it might be bugged. i don't know if this counts as an answer. he spent his entire career shielding from that kind of reporting question. >> we're out of time. thank you, thank you. that does it for this hour. i'm nicole wallace. "mtp daily" starts with katy tur. >> if it's wednesday, can you believe it's only wednesday? tonight under obstruction. >> no politician in history, and i say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly. >> the president has committed obstruction of justice. >> we'll break down the legal arguments on whether or not president trump did in fact try on obstruct justice. >> i don't think impeachment is the move right now.

>> plus, under investigation -- >> we can'tinnuendo. >> where do the probes go from here? >> our job is to be responsible, sober and focus only gatherering the facts. >> and what is next in a dizzying nine days of nonstop news? >> watergate took nine months. this thing seems to be taking hours. >> this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. good evening. i'm katy tur in new york in for chuck todd. welcome to "mtp daily." it is 5:00 on the east coast which in recent days has been the hour for choice breaking news. bomb shells, if you will. when did the fbi director james comey get fired? in the 5:00 hour. the "washington post" dropped its bombshell about the white house sharing classified

information on monday. and yesterday during this hour "the new york times" dropped its bombshell story. needless to say, you might want to stick around. we begin with crime and punishment definitely the president try on obstruct justice? jason chaffetz has invited fbi director james comey to testify next week. the two heads of the senate intelligence committee want to see him too. so does judiciary committee. this comes as investigators in congress are demanding the fbi turn over any memos comey may have written about his conversations with president trump. and one of those memos, temd president urged him to shut down the investigation into former white house investigator michael flynn. saying i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. at an earlier meeting with

comey, current and former intelligence officials say the president asked comey for his loyalty. that happened around the same time the president said he was probing comey for information about the investigation. amid all of this, the president said he was considering firing him. the white house tried to get him to shut down any investigation. they've also depend the president ask comey for his loyalty. the president recently seemed to threaten comey by suggesting, he had, quote, can tapes of their conversations. lawmakers are trying to get their hands on those too. republicans are digging in for a long national nightmare. within the party there's renewed talk of a select committee investigation. >> i am absolutely convinced we need a select committee and i've said it for a long time of the there are too many dimensions of this issue. >> two more republicans are talking about a special

prosecutor. lisa murkowski said she is open to the idea. so did republican congressman adam kingsessinger. and asked by the hill if the details would merit impeachment if they're true, he applied, yes. >> for his part the president was defiant today. here's what he told the coast guard academy. >> no politician in history, and i say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly. you can't let them get you down. you can't let the critics and the nay sayers get in the way of your dreams. i will guess that's why we won. >> i'm joined by nbc white house correspondent, peter alexander and chief legal correspondent ari melber. what is the latest damage report out of white house? >> we heard from sean spicer a short time ago as he was

traveling with the president on board air force one. he said the president has been clear. to be fair, the president hasn't addressed this in any way, not on twitter, he hasn't said any statements publicly. he said this important trail was not accurate. it told beyond that wasn't truthle, that the president never asked mr. comey or anybody else to basically end an investigation at his request. i did have an interesting conversation with the senior white house official today. made the point. they're not disputing the memo may exist but are disputing the way it is being characterized, saying this is the way the president speaks. that he wasn't asking james comey to tend investigation, to back off the investigation efrgs really just trying on express his personal affinity for comey and he said why was comey taking notes and not sharing they will? was he writing a book?

>> so why was he? that's the question i want to and you. why didn't he disclose the contents or what happened in these meetings at the time of the meetings? >> that's fairly unremarkable. the default is to be discreet and not discuss conversations, even when under strain. absence something more direct than just words, i don't think he felt he had an obligation to immediately escalate or go public. >> asking him to end the investigation into his national security adviser, what more do you need than that? >> the flip side is what do you want him to do some publicly criticizing the president isn't necessariory a great option. part of challenge for donald trump who randal on thins, he's changed so many things, broken so many protocols, that it puts strain on the system. there isn't a great record of precedent to turn to because

