this is now obviously well known to bob mueller. we learned about it in the charging documents for a dutch lawyer. do you think that we give the collusion investigation a sho short -- how we talk about it, the k.k., g.r.u., dee minds me of -- do we give short trip and are we ignoring what is right in front of our eyes, that collusion is now established between the trump campaign and the russians, and that this development is simply making that collusion more likely a conspiracy and it was between the top representative of the president's campaign and known russian intelligence officials? >> the key open question is whether there was a quid pro quo. if you guys do this, we'll do this. but look at the pattern so far. here's the list of people who had direct, or indirect connection to russian assets to the russian world. kushner, manafort, gates, stone, papadopoulos, don, jr., flynn, erik prince. page. this is like having a corner office in trump h.q. can you imagine any other campaign you can think of -- >> there are more people on th

over the weekend it was the first attack on special counsel bob mueller by name. his tweets are full of anger and full of factual errors wrapped into smears attacking mueller, his team of prosecutors and the fbi investigators helping the investigation. back to another version of that big question. here in the words of republican congressman and foreign prosecutor trey gowdy. if there is no "there" there, why all the fuss, mr. president? >> let it play out its course. if you've done nothing wrong, you should want the investigation to be as fullsome and thorough as possible. >> it's clear that's the last thing the president wants. one of the president's lawyers suggests it's silly to suggest that this twitter storm is proof he has something to hide. the fbi in the headlines raising new questions about the conduct of the 2016 campaign and his family business. with us to share their reporting and insights, julie davis with the "washington post." cnn's kaitlan collins. the president i want to get to. for months he listened to his lawyers who said don't do it. now he att

heard him attack the probe a million times of course, but he's never mentioned the special counsel bob mueller by name. he's doing it now by twitter. the white house has been trying to cover for the president here saying he is not considering or discussing firing mueller. can that be believed given the tweets? joining us is michael caputo. thank you for joining us this morning. >> do you share of words of lindsey graham who said this? >> the only reason mr. mueller could ever be dismissed is for cause. i see no cause when it comes to mr. mueller. he needs to be able to do his job. pledged to the american people as a republican to make sure mr. mueller can continue to do his job without any interference. >> are you worried that the president is preparing to fire robert mueller? it looks though from his tweets. >> as i said, if he does, it will be beginning of the end of his presidency. >> do you agree? >> yes, you do. i don't think the president is really considering firing mr. mueller. this is the president trying to defiend the terms of the conversation surrounding this investigation and if y

that's bob mueller. in total the four guilty pleas for false statements which range from the low ranking volunteers like george papadopoulos or alex van der zwaan, people not heard from much in the public realm to mike flynn to most recently rick gates who lied while trying to cut a plea deal. so when you take it all together, maybe they kept lying because they thought some lies are okay and in life, that can be a legitimate and larger debate, depending what's going on. but in this case, bob mueller's made it pretty clear, when you don't tell him the truth, it's not just a lie, it's a crime. ha, something needed to be done about what was going on in our inner-city. instead of buying a house, we decided to form this youth league. these kids mean everything to me and i just want to make sure i give something positive to do. ♪ ♪ wow, that's amazing. that's a blessing right there. to know that someone out there cares and is passionate about what we're trying to do in our communities. you excited? yes. yeah,

is this white house now hurdling towards a confrontation with bob mueller in the end? both with the mueller case and with this discussion of pardons you see the president and the white house laying the ground work for taking those -- possibly taking those steps. the president has been attacking the bob mueller investigation as partisan, calling it fake news, saying there never should have been an investigation so that lays some political ground work i think for moving and keeping his base with him if he did take these very controversial steps and we should remember that previous modern presidents have made very controversial pardon, starting with president ford pardoning the president nixon after his resignation and george w. bush pardoning caspar weinberger and bill clinton pardoning mark rich, so there is history of presidents taking the political heat for making pardons that for one reason or another they think serve the national interest or their own interests. >> mark, it's steve, an impression one has up here is that john dowd wanted to get off of this train to p

and it's also been reported bob mueller would like to talk to him. speak to the significance of michael cohen as a figure in the investigation. >> not surprising at all that michael cohen would be a central figure of interest for bob mueller. not surprising that bob mueller and his team would issue a grand jury subpoena for records to the trump organization, which is a significant investigative tool by a special counsel because, of course, what the business dealings were between the trump organization and the russian federation is part of the inquiry. it's helpful to understand how russia had leverage over donald trump, how russia had leverage over the trump organization. we know that the trump organization obtained loans from the russian federation during a time when russian oligarchs were looking to move money outside of russia and the trump organization was cash strapped. they actually didn't have the credit worthiness to borrow from some other bona fide american institutions. eric trump spoke to this on the record in some interviews he gave. we a

