direct of national intelligence dan coats. >> we know that president trump called dan coats and mike rodgers on the phone, and asked them both to come out and personally say that there was no evidence, of collusion. >> reporter: washington post sarah horwitz speaking to cnn about what the reports efforts regarding the investigation and post reporting that the president spoke with coats about the probe into michael flynn's russia ties. >> the president said can you do something to get fbi director comey to back off on the investigation of former national security director flynn. >> both coats and rodgers testified that they were not pressure by trump administration. read binion "eyewitness news". >>> president trump celebrated his seventh first birthday with dinner at white house. >> first lady melania said happy birthday mr. president, with several heart's maine gis and american flag. president was joined by his children and grandchildren. >>> in other news this morning , the threat of the dirty bomb shuts down a south carolina port overnight, terminal in charleston was, evacuated while auth

the interviews with national security advisor mike rodgers and dan coats are the strongest and most public indication yet that mueller is moving to expand his investigation into the oval office and come on the heels of contentious testimony by coats and rodgers before the senate intelligence committee last week in which they denied being pressured by president trump to help end the russia investigation. >> i do not recall ever feeling pressured to do so. >> i have never felt pressure to intervene or interfere in any way with shaping intelligence in a political way or in relationship with an ongoing investigation. >> while both men issued broad denials the vice chairman alluded differently. >> we have facts that there were other individuals that were aware of the call that was made to you, aware of the substance of that call and that there was a memo prepared because of concerns about that call. >> reporter: cnn has learned that witness is former nsa deputy richard ledge legitimate. he wrote a memo documenting a conversation in which the president allegedly urged admiral rodgers to ask the

three top intelligence officials, ns a director richard legend, national security agency director mike rodgersector of national intelligence dan coats. >> we know that president trump called dan coats and mike rodgers on the phone and asked them both to come out and personally say that there was no evidence of collusion. >> reporter: washington post sarah horwitz speaking to cnn about what the paper reports were trump's efforts, regarding trump's investigation and post reporting that the president spoke to coats about the probe into michael flynn's russian ties. >> president said can you do something to get fbi director comey to back off on the investigation of former national security director flynn. >> both coats and rodgers testified that they were not pressured by the trump administration. reid binion for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> jury in bill cosby's sexual assault trial will once again try to reach a verdict. jurors will return this morning, for now a fourth day of deliberations. former temple university basketball employee andrea constand says 79 year-old entertainer drugged and sexu

to the post, mueller wants to talk to the director of national intelligence, dan coats, admiral mike rodger nsa and richard leggett who according to "the new york times" may have detailed a conversation between his boss and the president. coats and rodgers when they testified here recently wouldn't say what they talked to the president about. leggett may be able to shed some light on that. according to the post, those are the people that the special counsel wants to talk to. the white house is responding to this saying that the fbi leak of information regarding this investigation is outrageous, inexcusable and illegal. that is coming from the president's personal attorney doing a lot of the out front response on this russia investigation. >> tracie potts on capitol hill. thank you. >>> for the first time since taking office president trump will visit the supreme court today. he'll take part in an afternoon ceremony to welcome new justice kneel >>> the jury is coming up on 30 hours of deliberations in bill cosby's sex assault trial. today will be day four. the jury has to be unanimous on any

president and the white house in general the dang administration and professional appointees like mike rodgers did very well by the country in the government to put some things straight that had been garbled before. >> and the washington post continues to be an activist organ of the democrat coulic party, today was slapped down in real-time by the very officials, the leaders of those agencies themselves about whom they had written. and the post must be wondering how it could run more afoul of both truth and respected leaders of official agencies. >> there has been a lot of entertainment value, i suppose in some of the doing and growing -- -- to-ing and 'fro-ing, but, you know. the way like at it, it is u madison put together a can'tstution for u constitution this emphasises conflict, conflict is always ther between the 3 branches, but we work out our frustrations and anger and so forth in fighting between the three branches, as a result we had on onerepublic -- one republic, and elections. we have done pretty well by the way of madison and his colleagues structured our government, this is one

that would include admiral mike rodgers, the head of the national security agency, who just testifiede on capitol hill. it includes the director of national intelligence, dan coats. both of them testified that they wouldn't disclose details of their private conversation with the president. they did not feel pressured to do anything wrong, but lawmakers want to know if they were even asked to intervene in this investigation. the other person that he reportedly wants to talk to, the fbi wants to talk to, is the former nsa deputy who, according to a report, chronicled the conversation between his boss and the president. >> all right. tracie potts on capitol hill. thank you. >>> for the first time since will visit the supreme court. he'll welcome new justice neil gorsuch. it comes as the high court could decide by next week whether it could allow the president's travel ban to go into effect or up old lower rulings that blocks that order. >>> i'm megan fitzgerald at the live desk here. we are following a developing story out of somalia where at least 19 people are dead after is slam mick m

senate hearing last week coats would not comment on the issue and national security agency director mike rodgersenied any white house pressure. >> to the best of my recollection, i have never been directed to do anything i believe to be illegal, immoral , unethical or inappropriate. >> reporter: rodgers is also cooperating with the investigation. interviews with the special counsel suggest muhler's investigation is now looking at whether the president tried to obstruct justice as the washington post first reported allegations of obstruction surfaced after president trump fired fbi director james comey , comey testified that the president asked him to lift the cloud of the russia investigation, in addition to the special counsel, two congressional committees are also conducting investigations >> i don't think it is for me to say whether conversation i had for me was an effort to obstruct. >> reporter: this morning the president tweet had you are witnessing the single greatest witch hunt in american political history led by some very bad conflicted people. in addition to the special counsel, two c