this doesn't usually happen. even president nixonon who was removed from office wasn't quite like this. he did highly questionable things. this is not a drill. we're seeing responses from members of congress, from federal officials, on and off the record. this is not a drill. this is a real test of whether the united states can find a by to get to the bottom of all this chflt doesn't presuppose anyone's guilt. but it does presuppose the inquireries now in doubt. >> the white house points to saying that the president was not trying interfere with any investigation or he had seen no evidence of that. would andrew mccabe have known the details of the meeting comey had with the president? >> i don't know. as they sail on text, idk. there's so much that we don't know right. now obviously mccabe was depicting a congress which was more helpful to the white house

so they're going to lean on it. this won't be resolved by comparing sound bites or quotes. one thing most people seem to agree on in this land of great disagreement is that director comey is going to have to testify in public and we're going to hear and it that's why chuck todd said we may be on the precipice of the summer of comey. >> republicans and democrats are saying that. everybody is saying the same thing. people are interested in hearing from former director comey himself. thank you. let's dive more into that legal angle. julie is a former federal prosecutor and is now at georgetown university. you said president trump said really needs a lawyer. he is building a beautiful case against himself. lay out that case. >> well, it begins obviously with the alleged conversation

with james comey asking, a president asking a head of the fbi if it did happen, to end an investigation, is so beyond the scope of protocol. it obviously violates a lot of rules. more importantly, or not more importantly but also importantly, apparently he asked two people including comey's boss, to leave the room before he made statement. which clearly indicates, or can be inferred to indicate, the consciousness of guilt. that he knew what he was doing was wrong. then of course we see that the russia investigation continuals. that comey asked for additional resources. there was congressional testimony about it. and then on the morning of the comey firing, suddenly, subpoenas are flying in the flynn case and it is publicly reported. so we know that the flynn investigation is in fact live and the president knows that.

and then hours later, he fires comey. and to the cherry on top, what he does is tell lester holt that indeed, russia was on his mind. so it people is president trump has shot himself in the foot repeatedly. what he needs now is a first class white collar defense lawyer on speed dial. >> you're talking about that. i believe it was "new york times" reporting that in that meeting in the oval office between fbi director comey and the president, there were two other people there. the ag and the vice president. the president asked both of them to leave so that he could talk to director comey alone. do you believe there is enough to argue successfully that there is obstruction of justice? probable cause for obstruction of justice? >> i think there's probable cause. i would be very reluctant

because i don't know all the facts to opine that. i think there has to be an investigation and it can't creditably be done by the department of justice. when you think about it, this is obstruction at the highest level into a justice department investigation of a vital national security question. in those circumstances, if there was obstruction, some of the witnesses may well be prosecutors and fbi agents. in that case, one simply can't creditably rely on attorney general sessions to give us an answer that will be credible to the american republican. >> thank you for your time. the political analyst and the host of the hugh hewitt show. michael steele, and the president and ceo of the american, center for american progress. she was the director of policy for both the obama and clinton

campaigns. good to see you. i haven't seen new while. we're talking about whether or not donald trump tried to obstruct the investigation. do you believe, if an argument is made for that, that republicans are going to have a hard time defending themselves? or defending the president against it? >> i think a lot of facts have to come into focus before we get to that opponent. i think a lot of noise that you're hearing from democrats talking about impeachment is a little bit misplaced and well pre mature. >> some republicans are doing it too. >> some republican, too. for me, this is why you need an independent party take over this so we can be clear of what the facts are. the total thing. not just one piece of it. but pitting it all together. republicans need to have that conversation with the white

house. i long for mitch mcconnell is that speaker ryan to meet with the chief of staff and the president to say we need to get this behind us. we have a legislative agenda. you have policy agenda that's we're destroying to achieve and all of that is now being put on hold because every day, there is a drip, drip scenario evolving and the reality is that this drum beats for impeachment or other types of things is drowning out the president's agenda. >> you have to imagine that they've had those conversations at the white house. it is not the only controversy out there. it has been one after another and we've heard republicans say they want to get their agenda done. hugh, what do you think? can republicans go to the white house and say back off. get off twitter. we need to get things done. try not to make any news for, i don't know. a day? two? three? >> leader mcconnell made an

appeal yesterday. we need to see all the memorandum olds. late today, the judiciary committee subpoenaed all the memos of director comey that had anything to do with it including those where he might have written about conversations with anyone connected with the russia investigation. i had the chairman on my program this morning. he thought it would have been appropriate for director comey during the may 3 testimony to his committee to have said, the president is leaning on me. senators asked me on may 3, do we need a special prosecutor? he deferred to the deputy attorney general. he didn't bring up this conversation. now i'm going to look for the testimony by the deputy attorney general next week under oath. i expect members of the committee to and him if mr.