bob mueller knows what people think of bob mueller.osenstein if he were to say anything other would be saying that isn't true. and good for him for not saying something that isn't true. >> david frum, always appreciate your insights. >>> ahead, it is about to get real. the legendary rapper is here for "the realist." and coming straight off his testimony from inside the grand jury box, sam nunberg is back on the beat with me. are you ready sam? >> yes, sir. today, the new new york is sparking innovation. you see it in the southern tier with companies that are developing powerful batteries that make everything from cell phones to rail cars more efficient. which helps improve every aspect of advanced rail technology. all with support from a highly-educated workforce and vocational job training. across new york state, we're building the new new york. to grow your business with us in new york state, visit esd.ny.gov. you or joints. something wifor your heart... state, but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally f

and we ought to be better than that. >> and, remember, the president met with bob mueller about the fbiiously he thought he was fine right before this. >> tweet number two we want to get to. the mueller probe should never have been started as there was no collusion or crime. incident was based on fraudulent activities and a fake dossier paid for by crooked hillary and the dnc and improperly used in fisa court for survey answer of my campaign. witch-hunt. >> oh, pick me. >> david, i'm going to pick you. we don't know yet because we don't have all the findings. >> it is a fundamentally deceptive statement of how things work. you started because there were real questions. his own guy picked special counsel rod rosen staoeufpblt it was his decision. obviously you don't say there's collusion so let's have an investigation. it works in the reverse. >> and the fake dossier, and it was actually started because of that red flag that was raised by the australian government saying, hey, there was a drunken conversation with george papadopoulos. and here we are, david. >> and this dossier was compi

it's significant because the president's tweets over the weekend for the first time he attacked bob muellerme almost made it sound as if he was having a different mind set ty cobb and john dowd, the president's two senior outside counsel had pretty much restrained the president from aattacking mueller. that restraint apparently dissipated over the weekend. so i'm happy that ty cobb said what he said. i'm not happy with what his co-counsel john dowd said. i pray that bob mueller closes up shop. you know what? you were hired to defend the president, not to pray for him. >> bill: john dowd is probably defending him at that point though? >> yes, yes. going on television saying i pray that you shut down shop is not the way a lawyer for an innocent defendant conveys the message on tv. >> bill: in a legal frame, look, i think there is so much going on right now. i think people can get confused. things get cloudy. >> yes. >> bill: i'm certain that's the case of viewers. a lot of these names people are frankly not familiar with. >> yes. >> bill: frame where are we right now in this special counsel i

>> i'm not surprised bob mueller is interested in trump's finances. at one point, president trump said that would be crossing a red line if he were to look into my business interests. i don't know how you do this without doing a full workup. figure out all the lengths and all the motivations a person has if it you're looking at something like this connection between russia and the trump campaign. so i don't see how you do a thorough investigation without looking at all the business interests. there's been reporting of, you know, russian loans, russian overpayments on properties. i think you need to look at that and explore did that happen and if so, what was the motivation behind that? so i suppose to the extent that his reporting is consistent with that theory, then it does make a lot of sense. >> david jolly, let me play for you something that sam nunberg said with jake tapper at this hour yesterday. >> they probably have something on trump. >> let me ask you about that trump tower meeting. president trump says he knew nothing about the meeting. do

in the case of bob mueller, i like bob mueller. he is honest. as he very good prosecutor. he is straightforward. and i think it won't indict the president. and i think the president should treat that it way. it would be the stupidest thing the president could do is fire him. he could do that but he won't do that and he shouldn't do that. >> now, wolf, orrin hatch said that he does not support legislati legislation. also john cornyn observe texas. the republican who is majority ill when. he said he does not think they should attach any bill to frequent special counsel to this must-pass spending bill. he thinks he should lay out the attacks. it does not make essential to do anything legislatively. right now, republicans are concerned about what they're doing but not ready to take them on quite yet. >> all right. thanks for that. joining us now, a key member of the house intelligence committee. democratic congressman joakim castro. do you believe the president is setting the stage for mueller's firing? >> i think it is quite likely that he is. i believe for a while that he co

could he fire bob mueller over this? to stay within hisjurisdiction trump trusts mr muller to stay within his jurisdiction and trump trusts mr muller to stay within hisjurisdiction and that trump trusts mr muller to stay within his jurisdiction and that was what he was indicating, that it should not be a free rein to look into anyone with the name trump. everything the trump organisation has done has been aboveboard and that's what bob mueller will find, he'll not find any evidence of collusion, any bad financial transactions here, so they will co—operate as they indicated. there will be nothing found and all president trump wants is for this to wrap up quickly and fairly. we've had an announcement today, we have a new national economic adviser larry kudlow, who is coming to the building, rex tillerson on his way out of course, he'll be gone in a few weeks' time and the rumours are starting to circulate about who else might go, hr mcmaster, the national security adviser. it looks pretty chaotic from over here. it's not c

