the arab foreign ministers on that i am not sure they have learned anything new from the palestinian president clearly he put them on the spot my sense is they will continue to think what they thought before they heard the speech meaning yes you are right president abbas but as you know we are divided we are incapacitated we are hostage to american pressure and a lot of us would simply gonna have to say yes you are right ok but perhaps you're going to still have to deal with the thrown plan thank you maramba shara senior political analyst we appreciate it and very much and as we have been discussing the palestinian president mahmoud abbas is calling on arab nations to take a clear stance against the u.s. president middle east plan the arab league is holding an emergency meeting in cairo that's we were just discussing to to discuss donald trump's deal of the century abbas told members he wasn't consulted about the planet would never accept the annexation of jerusalem here some of what he said we're going to do and approach

the moment those see jerusalem is still israel you will never accept that and this circumstances. and this economist says i will. jerusalem i will never soldier is of them jerusalem is not is no fool me it's full of us but we are the guards we are the fishes who take care of it and it's our capital. arab league secretary general also criticized trump's plan for honeck on my own stuff the israelis have understood the american plan as it grants that should be accepted and taken this means that the israeli right considers this a paved road to accept all the settlements and to be isolated you need to really away from the other occupied territories on the west bank this means that the american plan is a clear sign for the israelis to continue their occupation but. let's update you

now on the corona virus outbreak china's prime minister has asked the european union for help in getting urgent medical supplies to deal with the worsening outbreak. more from one hand honk honk. china's war against corona virus is being waged around the country as it spreads to every province and territory so far the virus is winning with the number of infections and deaths growing by the day on the front line in who province where the outbreak is thought to have started the challenges made greater by a shortage of medical supplies. with the full support from the party central committee the state council and all the chinese people the shortage of medical supplies has eased to some degree but protective suits and losses and 95 masks are still in tight balance and have to be scheduled dalal there's not enough medical personnel either which the government is trying to address by sending thousands of extra doctors and nurses both civilian and military to. much of the provinces shut

down as authorities try to contain the spread of the virus but supermarkets remain open and the government says it's trying to maintain a steady supply of food at regular prices. we can ensure sufficient supply for daily necessities such as vegetables lamb beef pork in eggs in supermarkets as foreign nationals are evacuated from the provincial capital china's government has started bringing stranded nationals home from overseas the 1st charter flight arrived in hand from thailand amid reports of who bay residents being prevented from boarding commercial flights back to china in hong kong medical workers are threatening to strike next week unless the government does more to restrict the flow of travellers from the mainland while some border crossings have closed flights from chinese cities are still operating the latest official statistics show that on one day last week almost 10000 mainland chinese residents flew into hong

kong it's that traffic that many people here want stopped the government says existing measures to control the outbreak are working and stopping the flow of people goods isn't the answer. but critics say unless hong kong follows the lead of some other governments and closes its border with the mainland completely this city could be about to see a big increase in fictions wayne hay al jazeera hong kong. and there has been a drawn out debate delays and a vision that the u.k. officially unless the european union. departure was greeted with cheers by progress that crowds are gathered outside parliament for the countdown. those are the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera more news to come and update at the bottom of the hour in the meantime we're going to hand it over to battlefield washington. org. order.

adamo trawl through solemnly swear like donald trump do solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states the office of president of the united states the day trump a sworn in the 2016 election that secured his victory is already under investigation did russia help him 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 and russia's interference is. a battle for the truth about the president of the united states and for the principles of american democracy. prosy.

according to top u.s. intelligence chiefs the russians interfered in the 2016 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. 2 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 trump win the election. putin's role is immediately raised in congress which calls the chiefs of the intelligence community to testify. on.

