mr. giuliani has just had his first meeting with special counsel robert mueller and it's not over yet. the washington post's robert costa and carol write, quote, the face-to-face discussions illustrated how rudy giuliani is functioning as trump's chief liaison and lead negotiator with the special counsel. the meeting renewed talks that had largely faltered since the resignation last month of john dowd, a veteran lawyer who had been serving as trump's lead outside attorney on the russia investigation. both giuliani and mueller were joined at the meeting by members of their teams. they met at mueller's office in southwest washington. giuliani pressed mueller for clarity on when the probe is expected to end. well, unless robert mueller's answer was, oh, some time in the next eight days, that would indicate that mr. giuliani's two weeks prediction might have been a little bit off. >>> i should say, though, just as a separate matter as kind of my personal observation here, as part of this excellent new reporting tonight from the washington post, we are now experiencing a whole new round of r

mr. giuliani's two-week prediction might have been a little bit off. i should say, though, just as a separate matter, as kind of my personal observation here, as part of this excellent new reporting tonight!op from "the washington post," we are now experiencing a whole new round of renewed discussion about whether or not president trump is eventually going to sit down for an interview with robert mueller as part of mueller's investigation. that -- you know, lots of people discussing newly reported details about the content of those negotiations around the president's potential interview. trump is now reportedly very resistant to doing an interview, even though he used to really want to do the interview. now his lawyers feel one way about it, his advisers feel another. there has been so much breath expelled on this question of how president trump feels about the idea of giving an interview to the special counsel. honestly, you know what? he's either going to do an interview with mueller or he's not. we will know once it happens or once they start fighti

mr. giuliani. i mind. how would mr. giuliani know these e-mails were on his way? did he know that derivatively because somebody else told him? or was he part of discussions to sort of pry those e-mails loose? if it's the second thing, you can't be both a witness and a lawyer in the same case. and so if you're asking whether or not there might be a conflict, the answer is there might be a conflict. >> ashley, let me ask you about something else the president said on fox and friends this morning. he's still, he's still after the justice department for being biased. let me play this for you and we'll talk about it on the other side. >> the people that are doing the investigation, you have 13 people that are democrats. you have hillary clinton people, you have people that worked on hillary clinton's foundation. they're all -- i don't mean democrats . i mean like the real deal. and then you look at the phony lisa page and strzok and the memos back and forth and the fbi. and by the way, you take a poll at the fbi. i love the fbi, the fbi loves me. but the top people in

mr. giuliani. how did mr. giuliani know three days before. is he the subject of a mr. n as well? because i think what giuliani did may have been a crime. >> we're talking about memos. that's what i'm trying to get to the bottom of. >> it implies what you're saying is comey did too if comey is the leak. >> that's correct. >> where could that even come from? to allude to the guy that was going out and defending the president on the "access hollywood" tape that would be the last guy you would leak to, isn't it? >> it's a question that hasn't been asked by anyone of mr. comey. did you talk to giuliani? is that he how he knew on october 25th leaking information, which giuliani admit cod be a crime. and it's another part of this irony that now giuliani -- remember, he is supposed to be secretary of state and attorney general. suddenly he disappeared. >> i see what you're doing there, lanny. we can pose a question and say i wonder if jim comey talked to rudy giuliani. by posing a question you're implicit in that is an accusation. what's the accusation? >> my accusation is rudy

mr. giuliani in the coming months although mr. would face an extremely difficult confirmation hearing in the senate. it's all in quotes from the times. we're back with michael schmidt, paul butler, shannon pettypiece and jennifer ruben. starting with you, michael, how does this fit with the latest stuff tonight that jeff sessions was thinking of walking if trump fired rod rosenstein? >> i'm not sure how much it relates to that, to the sessions at the justice department, who is going to be at the justice department. but what is going on behind the scenes is that the trump folks think they are okay with mueller and that they just sort of need to wrap up the end here. trump does not want to sit for an interview but realizes he certainly has to do that to bring an end to this. so they're going to bring in giuliani to negotiate the end, to go to mueller and say look, let's get this thing wrapped up. the problem is that if there's a big difference of opinion or idea what's going on here. if the trump folks think there's no problem here

