so no matter what you see al jazeera will bring you the needs and current affairs that matter to you. al-jazeera. oh. i'm home he's in in doha with the top stories on al-jazeera china says at least 304 people have now died from the corona virus after dozens more deaths were reported beijing has asked the e.u. to provide urgently needed medical supplies as it struggles to contain the spread of the virus the 1st suspected case has just been announced a new york this individual this patient who is being evaluated right now did exactly as they should have followed the guidelines that the new york put out

and they met these specific criteria they had traveled to china they did have the specific symptoms associated with corona virus and they did come to get medical care here at the hospital and hong kong hospital workers will go on strike on monday for 5 days they're demanding their government to close its borders with mainland china amid the outbreak iraq's president named former communications minister mohammed alawi as prime minister designate but his appointments has been rejected by protesters who are demanding sweeping political change so wonderful teen reports from baghdad. on. the streets response to iraq's prime minister designate came fast and it was loud and clear. mohammed the law is rejected protesters in baghdad to hear square chanted on saturday night after 2 months of political deadlock president barham

saleh chose mohamed allow it to replace other love the mahdi who resigned 2 months ago amid widespread anti-government protests days prior to allow its appointment we spoke to protesters into here who saw him as another incarnation of a political system that has failed them a good model for sure he's rejected any person who has a relation with the parties from close so far is reject from all the people in general because for 16 years we haven't seen anything from them just destruction. indeed alawi is part and parcel of iraq's post 2003 political establishment a cousin of former vice president and prime minister ayad alawi he served as a member of parliament and communication minister but resigned in 2012 after he accused the government of sectarianism upon his appointment allow addressed iraqis in a late night speech pledging to address their demands. you know i want to point towards

the necessity for the peaceful protests to continue that support reforms until they achieve their legitimate demands on the government starts their genuine reforms. just like his predecessor allow a promise to create jobs and fight corruption and he vowed to bring those responsible for the deaths of over $600.00 protesters to account i thought could. confirm that we're going to investigate some bring those responsible for the violence against peaceful demonstrators to account. the prime minister designate has 30 days to form a cabinet which must be approved by a parliament that has been deeply divided over how to handle the latest crisis some factions have rejected allowed his appointment but influential shiite cleric knocked out assad or throw his weight behind him. i don't think he has support from all the political blocs but there are important political forces and i expect that the surge wrists movement will stand with him and if that's the case the other

political blocs will do the science for 4 months protesters have asked for a complete overhaul of the political system and then independent head of state who isn't beholden to any domestic or foreign powers allow is appointment doesn't fulfill either of these demands but it could end the months of deadlock and pave the way for early elections and gradual reform some want to hold in al-jazeera but that. the arab league has rejected the u.s. president's plan to end the israeli palestinian conflict and to meet in an emergency meeting in cairo palestinian president mahmoud abbas said his people would never accept the proposal put forward by donald trump this week for those israel to annex large parts of palestinian land those are the headlines he's continues here on now to syria after field washington stay with us.

ah donald trump do solemnly swear donald trump do solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states the authors of the president of the united states the day trump this morning and the 2016 election that secured his victory is already under investigation did russia help him get the presidency. so help me god breath one of. my the.

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 that 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 to my. 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 going on 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. like bring me to a place that you want us intelligence community you go fishing with is blaming bush and president vladimir putin told we were going to russia tried everything possible to get to the november election so it's high quality intelligence and there are multiple sources. only 3 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 i like the way president that's what you are trying are not a decision i mean you get with the still dossier made public news trucks battle

with the press intensifies. why is my point mr president i hear 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. he did not enough particular to during his 1st 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 1st victim of the battle of washington but firing flint is not enough the question remains what are the relations between trump and moscow to 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 2018 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 2 parties to work together this is the spirit of bipartisanship . it's just. since keeping the american people safe and maintaining a some 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 their public hearings are pollard 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 she is grilled over the involvement of tromping camp told me himself this gets into a minefield and have you ruled out the president out of state 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 that 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 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 came 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. and surprise you. 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. as a c.e.o. of trouble no prizes. in 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. 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. in the american laws says anybody from an average citizen all the way up to the president who tries to block and 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 i'm sure this would be just disappointing the special counsel to counsel robert. bobb holder to now oversee the pressure probe and look at the possible connections between top campaign associates and rush and 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 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 no by muller 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 the 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 really would be witchhunt i would call it the rig to which aren't. there which are saying if only to when she was a democrat gets fired when you don't add something that is not for the phony which you truly.

