that's not the case with attorney marc kasowitz. sident trump the way things are, whether or not the president wants to hear it or not. >> reporter: one potential issue, kasowitz also represents a russian bank as well as a company controlled by a russian billionaire with ties to the kremlin. in a previous statement, kasowitz's firm says it has never relayed information or facilitated communication between that client and the trump team. but for a white house being scrutinized over every brush with russia, the political optics are not good. unlike the white house counsel, which is primarily tasked with protecting the office of the presidency, kasowitz will be looking after the personal interests of donald trump, the individual. in a probe that could go on for a very long time. erin? >> all right, tom, thank you very much. we'll be hearing a lot more about marc kasowitz. >>> next, breaking news from portland. the suspect in two shocking murders on a plane had an outburst in court moments ago. >> leave this country if you hate our freed

he is smart to bring marc kasowitz in grade the white house counsel represents the office of the presidency not donald j. trump, the man. if mr. trump becomes a potential target, things could get complicated. what is protected, what is privilege, whose interests are being represented? the government has brought an independent counsel so it's only fitting and appropriate that president trump is done the same thing. any objections? >> ari: i can tell you have someone who stood at the podium, you want to have another unit inside the white house to handle the issue. you want the briefing room to be about substance and policies. repeal and replace of obamacare, tax cuts, things of that nature. you also don't want a subpoena. if i have to go to the president and sam getting asked these questions about the investigations, what should i say, i then become a witness. the prosecution can come after me, if there is one. or even if they gather facts. do i have to lawyer up? left the government be the government. >> mo: i don't disagree. i think it's smart for the president, given everything that's goin

he is now expected to retain a man by the name of marc kasowitz, his long-time manhattan attorney, as a private counsel that would help be involved in his needs as it relates to all things russia, the investigation now being overseen by that special prosecutor and the congressional investigations as well. as it relates to lieberman, worth noting that lieberman for the past four years as worked at marc kasowitz' law firm in new york city. stephanie. >> the other big news over the last 24 hours was testimony from former cia director john brennan about russia. what can you tell us about that, peter? >> reporter: so the bottom line, this is what john brennan, who was then cia director, basically the reason why he raised red flags during the course of the campaign season, as he was trying to zero in on those russian propagandaists, those hackers that he believed were brazenly trying to interfere in the election. he said that he saw what he describes as contacts and interactions between russian operatives and trump campaign aides. he couldn't specify, at least not in a public setting, who t

and we spotted marc kasowitz the attorney that the president has retained to represent him as an individualessarily as the president. kasowitz seen leaving the white house with ivanka trump the wife of jared kushner of course at the center of all this controversy. >> okay, ryan, thanks very much. no doubt this will be a huge week. and to talk about what will be happening this week, we have uhe fwe eugene scott up early for us. so we have president trump back on u.s. soil after his overseas trip. he says it was a success. getting a different vibe from angela her kell who says that europe can't completely rely on the u.s. this is huge because europe is one of the u.s.'s biggest trading partners, this 4 this h implications for defense and beyond this presidency. so i ghaes sheet that she's up re-election in september. and she's up against a voting population who are not too keen on donald trump at the moment. so with a beer in hand, she says that europe can't rely on the u.s. like it used to. this has huge implications. >> absolutely. germany is europe's largest economy. and so that will have

today, the president's attorney marc kasowitz was at the white house seen talking to ivanka trump andresident is shakeup, stripping sean spicer of his on-camera briefing duties and giving them to sara huckabee sanders. the trump team is on offense about the disosure of classified information including the name of the manchester suicide bomber which angered theresa may. >> i believe when y leak the kind of information that is routinely leaked, the high, high level of classification, was darn close to theresa. >> reporter: trump still trying to find a replacement for james comey from the fbi. >>> a boy begins to walk away at a water slide but it's what happened just seconds earlier for that boy that you've got to see to believe. >>> and d.c. pole teaming up with a local high school. why their for the entire community. >>> you're probably off tomorrow, so stay up with tonight on "sports final." questions keep coupling and kirk cousins keeps answering in the latest contract talks. >>> and jonathan allen toots his own horn. he has serious skills off the field, too. >>> and scary scene at t

