hope hicks was always someone in the room. he never managed to be a central player in trump's west wing. >> i think that's a fair point. the reason i think spicer's sort of interesting is precisely that. he tends to blend into the background. that's the guy you worry about as a criminal defense attorney, it's a guy people don't particularly notice -- >> you're saying he's like -- >> it's basically that. you don't notice the fiks plant, you don't notice sean spicer. >> especially when he's behind the plant. do you agree with this, the pace of the investigation -- clearly there's still a long way to go. >> the thing about the mueller investigation it's such a tight box. a lot of you learn about the investigation is coming from the lawyers not mueller himself. he's clearly going down paths other than election meddling. whether he's going to find anything there, we don't know, but he's going down one of those paths. he was not with trump during the campaign, so if you're going back to issues of of collusion, communications with ru

that's why you need people like hope hicks, sean spicer, who were involved apparently in crafting thatly who made the decision to put out a false story if, in fact, a false story was put out. >> julie, you cover the white house. i assume when white house officials hear this, that somebody like reince priebus, for example, was called to testify to answer questions or at least be interviewed by the special counsel and his legal team. that gets folks, i assume, nervous over there. >> i think so. i think folks were nervous to begin with. it's been clear for some time that many people at the white house are going to be at least looked at in this investigation. whether they're interviewed or not is another question. but for several months now it's been the case that everyone's been on sort of pins and needles to figure out, are they going to want to talk to me, and what are they going to want to talk to me about? is that going to mean i need to get a lawyer. now reince priebus does not work at the white house anymore. there are people that are still there, who are still dealing with the pres

that includes sean spicer and that includes, we think, hope hicks. and the investigators are going to ask them very detailed questions about how that statement came to be and then compare that to the statements that other people make. >> a lot more to talk about, including the president's decision to decertify the iran nuclear deal, and essentially put the next move in the hands of congress. we're going to be joined next by the former director of national intelligence, james clapper. >>> also later, kids taken from central africa and sold to american families. sold. who thought they were actually adopting orphans. how could this happen? it's part two of our exclusive cnn investigation. directv has been rated #1 in customer satisfaction over cable for 17 years running. but some people still like cable. just like some people like banging their head on a low ceiling. drinking spoiled milk. camping in poison ivy. getting a papercut. and having their arm trapped in a vending machine. but for everyone else, there's directv. for #1 rated customer satisfacti

hope hicks said i spoke, i was not polite, i was rude in the questions that i had. he's a presidential candidate, i should have more respect for him and i remember thinking this is the guy that called mexicans coming across the border rapists. i mean, - yeah. - what are you talking about? - did you leave your respect at home that day? - no! - i mean that's exactly it, right? - it wasn't like that, and so i... - but of course, it's journalism. i mean, you did journalism and where you should be celebrated and where i celebrate you in this book, having read this book, is you have nerves of steel. there are instances all throughout this book where other people would have withered, and you didn't. and what got you noticed by nbc and by the rest of the country was your not backing down on that day. right? - i have rhinoceros skin. (chatter) (audience applause) - and i can give a lot of criticism of the media during the campaign, you and i could debate how much of it is legitimate - yeah. - but i want to give you credit, because i think that was an important thing. so you

>> we know on the list includes hope hicks. first of all, she still serves as white house communications director and is actually where spicer was not in those meetings. she has been in many, you know, small meetings with this president, so would have been privy to conversations that others were not. don megan, who was the white house council, this shows the investigation will continue to go into the most senior levels of the trump administration. >> i want to ask you politico is reporting spicer was fired for the questioning of the former fbi director comey and white house officials. where does this tell you where mueller is in his investigation right now? >> he's being thorough clearly. and i think spicer is a wonderful witness because we know he apparently made these notes contemporaneously, and those can be invaluable. they're really solid collaboration for a witness. >> we've heard about these copious notes, maybe a month or two that sean spicer kept copious notes. and these notes could either vindicate the president or ge