their question by democratic party sen 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 with draconian just go down the lord no. oh i have no. no no. 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 public was to make sure the american people world where some of the dynamics going on behind the scenes this is the 1st 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 because we've been to a place that you want us intelligence community you go fishing with is blaming bush president vladimir putin to win again are you going to change russia tried everything possible to get through to the november election you know it's high quality intelligence and there are multiple sources. only 3 days after the intelligence report a new classified document makes the headlines 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 secretly 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 elect president that's what you were trying to say should not when you get with the still dossier made public news trucks battle with the press intensifies. why is it

a boy there's a reason why you say categorically why should the president like can you give us are going to be reuniting us can you give us are going to be you know not going to want you to during his 1st weeks at the. the white house trump is on the defensive the man who 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 1st victim of the battle of washington but firing flint is not enough the question remains what are the relations between trump and moscow did she 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. in congress before the 2018 minute term 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 2 parties to work together this is the spirit of bipartisanship just. since keeping the american people safe and maintaining a such a strong homeland of 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. now they can summon whomever they want as witnesses and lying to them is a crime their 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 and they see hearings as james combing the director of the f.b.i. who heads up a staff of more than 35000 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 2016 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 2017 as he is grilled over the involvement of tromping camp komi himself gets into a minefield and you have you ruled out the president out of state but i don't. you know what people over interpret this answer i'm not going to comment on anyone in particular so potentially the president i states could be a target of your ongoing investigation correct i just worry i don't want to answer that that that's seems to me unfair speculation we will follow the evidence will try and find as much as we can we'll 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 hears lester holmes and good day everyone we learned a short time ago the president has fired f.b.i. director james people 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 cooley fired by president truman we can we don't know this is something that caught all the law enforcement community by surprise and in court the intelligence community in washington d.c. the 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 10 year period and so it came as a shock i talked to a number of friends colleagues after that happened who were still in the f.b.i. and it was this essence of i can't believe the president did this but i think he was just exercising what he believed was his authority just as if. who's the c.e.o. of trump in apprises. and congress one question needs to be addressed by the investigative committee why did trump fire james comey. why do you believe you were fired so i don't know for sure i believe the president the president at his word that i was fired because of the russian vest occasion 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 trump 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. homie 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 flan 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 wanted me to do i didn't obey that but that's where it took. place coleman'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 of the verge 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 well 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 bomb shell announcement just disappeared in the special counsel to counsel robert . bobb holder to now oversee the pressure probe a look at the possible connections between top campaign associates and russia this is. only 8 days after the firing of james combing the justice department appoints robert muller to take over the russian probe. for this mission robert mueller was called out of retirement he had been director of the f.b.i. for 12 years and in 2013 he had left a law enforcement agency with full honors in his farewell speech he proclaimed his unshakable faith in the rule of law. have always been proud to say that i work for

the department of justice because of that for which it stands which is an unyielding commitment to the rule of law and to the safety and security of the citizens we serve a know. quite well. i worked with him for about 4 years when i was the cia deputy director and he was the director of the f.b.i. . he's not a self promoting individual and he has a very high standard for what is true and what is not true administrator pistole he pointed me as his number 2 person in the f.b.i. as a deputy director and so i had the chance to get to know him and then. work with him so let me say a few words about director ball or politics or just don't play any role in his calculations so he is all about finding the truth and doing it under the rule of

law so yeah he's a man to be told that. robert muller was placed under the authority of the department of justice and it's 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 waste 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 adventure 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 1st 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. this was only the beginning of a bitter struggle between mahler and the president of the united states. so we have mr miller who is known as a tough cop he's a big impose in 6 foot something experienced. justice department official he's a tough cop the press was saying he's a tough cop he always gets his mail. 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 he 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 incredibly there are not 2 more different people on earth than bob mahler and president trump and very early on in the in this whole process i think the trump 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 his 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 break with the witch hunt i would call it the rigged to which on to. what you're saying if only to when she was a democrat gets fired when you don't add something. on the phone to you which it's really.

