly so that's what he is. claiming as a victory one thing that people i think really misunderstand about the american federal criminal justice system is just how much we rely on cooperating witnesses the defendants the people of being charged the people who have done something wrong have the option of cooperating why then would incriminate characters cooperate with the investigation it's all about leverage you have to charge someone with a crime that you have the evidence on and then hope that that person is unwilling to take the risk of going to jail for a long time and instead decides to come in and cooperate in this drama between miller and the white house there's there's a lot of behind the scenes negotiation and strategy play it's very

much a game as muller builds up his case his investigation suddenly faces a setback. we start with new explosive information because he see here in the investigation in his job one of my trusted aides is discredited efficiently people shows name is peter shergold going to be an agent peter struck and strikes alleged mistress an f.b.i. were named lisa page. the press publishes the text messages of peter strong and lisa page. struck with a trusted advisor obama lawyer transcripts of his messages show that he was for family anti trump. oh my god he's an idiot says struck. he's awful says page. i have no idea how destabilizing his presidency would be.

struck was dismissed but the damage was done and congress presidents can't can now use trucks opinion to claim that the f.b.i. and the special counsel are politically tainted now the investigations into donald trump have been infected. with the virus of severe bias the pro trot media escalates the attack it denounces it as a conspiracy theory betting it was weaponized to destroy it you can't see these things underway right here some sort of subversion campaign intelligence agencies are running a classic dissin from ation psychological warfare operation against a sitting president of the united states to topple his government for trumped diehards the investigations that are closing in on the president since are weapons in the hands of an anti transition deep state there is collusion in the cia the n.s.a. the f.b.i. the justice department the news media politicians in both parties there colluding

working together with strategies talking points fake evidence to weaken embarrass and bring down president trump. the idea of a deep state is one of the dumbest ideas i have ever heard. there is no such thing as a deep state i have not seen that the state this is another made up conspiracy theory that there is a deep state out to get trump he's always looking for ways to blame his own problems on other people and this is another one totally false. but the deep state notion drives. some have suggested that the deep state is going to rise up and stage a coup why because everybody's talking about it and that's the point it comes out

of the white house the cable news networks pick it up they talk about it put it into circulation guess what congress hears it so it's all very very circular is say it enough to say it enough it becomes its own sort of bizarre reality. and it's ridiculous. we've been hijacked by a deep state it is addition. father we pray for president trump yes lord give him extra calcium in his backbone yes god is saying his enemies confound his enemies alou not fall into their traps this we pray in the name of jesus hey men and the mickey for watching. five feet floor three to one. she says.

i. and congress well the consensus over investigating the russian meddling withstand the pressure. there was a hope an expectation that congress as a bipartisan institution could get to the bottom of all this and we've been through it well enough at the top of. the leader of the democrats in the house intelligence committee has to admit that there will be no consensus on the issue. last night the majority on the intelligence committee made the decision to prematurely shut down the russian best occasion the only authorized investigation in the house of representatives that was a terrible disservice to the country and the american people this is no way to run investigation it is only a way to go through the motions to give the pretense of trying to find the truth the truth that the congress' failure to uncover the whole truth leads this task to

only one man robert mueller. on the ninth of april two thousand and eighteen 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 presidency and he has the ball in. as the keys to the kingdom he knows all the secrets about donald trump true and. hard work. the f.b.i. searched cohen's 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 of one of my personal attorneys a good man i said that is really now at a whole. new level of unfair that. cohen is someone who might know about trump's

alleged real estate dealings in russia. it was fairly common knowledge in the real estate community and the 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 lied when a few months earlier he denied having anything to do with russian i don't know nothing in russia i have no loans in russia i don't have any deals in russian the lack of financial transparency of the trump organization and the extent to which they have received financing from russian oligarchs or russian interests is unknown to the american people even to this day i have nothing to do with russia haven't made a phone call to russia in years don't speak to people from russia not that i wouldn't and i just have nobody to speak to did putin help trump to win the election is