extends to some of the senior most adviser, that includes his current communications directors hope hicks, his current general counsel, don mcgann. his former press secretary spicer. keith kellogg has already been interviewed. and the topics are the firing of jim comey and michael flynn, but that famous meeting on air force one when the president and his advisers were crafting the initial misleading explanation of that trump tower meeting between his john, donald trump jr. who lawyers who said they were offering damaging information on hillary clinton. so a number of topics and paths the special counsel is going down with these interviews. >> jim, thanks. i want to get the panel's take. michael, how big a concern was is this for people in the white house? >> it's kind of a concern on two levels , from a political concern about the president and his fate. there's concern that the higher up mueller goes in the administration, the more serious is investigation looks both in terms of the underlying russia agenci allegations. these are in some cases like young people or people who aren't neces

one of those people is hope hicks our incredible communications director. , tomorrow is her birthday, and as you know, i love a good birthday, so i wanted to make sure to mention it here in the last briefing of the week. happy birthday, hope. if you get a minute, be sure to send her a note and wish her happy birthday. thanks for your selfless leadership, and perhaps most importantly your great sense of humor. with that, happy friday, and i will take your questions. jeff. reporter: the president said in an interview with fox business, he was considering -- should we take that as a signal that other candidates are not doing a good job? press sec. sanders: we still have an announcement on that and that is something under consideration, but he has not ruled out a number of options and he will have an announcement on that soon in the coming days. guest: what else his looking for a smart -- what else is he looking for? press sec. sanders: i'm not going to get ahead of a big and i'm spent like that the president will make, but we will keep you posted when we are ready to roll that out. repor

>> we know on the list is hope hicks. she first of all, she still serves as the white house communications director, and is actually where spicer was not, in those meetings. she's been in many small meetings with this president. so would have been privy to conversations that others were not. don mcgahn, just shows this investigation will go into the most senior levels of the trump administration. >> john dean, politico is reporting that spicer was questioned about the firing of former fbi director comey at president trump's meeting with the russian officials. where does this tell you about where mueller is in his investigation right now? >> he's being thorough, clearly. spicer is a wonderful witness, because we know he apparently made these notes contemporaneously, and those can be invaluable. they're a solid corroboration of information for a witness, so he has an important potential witness with spicer. >> we heard about these copious months a month or two ago, and these notes could either, you know, vinld kadicate the

that's why, i think, that the mueller's team is going to talk to hope hicks. to talk to don mcgahn. those interviews are probably going to be next month. i think those will potentially be more interesting than spicer, because for the same reason that spicer is no longer in his job now is why he might not be the most important witness. and that he was not an insider player the whole time. >> this whole thing revolves, i think, about obstruction of justice in the white house. and the question is, i think the cardinal question is, did trump, and this goes way back to his original sin of firing comey, did he fire comey to protect himself from legitimate prosecution? and now, again today, he's attacking comey, saying he was looking out for hillary clinton, he was a partisan. charlie, why is he doing that? why is she showing again motive, why he would want to get rid of comey? >> i mean, it's interesting in many ways that trump keeps returning to clinton as if he's still in the campaign of 2016 -- >> or returning to the scene of the crime. >> well, i think he's remi

nobody in the white house presently, hope hicks, who would know a lot about the communications, i don'te's been interviewed. others presently in the white house, we've all go to former, so we're moving in, as you would normally do, and i think we've got weeks or months still to go. >> let me quickly ask you this. i've spoken to people close to the president who said if mueller wanted to interview him, they would actually advise against it. >> what do you think about that? >> i the white house would absolutely advise again it. the white house wants to wait until the end to see if they can avoid an interview, or two if they have to have an interview, they have that after they know as much as is possibly knowable about this. because people have said, one, you want to know your enemy, if you will, has on you, but second, people have said trump's greatest liability is with respect to whether he'll tell you truth, just like with bill clinton and monica lewinsky. >> we saw where that went. >> that is soming they're trying to avoid. >> michael, stick around. we have new reporting on the russian

understanding that the special counsel also wants to speak with the current communications director, hope hicks, current white house counsel don mcbegan as well as former white house spokesman sean spicer. topics he's interested in looking into, the firing of james comey, the firing of michael flynn and as well as a meeting that took place on the air force one between donald trump jr. and russian lawyers who were promising damaging information on hillary clinton. all of this showing how seriously the special counsel is taking those various lines of investigation. jim sciutto, cnn, washington. >>> a talibanlinged group is being accused of ra the pe and authorizing the -- of a family they held hostage for five years. caitlyn coleman and josh boyle were kidnapped. >> they arrived in canada friday with three children after pakistani forces freed them the day are before. boyle accused his kidnappers of horrendous crimes. >> the stupidity and the evil of the hakani networks, kidnapping a pilgrim and his heavily pregnant wife engaged with villagers is eclipsed by the stupidity and evil of authorizing