comey ever told him that the president attempted on obstruct justice feflt didn't, there are more questions for not only donald trump but jim comey. >> what about the republicans? at what point do they have to break the president? how much pressure are democrats going to be putting on them? is at this time special elections happening in the two districts coming up? if republicans lose, do you think democrats will be in a better position to convince another republicans that yeah, we got a call for a special prosecutor? an independent investigation? more pressure on the white house? >> you know, i hate to be pollyannish, but i don't think this is about a special next these districts. these issues are coming to the fore, people are demanding special prosecutors. but this is really an issue about protecting our democracy that independents, democrats, i hope republicans are asking for some accountability. the truth is that director comey

wrote a memo which he shared with colleagues at the time that it occurred. i find it ridiculous that republicans are saying he should have told us in open meetings about this. when the truth of this whole situation is that there seems to have been a big effort or some effort to lean on the director. he got fired by the president. if jim comey had said anything about, there he would have been fired on the spot. what we are looking at is a president who seems to have fired the director of the fbi because the director is finding evidence. and let me remind the viewers that we had, before, a few days before the fbi director was fired, there were reports that, there were reports from the fbi that there was evidence of collusion. now, i would like the get to the bottom of this so i hope we'll have a special prosecutor.

i think we should look at the facts we have and you can see evidence, evidence like a map to what obstruction of justice is. >> here's one reason the republicans might be want to the break too forcefully. 82% approve of the job the president is doing. i want to have you back. just ahead, senator chris kuhns reacts. if it felt like busy week and a half, well, it has been. we'll track the time line of the trouble for the trump administration next. did you know slow internet

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nonstop news in 90 seconds. >> we have some exclusive reporting from our team over at the white house. peter alexander is still standing by. >> breaking news. president trump was warned by president obama against hiring mike flynn. >> to state obvious you don't want your national security adviser compromised with the russians. >> breaking news, jim comey is out at the fbi. >> why did you fire director comey? >> he wasn't doing a good job. >> today, russia's foreign minister was in washington. meeting with the president. >> what about the russia investigation? >> there was one news agency allowed in the trump/lavrov meeting and it belonged to vladimir putin. >> i was going to fire comey. i was going to fire him regardless. >> so in a tweet you said there might be time recordings. >> what we can report is there are as many as seven individuals being interviewed for a job as

the fbi director today. >> i think it requires somebody like me, a republican, to call comey before the judiciary committee. >> they're saying that president trump revealed highly classified information to the russian foreign minister. >> speaking of breaking news in the moment, james comey memo. president trump asked him to shut down the investigation and -- >> it is another scandal. it has accelerated. watergate took nine months. this thing seems to be taking hours. people who rely on us every day to deliver their dreams. they're handing us more than mail. they're handing us their business. and while we make more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country we never forget... that your business is our business. the united states postal service.

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one. i used this analogy during the campaign. donald trump was somebody who stained his shirt. instead of getting a new shirt, he kept staining his shirt so people couldn't figure out where the original stain was. is that what's happening now? there are so many controversies that he'll be able to survive this one? it is just so loud? >> well, that's a fascinating metaphor. i'm reminded of the proverbial saying, may you live in interesting times. i am worried the american people are getting exhausted. and as you put it, that somehow president trump will avoid accountability or responsibility for a number of things that have happened in the last few weeks simply because of the sheer drum beat. the steady pressure of new developments. in the next two weeks in the senate, i expect we will move from alarming press reports to actual evidence. we will get whatever tapes or transcripts or whatever there

is. tomorrow we'll get to question deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and i ament on miss if i can we'll hear from james comey in front of the judiciary committee, the senate intelligence community or possibly both. that will allow to us move from press to facts. >> without "the new york times" or the "washington post" or the other news organizations doing reporting on that, nbc news included, where would the democrats be? is the press doing their job? are the democrats doing their job to try to uncover these details? >> well, there's a lot of environment by investigative journal i. i'm grateful for that. a free press is one of our key pillars. so is respect for law. we've only had one previous incident where an fbi director was fired by a president in modern times. that was by president clinton and it was with good cause and something widely explained.