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. >> i know bob mueller. i know that whole team. and they're right and they probably have something on trump. >> doubling down. the president says he's going to stay the course on his tariff pledge, despite pleas from world leaders, businesses, financial institutions and prominent republicans. basically almost everyone. >> it's a very, very concerning. nobody ever wins trade wars. >> and everything is bigger in texas. primary season kicks off this morning and lone star voters are becoming the first to cast votes determining the fate of congress in november. all right. it comes as no surprise. you know exactly what i'm going to start with today. former trump campaign aide sam nunnburg who made multiple appearances on television in the last 24 hours during which he publicly bashed the president, defied special counsel's subpoena and dared bob mueller to arrest him. but this morning, nunburg is saying he will probably cooperate with mueller after all. sam nunnburg is a lawyer. i have a team to break all of it down including our very ow

>>> breaking news, president trump's lawyers are considering the possibility of special counsel bob muellerting down with the president. among negotiation points, according to the wall street journal tonight, trying to force mueller to end the investigation within 60 days of the interview. outfront now the white house reporter for the wall street journal, peter nicolas broke the story and former united states attorney and former associate independent counsel for the white house investigation. peter, you are breaking this story. what else are you hearing? >> what's happening is president's lawyers know that bob mueller wants and trying to see if there could be some concessions they can get in return. one would be to see if they can get a quick end to this investigation. maybe 60 days after the date of the interview. the other would be possibly limiting scope of the testimony. so the president wouldn't necessarily have to answer wide ranging questions that bob mueller might necessarily be interested in. but just answer some more general questions that might avoid a perjury trap, and focus on

but what will republicans do if bob mueller is fired? the president's new focus on the mueller probe in his tweets, could that become part of an obstruction of justice case? and was the mccabe firing following normal procedure? frank, i'm going to start with you on this one. the mccabe firing, since you were the chief of the office of professional responsibility at one time, mccabe's lawyer tweeted he's never seen such a rush to judgment. in your opinion, was this firing by the book, or does something appear improper here? >> i'm deeply concerned about the manner in which this was done. we'll need to see if we ever get to the substantive findings against andrew mccabe. but i've been a part of hundreds of investigations, and i've never, never seen an fbi agent dismissed 26 hours before his retirement eligibility. so, something about the manner of this is discuturdisturbing. the fact that this was handled by the attorney general was disturbing, because he's supposed to be recused from the russia case. the other thing i'm deeply concerned ab

in shelby's report, the nbc news talking about bob mueller. people hold that investigation in high regard. is the concern founded that that sort of buffer protecting it might be eroded? >> it's possible. i think the administration itself has given credibility to the mueller probe because the treasury came out and sanctioned some of the same people bob mueller indicted for russian election interference a few weeks ago. that's a layer of credibility surrounding the probe from the administration itself, as well as if trump would come out and fire bob mueller, what shelby said is right, we haven't seen much from republicans by way of actual action when it comes to protecting the special counsel. there's stalled legislation that hasn't been a main priority for the republicans, back as recently as january you had many republicans saying i don't see a need for this investigation to move forward at this point because i think it's undermaef underestimating what the president is doing. >> he still maintains no collusion, no crime. he's still tweeting thi

. >> and bob mueller has not according to stone and our reporting called in roger stone yet. stone has a very long running relationship with the president, which he has described a little differently during the course of the campaign, there were times when he said we're cordial, this is all just a big adventure, we speak now and then, and then he said he was sending long memos to the donald once or twice a week by october. that raises the question of whether with all of that claimed communication, if he did have inside track information about wikileaks, which donald trump was mentioning over and over in the campaign, is it a credible line of inquiry as to whether roger stone then candidate trump about that? >> it's certainly a credible line of inquiry and certainly a very credible line of inquiry is would don jr. really go into this meeting with the russians with the promise of getting dirt on hillary clinton, and if the meeting was so important that he felt he needed to bring in the campaign manager and the president's son-in-law at a time when they were still contesting the

bob mueller, who people have said over by thanksgiving and over by christmas. ideas is rick gates who has become a treasure trough of rabbit holes down which robert mueller is sending investigators to see what evidence is there. >> and every now and then you have to stand up for the president. he believes he has not. >> i have disagreed with eric holder on so many thing and i think he put his finger on an interesting area of permanent conflict between the attorney general of the united states sworn to uphold the laws and the courts interpreted and ethiccal obligation and the president of the united states who is answerably to the public. that is often a clash. and the justice department is that unique executive department that has to be semiindependent and there may be laws that the president doesn't want to enforce for political positions and i am partly with former attorney holder. and on the other hand, i can see the frustration. he has doj run by stranger and adversaries to him and that can't be happy. >> neil: judge, thank you very much. it is it not enoug