. >> anne that gives you the same thing about hope hicks. she's been there a long time. >> yeah, she's been there when trump announced he was running for president. not the central player some of the other people have been the whole way through. >> is it hope picks who receives a lot of e-mails for the president? there was something else that was seen to be the person to go through if you want to get to president trump around circles. >> there's also roe that graph, his former assistant who is back at trump work in new york. i don't know what the status of her is but she'd be someone that mueller seem to be interested in if their circling the president. >> she'd print out the e-mails and he'd give his answers in written form so he did not e-mail back. i've heard her as a possible interest of some of the hill committees in terms of their investigation. >> and obviously anybody on that plane when the "new york times" broke. i think it's maggy habermann when they were returning, i think from europe, they were grafting a response for donald trum

to hope hicks and other people in the campaign saying, wow, can you believe the russians are backing campaign? the only e-mails we've seen are e-mails that he himself released. >> this is why donald trump was so upset about a special prosecutor because if this just, you know, congressional inquiries you're not going to have the ability to subpoena -- >> thousands and thousands -- >> if you lie to the fbi, that's a crime. you can't even lie to them. they can lie to you. you can't lie to them. come on. we don't know. we just found that papadopoulos was, you know, arrested or whatever months ago. is there anybody else? they're squeezing people who would know things. i mean, you know, paul manafort, does he cut a deal? does he want to spind the rest of his life in jail? if anybody would know and, it might be him. what about michael flynn -- >> michael flynn and his son. if they are in fact indicted and does michael flynn then want to try to protect his son? there's so many unknowns in this. just the sheer volume of information that mueller has access to that has not leaked out. >> you ge

at least that we've been able to confirm and met with him team including communications director hope hicks and chief counsel for the white house don mcguinn. at last we heard from one source, robert mueller was set to finish this wave of interviews with this first group of interviews with white house officials by the end of this month. the focus from what we've heard from sources continues to be the circumstances between the dismissal of michael flynn and the firing of james comey, pamela. >> all right, boras, and also there are these reports that president trump may pay for some of his staff's legal fees. what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: well, there's been some reporting through multiple different outlooks that the president has decided to spend up to $430,000 to help pay the legal costs of some of his white house aids and some of his campaign team after the rnc spent about that a. money on legal fees, partly to help his son, donald trump jr. to cover his legal expenses after it was revealed he met with some russian officials in trump tower in last year. there's still no clar

others are said to be interviewed including sean spicer, the current communications director hope hicks what we've heard from sources, they've told cnn that this questioning has to do with the circumstances surrounding the dismissal of former national security adviser michael flynn, as well as the firing of james comey. one source actually telling cnn that robert mueller is looking to get information on the president's meeting with some russian officials shortly after former fbi director james comey was fired, in which he reportedly bragged about the firing, saying it takes pressure off the white house, so this is yet another sign the russia investigation is moving forward. >> all right, boris sanchez, we appreciate it so much. thank you. >>> all right, president trump is also attacking the iran deal. another obama administration achievement. despite the advice of his secretary of state and his secretary of defense and other members of his cabinet and key u.s. allies, the president says iran is no longer in compliance with the spirit of the nuclear deal negotiated by the obama administr

said current and former officials at the white house including former press secretary sean spicer, hope hicks and others. what we've heard from sources is that robert mueller's team is essentially trying to find out the circumstances surrounding the dismissal of michael flynn as well as the firing of former fbi director james comey. one force actually telling cnn that they were interested in a meeting that donald trump had with russian officials shortly after comey was fired in which he apparently bragged about having fired comey saying that it took pressure off of his administration. >> all right. thank you. >>> we're going to bring in stoo steven colinson. i want to read something to you. this is new this morning. he said you cannot publicly castrate your own secretary of state without giving yourself that binary choice. that binary choice being the u.s. choosing between war or north korea or on iran that's capable of threatening the u.s. with nuclear weapons. so steven, it's pretty strong language coming from the man who is essentially tasked with working with the white house to come up wi