there a secret pact between the two men if so cohen could be a key witness a major element of the special counsel strategy and i immediately recognize the strategy that muller was following because my own background as a federal prosecutor was doing organized crime mafia cases it is incredibly rare that you're able to right off the bat make a case against the top guys usually the way you have to build these kate. says if you have to do it brick by brick and you have to start on the outside and work your way in start at the bottom and work your way up and so in the mafia cases we would start with the low ranking guys and if we could get one to flip and cooperate he would then give us information about these two guys higher up the chain and you have to build up and it seems that that's what robert muller has done here the pressure on cohen builds investigators are digging into his life the f.b.i. also seems communications between michael couple again to president troop. who comes in life and possibly in donald trump's life the question is asking

himself at the white house tonight is will michael cohen crack trump's lawyer is faced with a choice remain silent and go to jail or reveal his client secrets and bear his wrath there is this notion of loyalty one of donald trump sort of defining beliefs is you're either loyal to me or you're dead to me and that's consistent with the way the mafia. operates if you are loyal to the boss and the family how can she keep his lawyer loyal. he enjoys an extraordinary constitutional power the right to pardon he said he makes an expeditious use of the. president started to get the part of the far right commentators here i'm just hearing president donald trump has officially parted for america confident that they should he is considering a pardon now for the treasury which is what time is really very very difficult to get frankly they're going to hurt. the party gird positive thing for

a president i think you see the way i'm using that yes there will be more part. trump issued some high profile pardons and i think by doing that i think he was sending a message to some of the people who might slip on him michael cullen paul metaphor and others of hey i'm using this this part of power and perhaps there could be one for you down the line if you stay quiet through basically a deal if you will and form a deal that if you keep your mouth shut then i'll take care of you. if witnesses keep silent it weakens mahler and his investigation and. no i'm not above the law but yes i do have an absolute right to pardon myself i have the absolute right i don't have to do and never did anything wrong or you know that better than anybody the idea that. a u.s. president would even talk about or even consider pardon themselves is just unprecedented and i think undermines the credibility of our whole way of

governance and democracy in general so when you have president trump who seems to think that he is above the law it's antithetical not just to the american idea but to the idea of modern democracy he is one person who is in charge of the state on behalf of all of us he is not sitting more than a year into his presidency transactions are about to test the very heart of the american system and. if it was if. it's. higher. than average corrupted no it is not a non-issue are we going to shoot me in the flesh to be brought under control just three hundred forty three years to be restricted. as the attacks on mother intensify a man stands up to protect the special counsel rod rosenstein the number two at the

department of justice he appointed muller and as the legal authority to oversee his operations and to fire him. on assuming but steady he has been shielding smaller for months. have you seen good cause to fire special counsel no thank you if you were ordered today to fire mr mohler what would you do if there were good cause i would act if there were no good cause i would not and you have seen no good cause so far correct run rosa's that is has become a beacon for anger. and from congressional republicans and i think they're disappointed i think they hoped that he would be partisan because he is a long time republican but instead rosenstein has shown himself to be sally independent and a law enforcement person first and congress trumps allies fire at will at rosenstein and i'm not keeping any information from conyers thought of you here in their mission we allow those he does not call you why didn't he hasn't presented

his first find a good fundraiser here and just you know where we've come and hiding information that you can answer if you have evidence of wrongdoing by any member of the trunk campaign presented to the dam grand jury whatever you guy. finish it the hell up to attack someone like that is very damaging ultimately to the system and importantly to the confidence that americans have in their government when elected representatives politicize the judicial process where this is lee the end dependence of justice. what is remarkable no is the white house and the justice department are at war our justice department and our f.b.i. . have to start doing their job and doing it right and doing. the president's view seems to be in his lawyers have said this he's in charge of the

executive branch he can do whatever he wants i want to stay out but at some point if it doesn't straighten out properly i want to do that job i will get involved and i'll get in there by half. and i but rod rosenstein does not blink direct and there are people who have been. making threats privately and publicly against me for quite some time and i think they should understand by now the department of justice is not going to be extorted we're going to do what's required by the rule of law and any kind of threats that anybody makes are not gonna affect the way we do our job we have a responsibility and we take an oath that's the whole yes everybody in the department takes that oath one hundred fifteen thousand employees and if they violated they know they're going to be held accountable and i know those folks know that i'm not going to violate my oath. and mid july two thousand and eighteen then once capitol hosts the first summit