well jumped stounderstood and h replacement. this is a very different firing of an fbi director and i am grateful that the press has dug into the details. that we've learned about a number of developments. whether it is the sharing of the highly classified information with the russian representative. or the letter that comey allegedly wrote to file following deeply disturbing conversations in which president trump tried influence ongoing fbi investigations. >> speaking of lining up a new fbi director, the white house says that joe lieberman is somebody they are considering. would he be -- >> that's an interesting development. i've been saying the best candidate would be someone with a long career in federal law enforcement. not someone who served for

election. i know him. he is a graduate of yale law school and i believe he served and would have some familiarity with intelligence. i think he would be a significant improvement over other nominees that have been floated. my advice to the president if he happens to be watching, that he really take his time. that he conduct a thorough search and come up with a nominee who will enjoy broad support in congress. it is xrik we have a next fbi director who can command support from across the political spectrum to move past this moment in which the fbi is perceived as being the subject of real interference and intrusion by the trump administration. >> if you see the comey memo and it is true that the president asked him to back off the investigation. do you believe that is

obstruction of justice? >> that is hard to prove but certainly it would be an alarming development. it would make it clear that the president tried influence the outcome of an fbi investigation into one of his most senior campaign and cabinet officials, former national security adviser mike flynn. someone who did ultimately have to resign in disgrace after it became clear that he had lied to the vice president. and there is an ongoing investigation into the conduct. >> do you believe that's obstruction of justice? >> i think it is certainly in that neighborhood. there's a number of elements of proving the had charge of obstruction of justice. it requires intent and more than just the allegations that we have now. as up, if the former fbi director produced the memo and came in front of us and testified, we would be well on our way of an obstruction of justice charge. >> appreciate your time.

thank you. thank you very much. back when the president met with loretta lynne, he called for a special investigation on hillary clinton. if it was improper for blill clinton to do that then, where do you student this? stwe didn't have a single special prosecutor during the obama administration into all sorts of allegations. i think that's evident that congress is able to do its job investigating as well as the various law enforcement agencies like the fbi. >> but you called for it. do you think congress will be fine to do this in. >> i think we're way early in the process. all we have now are overhyped anonymous sources and innuendos. i want to hear from comey. i want to see the memos. that will happen next week. if it turns out that donald trump did end the fbi

investigation into michael flynn, do you think that is appropriate? >> listen, it depends on how it was done. >> is there any circumstance for the president of the united states to and the fbi director to end an investigation? >> i think it is perfectly all right to say, this is a good guy. i like him. it depends on what the intent was and the facts and circumstances west need to see the memo and we need on talk to mr. comey if this was hillary clinton, would you say it depends on what the intent was? or would you be calling for -- for her to be taken out? >> i would absolutely be concerned with the intent. it is an element of obstruction of justice. nobody is above the law, well, except maybe hillary clinton. >> noble is above the law except hillary clinton. the president of the united states may have released highly classified information to the

russians. does that concern you? it is not a criminal offense, if hillary clinton would release -- >> she didn't have the authority to do that. in fact, she did let highly classified information on her private server which i believe was in violation of the law. >> so you think it is okay for the president to say, here's some highly classified information and information that came from an ally? >> every single person who was in that meeting said that the president did not do that. that is an allegation that has yet to be proven. >> no. they said he didn't reveal sources or methods. >> listen, the president has the ability to declassify information as he sees fit. i think it is highly appropriate for the president to be seeking the russians' aid in fighting isis. a common enemy that we have with russia. there are things, russia is not our enemy on all fronts. >> is russia our ally?