is washington celebrates the 4th of july and dependence to 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 claim. so trump campaign was in secret contact with russian officials 5 months before the 2016 election. major scoop. this was the work of our washington best against the saying it was over and over weeks that we learned more and more about the meeting and the fact is that occurred . so yes it was very exciting to have that scoop again we didn't know that much

about that meeting we didn't learn it all at once but we've built on it since then you know a dollar is looking at that meeting the meeting is organized to be a emails between a 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 9th of june 2016 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 red york times report on to 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 the russian lawyer in question has been actions with from. 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. but we're told he was a lot of very positive things that russia is for the united states and for everybody. an honor to be with you. immediately after this hand shake the trunk camp has to do damage control over the new york times story 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 trump jr 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 $1000000.00 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 if 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 trump fights 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 as called fake news people back there you know those very dishonest people back there but these guys are crooked.

words have meaning and power and a lot of people myself included good republicans were going to go for pete's don't stone do they call us 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. over 40 years ago the mysterious killing of the president of north yemen shocked the nation. it's a story of deception and. one that still resonates today. al-jazeera world reveals how a banquet for your many dignitaries became the backdrop to a brutal assassination. yemen the last launch.

on al-jazeera. the latest news as it breaks while of these all the lies and on r.t. has paved the way for a wave of less than there is the job of conflict with details coverage and feel is generally some can try riot police have been you think of amount of fear got to the earth the crowd from around the world covering oh the areas affected by it will erupt so they have so far they face a penalty. in india identity politics on the rise what we're seeing is the construction of budget issues in the hearts and lives of new units of the across the country and as it docks on going to 12 is you do see the grid from his office pool now i just think of the hindu fish into something more like the team i didn't see of the british today i meet with victims of violence and discover what life is like for minorities in the country join me on my

journey in search of india's soul on al-jazeera. i'm richelle carey and these are the top stories now on al-jazeera palestinian president mahmoud abbas is calling on arab nations to take a clear stance against the u.s. presidents middle east plan arab league is holding an emergency meeting in cairo to discuss final trump so-called deal of the century abbas told members he was not consulted and would never accept the annexation of jerusalem were going to. the moment they said you do salamis and next to israel i knew i have to say it loud and clear we will never accept that under any circumstances i will never sell jerusalem jerusalem is not for me it is for all of us were just the guards were only here

because it is our duty our responsibility jerusalem is our capital it is our capital. there blake's attorney general also criticized the trump plan. the israelis have understood the american plan as it grants that should be accepted and taken this means that the israeli right considers this a paved road to accept all these settlements and to be isolated you lot are really away from the other occupied territories on the west bank this means that the american plan is a clear sign for the israelis to continue their occupation. and prime minister is asked the european union for help getting urgent medical supplies to deal with the worsening corona virus outbreak australia has torn join the us rather and banning entry of foreign nationals who recently been to china 2 in a 59 people have now died from the virus on saturday china announced 46 new jets has been drawn out to bait delays and division but the u.k.

officially has now left the european union. the departure was greeted by cheers from the progress a crowd that gathered outside parliament for that countdown comes more than 3 years after a referendum where the leave narrowly won u.k. now enters a transition period with the e.u. while a new trade agreement is negotiated impeachment trial of u.s. president travel likely end on wednesday that's because the republican controlled senate voted to block any witness testimony so that means donald trump will all but certainly be acquitted as are the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera we have a news hour for you at the top of the hour in the meantime we return you to battlefield washington. so bring on al-jazeera. and make tension with the u.s. and protests over

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. cooperate with a hostile foreign power to take over the leadership of the stands. this is the 1st time a major covert action major. action against the united states at the very heart of our democratic process at that time to. an october 2017 special counsel robert muller issues his 1st indictments against people close to the president. made up for trump's campaign director and gates deputy director of the campaign are both charged for breaking a series of laws. list for an affair. as advisor to the campaign is charged for having lied to the f.b.i. . investigation and 0 d.