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 claims to trump campaign was in secret contact with russian officials 5 months before the 2016 election a major scoop. this was the work of our washington best occasions 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 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 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 right to new 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 the from lynn 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 through a lot of very positive things that russia is for the united states and for everybody. would want to be with you because. immediately after this handshake the trunk camp has 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 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 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 but these guys are crooked 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 do that 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. in the philippines the black market for gold is worth hundreds of millions but not everyone is reaping the rewards to sound of paying the ultimate prize when i went east investigates why people like dying for gold on al-jazeera. separate on al-jazeera. and make tension with the u.s. and protests over

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traveled to china they did have the specific symptoms associated with corona virus and they did come to get medical care here at the hospital. hospital workers will go on strike on monday for 5 days they're demanding the government close its borders with mainland china amid the outbreak it follows moves by both the u.s. and astray they are to ban tarus from entering the country if they've been in china with the past 14 days. iraq's president has appointed former communications minister mohammad of norway as prime minister designate but she's already been rejected by antigovernment protesters who've been out on the streets since october in a message posted on twitter we promised change and said he stood with the demonstrators . the arab league has rejected the u.s. president's plan to end the israeli palestinian conflict as an emergency meeting in

cairo palestinian president mahmoud abbas said his people would never accept the proposal put forward by donald trump this week it allows israel to annex large parts of palestinian land. protestors in lebanon have converged on its poorest city to show the government they're united in their calls for political change the latest march comes ahead of next week's confidence votes to approve a new cabinet and strong gusts of winds and soaring temperatures are fueling bush fires near this trailing capital firefighters have managed to prevent the flames reaching their skirts of canberra on friday the australian capital territory declared a state of emergency. states now it's back to the 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 brushes interference. could soon yelling . cooperate with a hostile foreign power to take over the leadership of the state. this is the 1st time. a major covert action major. action against the united states at the very heart of our democratic process as the text of. an october 2017 special counsel robert mueller issues his 1st indictments against people close to the president. trumps 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. . malaysian destitution and 0 indian on his 1st targets to the. right here by the. french a string is a for each. line about his contacts with foreign nationals and a series of people in d.c. suddenly in deep trouble those charged by muller become fair game for the press even if they're not directly linked to the russian and or for. in the 2016 election . when the initial indictments were issued by mueller

people rightfully said wait a minute this is supposed to be about russia so what's going on and a lot of people have said none of this is collusion who cares why is moller charging these crimes if it's not clues you know collusion there's no collusion and it just seems to be the focus don't collude you know approach you know nothing no please no religion 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 they stab us if 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 a new explosive information picky secure in the investigation removed from this job one of my trusted aides is discredited it's time efficiently impeach bush shows name is peter strong to the f.b.i. agent peter struck and struck the alleged mistress an f.b.i.

and were named lisa page. the press publishes the text messages of peter struck and lisa page. struck was a trusted adviser a bomb all or 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 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 fire a 6 of your bias the pro truck media escalates the attack it denounces it as a conspiracy theory definition was weaponized to destroy a 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 humanity 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've been through it well enough at that and. 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 is donald trump's long time through a lawyer and fixer is the city present the sewer 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 it's really valid a whole. new level of unfair that. cohen is someone who might know about 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 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. it also seems communications between michael couple again to president truman.

