well i would advise him against firing moeller and my comments related to the deep state related to this larry that there were elements in the pentagon the state department and the cia who are obviously trying to. influence the trumpet ministration to be more hawkish more interventionist and frankly it appears they have succeeded now i want to. compare something here you have to remember that when we went against iraq when we attacked iraq. there was no case for that but who was pushing for that was it george bush george bush didn't understand international relations but people in the pentagon in the cia and the state department they pushed him to attack iraq saying there's weapons of mass destruction well they lied so what happened under another president president obama came up with a deal with russia over syria and the attacks in syria and he had an agreement where he sent john kerry to meet with minister lavrov and basically it was a cease fire about to occur and so what happened a few days after that without the president say so there was an attack on a syrian army barracks and

well the moeller investigation is definitely what's been dominating the headlines here in the united states however the president is risking a direct confrontation with russia with this kind of rhetoric and you have to remember russia has been one of the strongest allies since long before the war they have regularly use their veto power at the united nations to deny security council resolutions that are meant to condemn the assad regime for its actions and it was very intervention in twenty fifteen that was widely seen as the thing that helps change the course of the war in favor of bashar assad's government so we are talking about a humanitarian crisis that has killed more than half a million people has displaced more than half of the country's population and any kind of serious military action that we're going to see from the united states is going to require a serious long term strategy and it's not apparent that trump has that clear himself. how. strong. well russia's ambassador to lebanon mr is a soup can warn for example in case of an attack moscow would shoot down any u.s. mis

is warning the president not to act against moeller as well do you think he's going to follow moly. i think he will i think every indication is that he's going to fire a mole or i think the president takes this as a personal affront and we have seen what happens when he feels as though he's being personally attacked he attacks back i don't think the president pays too much mind to the constitutional parameters of the office that he holds and at the end of the day i think he has to bring this investigation to a close before democrats possibly take control the house because the democrats likely won't run on impeachment if democrats take control the house and this investigation is ongoing or there is a damning report of the president's behavior i do believe first of the year they'll begin to have hearings at least asking questions about what presidential behavior is rise to the level of an impeachable offense frankly the standards set during bill clinton administration suggest that's a pretty low bar the republicans were able to impeach bill clinton on civil perjury and the likelihood

but moeller also has the power to investigate anything that comes up in the course of his inquiry and that's where it gets interesting because donald trump is said to believe he'll do a terrific job testifying before moeller his lawyers many of them has said no one of them has quit over this and the issue there is that trump tends to exaggerate and if you do that in front of you in one of these depositions that it could amount to perjury and that could get him into some serious trouble that is what happened to bill clinton many years ago. thank you very much john hendren with the latest from washington. and without is there a much more still ahead. in sierra leone as a new president is sworn in and find out why his opposition rival is refusing to accept the results. of the woods bad boy salman khan is sentenced to five years in jail. and. however the weather still looking a little disturbed across the middle east for the time being an area cloud making its way out of iraq into iran that will continue to drive its way eastwards still some wall to the head of it tashkent twenty degrees

a new ceo who has replaced maxie moeller. he outlined his decision at a press conference. must speed up its decision-making process, he said, and we will have more on that as we get more information. no volkswagen shares were trading up following the announcement. keen -- european markets are generally trading -- there we have it, volkswagen shares are up and european shares london, up slightly. in other news, the u.s. president has signaled he is considering rate -- moves for .he u.s. to rejoin tpp it was a trade agreement signed aimed atbers countering china's influence in the region. donald trump called it a disaster and pulled the deal as soon as he took office. imbalancede escalates, he seems to change his mind about it. an unexpected turn on a deal he once called disastrous, u.s. president donald trump says that he will revisit the transpacific partnership, a trade pact with countries, anfic idea floated in diverse. >> he said in diverse that he was open to -- he said in davo davos that he was open to discussing. reporter: negotiated under barack obama, it includes 1

more recently earlier on was he somehow funneling money from only garc to the trump campaign and mr moeller has now stopped several russian oligarchs who came to the united states and interviewed them about the possibility of their having given money. still ahead on the bonus on the new year pay study reveals that when it comes to pay men and women are far from being quote. hollow way of saying some pretty heavy spring salusinszky central southern parts of china recently on a cloudy day and night system what's the weather there across central pa spacing over towards the eastern side of the country but if i can try and do is say no seventy five millimeters of fright in twenty four hours and that lot of wet weather continues in place as we go on through friday snow over the high ground and i just don't do it around fourteen degrees celsius eighteen celsius there for shanghai fun to drive to hong kong for the time being as we go on through friday you'll see that it's a cloud over through the course of the day and it will make its way further south as a sas day temperatures pick back to around

you can't deny that the walls are closing in on donald trump legally from the special prosecutor moeller from the united states attorney in new york with his lawyer cohen so do i think that down trump is that craven as to launch strikes to distract attention. no but the mere fact that it's a question that's troubling i would diminish that he has major issues as just described as a higher approval rating than did obama at this time in his presidency in some polls the economy has not credible jobs are coming back in the economy's growing great yeah well that is it is true in america right now small businesses for the first time look at the decade are excited if you look at the average of all the polls there's one poll that's been consistently in donald trump's rescues and in his camp every other poll if you average them out he is at historic lows for any president since the advent of polling in the united states of america democrats their complaint is what's the broader plan you say mission accomplished mr president what's the mission they see this as not pursuant to any particular plan an