so, michael zelden is with me, cnn legal analyst and worked as bob mueller's special assistant at the zelden, what do we know about the mueller people and the trump legal team? >> right. so, brooke, overarchingly, what mueller wants to inquiry is what did the president know, when did he know it and what did he do with that knowledge? so that overarches the whole thing. specifically, then, we've learned in the latest meetings that he has inquired of sessions and comey. comey makes, cleared the oval office and then asked him to let the flynn investigation go and then the repeated violations of washington, white house, doj, communications policies. so, if you think of that, that is sort of obstruction. the kislyak chats concern michael flynn and allegations he may have engaged in a couple of things. one is coordination with the russians, quid pro quo. we'll help you. you'll get rid of sanctions and/or, too, you'll help us and we -- before we get there, we'll set policy that will be favorable to you, specifically as it relates to a number of issues that russia had an interest in, oil and

that's bob mueller's job.xcept them, then he will report that but to make this even more absurd, in the midst of all of, this during one of his campaign stops. very famous statement he made, hey, russia, i hope you keep hacking her, maybe you will find the 30,000 emails that she tried to delete. i think he said that as a joke. >> harris: you know how often we get hacked. >> did he say that at the same time that the wikileaks stuff was about to come out. >> harris: you know that the equivalent to the h.r. department for the government got hacked a couple years ago. >> yes. >> harris: we have had some cyber moves on our government for years. you don't even need like high intel to know about that. >> i think i know how this came out. because i think some witnesses who have been interrogated by bob mueller decided to speak to some of our colleagues here at fox. witnesses are free to speak about whatever they were interrogated about. and they concluded from the interrogation that this is one of the avenues that he

lewandowski had with the president about the potential of firing bob mueller. these and other questions went unanswered. >> that was his readout at least of things that they did not find out from that systetestimony, y view, senator? >> this is why the mueller investigation has to continue, has to go forward, baecause as say, there are revelations on an hourly basis, they concern collusion, and obstruction of justice, all things that the mueller investigation has to get to the bottom of. as i said in front of the armed services committee, it is clear from the testimony in front of that committee over the last few days, that the efforts of the russians to make us really question our institutions continues and we do not have a whole of government strategy that will enable us to counter these efforts, which are continuing. everybody acknowledges they are continuing, but nobody is taking the lead. and there are fingers saying that, you know, they're saying that the president ultimately has to bring everybody together, but clearly, he wants this investigation to tota

fall apart and there are no terms under which the president agrees willingly to go in and sit with bob muellerhappens then? is that a scenario that plays out to the supreme court? and i'll go further, what happens in the court tells donald trump he must sit with mueller and donald trump says no? >> mueller has the subpoena power, he could bring trump in front of his grand jury using a subpoena, it's a little unusual for the justice department to subpoena someone who is a target of an investigation, someone the prosecutors are thinking seriously about indicted. it ee it's more common for sun who is a subject and more proper for a witness. that can be used if the president won't agree to be interviewed and mueller will have -- because we're a rule of law country and the president isn't above the law -- mueller will have the same power of compulsion that he would have with any other witness who doesn't appear in front of a grand jury which is to call the u.s. marshal and ask them to deliver the witness for testimony. >> there's another legal twist in the stormy daniels scandal that's colliding wi

who would be firing bob mueller. it's rod rosen stein. and rosenstein has assured congress he won't do that unless there is just cause. and that person would have to fire bob mueller. now, by all accounts, republicans -- i mean, key republicans, even bob goodlat with, the how judiciary chairman told me even yesterday he he has full faith in bob mueller and a lot of respect for bob mueller and wants the special counsel to get to the bottom of this as soon as you can. and if you look at the moves the president is making, he's hiring new attorney so that sort of suggests he wouldn't try to fire bob mueller at this time. he would have a lot of problems. even lindsey graham has said that could lead to many problems down the road, especially if the democrats take over control of the house and the senate. >> let's talk about h.r. mcmaster being replaced with john bolton. what's been the reaction on the hill to the president's decision given the stark contrast in personalities between a widely respected h.r. mcmaster and to

all they would have to say as jeff flake seemed to for a brief moment, if you remove bob mueller witho good cause, that will lead to impeachment. that does not seem like a particularly radical position for republicans to take, but they don't even want to go that far. >> i don't know how much outcry among republicans there will be if donald trump chooses to fire bob mueller. i think the outcry will come after republicans lose the house in november and they are more empowered to speak out against donald trump. right now republicans really feel like they are in a bind because you lose by being anti-trump, you lose by being pro-trump. it's looking like there is going to be a blue wave and they're not sure how to ride this one out as they are heading into mid terms. >> jim, what do you think about that? >> not only do a play i media columnist on television, but i believe it matters a lot, the media environment right now. there is an entire media eco system in which bob mueller should go, that there is a deep state plot, that this is all very suspect and needs to end. so, there's no way tha