part of that letter you see on the screen reads, with your selection of marc kasowitz to represent you in the various investigations that have begun i do believe it would be best to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest given my role as senior counsel in the law firm of which marc is the senior partner. that firm cas sew wcas sew wit'm has worked four years. the white house i'm told by sources familiar with the decision making process has been broaning outts search to come up with other names. this is striking because there was a sense before the president left on this foreign trip he may be able to make that announcement, he said in the oval office he was very close to a decision, said it could happen before the end of the week, well now we wait for his return and we continue to wait to find out who that next fbi director might be. >> peter alexander for us on the hill, thank you. >>> let's go back to gianforte here. steve kornacki. the assault charge, does it change the race in any measurable way? i mean i guess it's still pretty early to tell. >> it is fascinating. you see

we've also learned president donald trump has hired a private attorney, marc kasowitz , to represent him as the russia probe moves forward. >>> dc police need your help to track down a guy who was in a sexual abuse case. he followed a woman into the store in the 600 block of bickford place northeast this month and authorities believed he forced the woman to the back of the store where she was assaulted and robbed at gunpoint. the surveillance camera captured him following the same woman. take a look at him. if you recognize him, call dc policegh >>> bringing dc's missing home. at this hour, dc mayor, muriel bowser, gives an update on six initiatives announced in march to address reports of missing young people in the district of columbia. michelle garcia is a cochair of the runway and missing youth working group group and spoke on greater washington this morning about how the city's campaign can help missing teens, runways and their families. >> many of them are runaways and have run away repeatedly. keep it in those circumstances, we need to ask what they are running from or running

today the president's attorney marc kasowitz who will represent him in the russia probe was at the whiteouse, seen talking to ivanka trump. and the president is reportedly considering a staff shakeup, stripping press secretary sean spicer of his on camera briefing duties and giving them to his deputy, sarah huckabee sanders or perhaps even canceling daily briefings. the trump team on offense about the classified leaks including the name of the manchester suicide bomber which angered british prime minister teresa may. >> i believe when you leak is the kind of information that seems to be routinely leaked, high, high level of classification, it's darn close to treason. >> reporter: trump still facing a decision on who to name as a replacement for james comey to run the fbi and whether to withdraw america from the paris climate accords, a move that would further unsettle european allies. president trump has already cancelled a previously planned trip to iowa this week, hunkering down to focus on his agenda and sharpen his defense to growing legal and political peril. kate. >> hans nichols a

president trump expected to retain marc kasowitz as a private attorney on matters related to the probe according to sources familiar with the decision. kasowitz has represented donald trump in past cases including his divorce records, real estate transactions and allegations of fraud at trump university. this comes as some of the nation's top, current and former intelligence officials testify on capitol hill about the on going investigation. nbc's peter alexander has more. >> reporter: with multiple investigations ramping up former cia director john brennan testifying. >> i felt as though the fbi investigation was certainly well founded. >> reporter: for the first time publicly acknowledging his concerns that trump campaign associates wittingly or unwittingly were cooperating with russian operatives. >> i encountered and am aware of information and intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions between russian officials and u.s. persons involved in the trump campaign. >> reporter: still brennan who left the cia in january says he never saw proof of collusion. the white house poun