white house staffers, the white house counsel don mcgahn, one of the communications leaders and hope hickspicer, they're all going to be going in and interviewed by bob mueller. ultimately down the line, donald trump, who said he's 100% ready to talk to bob mueller, is going to get that call. i think the white house wants to maybe push this issue along, try to get this investigation wrapped up. so much of their agenda has been gobbled up and the oxygen sucked out of the room by this mueller investigation. if they can try to move this alawn, at least in the public sphere, that would probably be to their benefit. >> how about from a legal standpoint, though, barbara, would it be unusual for the president's lawyers to offer an interview before one was requested? and if you were representing the president, would you advise he do that interview? >> strategically sometimes you would like your client to be interviewed quickly to get the matter behind them or to deny robert mueller and his team the benefit of educating themselves based on other interviews and other witnesses and other documents. w

nonetheless, they are not -- they are not in the same tool as say a bannon or a jared kushner, a hope hickse or even a mike flynn with strong ties to trump before. look, this is how conspiracies unfold. the prosecutor goes after the weakest link and he or she begins to talk and others realize they are implicated. you mention don mcgahn, not shown a lot of strength within the white house and therefore is now being interviewed about what did he do to perhaps assist donald trump in some of these questions about obstruction of justice. >> we're learning much more about russia and social media and digital campaign that was waged. days before the election, bloomberg reporters were given exclusive access to the trump campaign and digital strategy. i want to read a portion of the report. this is somewhat enlightening given where we're at in the investigation and it reads, instead of expanding the electora electorate, they are trying to shrink it. we have three major voter suppression operations under way. needs to women overwhelm iingly idealistic white liberals and young women and african-american

they will be sean spicer, who of course is no longer with the white house, hope hicks, one of the people closest to the president as well as joshua fell who was one of these books people here who represents ivanka trump and jared kushner. >> bret: president trump's refusal to recertify the iran nuclear deal is getting, as you can imagine, and a lot of reaction around the world. but the ministrations in medicine the administration's ambassador is not concerned of opinions of world leaders on this front. correspondent rich edson reports. >> concerned. that's how the british, german, and french governments open the response to president trump's announcement. the european union also signed the iran nuclear deal and is resented of dismissed the warning. >> this is not a domestic issue, but a u.n. security council resolution. the international community and the european union with it have clearly indicated that a deal is, and will continue, to be in place. >> secretary of state rex tillerson acknowledges a renegotiation of the nuclear deal is unlikely. he says the united states would pursue a

mueller was scheduled to start interviewing present and former staff this week, including hope hicks,nce priebus, and sean spicer. meanwhile, president trump is under a deadline to start enforcing sanctions against russia. see how this works out. congress nearly unanimously passed this bill in july. it imposes new restrictions and at the same time limits the president's ability to lift the restrictions. trump signed it but made it clear he wasn't happy about it. now he faces a sunday deadline to identify exactly which russian entities are off limits to u.s. business. senators john mccain and ben cardin, a republican and a democrat, sent the president this letter on thursday. they wrote, quote, congress' swift and united action and your signature sent a strong message to adversaries and allies alike and particularly to those such as russia who have sought to undermine our democracy. now as critical deadlines are approaching, it is imperative that your administration implement the law to its fullest extent to uphold and protect american interests. joining me now, former federal prosecut

one is hope hicks, our communications director. i tomorrow it his birthday. happy birthday e hope.er a note. thanks for yourselfless leadership and your great sense of humor. with that, happy friday and i'll take your questions. jeff? >> i'd like to have a question about the president finished his interviews and said that he would consider having powell and tailor come together? should we take that as a simple -- >> we still don't have an announcement on that. that's certainly under krrgs t consideration. he will have an announcement on that in the coming days. i'm not going to get ahead of a big announcement like that that the president will make. but we'll keep you posted. >> on that note, janet yellen, the president was extremely critical of her during the campaign, saying at one point, too political, she should be ashamed. political arm of the president. hillary clinton. now said some rather nice things about her. most recently he respects her. what has changed in his thinking as it relates to her over the last year and can you shed light on the relationship? >> i think them ha