clues to where it's all headed. >> tonight we're going to tell you who robert mueller really is. >> bob mueller ruined the credibility of his own and the integrity of his own investigation when he hired, clearly, a very partisan team. >> robert mueller's career has been anything but impeccable. >> robert mueller's career has been nothing but impeccable, and the fact that you have fox news attacking a republican, former fbi director who was actually deeply well respected by both sides of the aisle, is actually shocking. it is an attack on a democratic institution. that exists to be bipartisan. bipartisan means that you have all parties actually represented on the staffing, as mueller's team has. and the idea that someone who has spent their career actually building a reputation as an attorney, as a prosecutor, in upholding the law, is somehow on a witch hunt when we have had no less than four indictments against people closely connected, not just to the trump campaign, and in some of these instances to donald trump himself, actually begs the question about whether we really care about the democr

and the fact that the trump organization, the trump presidency is now confronted with bob mueller, looking for a lawyer of mueller's capability to represent him is an impossible tank. no lawyer, very few lawyers are going to want to do this. >> let's do a casual survey here. who would you want representing you, the team that bob mueller has lined up or donald trump's lawyers? >> duh. >> exactly. it's a no-brainer and that's what is so ridiculous about donald trump's tweets yesterday. because he does -- he's showing his desperation quite frankly. all throughout the '80s american lawyer documented all of the white shoe firms he wouldn't pay. he has this reputation as just not paying his legal bills. he thinks that that's a sign of skill. i personally think that you should pay people for the work that you do for them. >> controversial point of view. >> controversial point of view and now you look at how he is not able to enlist the best and brightest because not only do you have to deal with a client who won't listen to you and take your advice and expects you to get them out of the situation

lashing out at bob mueller directly. now hiring a guy to attack mueller.thinks this is a pr war and when he meets with mueller he'll be able to charm his way out. bob mueller and his legal team are the legal dream team. dowd is not a top lawyer, nor are cob. the top lawyers in the country don't want to represent the president because they know he's uncontrollable and they're up against very tough opposition. >>> we need to take you back to give you an update on the breaking news story. a school shooting at great mills high school. there are reports of multiple injuries. the school is now on lockdown. officials say the scene is contained. the shooting happened right around 8:00 a.m. as the school day was kicking off. it is not clear how many people were hurt. our local affiliate is reporting some of the injuries are, in fact, critical. fbi and atf agents are on their way to the scene. parents of the kids are being told not to head to great mills but to go to nearby leonard town high school to reunite with their kids. but, again, those kids are still contain

consider that for ten months, donald trump avoided ever criticizing bob mueller by name or ever impulsivelyng his name, until now. after the friday night firing of comey deputy andrew mccabe, trump is now singling out mueller by name. it looks like a new phase. it looks deliberate. it does not look impulsive. and some republicans i can tell you tonight apparently agree. speak out in the most direct terms we've seen about what happens if trump tries to illegally remove mueller. they're talking about potential impeachment. >> if the president fired robert mueller, do you think that would be an impeachable offense? >> probably so, if he did it without cause, yeah. i think what the president will have done is stopped an investigation into whether or not his campaign colluded with the russians, what effect the russians had on the 2016 campaign. i can't see it being anything other than a erupt purpose to stop the investigation without cause. i think it would be a constitutional crisis. >> or jeff flake who wrote this just tonight. we're begging the president not to fire the special counsel. don't

that is not something that bob mueller might want. so they are saying that they could agree to an interview on a more timely basis provided mueller agreed to certain concessions as well. one would be to bring the investigation to a close in a speedi ity period of time. and the other is to limit the scope of the questioning so it the nosis not a free wheeling discusses. his lawyers don't want to put him in a situation where he is asked about specific dates and times where it is easy to trip up. so those are the kinds of considerations at play. >> help me with the precedent here. when presidents have testified in the past, what conclusions can we draw from what happened previously. >> >> that is one factor that the trump lawyers cite is that they believe that there is legal -- there are legal cases that they are citing that say a president doesn't necessarily have to give testimony, inthat independent prosecutor has to prove that they can't get the information anywhere else. so they are looking at some of the cases back to the 1990s or

that effort to distract and undermine the work of bob mueller, the majority has signaled they have every intention of continuing. we will continue to resist that and point out what a transparent effort it is to detract from the mueller probe. in terms of the other work we are doing, certain aspects will be impossible because records that we should get, for example, from twitter, direct messages from trump associates that we know were in contact with 2.0 at wikileaks, they will not provide without a subpoena. but other witnesses have come forward and offered information, and others will continue to come forward, and we will continue to learn more from people like yourself doing investigative journalism, and the work of bob mueller. that will be part of the basis of our report. we will continue in every way that we can until this committee decides on a full committee basis to once again undertake its responsibilities to the american people. thank you very much. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncica

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now new reports bob mueller might be watching this very closely. >>> and jared kushner is back in the headlines, this time for multi million dollar loans. his family business received after holding meetings inside at the white house. >> and the president now looking for his fifth communications trekt her after long time aide hope hicks also quits. >>> good morning, everyone. in an extraordinary on-camera discussion on school safety, president trump, leaving lawmakers on both sides of the aisle pretty stunned as he unleashed his negotiating tactics in in realtime on how to reform gun laws in this country. at several points, the president not only sided against his republican colleagues, but the nra, as well. >> under pressure after parkland, president trump taking on his own party and the national rifle association. >> and i'm a fan of the nr are a, but that doesn't mean we have to agree on everything. >> mr. trump, at a free wheeling hour-long meeting trying to get something, anything done, appeared to embrace nearly everything he heard in the meeting from confiscating guns to those d

. >>> and bob says he'll cooperate with bob mueller. let's go outfront. >> good evening i'm erin burnett. outfront tonight, breaking news, gary cohn quits. major resignation. chief economist gary cohn leaving the west wing. crucial voice when pushing back against the president. one source telling cnn trade war has left gary cohn furious. strongly opposed, almost using way too light of a word, passionately opposed to the president's steel and aluminum tariffs. in fact cohen was planning a meeting with the goal of talking trump off what they see is the legend tariffs. source close to the president telling me cohn was only good guy left. this will cause the most trauma. that's how significant the cohn departure is to some around this white house. and of course this is talking about the white house itself. there is trauma tonight even beyond the walls of trump's troubled white house. wall street not reacting well. plummeting 300 points on the news. getting into the realm here of what we saw with the actual tariffs themselves. keep in mind,

and he would not answer questions about potentially firing bob mueller. now, we've seen the president dramatically escalate his attacks on mueller. and today, we saw republicans dramatically escalate their warnings not to fire him. senator orrin hatch said ousting bob mueller would be, quote, stupid. speaker paul ryan warned the president that, quote, no one is above the law. and then there was senator lindsey graham. he actually warned of impeachment. >> if the president fired robert mueller, do you think that would be an impeachable offense? >> probably so, if he did it without cause, yeah. to stop the investigation without cause, i think, would be a constitutional crisis. >> have you told him that specifically, senator graham, so that he hears it from republicans? do not fire bob mueller. >> i think i -- i think i just did. >> okay. >> folks, that's a republican warning president trump about impeachment if he ousts mueller. that's no small thing. that's a big deal. as republicans sound the alarm about protecting the russia investigation, the senate inte

whether it rose to a level of a crime, bob mueller will tell us.r the russians tried to influence the election, we knew they did. whether the trump campaign knew about it, that's not a mystery. the only question is did somebody commit a felony? >> kim, having worked at the white house when these secret programs after 9/11, whether collecting phone data or others, when they were at risk of being rendered useless, because people would find out about it, it was the intel committee that helped communicate their value. democrats and republicans. it is hard to overstate the tragedy of this outcome in the house intel committee. >> i think you and jeremy lay out very clearly the importance of this committee. the role that they play. these committees were created in the wake of watergate and they were -- they are a crucial part of government oversight as well as, you know, oversight of the white house as well, reacting to things like russia interference in order so that the congress and the white house can react to it and understand what's going on. that is

ten names, and then him saying who he's in touch with and then him saying, patty that he believes bob mueller already has their private communications based on the questioning he just went through. your view in washington about how mueller's investigators are assessing sam nunberg's comments tonight. >> first of all, i think i've never said this to a fellow host before, but congratulations. that was an extraordinary piece of television. and i'm very envious. i've never been handed a grand jury subpoena on the set before. that was extraordinary. from start to finish. his state of mind. the fact that he thinks he can possibly defy the special counsel. how on earth does he think that? and they already have his communications and can get them anyway. at the end of the interview, i thought it was quite telling, he almost seemed to turn a little bit. i don't know if you heard that, ari, but he seemed to be suggesting that he would actually be prepared to if and testify if it didn't take up too much of his time, but he would actual lay actually go before the grand jury on friday. maybe he weighs com

