what is dan mueller going to do? >> he has 60 days to put together a budget and a team. he is going to hire his own team of people. doesn't mean he is going to use the current justice department. he is going to have his own folks who are going to do this investigation. these typically can take less let's say six to even nine months to reach a resolution. but remember, once he reaches a resolution, he hands it over to the attorney general. yes, his investigation is independent. he is supposed to do everything without the input of the attorney general in this case. but once he has finished, he hands that report to the attorney general, and then the attorney general has to decide what to do. in this case, it will be rod rosenstein, the acting attorney general because there has been that recusal of jeff sessions. and if there is a decision not to act on the special counsel's recommendation, well, then there is some explaining to do to congress that has to happen. but we're a lot of steps away from there at this point. but this is a stunning development. because you and i tal

kim continues our team coverage. >> yes, she's in the newsroom with robert mueller's bay area connections. lilly. >> reporter: dan and alma, not one person we talked to on or off camera could say anything negative about mueller. the prevailing sentiment is that he is the perfect person for the job. >> oh, i thi it's great. i think by temperament, by integrity, by background and experience and by commitment, nobody better than bob mueller. >> reporter: joe was mueller's boss when he was head of the u.s. attorney's office in san francisco. mueller himself eventually became the top federal lawyer in the city before moving on to the highest ranks of the department of justice where he was deputy attorney general and director of the fbi. >> i have total confidene in his integrity and in his ability to get to the bottom of this. >> reporter: san francisco john knows all about independent investigations. he was the assistant independent counsel in charge of the oliver north's job. he said mueller's job won't be easy. >> get being documents from a hostile power is impossible. he's going to need cooperators, he's going to

kim continues our team coverage. >> yes, she's in the newsroom with robert mueller's bay area connections. lilly. >> reporter: dan and alma, not one person we talked to on or off camera could say anything negative about mueller. the prevailing sentiment is that he is the perfect person for the job. >> oh, i think it's great. i think by temperament, by integrity, by background and experience and by commitment, nobody better than bob mueller. >> reporter: joe was mueller's boss when he was head of the u.s. attorney's office in san francisco. mueller himself eventually became the top federal lawyer in the city before moving on to the highest ranks of the department of justice where he was deputy attorney general and director of the fbi. >> i have total confidene in his integrity and in his ability to get to the bottom of this. >> reporter: san francisco john knows all about independent investigations. he was the assistant independent counsel in charge of the oliver north's job. he said mueller's job won't be easy. >> get being documents from a hostile power is impossible. he's going to need cooperators, he's going t

department can waive the rule, but even if it does, the white house could create doubt about mueller's fairness. dans with us to talk mb about this. so, mueller received praise after he was named this past week. do you expect the white house is going to stop him here? >> well, there's no way to predict what the white house will do, except that donald trump will do whatever he thinks is in his best interest, whether it's the right thing for the country, or not. this is a guy who will go from one room to the next and say two different things. so, i'm not sprised to hear he may try to limit mr. mueller's capacity to investigate. i just don't think it will work. you know, i was at the brief in with mr. rosenstein. it's fairly clear to me that mr. mueller is going to have broad authority, resources and he'll be encouraged to let this investigation go where ever the facts lead him. presidents don't do well when they try to contain investigations about their own administrations. we have a pretty recent example of that in american history. so, this is a path i think president trump ought to tread pretty car

rosenstein just appointed robert mueller. and dan abrams talked about the challenges ahead. >> you have to be able to show intent, corrupt intent, that the goal there was to impede the investigation, that was to attempt to influence the investigation and they are not just going to be looking at the comey notes but at the totality of the circumstances. >> mueller now has 60 days to create an independent team of investigators and budget. >> the trump team new flynns was under investigation before he was hired at the white house, and the "washington post" reports house majority leader kevin mccarthy told fellow republicans last year, quote, i think putin pays trump. the trump says there's a recording of this, and mccarthy says he was just joking. >>> wall street reacting to the uncertainty in washington. and yesterday the biggest fall since september 9th. and investors hope for tax cuts and other pro business policies faded after reports that trump tried to interfere with the federal investigation. and rebecca jarvis weighed in on the s

yesterday he appointed former fbi on "gma" this morning, chief legal analysts, dan abrams showed what was ahead for mueller. >> you have to show intent. the goal was to impede the investigation, and attempt to influence the investigation, and they are not just looking at the com comey memos. >> mueller has to come up with a team and budget. trump gave this statement. >> not one person we spoke with on or off camera could say anything negative about him. lillian kim has a closer look. >> i think it's great. by temperament and integrity and background and experience, and by commitment, nobody better than bob mueller. >> he was his boss when he was head of the u.s. attorney's office in san francisco. mueller himself eventually came the top lawyer in the city before moving on to the highest ranks in the department of justice where he was director of the fbi. >> i have total confidence in his integrity and his ability to get to the bottom of this. >> and he was the assistant independent counsel in charge of the oliver north trial and says mueller's job will not be easy. >> getting documents hostile power is dif