understanding that the special counsel also wants to speak with the current communications director hope hicks, don mcgahn and as well as sean spicer. he is looking into the firing of james comey and michael flynn as well as a meeting on air force one that took place as the "new york times" was first reporting a meeting in june 2016 between donald trump jr. and russian lawyers who were promising damaging information on hillary clinton. all of this showing how seriously the special counsel is taking those various lines of investigation. jim sciutto, cnn, washington. >>> taliban linked group is being accused of rape and authorizing the murder of a baby for the family it held hostage for five years. joshua boyle and his american wife were captured in 2012 while backpacking in afghanistan. >> boyle and coleman arrived in canada friday with three children after pakistani forces treed them just the day before. boyle appeared angry and shaken as he accused his kidnappers of these horrendous crimes. >> stupidity and evil of the haqqani networks, kidnapping of a pilgrim and his heavily pregnant wife en

they include the current communications director hope hicks, done mcgahn, and that's pistol just the first group of people close to the president that robert mueller wants to talk to people about again about these topics of the many questions facing thechl. firing of james comey, that crucial air force one meeting. these are all important lines of inquiry for the special counsel. >> yeah. what kind of an impact do you see this having on the white house now in its current make up? >> certainly it does the get the attention of everybody who is there. i think what's yet again exceptional about this time, i think of it as sort of a piano player where you have on the right hand there's new scandals. we've the health care and daca this week and meanwhile over the left hand there is this steady base beat of whatever mr. mueller is doing with his investigation and every single day -- or every week or so we have another sign of how dramatic it's going to be. i think people in the white house and the rescue of us in politics are trying to balance the frenzy of what's going minute by minute wit

we expect sean spicer to be interviewed, as well as communications director hope hicks among others.'m told by a person familiar with the matter that the expectation is that at least in this first round of people, that the interviews will wrap up by the end of this month. the white house is is very anxious for this investigation to wrap up. they view this as a cloud hanging over president. >> thank you so much as always. breaking so much of this story as she's done all the way alopg. james kelly is we me now, retired fbi along with paul, our legal analyst. james, this is the most senior member of trump's inner team. what does this say about where this investigation is? that he is now interviewed. >> there's two channels. the current intelligence and the criminal. we know in the counterintelligence end, we know that russia attempted to influence the election. now, did any of the upper echelon trump transition team members and now priebus is no longer with the administration, but did they have any knowledge of that? the second piece is the criminal end. it could go back to a violation

. >> bob, they do want this to go away, but what does this say to you that reince priebus and hope hicks and all of these folks are -- is it just a normal investigation how things run? >> i think they're getting closer to the finish line, don, if you look at the big picture. if he's close to the finish line and we don't know that for sure, he's got to finish it soon because this can't go deep into an election yearment so i think this is an indication that maybe eventually, we've heard speculation that mueller could purview trump himself. maybe that's coming. >> interesting. in the past 24 hours, david, president trump has taken two key actions to further chip away at president obama's legacy, lilg obamacare subsidies, decertifying the iran deal. is this all about blowing up the former president's legacy? >> i think it's more about blowing up the former president's legacy than anybody wants to admit. anything which has the name obama on it, it automatically becomes, you know, a target for donald trump. and he's trying to rers as much of that as possible. what was worrisome about this, don

one of those people is hope hicks, our incredible communications director.omorrow is her birthday. as you know, i love a good birthday. i wanted to make sure and mention it here in the last briefing of the week. happy birthday, hope. if you get a minute, be sure to send her a note and wish her happy birthday. thank you for your selfless leadership and your great sense of humor. and with that, happy friday, and i will take your questions. >> reporter: i would like to open a question about the president finishing interviews this week and he had an interview with fox business that he would consider having them back together. should we take that as a single that these other candidates are not with jobs? >> press secretary sanders: we still have an announcement with that as a president said, it certainly under consideration, but he has not ruled out a number of options and he will have an announcement on that in the coming days. as you know, i'm not going to get ahead of a big announcement like that. the president himself will make, but we will keep you posted wh