and on his 1st targets to the format of the night one profiteer 5 testing by the f.b.i. had a plan the 1st part of her interference slapped with a. conspiracy against us conspiracy to launder money into registering as a foreign agent. campaign official. feel that they are joining the topless line about his contacts with foreign nationals in a series of people in d.c. suddenly in deep deep trouble those charged by muller become fair game for the press even if they're not directly linked to the russian interference in the 2016 election. when the initial indictments were issued by mueller people rightfully so 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 new clues really seems

to be the focus no collusion no of russia no nothing no police no food 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 investigators 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 to keep secure in the moment best to be removed from this job one of my trusted aides is discredited in time efficiently shows name is peter strong to the f.b.i. agent peter struck and strikes alleged mistress and f.b.i. and we're named lisa page. the press publishes the text messages of peter struck and lisa page. struck was a trusted adviser of bob muller transcripts of his messages show that he was for

him at least 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 strikes 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 trump media escalates the attack it denounces it as a conspiracy theory definition was weaponized to destroy in the presidency who is underway right here some sort of subversion campaign for trump diehards the investigations that are closing in on the president are weapons in the hands of an anti trumped deep state we've been hijacked by a deep state it is so addition. father we pray for president trump yes lord

give him extra calcium in his backbone yes god made his enemies confound his enemies alou not fall into their traps this we pray in the name of jesus hey man and the mistake you for watching 'd. the idea of a deep state is one of the dumbest ideas i've 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. 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'd be through it well no it didn't happen. 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 congress' failure to uncover the whole truth leads this task to only one man robert mueller. on the 9th of april 2018.

a new york attorney becomes the latest target of bob muller michael cohen donald trump's personal lawyer michael cohen he's donald trump's long time for the lawyer and fixer is the city president super and he has the ball as the keys to the kingdom he knows all the secrets about donald trump. card with. the f.b.i. search cohens office at the request of a local prosecutor on charges of financial fraud. the move initiated by bob muller as a direct challenge to the president himself. so i just heard that they broke into the office 'd 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 that was fairly common knowledge in the real

estate community and the international finance community in the political community the russians were funding in various ways many major trunk real estate projects cohen my also know if the president lie in a few months earlier he denied having anything to do with russia i 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 i just have nobody to speak to did putin help try to win the election is there a secret pact between the 2 men and if so cohen could be a key witness a major element of the special council straw. audigy 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 cases is 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 2 guys higher up the chain and you have to build up and it seems that that's what robert mueller has done here the pressure on cohen builds investigators are digging into his life the f.b.i. also seems communications between michael campbell again to president truman. even one 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 cracker crumbs 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 trump keep his lawyer loyal. he enjoys an extraordinary constitutional power the right to pardon he says me makes an expeditious use of the. right started to do with our far right how would you know we're not just hearing president donald trump has officially departed for america how confident foundation is considering a paladin our president especially which is one terminally very very good to hear especially given the current part of. the pardons are very positive thing for a president i think you see the way i'm using now yes there will be more bark.

trump issued some high. i 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 cohen 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 there is basically a deal if you will an informal deal that if you keep your mouth shut then i'll take care. if witnesses keep silent it weakens mahler and his investigation. no i'm not above the law but yes i do have an absolute right to pardon myself if i have the absolute right i don't have to do it 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 here's one person who is in charge of the state on behalf of allah he has not seen. more than a year into his presidency comes actions are about to test the very heart of the american system of governance. if it was that it. was a true there were. corrupted no. no no on a family plan to choose a new army and it appears to be black under. our we are various to be 3 sectors. as the attacks on mother intensify a man stands up to protect the special counsel rod rosenstein the number 2 at the department of justice he appointed moller and has the legal authority to oversee his operations and to fire him. unassuming but steady he has been shielding moller

for a month. have you seen good cause to fire special counsel no thank you if you were ordered today to fire mr moeller 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 rod rosa's that is has become a beacon for anger from donald trump and from congressional republicans and i think they're disappointed in him i think they hoped that he would be partisan because he is a long time republican but instead rosenstein has shown himself to be fairly independent and a law enforcement person 1st and congress allies fire at will at rosenstein i'm not keeping any information from conyers thought you might be in their minds when we allow those who did not call you why didn't you have some presented is for finding a good fundraiser all for your own value where we've come in hiding information that you can answer if you have evidence of wrongdoing by any member of the trunk

campaign presented to the damn grand jury whatever you guy finish it to how. 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 only the end dependence of justice. what is remarkable now is the white house and the justice department are at war that our justice department and our f.b.i. . you have to start doing their job and doing it right and doing it. the president's view seems to be and 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 their job i will get involved

and i'll get in there by half. and i what 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 everybody in the department takes that over 115000 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 2018 months capital host the 1st summit between donald trump and.