moeller described him as a subject of the investigation into russia's interference with the 2016 election. but he does not believe that there is sufficient evidence to bring charges against the president. his remarks reportedly took place in early march during his private negotiations with the president's lawyers, he said they should interview the president at the time. >>> we are checking the weather out there, it will rain as we get into friday night and saturday it will start to speak on thursday but the real rain shows up as we get into friday night, overnight and saturday morning. for the next couple of days that will be the set up when the atmospheric shows up it will focus near the north bay but you see the moisture coming in, tomorrow is about clouds saturday is about rain for the first half of the day it is cloudy out there right now. these are the current images. temperatures are in the 40s and 50s overnight tonight. tonight we will get mid-40s and the wind is relatively light and that gives you fog at the coast, that is pacifica and half moon bay. here is a live camera shot. th

was looked at in that regard by the moeller team but it becomes increasingly clear no in the new york times report makes this clear that the whole also has a history of being a fixer for me. so he was involved in a twenty twelve attempted arms deal between iraq and moscow for instance a legal arms tailor well it was. so riddled with corruption that it was canceled didn't go through and then he has been put at meetings between trump representatives and cure all dimitri of who is a hedge fund manager in moscow who is family connections with the lighting near putin what is that exactly about mr navas activities that this investigation will be focusing on well the question is did he find a way to funnel money into the trump campaign it's illegal for foreign entities to and individuals to give money to u.s. campaigns but of course they could use cutouts they could use american to forward the money and it has been alleged recently that mr nodder wired money to eliot broida an american businessman who's also close to the u.a.e. . which broidery then used to give a campaign donations to congr

sessions and rosenstein to make that happen at the end of the day the president cannot directly fire moeller but he can fire the person who has that authority and replace that person with somebody who will in fact terminate bob mueller the f.b.i. raid on the president's lawyer michael cohen do you think that is the end of attorney client privilege or do you go to discus juice is the cord signed off on the war in the war was legal. that's right that's the justice system working and this would not have been a warrant signed off on lightly this clearly went to the very top of our department of justice for the f.b.i. to even seek that warrant what we know happened as a result of this is there is there there is suspected criminal activity that was engaged in between cohn and one of his clients and we presume with with good information that that client as donald trump this is a very rare act to raid an attorney's office and take what would otherwise be considered privilege files but the reality is if there was some advancement of a fraud or a crime between conan the president that privilege does n

if we're rick gates and remember ricketts and george papadopoulos have already pled guilty on the moeller side of the investigation yeah i mean it sounds a little bit like the o.j. simpson case right he had a criminal investigation a criminal trial and then you had the civil lawsuit so i mean you know who knew that american politics could be a lot like the simpson case but what does this tell us about the state of u.s. politics you said that we saw something similar to this right after watergate is this as bad or is it worse. well in this case it's it would be conceived if everything bears to be true it's worse because we're talking about foreign entities that are involved in an attempt to interfere in a us election it's bad enough when political parties within the united states are attempting to interfere in a proper election cycle it's a whole nother thing one and a foreign state and foreign players like wiki leaks are alleged to be involved if these bear to be true at all then this is in effect much worse because now we have global players participating in and one thing that is odd abo

well the moeller investigation is definitely what's been dominating the headlines here in the united states however the president is risking a direct confrontation with russia with this kind of rhetoric and you have to remember russia has been one of the charlotte sides strongest allies since long before the war they have regularly use their veto power at the united nations to deny security council resolutions that are meant to condemn the assad regime for its actions and it was very intervention in twenty fifteen that was widely seen as the thing that helps change the course of the war in favor of bashar assad's government so we are talking about a humanitarian crisis that has killed more than half a million people has displaced more than half of the country's population and any kind of serious military action that we're going to see from the united states is going to require a serious long term strategy and it's not apparent that trump has that clear himself. russia we know has already how it would respond in the. strong. well russia. mr was a soup can warm for example in case of a

we are told w that if president trump fires moeller will threatens the rule will in america. the committee's solution apparently is to do the job ourselvess by advancing the legislation that were considering today.sl there are two constitutional provisions. and then i try to address through my amendment. the first is article two in the vesting clause. the second of the appointment cause. it provides the officers of the nine seats must be appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate. let's start with the vesting clause for a moment. pretty simple. they have ultimate authority of allal purely executive functions. any attempt to restrict this authority.he by infringing on the executive power. to conduct criminal investigations. they are habits of the executive from firing a special counsel except for cause.ou as a matter of black letter law the applicable cases that the president has authority to fire officials. at the same time congress can limit the removal power only with respect to officers who exercise quasi-- excellence. it is the quintessential executive functio

. >> i don't think the president has real worries about moeller and the investigation of alleged collusion and obstruction of justice. we should be focusing on attention. new york,:, whether he flips are sings or composes. >> his attorney suggested that they think he could be indicted by the federal government within the next 90 days. after spending the morning nearby the international golf club, he tweeted that he will be watching the live futile coverage on television of barbara bush from mar-a-lago. president trump has no public events for the rest of his weekend. that includes saturday night as well as sunday morning. he will return from mar-a-lago in palm beach county to washington sunday afternoon. in west palm beach florida, silk eating, back to you. >>> a spokesperson for the attorney says his client met about his personal business dealings. davidson provided certain it -- certain electronic information. she signed an agreement. >> there are hundreds of people in san mateo county. there is an inaugural effort. >> history is made tonight in oakland. there was a no-hitter there. here