dan rathers. so what's your response of mueller? >> very important. it means for the first time donald trump is clearly on the defensive. for one thing up until this moment he's been able to control almost every news cycle. going forward he loses that control. and once you get a special counsel, then a lot of things we haven't even heard of are going to be exposed. the three special counsels i can recall are richard nixon's watergate and iran can tru, which was a constitutional crisis. but remember with bill clinton the prosecution started with had nothing to do with bill clinton. this is not good news for donald trump. he's now on the defensive. and by the way, the republican party is as well because the republican party new going in that donald trump had bad judgment, was unprepared, had a really steamy temper, and ethically challenged. but they made a cynical deal, if you will. you know what, we can get some things done to help us get reelected. they have increasingly a lot to answer for now. and by the way, today did you notice, i'm sure you did,

. >>> i want to bring in dan abrams, we heard from pierre thomas off the top there. he said mr. mueller can step in here and months after this fbi investigation, even before the election and he could start over. >> that's what an independent counsel means, it means he can now decide what he wants to do with all that information. i think it's really important that he bring in some of his own people. he doesn't want to be seen as just using the fbi people who are already there. expect him to put together his own team to draw his own conclusion. >> meantime you heard from lawmakers on the some are beginning to use the term obstruction of justice. pointing to the memo that james comey reportedly wrote. many legal experts say this memo in and of itself doesn't mean obstruction of justice. >> the memo itself doesn't. you need the context. some of the other things that mueller will be looking at, are the reports, the demand of loyalty at a dinner, the fact that the president admitted that russia was on his mind when he fired comey. the fact that he was alone in the white house, asked jeff sess

time to check the roads and highways, to amanda mueller at the traffic center while, a.m. dan jan, taking live look at 76 westbound off ramp to girard. there is an accident here completely blocking this ramp little earlier. however it, doesn't look like it was that serious, things moving, in just in the last few minute as things start to clear out. just be ready for residual backups there. the rest of the majors looking good however septa does have few bus tours this morning clouding route 17, 38, 79, and few more. check your schedule before headed out the door. in new jersey problem on 31, olds end avenue. this road is closed in both directions, there is a downed pole there. your alternate is parkway avenue. >> and taking live look at 202, chesterbrook boulevard, looking good in the suburbs this morning, how much, in about 15 minutes, the king of prussia ten miler kicks off, expect road closures and delays in the area including mall boulevard, valley forge road, keebler road, golf road and more if you stick to the majors including 202 you should be able to get around that jus

going to be fbi -- former fbi director james comey who is going to meet with mueller to see how far he can go in testifying. dan coats today would not say whether or not the president had put pressure on him because he thought it was inappropriate to be talking about the president's conversations but comey is no longer fbi director, so he may talk. >> yeah. although, i think there is a question about whether mueller will want him to testify at this point. it points to a potential obstruction issue that mueller has to investigate. telling that story in public would not be helpful to the investigation. >> good point. gentlemen, thank you. >>> still ahead, the timeline of president trump's allege contact and new subpoenas to general michael flynn and a big warning about possible contempt. >>> plus, democrats debating the "i" word, impeachment. are some democrats going too far? we'll hear firsthand from the democratic leadership. i count on my dell small business advisor for tech advice. with one phone call, i get products that suit my needs and i get back to business. ♪ ♪ when a fire destroyed the living room. we

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have worked very closely for many years and bob mueller certainly doesn't think that james comey is anywhere close to a nut job. >> hang on to that thought. danered the white house. we've gotten this response now to this "new york times" story and in it they talk a lot about the leak. but what they don't do is deny the story. they are not denying that the president called mr. comey a nut job. >> the timing of this is critical. as you mentioned a little earlier, this happened, the story broke almost mere minutes after donald trump took off for his first foreign trip and there were concerns in the white house that all of this, all of this news about james comey and the special counsel would overshadow his trip and this story and the fact that trump, according to "the new york times," bragged in the oval office to two russian officials about firing james comey, it has a chance to totally overshadow what aides have already said about his first foreign trip. most presidents go to canada or mexico, where it's easier to operate, not as difficult or grueling, especially timingwise. but this president, who likes the flare for the dramatic, this brings

dan kill de. congressman thank you for being with us. i know you called for an in dependent investigation of the runner ties even before robert mueller wasamed to do exactly that. were you happy with the choice of mueller to lead the special counsel? >> i was pleased that there was a special counsel name and i'm happy mr. mueller's the choice. he has a great reputation, i had some interaction with him. he has the credible the american people will accept the outcome of his investigation. i think it's important to keep in mind, the scope of the investigation while it might be broad in terms of subject and should go wherever the facts take him, it will be focused on intelligence or essential criminal nalt. it wouldn't necessarily reveal many of large questions we have about the nature of the relationship between the trump campaign and the russians. that should be take on but an independent commission much like the 9/11 commission. >> but isn't that what these other congressional committees are doing? we have the senate intelligence committee, the senate judiciary, the senate house committee all doing their investigations on their own? >> th