>> again, we've got interests in common and fighting isis is one of those. that's the context we're looking at now. >> would it be appropriate for the president to record conversations in the oval office between him and in it administration officials? >> again, i think there are various considerations here. i certainly don't like the way it looks like happened in the nixon administration. it has a very negative political connotation. if the president were doing that, i think that would be a mistake. >> what do you want to and fbi director james comey? >> i want to ask him if he felt the president was pressuring him to tend investigation? if so, why didn't you report it to the superiors, to the justice department, and why didn't you report to it congress? >> last night, you told my colleague that you believe the president is climbing the learning curve. but not quite as fast as some folks would want him. do you plee that the president

of the united states should be on a learning curve? >> listen, the american people elected donald trump because he was not a career politician. they wanted someone who would get things done, a man of action. in washington, there are all sorts of ways you're supposed to deal with the press. the way you're supposed to say things and not say but the american people are fed up with that and that's why they elected a straight shooter like donald trump. >> i want to and but russia. they all said that russia tried interfere. given that, do you believe it is appropriate for the president to be sharing highly classified information with the russians? >> we still have ongoing investigations as to what if any interference in the election. >> no, no, the intelligence committee has said they did do that. they testified saying they tried on interfere. >> russia has the ability to help us on the war on terror. >> but it's pock they tried on

interfere in the election because they might help us in the war on terror? >> i'm not saying it is pock they interfered in the election. i'm saying that the facts aren't all in. this is the problem. you folks in the media are just having a feeding frenzy over donald trump and the russians, and are not waiting to get all the facts in. all this from comey is coming from anonymous sources with a memo we have yet to see with no comment from james comey. this is all pre mature. it is just a feeding frenzy of the media. i have five televisions in my office. this is wall to wall coverage. there are lots of other things going on in the country. this is stopping president from moving ahead with the agenda he ran on and the american people elected him for. fixing health care, lowering taxes, putting americans back to work, securing our border. it is making america great again. instead you've got pretty much every journalist in washington out to get donald trump. if he said, oh, i like puppies

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last week, today officials tell nbc news some of this information is so sensitive that news organizations here in the united states are still being asked not to report it because doing so could harm u.s. national security. meanwhile, russian president vladimir putin weigh in the earlier today, saying that if the united states administration wanted them to, they would release records from that meeting between president trump, russian foreign minister lavrov and ambassador kislyak. >> mr. secretary, vladimir putin is offering congress a transcript of that lavrov had meeting. do you think the russians were bugging the oval office? >> i would have no way to know that. >> joining me now, former acting director, deputy director of the cia and national security analyst. thank you for joining me, john. shouldn't the secretary of state know whether or not the russians

were bugging the oval office? >> well, i'll excuse him ignorance this given that he is a diplomat and an oil executive, not an intelligence officer. if they were bugging the oval office, that would be a scandal at least as great as anything we're currently witnessing, if they were permitted to go in that office with some kind of gear that could do that. in all likelihood, what putin is talking about is a wren memorandum about the meeting. that said, i would just add that there are times in the past when the russians have had technology that we didn't have, and did not detect. but in this case i'm skeptical that they were bugging it. >> they did allow a task news agency with his appointment to take photos. so is there a circumstance where something the photographer brought in could have potentially been recording? >> well, conceivable. again, if someone did not

carefully examine and electronically and otherwise all the equipment that anyone took into that room, that would be a scandal in itself. it really would. >> so putin talking about coming to the president's defense and releasing these transcripts, is it college to the president's defense or could it be interpreted as a threat to the president? >> i don't think it is a threat. i think it is putin having fun with. this he has manipulated our system pretty effectively. he rolled the ball down the lane and broke up the pins. there are a few still standing but i think he is enjoying the moment after having one of the most successful investigations in history. >> his officials were envitd into the oval office. at what point is it appropriate for the u.s. to share intelligence with the russians? when is it appropriate? >> it is appropriate some

occasions. and i have did you meone it. this is in the past, of course, but when you do everything you're sharing with them is very carefully vet in the advance by the intelligence agencies anything to do with the collection. and certainly, before you would share anything that was provided by another government, you would seek their permission. >> when i say vetted, i mean he have word is gone over and it goes on a piece of paper marked releasable russia. are so it is not something you do casually which is what happened here. >> how much does it concern you? >> it concerns me a lot. bearing in mind we qualify it to say we don't know exactly what we shared. all of that. but yes. the fact most note worthy to me is that thomas bossert alerted the counter terrorism adviser, had intelligence agencies that something happened they needed

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hugh hugh et. michael, let's start with you again. do you consider the gop dam starting to crack when it comes to support for this president? >> i think there may be some pressures you could see from the clip you showed before the break. i have nothing further to add. i don't know how much more the members especially want to go the rest of the summer and into the fall having reporters chasing them with questions about this story line, to be honest about it. so, you probably will see pressure come from various points to stay in line, to sort of toe the line, if you will, on the narrative from the republican side. but then there is what's going on at home as well and how this is playing in the various districts. so, i think these members, especially in the house, are going to be caught in between those pressure points and whether or not they crack remains to be seen. but i don't know how much longer you can say "i have nothing further to add" when clearly there is something you have to say about this at some point.