attitude on the part of the president remembering -- recognizing the danger of cooperating with bob mueller'srump team approaches the mueller investigation. >> yes. stuart: take a harder line. >> yes. i also think that john dowd's last statement to the press did not go over well well with the president. he issued a statement last week which said, almost verbatim, i pray that bob mueller will close down his shop. not something donald trump has hired him to do or to say. stuart: okay. we've got the dow now down again more than 400 points, 407 as we speak. left-hand side of the screen, that's the podium speaker ryan will be speaking from moments from now. we expect him to talk about the spending bill, but this resignation or the getting -- i don't know what the right word, what is it, resignation or firing, which is it? >> i think he was fired. stuart: pushed out. >> officially, it's a resignation. >> he was furious when joe digenova was hired, because they didn't tell him it was happening. dan henninger is with me this morn, "wall street journal" editorial guy. the headline for his piece today

you're also hearing from your lawyers about what bob mueller wants to ask you. his lawyers are saying they don't necessarily want him to sit down with robert mueller. i think that's where all of this is coming from. there is sort of a cumulative effect where this investigation is not only not going to wrap up soon, which is different from what the president thought originally, and it seems to be inching closer, closer, closer. >> the special counsel's team have provided trumped. if they had only done that in recent days, that might have be been. >> you have first ty cobb and the other lawyers telling. now we're in march and it doesn't seem that we're anyplace near the end of it. then as the new times reports and you just -- those topics include the mueller investigation. i think the president wanted a scope of interview on collusion. now they have his private dealings, which is a so-called red line. i think it's too much for him and he's exploded in this. they decided to go with business dealings and no collusion on russia. >> on the president's or campaign's mot

he was telling the president, you should not fire bob mueller and you should not go in for an interview with mueller. >> okay. >> the president believes that he can go in and explain to mueller that he has done nothing wrong, that there is nothing here, but dowd thought it could be a perjury trap and there was no upside to it and they really broke on this. dowd told someone that i spoke to that he would quit over this issue, that he felt so strongly about it and at the end of the day, dowd whose personality was grating on the president and the other lawyers on the team is gone. >> so as joe pointed out we have now his top lawyer is definitely someone who would believe in the firing of bob mueller. >> the president is surrounding himself on the legal side of people that have pushed these agendas that the fbi made up the evidence against him. these are people that are going to be more likely to go along with the extreme views that the president may have on this investigation. the president goes back and forth a lot on how he feels about mueller, but these are people that are going to be m

neil: what does bob mueller have?tsche bank paperwork, the trump organizations principal lender. neil: and that gets out. we find out the president, and you hear about that, it gets you more infuriated, and you fly off the handle. >> before he introduce the president, if the interview occurs, he'll have the flipside of those documents from the trump organization. these things have nothing to do with russia whatsoever. neil: it veered off course as the investigations invariably do. >> radically off-course. if you want get into the business of firing. neil: if he were to fire him, that's nuclear. >> i believe so. you probably are aware of the one liner from lindsey graham this week. neil: beginning of the end of the presidency. >> correct, correct. and that's from a new trump supporter. neil: yeah, it was a mistake for the president to raise the level of vitriol by naming mueller? >> i think so. and most lawyers do. the ideal client doesn't say anything in public. again, a oneliner. don't taunt the alligator until you c

. >>> and what bob mueller wants. a witness subpoena for documents involving president trump and several of his closest advisers. >>> plus -- >> and the oscar goes to -- "the shape of water." >> they got it right this time. the spotlight on diversity during the oscars this year. we're taking a look at the big winners from last night's annual academy awards. good morning, everybody. it is monday, march 5th. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside lou louis burgdorf. according to "the washington post," there is a grave sense among donald trump's advisers. trump's friends are increasingly concerned about his well being, worried the president's obsession with cable commentary and perceived slides is taking a toll on the 71-year-old. pure madness, said one exasperated ally. the president's announcement of new steel and aluminum tariffs emerged from anger un like any they had seen before. conduct by ag jeff sessions and the treatment of jared kushner by chief of staff john kelly. on wednesday evening, the president became unglued.

bob mueller set andy mccabe on the fast track. he knows what a stand-up guy andy mccabe has been during his tenure at the fbi. so i think these attacks on andy mccabe will ring somewhat hol w hollow. bob mueller and his team, including deputy general rod rosenstein will take a close look at the inspector general report, take into account the facts that are presented, the facts we do not yet know. if there is a credibility problem with and drew mccabe, of course, they'll take that into account. they have a long historic basis on which to judge him at present. that will rule the day until they learn otherwise. >> carrie, last question to you. the offices -- few people have covered the department of justice for as long and as detailed ways as you have. what is the office of professional responsibility, the role of the inspector general within the justice department, the role that they play in that whole organism and sort of what their recommendations are. >> these are career officials for the most part, inspector general requires sen

