he's almost confessing that mr cohen is accurate in the his accusations the volume of attack on mr muller seems to be proportional to the closeness that he comes to the white house i believe that he ultimately will be pushed provoke to fire mr muller when he actually receives the subpoena to testify under oath about among other things this june two thousand and sixteen meeting with donald junior and man afford and shared question because you remember that that meeting was something that clearly was a probe of mr man a for when they're asking him repeatedly did mr trump know about this meeting and i say i was there at the time mr archibald cox who is my professor at. law school was fired by mr nixon and that precipitated impeachment proceedings i think that's down the road probably a month or two but i think we'll need to get to that level before firing occurs of mr moller the u.s. president has canceled a meeting with his russian counterpart at the g. twenty summit in argentina donald trump used twitter to announce that he won't be holding talks with viremia putin he also ruled out meetin

first he hadn't changed any other major staff personnel and what we do know is in very recently mr muller has been subpoenaing close associates of roger stone who is a lifelong friend of mr trump about his relationship with wiki leaks and knowing in advance that the disclosure of the triple c. e-mails concerning mr podesta would be disclosed mr trump now knows that he's not going to have the house of representatives to defend him from oversight hearings including the intelligence committee and judiciary committee who would be probably friendly receptacles to anything that mr moeller sent them that was incriminating with mr trump and that's why i believe he acted with such haste here is the first step by i believe to an attack on mr mohler so how do you think that that attack would unfold because of course road rosenstein the deputy attorney general is technically in charge of the military investigation but one thing that's interesting is that of course the republicans have retained control of the senate which would play a key part in actually confirming the future attorney general do you

that clearly is a motive that indicates obstruction of justice and there's no doubt that at present mr muller could call mr sessions for a grand jury and ask him you know what was it that it had the president told him anything as to directly or mr kelley as to why he was removed indeed it would seem that he could actually call mr they actually attorney general mr whitaker and asked have did you give promises to the president you know that you would shut me down what kind of commitments did you make in order to obtain your particular position because you pointed out he's never gone through any confirmation of any sort whatsoever and those are things that need to be raised and asked you remember mr trump has always stated he thought his attorney general's job was to protect the president you know like roy cohn would would would protect joe mccarthy during his most noxious days and if that's was his conception to get rid of mr sessions you have to ask well is that what mr whitaker told the president he would protect him from the arm of the law and that gets you then into impeachable offenses and

mr. muller does have the power to subpoena to answer the question but would have to sign off on the subpoena. >>> the yous has still not responded to claims that the crown prince of saudia rabia was involved in the murder of washington post reporter jamal khashoggi, confirming the cia has intelligence that the crown prince ordered the october killing of the journalist. the crown prince has denied those claims, members of both parties in congress are calling for strong action against the saudi leadership. >> clearly this guy is a wrecking ball when it comes to the mideast in a relationship with the united states. it is certainly testing the proposition that the enemy of our enemy is our friend. today in his first public comments since khashoggi's murder, saudia rabia's king expressed support for his son the crown prince but did not address the growing controversy. >>> in guatemala a burst of activity at the fuego volcano is sparking evacuations you can see lava and ash bubbling up from its crater the company issued the highest alert yesterday when it began spewing ash and lava, 4,000 people h

that clearly is a motive that indicates obstruction of justice and there's no doubt that at present mr muller could call mr sessions for a grand jury and ask him you know what was it the president told him anything as to directly or mr kelley as to why he was removed indeed it would seem that he could actually call mr they actually attorney general mr whitaker and asked have did you give promises to the president you know that you would shut me down what kind of commitments did you make in order to obtain your particular position because you pointed out he's never gone through any confirmation of any sort whatsoever and those are things that need to be raised and asked you remember mr trump is always stated he thought as attorney general's job was to protect the president unlike roy cohn would would would protect joe mccarthy during his most noxious days and if that's was his conception it gets rid of mr sessions you have to ask well is that what mr whitaker told the president he would protect him from the arm of the law and that gets you then into impeachable offenses and obstruction of just

thank you mr president the investigation by the special counsel robert muller has been going on since last spring it's been over a year long time that's been over your head over republicans had during the midterms as well is this an opportunity for you mr president to end that investigation would you consider removing mr mueller from his position i could have ended it any time i wanted i didn't and there was no collusion there was no anything i didn't. they get went after hackers in moscow i don't know about that they went after people with tax problems from years ago they went out there people with loans and other things nothing to do with my campaign this is a investigation where many many millions of dollars has been spent and there's no collusion it was supposed to be on collusion there's no collusion and. i think it's i think it's very bad for a country i will tell you i think it's a shame and a poll came out today by the way from n.b.c. or at least i saw it on n.b.c. where a majority of the people do not agree with the motor investigation or wasn't approved they have approval an