>> so, we live in the modern era, we have 24-hour news cycle, twitter, you can keep track of what anyone thinks on any given subject. we have sound and information from republicans what they thought of hillary clinton and her handling of classified information. let's play that. >> we can't have someone in the oval office who doesn't understand the meaning of the word confidential or classified. >> she grossly was negligent. she mishandled classified information now she wants to be commander in chief. i think the dni, the director of national intelligence, should block her access to classified information given how recklessly she handled this. >> men and women mishandling classified information is a crime. >> so, hugh, are there republican's own words, vice-president, paul ryan, donald trump, others, are their own words going to play a hand in potentially turning the tide on this?

do they risk looking like hip >> kristen: to the american people? >> i don't think so. it's much more serious of playing a game of how bad was secretary clinton which i think was pretty bad with regards to the server. tomorrow in the united states senate an unusual meeting happens, katie. all 100 senators are going to hear from deputy attorney general rosenstein. and i hope the leader, leader mcconnell's first question is, did director comey ever tell you that president trump leaned on him or obstructed the investigation? and that the second question is, were you ever told about these comey memos? because we've got to get to these comey memos. if they are as bad as some on the left and some in the media would have us believe without having read them, then it's a very bad week for donald trump indeed, including the oval office meeting with the russians. but right now we're all operating off of speculation and one phone call with one "the new york times" reporter and a couple of other stories. i want to dial it back and see -- and i don't think these tapes help us focus on, there may have been a very serious

security breach in the oval office. there may be a need to go very deep into what donald trump was asking james comey, but we're not there yet. i think we just need to slow down. >> nera, i feel like you want to get in on this. >> number one, if i were director comey, maybe i wouldn't tell deputy attorney general rosenstein about what donald trump said to me because he has acted from his actions, he basically manufactured a memo for his firing, for director comey's firing. i think rosenstein is a person who has really sacrificed his reputation and his conduct over the last ten days. and the idea that republicans who six months ago were lauding comey now are attacking him and basically saying he should have come forward to talk to his superiors, his superiors were jeff sessions and rosenstein, both who basically have been manufacturing reasons for the

termination of director comey. it seems very rational he would not have trusted them, and i look forward to him actually speaking. but can i also just make one further point? >> you do quickly. >> hugh hugh et himself criticized hillary clinton's mishandling much more than he criticized donald trump and i think that is a tragedy. >> i have to leave it there, hugh, and i'm sorry i'm not going to let you get in on that. appreciate it. after the break, duck. ♪"all you need is love" plays my friends know me so well.

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finally tonight, in case you missed it, an indulgence here for a second. washington's been getting a bad rap for being a swamp that needs to be drained but with the warm muggy, and yes, humid climate there comes wildlife. we're not talking about political animals. the library of congress tweeted yesterday the capital police rescued a mother duck and ducklings from the roof of the library. most people on twitter praised the effort, but another duck endeavor is ruffling feathers. m malard ducks of all ages spend time on the reflecting pull. it got lawmakers in a fowl mood. mark walker tweeted if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it must be government waste. we actually invited congressman walker on the show tonight, but he ducked our interview request.

guys with the scandals plaguing all of washington this weak, this small exhibit of cuteness was a nice distraction. so, thank you to the architect of the capital for quacking us up. that's all for tonight. we'll be back tomorrow with more mtp daily. for the record with greta starts now. lo and behold she has breaking news. >> unbelievable breaking news. we begin once again with break he can news. the justice department is appointing a special counsel to take over the russia investigation. the investigation will now be led by former fbi director robert muller. the decision to appoint a special counsel made by deputy attorney general rod rosenstein happened just moments ago and just to get a little background on who bob muller is, he was a former fbi director himself, serving 12 years. he served under president busch iv 3 and served two more years, ten years under bush 43, two years under president obama. you may remember he first became -- first became fbi dire