the fact that he sent a subpoena on the day they see subpoenas for michael cohn and michael flynn maybes it like like there a parallel investigation. >> thais thee coming out of the twhus it is all about the leaks. >> just yesterday the president referred to the russia probe as a witch hunt. this is a narrative you will continue to hear from the president as he plays defense. we know she setting up war room here, expect the response to become more robust behind the scenes, but they're not letting up on a charge that this is a witch hunt and the real investigation should focus on the leaks and the unmasking of individuals. >> you just interviewed the former -- a chief of staff at a time when the guardian newspaper is reporting that he is being looked at by the fbi for farage's involvement in the investigation. >> just to give the viewers a little back, just a culle hours ago, a new article in the guardian dropped saying a new person of interest in the fbi investigation, in the collusion, between trump and russia is niguel farage. he was the former head of the united kingdom inpendent part

approved seven subpoenas, four for former national security adviser michael flynn, trump lawyer michael cohn and their businesses on the russia probe and three for classified reports related to whether former obama officials susan rice, samantha power and john brennan improperly accessed the identity of trump associates in intelligence reports. rice strongly denied it to us. >> did you leak the name of mike flynn? >> i leaked nothing to nobody and never would. >> reporter: hillary clinton blasted russian spies for hacking her campaign manager's e-mails, then working with american political operatives she said to target her campaign with false messages on the internet. >> the russians in my opinion and based on the intel and counterintel people i talked to, could not have known how best to weaponize that information unless they had been guided. and here's -- >> by americans. >> guided by americans. >> who did she say created those messages? top campaign fund-raisers and the president's son-in-law. >> they came to jared kushner and basically said we will marry our operation, we will marry that

michael cohn, another of his lawyers, and very close to the president has been subpoenaed, the white house counsel, don mcgahn has been criticized. what kind of a team does he need around him page paid? >> the most important thing is he needs people who he trusts. obviously if you are going to hire a lawyer to defend new a sensitive investigation or case you have to hire a lawyer who is going to do the right thing. even though he may not have the experience in something like this he at least has a relationship with the president, somebody that the president hopefully will listen to. >> when you hire an attorney, the first thing they tell you is to stop talk. the president loves to talk, tell us everything he is thinking, even in tweets. sometimes it's contradictory. he contradicts himself. is the president in trouble? is he a terrible legal client? >> i don't know. he strikes me as most high-profile strong willed ceo types that i have ever represented. the advantage that kasowitz has that some of us who defend these cases or these clients don't usually have is that kasowitz has a rel

like michael cohn, like felix satter, people who have long-standing financial ties to russia.think they really want to dig into that. and then second i think they really want to run down and interview all of the people who were involved in the comey firing, to include rod rosenstein, to include people inside the white house. they want to get the fullest picture possible of what was in the president's mind when he fired the fbi director. >> and nick, explain why state of mind is so important if you're trying to prove obstruction of justice. >> well, obstruction of justice is an intent crime. you have to show -- >> it matters -- >> it matters what's in your head. and a corrupt intent is simply an intent to stop the investigation. it doesn't mean you paid somebody money. it doesn't mean you told somebody to lie -- >> and jim comey has already said he assumes he was fired because the president was unhappy with how he was conducting the russia investigation. >> comey doesn't have to say that. donald trump said it. he said that he fired him to get rid of the russian investigation. h

. >> speaking of which, michael cohn, what do you want to find out from him, donald trump's personal lawyer? >> there's probably a lot we want to find out. a lot will depend if he actually submits to us. he is an integral part of the trump orbit, and i am confident that there is many things we'll want to ask him that will shed a lot of light on the history of donald trump and the russians and the relationships that were created through that. and i also would say that, you know, one of the things, i think, his former attorney to president trump, a good defense is a really hard offense. so attack, attack, attack is what donald trump has learned over the years, and he's attempting to use that same strategy here as president, and it's just not working. >> congresswoman, i want to hand it over to my colleague craig melvin who wants to ask you a little more about what's going on in the house right now when it comes to congressman scalise. craig? >> hello, congresswoman speier, craig melvin here. they just passed a resolution here recognizing first responders and police on the field yesterd

> the subpoenas targeted michael flynn, president trump's former national security advisor and michael cohncohn has denied colluding with the kremlin. the issuance of the subpoenas was first reported by the "wall street journal." >> shannon: it's a matter of intense interest inside the white house. reaction from david bossie. former deputy manager of the trump campaign and president of citizens united and fox news contributor. good to have you with us this morning. a score of subpoenas. some go to unmasking and some go to the russia probe. what do you make of the names that bubbled up in the obama administration? trey gowdy and others have some information that led them in this direction very specifically. >> i applaud chairman nun nunes. we know there may be criminal acts by any individual. let's make sure we separate the two things. the unmasking is a dangerous thing for political operatives to have done if that's what ends up happening. that was part of the obama administration and their operation. not anything to do with russia or any of these bogus claims of collusion between the campa

four subpoenas are related to trump's inner circle including michael flynn and personal attorney michael cohn. while the three others went to the nsa, fbi and cia seeking information on any requests, unmasking requests in classified material made by former national security adviser susan rice, former cia director john brennan and former u.n. ambassador samantha power. a democratic aide ton intelligence committee tells nbc that the unmasking subpoenas were sent under the authority of republican chairman devin nunes who recused himself from the russian investigation but is still investigating leaks of classified materials. this week the los angeles times revealed that nunes told a republican fund-raising dinner in april that democrats want a russia investigation to justify hillary clinton's loss. >> they want to continue the narrative that vladimir putin and donald trump are best friends and that's the reason he won because hillary clinton could never have lost on her own and it has to be someone else's fault. they have tried to destroy the russia investigation, have never been serious about it

former national security adviser michael flynn forced out after just 24 days on the job. and molkal cohns friend and personal attorney. pierre thomas, abc news, washington. >> let's gooverr overseas now. a suicide truck bombing in afghanistan killed at least 90 people. the blast was so big it left a crater and shattered windows a mile away. the truck bomb ripped through what is supposed to be one of the most secure parts of kabul. hundreds of people were injured, including 11 americans. it happened in the early morning hours. the moment was captured from inside an office building. watch now. no one claimed responsibility. but the afghan government strongly suspects the taliban despite the group's denials it had anything to do with it. >> now to an incident on board a passenger plane just after takeoff from melbourne, australia, a man rushed the cockpit claiming to have a bomb. the crew managed to subdue him before the plane returned to the airport. heerd david kerley. >> reporter: australian airport security quickly carrying the hog tied passenger off the jetliner. a dramatic end to a sh