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our colleague nicole wallace reports exclusively, with your collection of marc kasowitz, i believe it would be better to avoid any appearance of controversy. joe lieberman will be on deadline today at 4:00 with nicole for that interview. there was a lot of opposition to joe lieberman from democrats that surprised the white house. joining me now is ron widen, he also serves on the select committee. i thought, i think that this would be a popular choice because he was such a popular senator, but i think they failed to recognize that in the 08 campaign he took a different course, and president obama was so close with john mccain and that made him popular but not with fellow democrats. >> there may be more to the story. i think a lot of senators felt that at this extraordinarily important time, it was critical to have common in this position that did not have a political background. i heard that from senator after senator after senator, and i will also say on a personal level, i heard what you mentioned about joe lieberman, always focused on ethics issues and it seems to me that he took i

the president will ask attorney marc kasowitz to represent him during the investigation.tz has represented trump on a "wide range of litigation matters for over 15 years." (steve) another big story --- in response to the uk terror attack... airports are increasing security -- including san francisco international.(steve) despite the attack, both virgin and british airways were continuing with their regular schedules to both london and manchester (steve) and our coverage continues online at kron- 4-dot-com. we are tracking the latest developments in the investigation. we are also posting information about the victims as it becomes available. and we also have a section on the worldwide social media reaction. (pam) danville police arrested a bank robbery suspect -- who had on a very unusual disguise. kron 4's justine waldman tells us, police di

. >> cnn has learned president trump is expected to hire his long time attorney marc kasowitz on mattershe russian probe. >> attorney general jeff sessions did not disclose meetings he had last year with russian officials when he applied for his security clearance. >> russia tried to influence paul manafort on top of cnn's reporting that russia tried to do the same to the former national security adviser michael flynn. >> another major blow to president trump's immigration ban. a federal appeals court upholding the block on his second travel ban. >>> the fbi's russian investigation reportedly now focusing on jared kushner's role during the campaign and transition, including kushner's relationship with fired national security adviser michael flynn as well as some russian contacts. >>> we're now learning why the now fired fbi director went public to announce the investigation of hillary clinton's emails was ending. it was july of last year when james comey held that summer news conference. turn out he was worried about the russians impacting the integrity of the investigation. now this mor

attorney marc kasowitz will represent him. >>> a push among california lawmakers to make sure the universitycalifornia no longer has full control over its budgets following a state audit that called out the uc president's office for hidden funds worth $175 million as well as misleading accounting practices. a state senator has introduced a constitutional amount to ask voters if the president's office should keep full autonomy over the budget. >>> today at the oakland school board meet an oakland nonprofit along with several high school students propose a new sexual assault policy in the district's schools. kpix 5's jessica flores is live in oakland this morning. >> reporter: teenage girls along with a nonprofit want the district to tackle sexual harassment tonight proposing major changes to the school board and among the changes, they want to penalize leering and unwanted flirtations. they want to make sure that students can't get in trouble anymore for false reporting. and the district also would have to provide support to victims through the entire process. alliance for girls says when it

. >> trump has asked marc kasowitz to represent him. robert mueller's teammate conduct an interview in a matter of days. james comey wants to get on the record about his memos, document conversations with president trump about the russia probe. salman abedi is prepared to publicly testify before congress sometime after memorial day >> bret: we will talk with ben sasse. here is what some of our affiliates are covering. minimum-wage workers march for higher pay in chicago. part of a nationwide protest demanding higher pay and union rights. more than two dozen people were arrested during today's protest. fox 5 in san diego. pictures of saturday's landslide along the coast did buried a portion of the pacific coast highway. millions of tons of rock and debris slid, covering a third of a mile. it is the latest challenge for transportation officials already dealing with the wettest winter in decades. live look at new york from our file fox 5. one of the big stories there tonight, the start of fleet week. it's the cities time-honored celebratio

he's hired an attorney to represent him and the president is going to bring in marc kasowitz who has been trump's lawyer for more than 15 years now. he's handled a number of cases that you may have heard of as well. joining me now to talk about this is the anchor of "the lead" and "state of the union," jake tapper, also cnn's chief washington correspondent. so when you talk to lawyers, they say, of course he's doing this. >> yeah. >> and then other just folks in washington will say, good, because now it means the white house can clear the plate and they can focus on the other things that the president should be focusing on and it clears up space for them. >> it's good politics and good policy. >> exactly. but what do we know about this guy? >> we know that he's a litigation attorney and he's handled all sorts of cases, as you mentioned. he has represented president trump in cases having to do with trump's divorce records and the allegation of fraud against trump university and real estate transactions. he's part of the trump world. the president trusts him. this will enable sean spic