just 3 days before and washington rod rosenstein made a momentous announcement a new wave of indictments by bob muller. an afternoon indictment charges 12 russian military officers by name for conspiring to interfere with the 2816 presidential election according to the allegations in the indictment. the defendant's work for 2 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 2016 presidential election. the russian agents targeted in particular the computers of trumps adversaries the defendants covertly monitor the computer implanted hundreds of files containing malicious computer code and stall e-mails and other doctor.

mahler's indictment of 12 russian military intelligence officers conspiring to interfere with the 2016 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 28 in was a kind of turning point the election interference is now a fact 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 is good with words when you go to the new usual is the easy bit when you show that when you're going to give an opinion you look we've been in the pits is. that a question just now president putin denied having anything to do with the election airfare and 2016 every u.s. intelligence agency has concluded that russia did my 1st 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 and 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 in power. full 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 it easily perhaps even without trump realizing he's being used. september 2018 several of times close aides have agreed to cooperate with investigators. is former campaign director paul man ford and his lawyer michael cohen have already signed agreements with robert mueller. they all agreed to cooperate with the investigation if they do so fully the prison sentences they are facing will be reduced apparently those close aides to trump have flipped 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 2 where to run.

you know but they 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 or. it is a hell of a place it was. november 2018 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. 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 could i have just i could fire everybody right now but i don't want to stop it because it's a politically i don't like stopping it 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 where 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. on april 18th 200-1000 the u.s. department of justice releases the redacted version of special counsel robert melissa porch it concludes there was no conspiracy between the trunk campaign in

moscow. the democrats demand the underage acted report and from dollar to testified before congress on july 24th 2019 now former special counsel robert mueller testifies before 2 congressional committees concludes there was insufficient evidence to charge any truck campaign member with conspiracy but it cannot exonerate president trump on obstruction of justice and what has totally exonerated you actually totally exonerate the president so. there was no defense to this ridiculous hoax just which on a street going on for. a long time. a month later however pushed firmly into the background and a new twist in the tussle between legislature and executive. evidence emerges from an unnamed state department whistleblower that attracts congressional attention to

president trunks. activities in ukraine. this triggers a house of representatives inquiry into whether truong abused his powers by allegedly withholding aid to crane to pressure president lattimer's olinsky to investigate former vice president joe biden the democratic front runner and this year's white house race. the 2 month inquiry finds trump did solicit foreign interference and the 2020 presidential election and so on the semper 18 the house of representatives approved articles of impeachment against trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of congress they can be very clear that this president will be held accountable that no one is above the law. the case then moves to the upper house and on january 18th 2020 the senate trial of the 45th

president of the united states begin. color i'm pleased to say it does look a little drier into east impossible zillow for the next couple days but quite a lot of clouds still coming out of the western side of the prison pushing down into the far southeast of the country most of the showers to the south of as we go on through the next couple days but still a possibility of some wet weather coming through his is that dry weather that we

have over the eastern side of the country the hevia showers are up towards the far northwest towards those where that was columbia western sort of in this while a big clutch of storms there through the amazon basin that's per usual and then sunday we'll see more of the same somewhat so whether there is a spilling out of power quite to the south of that to sarah says warm temperatures here touching 34 degrees celcius warm sunshine to across a good part of the caribbean further north this white shading of cloud that's where we got the big storms that have been rattling across southern parts of florida see some flooding rains here that's pushing a further east which as we go through the next couple days the line of storms they run all the way down into the yucatan peninsula eastern parts of mexico seeing some rather lively showers lobby show as to just into northern panama into costa rica but elsewhere across the region it's like fine dry and sunny.

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u.s. senate or checks their bid to call their witnesses.