in michael collins 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 said he makes an expeditious use of the. right started to do with our far right commentary that we are 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 her character. 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 a 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 mr mantra new army and it appears to be black under. our were carried through the 3 sectors. as the attacks on mahler intensified

a man stands up to protect the special counsel rod rosenstein the number 2 at the department of justice he appointed muller and has the legal authority to oversee his operations and to fire him. unassuming but steady he has been shielding muller for a month. 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've 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 congressmen allies fire at will at rosenstein i'm not keeping any information from congress thought you might be in their minds and

we allow those who did not call you why didn't you have been presented as the 1st finding a good fundraiser all for your own thank you 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 finishes 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 really 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 if i have. and i what rod rosenstein does not to 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 capitol hosts the 1st summit between donald trump and vladimir putin. 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 2016 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

trump's adversaries the defendants covertly monitor the computer implanted hundreds of files containing malicious computer code and stole e-mails and other doctors. 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 as good as lives 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 air france a 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 trance close aides have agreed to cooperate with investigators. is former campaign director paul mann of 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 lids 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 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. is a hell of a place in. november 2018 the midterm elections are approaching fast trump burns off the campaign trail. if this party keeps control over congress his legal troubles might fade away. was. 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 d.-ca 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 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. on april 18th

2019 the u.s. department of justice releases the redacted version of special counsel robert most reports it concludes there was no conspiracy between the trump campaign and moscow . the democrats demand the underage acted report and for mahler to testify before congress on july 24th 2019 now former special counsel robert mueller testifies before 2 congressional committees muller concludes there was insufficient evidence to charge any truck campaign member with conspiracy but he cannot exonerate president from one obstruction of justice and one of a total generation you actually totally exonerate the president so. there was no defense for this ridiculous hoax just which on a street going on for. a long time. a month later however

muller is 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 trunk's activities in ukraine. and this triggers a house of representatives inquiry into whether truong abused his powers by allegedly withholding aid to ukraine to pressure president vladimir selenski to investigate former vice president joe biden the democratic front runner and the sure white house race was. a 2 month inquiry finds trump did solicit foreign interference and the 2020 presidential election and so on december 18th the house of representatives approved articles of impeachment against trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of congress making. very thing or. this

plan will be held accountable to no one is above the law. the case then lose to the upper house and on january 18th 2020 the senate trial of the 45th president of the united states again. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast but we have been talking about the rain and the very heavy snow here across parts of northwest

united states as well as into canada and it's really evident here on the satellite all that moisture coming in off the pacific really pushy and wind bringing the very heavy snow to the higher elevations across much of british columbia now it will still be a problem here on sunday and you can see the snow right here particularly in british columbia now for washington state the rain is going to subside and things are going to get better as we begin the week well it's for the super bowl down here towards miami of course inside as could be playing but outside it's going to be a little bit chilly here on sunday we do expect to see a temperature of about 241 degrees that is below average for this time of year as we go towards monday things are looking a little bit better but up towards washington well above average for this time of year 18 degrees and sunny conditions well here across western mexico we are going to see an increase of rain and you can see here on the satellite all the rain coming in from the pacific so from mexico city not a bad day on sunday but by the time we get towards sunday evening the rain will begin it on monday it could be quite heavy we could be seeing some localized

flooding across some of that area over here toward savannah though it's going to be a little bit chilly for the normal high of 23 degrees there for nasa about 27 for you. john the president's son donald trump journey or was promised damaging information about hillary clinton allegation like to see an investigation seductress did the trump campaign collude with russia did you at any time bridge the former f.b.i. director james comey in any way shape or form the closer the batten down the investigation into michael flynn and also as you will know. next question battlefield washington on al-jazeera. big stories generally sounds like maybe angles in this story are too numerous for comfort with different angles from different perspectives things going to really bring relief. money in the war to

even separate the spin from the facts and the misinformation from the journalists and the center is clear and it sounds to me and here people think that with the listening post on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm home i had seen in doha with the al jazeera news are coming up for you in the next 60 minutes. thousands more people are infected with corona virus as countries around the world move to isolate china. iraq has a new prime minister designate and he tells the testers to keep demonstrating until they get what they want. it's

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