the president hiring his long time attorney marc kasowitz. it is our understanding that the white house hit the reset button on the search for the fbi director. the president indicated he was close to naming replacement for james comey, but now he is apparently interested in expanding the pool of applicants. chr chris, alisyn. >> thank you. let's bring in our panel. we have abby phillip and david gregory along with general michael hayden. general, he could not be certain of collusion. he did see contact and communication with russian operatives. >> alisyn, it is what you classically expect your foreign intelligence chief to say. we have massive evidence of russian intervention in the election. we know the russians attempt to suborne people. we have the unexplained contacts with russians and the trump campaign that looks suspicious. we will turn it over to law enforcement. it reinforces the cause of the investigation. it doesn't conclude it. it gives legitimacy to the effort that is currently under way and against which the white house continu

and john kelly homeland security answering questions papd also spotted at the white house was marc kasowitzthe high powered attorney brought in by donald trump to represent him in his personal capacity as the ongoing oig investigations continue. he was seen with ivanka trump leaving the white house lawn on sunday. an indication that he is gearin up the legal team for a long battle ahead. ryan nobles, cnn at the white house. >>> president trump jumped to kushner's defense in a statement to the "new york times," he said jar are read is ed is doing a g the country. he is respected by virtually everyone and is working on programs that will save our country billions of dollars. in addition to that and perhaps more importantly, he is a very good person. >>> president trump was pretty quiet on dltd line during his foreign trip, but now he tweeted sunday the fake news media works hard at disparaging and demeaning my use of social media because they don't want america to hear the real story. >> mr. trump issing a agrees from safely gending hdefending son-in-law's character, but adam schiff is voicin

president, his outside legal counsel as it relates to the investigation in russia and that attorney is marc kasowitz, a long-time attorney connected to president trump in miss private life. it was reported last week that he had retained kasowitz's counsel. we know that he was here at the white house. we spotted him with ivanka trump, the daughter of president trump, leaving the white house not too long ago. we don't know if kasowitz met personally with the president but we know it was at the white house and we know that part of the meetings that the president was planning to have today was with the legal counsel. fred? >> ryan nobles, thank you so much. >>> i'm quoting now, my dashboard warning light was on. that was the response from former director of national intelligence james clapper. you just heard a moment ago about these reports on jared kushner. here's what he told "meet the press" as well this morning. >> my dashboard warning light was clearly on and i think that was the case with all of the intelligence community, very concerned about the nature of these approaches to the russians. at the

well, lawyer marc kasowitz played a role in the lawsuit against trump university in which he had to settle. he was involved in the restructuring of the massive and controversial debt in trump's atlantic casinos. his most recent high-profile gig since trump has been president, though, has been on another matter. and you might have heard about this. you might have heard about this. a few weeks ago, maybe a month or two ago, the first high-profile thing that trump's lawyer has been involved with since trump's been president is that he was taken on as the counsel to represent a russian state-controlled bank. of course he was. spur bank, if you -- sberbank is the largest-run bank in russia. there's a massive civil lawsuit against sberbank for destroying granite in russia and when the biggest state-controlled bank needed counsel in new york to defend them on that this year, they picked a man otherwise famous for being donald trump's lawyer, the lawyer who he uses, for example, for suing "the new york times". if reports tonight are accurate, that's who will be leading trump's legal team for the q