. >> reporter: direct of national intelligence dan coat s and mike rodgers refused to offer specifics about their private conversation was president trump, after a washington post report that trump asked coats to get comey to dial back focus on former national security advisor michael flynn. >> why are you not answering our questions. >> i feel it nice pope eighth. >> is what the legal basis for your. >> i'm in the sure i have a legal basis. >> now today's hearing is highly ab advertise pated and some republicans have reportedly urged president trump not to tweet, during the hearing. we are live from the news center, jan carabao for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". back inside to you. >>> cbs news will carry comey testimony as a special report this morning. you can join nora o'donnell, charlie rose and gayle king at 10:00 a.m. right here on cbs-3 >> president trump used twit turra announce his choice to replace comey as fbi chief. president nominated christopher wray. he served from 2003 to 2005 in department of justice. he defended chris christie in the bridge gate scandal. paul ryan was not

>> anderson, we know coats and admiral mike rodgers, they disclosed these conversations to both the specialcounsel and congressional investigators. they did say they were asked by the president to publicly deny that there was any collusion between the trump campaign and russia. both coats and rodgers, they did say they were surprised by these requests. but they did not perceive them as orders, and didn't feel any pressure. but it's important to note that their understanding, it really doesn't apply to any obstruction of justice inquiry, as that all depends on what the president's intent was in making that request, something that likely right now is being probed by special counsel mueller. >> obviously this stands in contrast to what comey said to him. >> similar implications, but different requests. james comey testified that the president asked him for loyalty and also asked him to droth the fbi investigation into former national security adviser michael flynn. neath of which, of course, comey promised or did. james comey, he also pointed out that the president said he hoped that comey wou

official earlier who said they expect this to play out similarly to happen like dan coats and mike rodgers were on the hill testifying. remember they were asked by senators whether the president encouraged them to downplay the russia investigation and they refused to answer the question. they couldn't reply with any legal standing. they wouldn't say the white house forced them to invoke executive privilege they just declined to respond and we could see something like that from sessions. >> thank you very much with that reporting. new questions tonight about jeff sessions' contact with russian officials ahead of this crucial testimony. brianna keeler is out front. >> reporter: the president seen today with the attorney general, trump has been seething that jeff sessions reduced himself from the russian investigation three months ago. >> it's an honor to serve u. >> reporter: it's on the eve of what is expected to be a closed door congressional grilling of sessions but it will now take place in full view of the cameras. senators have pressing questions about the president's meeting with him

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dan coats, rod rosenstein and mike building rodgers will go before the committee tomorrow. raj u is out front. what can you tell us? >> reporter: i can tell you that tomorrow these four national security officials will testify in a hearing that's supposed to be about reauthorizing a key surveillance law. actually members of the senate kmejs committee want to hear whether president trump tried to meddle in the investigation. dan colts the director of national intelligence and mike rogers, the national security agency director both saying that they came under pressure from president trump to publicly rebut that there's any collusion that occurred between russian officials and trump officials when dan coats was asked about this last month, he did not want to go into dale. in addition, erin, rod rosenstein has not spoken publicly since the firing of james comey, kpmtd to get questions about the circumstances around the firing and rod wine, one of the democrats on this the committee told me he wants to hear whether or not that firing occurred to tamp down the russian investigati

you had the intel director mike rodgers and nsa boss dan.oral. and to the best of my recollection during that same period of service, i do not recall ever feeling pressured to do so. >> i have never been pressured. i have never felt pressure to intervene or interfere in any way to shape intelligence in a political way. >> may not have felt pressure. but if he's even asking, to me, that's a very relevant piece of information. steve: never pressured. brian: right and that's key. because even if you look at allen dershowitz, i am not commanded, i am not directed to drop the prosecution against flynn. the president has a right to suggest what he wants to suggest. else he also, by the way, could have barred mike flynn right there and put this whole thing to bed. steve: what's going to be interesting when we had james langford on -- they're all putting their own questions together. something i would like to know and mr. comey detailed this in his letter yesterday. he said that after his first interaction with president trump, he decided -- then he

joining me to talk more about it fox business neck dagen mcdowell, mike if you are fee former fbi joint terror attack force member steve rodgers the terror in london but there are other stories to talk about, in terms of business as welcome, your thoughts on technology? >> well -- dagen: and this does relate to what happened in a london what trersl theresa may prime minister of britain was calling for to work with allied democratic governments to reach international agreements to regulate space to prevent spread of extremists terrorism planning if technology companies many based in the united states don't do more to police terrorism they are asking for government regulation, because they have done a poor job, they get a d grade in terms of policing terror content and reporting to police. >> we know one attacker had been watching videos on youtube. >> yes, about. >> had been reported ways to to authorities for trying to indoctrinate children according to a report. >> steve rogers joining the conversation deputy assistant to president trump dr. sebastian gorka shortly. >> john brown is here host of "varney & company" stuart varn

president had with the director of national intelligence, dan coats and national security adviser mike rodgers he never felt pressureo interfere for political reasons and admiral rodgers never felt pressured by the administration or anyone else to do something immoral or illegal. senator mark warner, the vice chair of the committee continued to ask if they had been pressured by president trump or the administration in any way. >> in the three plus years that i have been director of national security agency, to the best of my recollection, i have never been directed to do anything i believe to be illegal, immoral, unethical or inappropriate, and to the best of my recollection, during that same period of service i do not recall ever feeling pressured to do so. >> interacting with the president of the united states or anybody in his administration, i have never been pressured, never felt pressure to intervene or interfere in anyway, shaped with shaping intelligence in the political way. >> he may not have felt pressure but if he's even asking, to me, that's a relevant piece of information. >> rep