one of those people, hope hicks, our incredible communications director. tomorrow is her birthday.e a good birthday. i wanted to make sure to mention it here in the last briefing of the week. happy birthday, hope. if you get a minute, be sure send her a note, wish her a happy birthday. thanks for yourselfless leadership and perhaps most importantly the great sense of humor. with that happy friday. i will take your questions. jeff? reporter: i have a question about the -- president did in an interview of fox business, consider having powell and taylor come to the fed together. should we take that as signal that the other candidates are not going to get the job? >> weville announcement on that as the president said. that is certainly under consideration but he hasn't ruled out a number of options and he will have announcement on that, soon in the coming days. >> what else is looking for as he makes this decision? >> as you know i'm not getting ahead after big announcement like that the president himself will make but we'll keep you posted when we're ready to roll that out. blake? rep

also on the plane with the president right now, members of his team stephen miller, tom bossert, hope hicks, joyce meyer from legislative affairs. the president is arriving on the ground in las vegas and the very much-needed moment for this country after we have witnessed the largest mass shooting in modern american history. the president could be there to offer a very common voice. we are going to stop for a moment and pause to let in our fox station. this is fox news coverage of the president's trip to las vegas after the worst mass shooting in u.s. history. left 59 people dead, including the shooter. and more than 500 injured. the president is expected to step off of air force one at any moment accompanied by the first lady melania trump. members of his cabinet also present on the plane right there. the chair who has been an integral part of leading the investigation and providing updates from the ground in las vegas will be there to greet him as he stepped off the plane as well as the mayor of las vegas and the governor of the state will be there to greet him as well. the president is e

>> sure, we're expecting don mcgahn, the chief white house lawyer in the next few weeks, hope hicks, top communications aide to the president who's been with him for the entire campaign is expected to go in and lower level staffers. those are important because prosecutors like to build up the chain. they like to talk to assistants and deputies and folks who were in meetings, around meetings. >> and all these folks have their own lawyers? >> good question. i don't know the answer to that. but many of the lower level people in the white house make 40, 50, $60,000 a year and lawyers are an expensive proposition so i think they probably need some help paying for them. >> quick before we go, we know the rnc is covering president trump's legal bills and i believe some of don jr.'s. how about everybody else? you know, the people who could use the money? >> right. they spent more than $1 million on legal fees in the last quarter, which was a sharp uptick. they haven't exactly delineated who they're paying and who they're not. but it was a big increase from previous quarters in their legal fi

i think hope hicks has also played a really productive role with regard to hethat, but i thk this is, again, emanating from the president's political strategy and his attitude towards the press. >> sarah, you're a political scientist. take a step back. >> my own experience with the briefing room is nfrom "saturda night live." >> the reality is much better. >> polarized public. >> you're welcome any time to get a real view. >> it's pretty clear the stakes are huge, right? the president is enormously powerful inn terms of the u.s. global position in the world and for individual lives in the united states. he can be a force for good and he can be a force for bad in both arenas. so it makes sense that there's this type of conflict going on, and we expect the press to pla that role of accountability. i think -- i can't speak to the harshness of the debate that goes on on a daily basis, but someone has to ask those questions. >> does this reflect the polarization that you see in the broader public when you study the public? >> i don't real the press as being partisan on one side or the othe

we know hope hicks, a close confidant of the president has. jared kushner has retained counsel. the west wing right now. >> and then the question is who was wired and who might turn themselves in right now and get a deal to save themselves? this is like -- at this point, every man for himself, or woman. "the washington post" bob costa, there was a piece describing the president yesterday and his behavior. separated from most of his west wing staff who fretted over why he was late to the oval office, trump clicked on the television and spent the morning playing fuming media critic, legal analyst, and crisis communication strategist according to several teem close to him. the president digested the news of the first indictments of bob mueller's probe with exasperation and disgust, the people said. he called his lawyers repeatedly. he listened intently to cable news commentary and with rising irritation, he watched live footage of his one time campaign adviser and confidant, paul manafort turning himself into the fbi. initially he felt indicated though frustrate he was being linked