marc kasowitz is expected to lead the team of outside lawyers on the russia probe. kasowitz has represented president trump for 15 years but also represents a russian bank and a russian business tycoon with ties to vladimir putin. meanwhile, the white house is resetting its search for an fbi director after wide-ranging dissatisfaction with the leading candidate, former senator joe lieberman, all while paul ryan put forth a muted defense of fired director james comey >> you know the former fbi director jim comey, does it prefer to you that the president referred to him as a nutjob? >> yeah, i don't agree with that and he's not. >> reporter: and sources tell cnn special counsel robert mueller has been briefed on those memoses from james comey. mueller has visited fbi headquarters where he met with counterintelligence agents who have been working on the russia investigation since july. >> important details, very fast moving story, i must say that. jessica schneider, thank you. much more on russia but another breaking store they hour. the congressional budget office sco

the issue here is apparently conflict of interest because the president hired marc kasowitz as his personalunsel digging into matters dealing with the russian investigation. lieberman works at the same firm which kasowitz is a member. hence they can't work side by side potentially. melissa: blake, thank you for that. david: david: sicily, blake gets breaking information. more on president trump's meeting with the pope, here is pastor robert jeff press, trump faith campaign advisory member and fox news contributor. we're always happy to see you, pastor. thanks for coming on. to use a southern phrase these two gentlemen had words in the past. were you shocked as i was how well they seem to get along? >> no, i wasn't shocked along. i have been in meetings, i moderated a a meeting one time between president trump and never trump religious leaders. they came in david, all prepared to give the president a piece of their mind. by the time it was over he had disarmed them. he listened to them. they were eating out of the palm of his hand wow. >> i wasn't surprised the at all the pope and president

a senior administration official says it's expected that president trump will bring in marc kasowitzbeen his lawyer for more than 15 years. kasowitz has handled several well-known trump cases including against the author of "trump nation." the president did lose that case. also, the trump university class-action case which was settled at a cost of $25 million paid for by president trump. joining me now is a federal prosecutor for the northern district of illinois. i hear some people who would look at this and say, oh, my goodness, he's lawyering up. but when you talk to lawyers about it, they say, of course he is. your take? >> absolutely. i would recommend the same thing to the president in this circumstance. the president has a white house counsel but the white house counsel represents the office of the president of the united states, not donald trump in his personal capacity. so, for example, things that mr. trump did before he became the president of the united states would not be privileged. if he was talking about those matters with the white house counsel. similarly, if there

in the united states, president donald trump has lawyered up, appointing attorney marc kasowitz to represent him in the ongoing investigation into whether the trump campaign colluded with russian officials to allegedly influence the 2016 campaign. kasowitz has worked for trump for over a decade. he threatened to sue the "new york times" if it didn't retract an explosive story in which multiple women accused trump of sexual harassment. kasowitz also represents russia's largest bank. he works at the same firm as former senator joe lieberman, one of trump's front-running candidates to lead the fbi, following trump's firing of former director james comey. meanwhile, former cia director john brennan testified to the house intelligence committee tuesday, describing how he'd grown concerned last year about possible collusion between the trump campaign and russian officials who allegedly influenced the 2016 presidential campaign. courts i encountered and aware of intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions between russian officials and u.s. persons involved in the wasp campaign that i conce

staffing up a little bit and there is clear expectation he'll be bringing in outside counsel, marc kasowitze's talking about. what do you know about kasowitz? what do you know what his job will be. >> kasowitz is known for being aggressive and hard hitting and a real bulldog in the courtroom. he's not so much of a criminal defense attorney and it's quite telling that trump is bringing in kasowitz. it's a clear pattern that he has of bringing in associates that are close to him. >> clearly, he values loyalty over perhaps experience in this arena. i will say that i've heard from several associates within the firm that a majority of the firm is dedicated primarily to trump-associated matters and michael cohen and a former personal attorney with trump. >> who is still connected with president trump. >> absolutely. so clearly, they're getting a strategy here and they're forming a war room and he's taking this quite seriously and they'll mount a robust defense. >> as should be -- as should be expected. >> joe, when you talk about a war room as natalie's report said the white house is looking, whe