director of national intelligence dan coats, saying, hey, can you give me a clean bill of health on the investigation? they're going to be talking privately at least to mueller maybe publicly. we will know a lot pretty quickly it seems to me not just gee it's a bad p.r. day or week. what actually the president of the united states the first three months of his administration was trying to do or not trying to do or legitimately trying to do or illegitimately trying to do to shut down or curb this probe into the russia's influence on the election. >> but the notes are the most potent edence if they were made contremporaneous or a shor time. >> bob mueller will have them. >> there is a new development they issued 7 subpoenas, four relating to the russia probe and three related to unmasking of trump associates in intelligence reports. the story was first broken by "the wall street journal" and they are reporting that the subpoenas are looking for information on unmasking requests made by three obama officials. former national security advisor susan rice, former cia director john brennan and former u.n. ambassador samantha power. michael. >> samantha power on the

dan henninger, kim strassel, editorial board member joe regular go and james freeman. so, kim, special counsel here, let's talk about the decision first. we can talk about muellerer. the decision, first. good or bad? >> not good, because special prosecutors, special counsels have a potential to go on and on for years. they take things out of sight of the public, and the bigger problem is they often come this with the belief that it is their job to nail somebody in the end. and so whether or not you have a crime that matters or what they were set out to investigate in the first place is often not what comes out of a special counsel investigation. paul: now, yeah, dan, that's the problem. the fundamental lack of political accountability in the sense that though technically rod rosenstein could fire the special counsel, in practical terms because of this probe, because of how it was created, you really can't do that. >> well, that's right. i mean, rod rosenstein said a couple of things about this special prosecutor that i think are worth drawing attention to. he talked about appointing a special prosecutor because it was necessary to bring that person out of the c

dan ashley. >> and i'm kristen sze. thanks for joining us. we begin tonight with a third bomb shell in as many days at our nation's capital amount >> former fbi director robert muellerral investigation into possible russian collusion. >> a russia reaction is coming in right now following that development in announcement. less than an hour ago, president trump released a statement, quote, a thorough investigation will confirm what we already know -- there was no collusion between my campaign and any foreign entity. >> reporter: this development stunned the white house which did not know about the justice department's announcement until 30 minutes before it was made. former fbi director and u.s. attorney robert mueller will over oversee the ongoing investigation into the trump campaign and russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. the president has called this investigation a hoax. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle were pressuring acting tln general rod rosenstein to make the independent appointment. attorney general jeff sessions has recused himself from anything involving the presidential campaign

dan coats, if a memo exists documenting you are admiral rogers conversations with the president regarding the investigation will you make is available to robert mueller and the congressional intelligence committee? >> i have no documents. >> in an opinion piece in the new york times last week you called israel the eyes and ears of the united states and the middle east when it comes to intelligence. would you agree with that assessment? >> israel is a very valued partner in terms of supporting us in any number of ways including intelligence sharing. >> the piece suggests donald trump's sanction sharing of sensitive information from his real, could do permanent damage to special intelligence relationship. without speaking to what donald trump may have revealed to foreign minister lavrov could the sharing of classified information from israel or other countries with we have intelligence partnership harm those relationships and our ability to gather intelligence? >> i have not seen evidence of that or any reporting relative to anything that would lead to that conclusion. >> with regard to the documents whether they exist or not, if you get called in fron

mueller. he spent 12 years as director and would be a pretty much a slam dunk for senate confirmation. >> jon karl, thanks very much. danbrams, thank you. >>> now to amy. she has today's other top stories, starting with a protest in virginia? >> that's right, george. the mayor of charlottesville, virginia, calling demonstrations protesting the removal of a confederate statue horrific. the protesters led by white nationalist richard spencer held torches and shouted "you will not replace us." a scene critics say was reminiscent of the kkk. counterprotesters held a rally calling for equality and tolerance. >>> well, united airlines is not commenting on how some closely guarded security information was inadvertently made public. the carrier's cockpit door access codes were reportedly posted online by a flight attendant. the airline says other security measures were in place to protect the cockpit. >>> one of hollywood's best known bad guys has died. powers boothe played villains in several films, including "tombstone," and "the avengers," also on "s.h.i.e.l.d.," and "nashville." he died of natural causes and was just 68. >>

dan coats testifying on the same day. this just the beginning. we don't have the investigation details out yet. we haven't heard from comb yet. muellers and difficult days for the president. >> don't you think one of the things we're watching in fascinating realtime is the classic political tension between the glory of being in office and the terror of dishonor about being too close to this president. these two competing imperatives playing themselves out particularly in these -- i'm not talking about the spicer world, i think that story is over. but somebody like coats. >> coats, rod rosenstein, general mcmaster. they want to serve their country. they want to try to temper this man. they want to try to do a good j job, to help this republic. yet every single day their own retations they have fought every day of their life, day in and day out, meticulously from the time they targeted at school could be thrown away in one day by donald trump, this reckless, reckless president. i'm sorry, we always joke about this. but have you to go back to tom and daisy buchanan. >> smashes up lives. >> he smashes up lives. he wrecks things. like tom