mr. whitaker. he expressed a number of prejudicial statements against the muller investigation and now he would being it. a number of us are very concerned about his appointment. >> senator assumer also suggested that in a protection of the russia investigation could be tied up to must pass legislation such as a spending bill. would you support something like that? >> i hope it doesn't come to that. i think the one thing that the trump administration needs to know or recognize is that the american people want this investigation to continue unimpeded. now that the democrats are going to be in the majority in the house, they have a number of tools at their disposal including subpoena power and other tools to continue this investigation, including taking up the investigation in the house if the mueller investigation is prematurely ended. i hope it doesn't come to any spending showdown in december. i hope that we can avoid that and continue the investigation unimpeded. >> okay. republican senator lindsey graham was on cbs earlier today and he actually said he is scheduled to meet with whitaker next we

and that means through the vest a geisha as you mentioned robert muller is a former prosecutor i follow mrmiller's investigation very closely i think we may be we may be surprised at the impact that his findings will have when they're released in the coming weeks or months. democrats will hold them accountable with their investigations coming from the house of representatives. and so they will hold donald trump in terms of his legislative gains and they'll hold him accountable and the third thing they have to do is they have to sharpen their message so that going into two thousand and twenty it's a referendum yes on donald trump but it continues to be a referendum on the direction of the country we want to thank you very much for joining us this afternoon to share your perspective on this vote nelson cunningham as we mentioned president of mclarty associates we appreciate it thank you. well now we're turning to cameron where seventy nine boarding school students who were taken hostage by separatists have been released reports say that the kidnappers are still holding three adults taken fro

special prosecutor robert muller's investigation into possible russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election. denied working on the play and he says that mr cohen is watching hoping that he'll get a lighter prison sent. it was convicted of various things unrelated that. he was given a fairly long jail sentence and he's a weak person. by being weak i'd like other people that you watch he's a weak person and what he's trying to do is get a reduced sentence so he's learning about a project that everybody knew about i mean we were very open with. well despite what mr trump is saying michael cohen has not yet been sentence that's not due to happen until the twelfth of december what was going on to our correspondent myers whether she's on the story for us tonight from washington going to be to you miles so how does this affect the more investigation into allegations of russian interference in the twenty six thousand presidential election on lot of dots to connect tonight. well one of the revelations coming out of this guilty plea this morning is that looks like michael cohen is in fact cooperating with robert mueller has a visit and his investi

mr cohen is is doing. well that's right this is the first time that robert muller has brought charges himself directly against michael cohen the previous charges were from the u.s. attorney's office so that michael cohen now in taking this guilty plea almost certainly would not be doing that without a strong cooperation agreement with robert muller and that suggests that he is getting that robert mueller is getting value out of michael cohen as we see emerging that any way in which he may have been holding back is probably going to be dispelled now and that michael cohen will be a fully cooperating witness and there's an awful lot that he can tell about donald trump's business dealings and other matters that will seriously implicate the president and say probably it long. and also don jr ok i'm going to say that would now impeachment does this make that the whole ongoing question of of impeachment now that that little bit like he'll. it doesn t. because it suggests that first of all the president has been consistently untruthful with the american people and while that is not necessarily a high crime or misdem

muller. a person familiar with the talks said the prosecutors presented mr. corsi with evidence that he had not be truthful when investigators asked him whether he knew beforehand that wikileaks was going to publish e-mails stolen from democratic computers during the campaign. he knows he lied. he said it on his own show. >> right. >> so it doesn't seem to be the wise move to lie to the fbi. that's what he did. he's admitting it. that means what? >> it means he's facing at minimum a perjury charge. we don't know if there are other charges, and if he's in plea negotiations it means he has something to offer robert mueller and his team. >> yep. >> the important question becomes what might that be. there was some suggestion and exchange earlier this week that there may have been information about whether or not he knew that there was a conversation with donald trump, between roger stone and donald trump. remember we have a lot of lying from a lot to of folks. >> yep. who have been connected with the trump campaign. >> yes. >> he's just yet another. roger stone i