spicer said all future questions need to be referred directly to recently retained outside counsel marc kasowitz. jake? >> thanks so much. much more on that russian banker ahead in the program. >>> but coming up next, if the president does withdraw from the paris climate agreement the united states would be one of only three countries including syria, not included in that pact. what the would that mean for america's standing around the world, if anything? we'll talk to a member of the senate foreign relations committee next. stay with us. bp engineered a fleet of 32 brand new ships with advanced technology, so we can make sure oil and gas get where they need to go safely. because safety is never being satisfied. and always working to be better. and it's also a story mail aabout people 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. priority: you we asked people to write down the things they love to do most on these balloons. travel with my daughter. roller derby. ♪ now g

he's brought in marc kasowitz. he has no experience with this kind of thing.has no experience with it. so it's going to really hinge on whether or not he's going to listen to smart attorneys and smart political advisers and it's pretty early in the game for something like this to be all right spinning off the track. >> gloria, so many people have been former chief of staffs or president, whether they are democratic or republican presidents, all said, you know, just the makeup of his white house staff is not conducive to running an effective white house. you know, there's obviously been talk about changes. the question is, will there actually be changes to get more organization? >> well, there might be. we don't know. we don't know whether it's going to make any difference. i mean, there's all kinds of talk. donald trump should bring in a jim baker. donald trump doesn't want a jim baker. he's his own jim baker and his own strategist and i had one person who speaks with trump with some regularity who said the problem with the white house is that they don't play

we spotted marc kasowitz, the private attorney that's been retained by president trump to represent him, essentially as a private citizen in this inquiry into russia and their attempt to intervene in the u.s. election, and whether or not the president and his complaampaign played ane in that. kasowitz was spotted leaving the white house with ivanka trump, the president's daughter and wife of jared kushner, who's at the center of this latest controversy over this back channel he asemted ttempted to allegedly set up during the transition. we know the president is here today meeting with his advisors talking about the overall strategy as to how the white house will plan for the next several months as it relates to russia and their overall domestic agenda. we know that there were plans to meet with lawyers as well. we don't know if kasowitz was someone that met with the president specifically one-on-one, but it is pretty clear, as you can see what's happening here in washington, that the president and his team are preparing for a long and difficult fight. but one they are not ready to give

sources familiar with the decision tell nbc news president trump is expected to retain marc kasowitz as private attorney on matters related to the russia investigation. kasowitz has represented trump in the past, including according to the "washington post," some of trump's divorce settlements and accusations of fraud against trump university. we also heard today from former cia director john brennan, testifying before the house intelligence committee. early on in the proceedings, the question of russian collusion came up. >> having been involved in many counter-intelligence cases in the past, i know what the russians try to do. they try to suborn individuals. they try to get individuals including u.s. persons to act on their behave either wittingly or unwittingly. and i was worried by a number of the contacts the russians had with u.s. persons and so therefore, by the time i left office on january 20th, i had unresolved questions in my mind as to whether or not the russians had been successful in getting u.s. persons involved in the campaign or not to work on their behalf again eith

beyond that, i understand that in addition of marc kasowitz, the attorney, longtime manhattan attorneygal counsel the president has retained to help him, they will likely be bringing in some other attorneys on retainer. they're already in conversations with some of those individuals. so it be clear when they talk about this new reality, recognize when they come back, this is a whole new world. they want to make sure they agenda isn't just completely lost, that they can try of segregate the effort to deal with the russia investigation, while to the best of their ability focusing on some things they want to be doing. >> paul butler, lay it out for us because a source close to jared kushner made clear to me today being under scrutiny by the fbi does not mean you become a target or a subject of any investigation. is that right? >> that's right. so kushner's under investigation because of the nature and the extent of his contact with the russians. so he steps away from being a target of an investigation, meeting with the russian is not the same as colluding with them. at the same time, nico