his relationship with bob mueller.im and the signs in his tweets that he's thinking about that, and his new lawyer on his legal team who would definitely given everything he has said in the past possiblyurge this president to fire mueller. his relationship with russia. his call with vladimir putin. his inability to read his notes that were put in front of him from his national security team, in all caps, "do not congratulate." what does the president do? congratulates vladimir putin on his "free and fair" bogus and f bogus election. his relationship with the attorney general. does he understand sessions doesn't work for him? that jeff sessionings s is not lawyer? a lingering question. his relationship with women. we've had more women stepping forward. former playboy mode whole might have had some sort of nda with him which was perhaps presented to her by lawyers in an untoward way. there may have been threats. we have a former star of theate prentiss whose case had been allowed to move forward. we have the 60 minutes i

and speaking of bob mueller, today the post is reporting that mueller -- the mueller investigation examiningrump's apparent efforts to oust sessions in july. in recent months mueller's team has questioned witnesses in detail about trump's private comments and state of mind. in late july and early august of last year around the time he issued a series of tweets belittling his beleaguered attorney general. these people said the thrust of the questions was to determine whether the president's goal was to oust sessions in order to pick a replacement who would exercise control over the investigation into possible coordination between russia and trump associates during the 2016 election, these people said. phil rucker is here, the panel is here. even i know that's true. mueller could literally close his eyes and throw a dart at a list of 100 people around the president. he accused sessions for failing to protect him. he wanted his guys and the fbi to run the russia probe. is this just sort of dotting the i's and crossing the t's on mueller's part? >> i mean, yeah, nicolle, but this whole thing is

>> i know bob mueller. he's described as being a republican. but bob mueller is not a republican.s an american. he's an american patriot. he's neither a republican nor a democrat. you can look at his entire career. it has not been aimed at gaining riches, becoming famous. it's aimed at helping and assisting the country, our country, the united states of america. josh earnest, i don't know about you, but the idea of the sitting president of the united states attacking by name, by name, a patriot, a guy involved in an independent investigation no matter the frills of how it's being covered, political from the left or the right, is just aboar rant. >> it is. i actually tweeted about this over the weekend. the other data point about bob mueller's credentials, in 2011, president obama was facing re-election and forced with this decision about who to appoint to take over the leadership of the fbi because bob mueller's term was coming up. and president obama actually made a decision, he coordinated with republicans in congress to extend bob mueller's term by two years so this decision wo

joe digenova and bob mueller go back decades. i have spoken with him in the past about mueller. he has deep respect for the special counsel. he's been a close follower of bob mueller's career ever since they overlapped in the u.s. attorney's office in the district of columbia a quarter century ago. these are two people who know each other well, have a good sense of each other's strengths and certainly, i think, even if they go at each other aggressive will understand each other's histories. >> jamie, looking at the president's tweets and talking about mueller and the team is full of democrats which isn't accurate and a couple other points he makes, what do you think his strategy is? is he trying to drag this through the court of public opinion to try to disparage mueller publically? >> i think we are seeing a couple of things here. what do we know about donald trump? he's unpredictable, impulsive. he doesn't shy away from throwing a punch. he likes to do that. i wonder whether we are seeing a change in one year into his presidency donald trump even more unleashed than he normall

>> i think it would be funny if they arrested me. >> bob mueller probably does, too. i mean, he doesn't play. i worked with him. i worked in the bush white house when he was the fbi director. he doesn't crack jokes. he doesn't play. and i'm sure there is nothing funny to him about the investigation to potential collusion with russia being impeded by this clown. >> there are a lot of characters around the trump universe that have this kind of attitude, which is we don't care, we're burning it down, everything is funny. let them come at me. this might be sort of this misguided naive attempt to we wrangle some immunity from mueller. i don't know what sam nunberg is up to. john was right. he was there at a critical time in 2013 after romney lost and are trump trademarked make america great again. nunberg listened to thousands and thousands and thousands of hours of trump radio. he's not only close with stone, he was close with steve bannon who until six weeks ago knew everything. he has been there all along. he knows everything that happened in '16 and '17 and into 2018.

so the fact is, bob mueller works on the criminal side. it's our job on the intelligence committee to tell the story to the american people and we're going to do it. >> again, just so if you can answer it this way. do we know who did this? say that. does the american government know who pulled off the hacks? >> what i can do is not comment on what bob mueller is looking at specifically. what i can say, however, is that he is going about this inquiry in the kind of deliberative fashion where i don't think he's going to miss anythinging. > senator ron wyden, thanks for your time tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> for more on the president's son-in-law, i'm joined by jill wine-banks, an msnbc legal analyst and david jolly, former republican congressman from florida. david, one thing that's remarkable here is when you zook out to the context here, jared is part of a broader problem in the white house. there's 30 trump aides who lost their top secret clearance. it's very clear the entire process was a train wreck. the rob porter case was a ca