between donald trump and. just three days before in washington rod rosenstein made a momentous announcement a new wave of indictments by bob muller. an afternoon indictment charges twelve russian military officers by name for conspiring to interfere with the twenty sixteen presidential election according to the allegations in the indictment the defendant's work for two units of the g.r.u. the g.r.u. russia's military intelligence service is accused of conspiracy against the united states units and gauged an active cyber operations to interfere in the. twenty sixteen presidential election. the russian agents targeted in particular the computers of trump's adversaries the friends covertly monitor the computer

implanted hundreds of files containing malicious computer code and stole e-mails and other doctors. mahler's indictment of twelve russian military intelligence officers conspiring to interfere with the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election to benefit trump implicated russia at the highest level. the indictment of a dozen russian g.r.u. intelligence officers in july twenty eight in was a kind of turning point the election interference is now a sacked of law as far as the united states is concerned and it is not something that the president can dismiss it is in fact a state operation by a hostile foreign power that i see as good words when you go to the new issue was the easy bit when you showed me the guns given to you look we've got me but it says . at a question just now president putin denied having anything to do with the election

your fair answer twenty sixteen every u.s. intelligence agency has concluded that russia did my first question for you sir is who do you believe my people came to me they said they think it's russian i have president putin he just said it's not russian i will say this i don't see any reason why it would be so i have great confidence in my intelligence people but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial thank you. he basically took the side of food over his own intelligence service and that was a really bad thing to do it was. the wrong thing to do the question then becomes what is it that the president owes to the russians and what is his relationship with some suggest that he's an asset of putin's but we don't have

evidence of that. i think what i would say is that this is someone putin can use for easily perhaps even without trump realizing he's being used. september two thousand and eighteen several of times close aides have agreed to cooperate with investigators. his former campaign director paul man ford and his lawyer michael cohen have already signed agreements with robert mueller. they all agree to cooperate with the investigation if they do so fully the prison sentences they are facing will be reduced apparently those close aides to trying to have slipped and are ready to share with bob muller the secrets of the president. president trump finds himself in a corner the walls are closing in on him many doesn't know where to run.

you know but the keep the yankees the impeach word impeach trump maxine waters we will impeach him but he didn't do anything wrong it doesn't matter we will impeach him. it is a hell of a place it was. november two thousand and eighteen the midterm elections are approaching fast trump burns off the campaign trail. if his party keeps control over congress his legal troubles might fade away. by. the results are a blow to the president. the american voters give the house of representatives to

the democrats. they now have the ability to proceed with intrusive congressional investigations into trump's conduct. the day after the vote the russian investigation comes back to haunt the president thank you mr president going back to the russia investigation some say that you could stop all this by going i insist i could fire everybody right now but i don't want to stop it because a politically i don't like stopping and i don't want to do that but you're right i could end it right now i could say that investigation is over well on the russian vesta geisha are you concerned that that you may have not going to turn about anything with you may have a joint investigation because it's a hoax are you that's enough to put down the mike as president are you worried about indictments coming down and. shutting down the investigation will not be that easy for truong. as robert mueller plows ahead with his investigation and

key witnesses start revealing traum secrets to future looks uncertain for the president but the battle is certainly not over americans may still be endora surprise ending.

how it may now be march when to prevent use in a good part of the us all the northeastern states the great lakes and back to the the plains this is cold enough any to drop snow and of course in california story's been a huge amount of rain and snow but the rain prince be producing flooding in there's more to come on saturday night this line that runs across colorado and towards us was rough in new york the coldest to the north not cold is sinking slowly and i but as is always i so is bringing the snow sas it is well known almost as fast as kentucky is at the up towards d.c. so huge amounts of snow the temperatures dropping behind minneapolis a high by a day of minus sixteen in chicago has dropped to

a high of about minus three on sunday winter's not finish for the us after all the caribbean is seeing slow changes here but all clad in a daily basis showers more likely in jamaica and cuba and increasingly costa rica as an example nicaragua and maybe honduras not greatly but more cloud jemmy's peak in the area and the fairly familia shape of rain takes the biggest showers from northern bolivia brazil down towards rio and sao paolo where they have been heavy. on line. to the ship for them. or if you join us on the sat all of us have been colonized in some form or some fashion this is a diana talking about a legal front you have seen what it can do to somebody people used on multiple drugs including the funnel and some people are seeking it out everyone has

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