the president is expected to hire a trial lawyer he's used in the past, marc kasowitz, as one of his outside attorneys to deal with the special counsel investigation and possible campaign tries with russia. nearly simultaneously the white house said it was no longer considering former vice presidential candidate joe lieberman for fbi director. lieberman happens to be a partner at kasowitz' firm. white house officials insisted the decision to expand its fbi director search was just a coincidence. fellow republicans maintain that all of the russia questions must be answered. >> it has to be resolved. the american people want answers. 100 senators want to make sure that our country stays safe and secure and strong. we're committed to getting to the bottom of this. >> reporter: now secretary of state rex tillerson noted that russia will be participating on a sidelines of the g7 summit down in sicily later on at the end of this week. tillerson said that russia will have to address its actions in ukraine if it hopes to rejoin what used to be known as the g-8 before it was kicked out after

i mean, i -- when marc kasowitz became special counsel, it was clear to me with everything swirling inwashington, you can't have a director of the fbi coming from the same law firm as the president's private lawyer. it's just -- it looks terrible. so that was that. >> that was sort of the nail in the coffin? >> again, i believe in service and to me, there's no higher calling. so who knows what the future will hold. >> all right. thank you so much for coming and talking to us. we're very grateful. >> be well. >>> all right. when we come back, campaign thuggery and russia's influence. ♪ [ male announcer ] tora bora fallujah argonne khe sanh midway dak to normandy medina ridge the chosin reservoir these are places history will never forget but more important are the faces we will always remember. ♪ but more important are the faces we will always remember. with my moderate to severe crohn's disease,... ...i kept looking for ways to manage my symptoms. i thought i was doing okay... then it hit me... ...managing was all i was doing. when i told my doctor,... ...i learned humira is for people

citing trump's hiring his law partner-- marc kasowitz-- to represent him during investigations into tieshis presidential campaign and russia. trump identified the former senator as a leading canidate just last week. in san francisconew developments in the case of the missing uber driver.police have found the car of bob tang....the person of interest in that case... at s-f-o. that car is set to be processed for evidence by crime scene investigators. today search warrents were served in san francisco and hayward.a neighbor who lives by tang's second home in antioch says police kicked in the door tuesday.neighbors at tang's primary home in san francisco's silver terrace says tang is a nice guy...who lives with his wife, children and inlaws. they are shocked police think he's connected with this case.maureen kelly kron4 news

back here at home, president trump is expected to hire marc kasowi kasowitz. it comes one week after fbi director robert mueller was appointed special counsel in that investigation. the president has deniean campaign. >>> a stafford man faces up to ten years in prison for stealing nearly $100,000 worth of equipment used in the marine one helicopter fleet. that is the fleet that transports the president. branden baker pled guilty yesterday in federal court. he said he stole more than 50 image intensifiers. and night vision equipment from marine helicopter squadron one and sold it on ebay. the plea agreement also requires him to pay $94,000 in restitution. >>> archaeologists are trying to identify human remains found in old town alexandria during a development on the water front. it dates back to the 1800s. crews also found evidence of dwellings that were once there. the since the city has kept such good historic records, it's a good possibility those remains can be identified. >> the story of d.c.'s missing children alarmed a lot of people in the area police bo

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nbc news learned president trump will retain marc kasowitz as his private counsel on matters related to the russia investigation. kasowitz is mostly known as a litigator and his website lists white collar defense as an area of practice. when the president threatened to sue "the new york times" for like bell over an article that featured two women of accusing him of inappropriately touching them, it was kasowitz demanding a retraction. the retraction never happened. when "the times" published trump's 1995 tax records last year it was kasowitz who threatened, quote, prompt initiation of appropriate legal action. ing in ever happened. joe lieberman who is in contention to be fbi director has been with that firm since 2013. the attorney's most recent high-profile case, defending russia's largest state-run bank. >> i love this stuff. >> in a civil lawsuit. >> what's so great about this, trump makes it so hard to connect to dots. he really does. seriously. you dig through all of this stuff and wait for a smoking gun, and it's kind of like the end of oliver stone's jfk where garrison goes i