they also want to interview six current and former advisers to trump including hope hicks and sean spicerhey closing in on? >> i think that what you're seeing is essentially them going on a fact climbing mission and look agent the people around donald trump and trying to make it known they are not going to at all pull any punches. i think when i've been talking to sources inside the white house, and the reason why we talk about the chaos inside the white house is the people that are leaving and whether or not president trump is lashing out at his party, but the internal chaos when you're trying to have a meeting and people are joking about hiring their lawyer because they realize that everyone needs -- everyone working in the white house might be subpoenaed, might end up having to testify about what's going on. that tells you there's a level of chaos that's actually internal. when you're trying to have a meeting about how to map out tax reform or how to do something about infrastructure, and you have it in place, they're saying, hey, here's the number to my lawyer. hopefully you can get o

hick lar manslaughter charges is to be sentenced. the maximum sentence is 11 years but the boy's grandfather is hoping for a harsher sentence. >> she washarged with ve hick lar manslaughter. tomorrow that family will find out exactly what her sentence will be. >> i want the max. >> reporter: chuck may not get what he wants when she's sentenced. the wife of an alameda county deputy sheriff is accused of being behind the wheel of her car that crashed last year. three 3-year-old elijah dunn was inside, he died. mall han was driving under the influence and with a suspended license. >> he believes she is not sorry because she had two dui crashes in a three-month period. and he believes the fact she's the wife of an alameda county deputy sheriff is a reason she didn't get a second degree murder charge for killing his grandson. >> that'smy why i feel like she didn't get convicted of it. >> the fact she's married to a police officer i don't think swayed the da's office to give her any preferential treatment because she's looking at a significant prison sentence. >> legal analyst steven clark said it would have been hard to charge her of second

about it, the city wide celebration took a bit a hit with the news that hicks and peters are out for the season. eagles fans are hoping that the team can adjust and stay on the winning streak. >> wents will be escaping from the 18 yard line. >> carson wentz shook off the slow start and the 24-year-old carried the eagles to a solid 34-24 win over the red skins. eagles fans are impressed. >> all the plays he was running incredible all the calls he was making. >> he evades and can read and calling plays at the line himself. he is a smart kid and doesn't have a big ego. >> the city was celebrating and then came the bad news, jason peters and jordan hicks will miss the remainder of the season. peters tore both his a.cl and ncl in the right knee and hicks is out with a torn achilles tendon. >> that could hurt. that is carson wentz's blindside and knowing it's eagles and how they have played. they can adjust going forward. >> injuries are irrelevant to football in my opinion. athletes are well paid and be able to adjust and make the adjustments they need to to win a game. >> winning they are, 6-1 and fans are confident they

these people as witnesses about anything whatsoever, if your hope hits, for instance, the president's assistant, what did you see, miss hicks on this date or that date that is referred to by mr. papadopoulos? those are the kinds of lines of inquiry we're going to see and also, there are so many potential witnesses here who indeed could be frightened by what is happening to these three individuals. >> sure. sure. just now director of white house communications. listen, i appreciate your candor and the i don't know. we don't know, do we? we don't know. >> and we need to be calm and fair to the president, as well. >> absolutely. >> no, you be calm. i'm not going to be calm. >> thank you both so much. >>> just a programming note for tonight, a cnn special report the russia investigation with jake tapper. it is tonight at 11:00 eastern only here on cnn. we have much more to come on this breaking news today. we'll dig into the white house response including the president tweeting this morning in all capital letters, no collusion. does that still hold true after today's guilty plea? >>> and the president has already shown he is no

hicks went out with an ankle injury. left tackle jason peters went down with a leg injury. eagles will machine for peters throughout the week and hope for the best. bottom line is these players are playing, as a team, is there an aura of confidence, trust, coming up in the next half an hour you will hear from players say that they have complete faith in carson wentz. he is a great leader. he makes their job, easy, karen. >> that he does. you know what goes great with a big win, jenny, that apple pie you are standing next to a moment ago. >> i'm just saying. >> yeah. >> it looks so good, didn't it >> yes, diner deserts are the best ever, they are this big and amazing. thanks, we appreciate it. >>> lets get another cherry on top. we will take that win and up it by ear win. >> sixers picking up their first victory last night. they faced pistons in detroit. ben simmons was a major player here recording his first triple double in this win. joel embiid dominated here on fire back on the court last night after being out against toronto, the final, 97-86. sixers return home wednesday to take on the houston rockets >>> it is sentencing day f