mr. giuliani reportedly wants to have the special counsel russia probe result quickly for the good of theountry. has been swornel enin as cuba's presidt. it is the first time this 1959 that a castro is not at the helm of the government. the new leader vowed to defend the legacy ohis predecessors and said raul castro would still be involved in major decisions. a brief time ago i spoke to will grant in havana. will, how much power will the ennew preshave? will: he will wield power in the sense that htakes that role at for so long has been synonymous with the castros. that in and of itself is very important, isn't it. you are right to point outhat the power is now divided. raul castro remains part of the equation as head of the human communist part up to the stage, that fidel castro or raul castro edafter his mother steown. now we have seen them split and we have seen mr. dÍaz-canel has already deferred to raul castro, as you would expechim to. when i tnk will be interesting is as the years pass, see himli create more pocal space for smself and exert more of own power over proceedings, and r

mr. giuliani is going to join mr. trump's legal team? he says he's going to join the team to, quote, negotiate an end to the mueller investigation and he's told reporters tonight that he expects he will be able to negotiate that end. he'll end the mueller investigation in about two weeks? >> i saw that in the media. struck me as interesting. i don't know what his vision would be for that. i don't know how it will be coming into the new legal team and working with the president given the strength of rudy's personalty and the president's. i don't know. >> if somebody did want to end the mueller investigation, how would they do it? >> i actually don't think you could accomplish that by firing director mueller. i think you'd have to fire everybody in the fbi and the justice department to accomplish that in practice given the commitment of the people in those organizations. so i don't know what he has in mind. >> somebody new to oversee the investigation orders it staffed to be unseconded. orders there be no new steps taken? presumably someon

mr. giuliani can do an enormously good service, not only to mr. mueller and the investigation and the country, but also to his client. if he would understand that it's time for them to come up -- to come to an agreement with the special counsel's office about the circumstances pursuant to which the president will provide testimony so that we can get to an end point here. >> much as been said about the president not taking his lawyers' advice, julian. do you think his relationship with giuliani is such he will actually do what giuliani wants? >> no. i think every time we've asked this question, the answer has turned out to be the same, and you might have loggerheads. with giuliani, who is as strong willed as the president and has his own way of doing things. that's what he's always been famous for. i don't think trump is going to change his basic method or response. you can't contain a political leader who refuses to be contained. and the president will continue to tweet, he will continue to go after his adversaries, and the only way he gets cooper

mr. giuliani's career as a federal prosecutor means he has a long-standing relationship with the presidentel, robert mueller who is overseeing that investigation. and leaked private memos written by james comey have revealed just days after taking office president trump raised concerns about his former u.s. national -- adviser, i should say, mike flynn. tracie potts is in washington for us this morning. anything you have seen in these memos that has been released presumably by members of congress over the last 24 hours that show fresh detail other than what we heard from james comey in his testimony and in his memoir last week >> all these interviews he's decision doing with his book tour as well there seemed to be an intense focus and concern about michael flynn in the early white house we learned that the president, according to comey, said that flynn had a serious judgment issue, and that the then chief of staff, reince priebus questioned whether or not there was surveillance happening on michael flynn at that time >> "worldwide exchange" is coming up next mr. stevens? this is your new

rudy giuliani can say that's a stupid idea, mr., in legal strategy. >> he has stature and he has been on the record saying the mueller investigation you had at to be allowed to run its course. i think this is a very important point in that if he sticks to that point of view i think it will be a healthy point of view to bring into that orbit because it's not clear everything b everybody else is going to be able to as you say talk the president back. >> that's the point i see in this. rudy would be like whoa, whoa, you don't want to do that. >> he understands the law and the politics, both. >> and he has the benefit of being someone the president is familiar with. he was around the campaign all the time. which also raises other questions about whether he fits in in terms of legal strategy, mutualer. >> that's where i want to get to in this. rudy was rumor amongering, stirring the pot. i hear, my sources in the fbi tell me this of the he was the whispering of what's coming with clinton and. and he had -- there is that side of rudy, wh

mr. giuliani certainly is one, any good lawyer is going to want to size up the prosecutor in the case. and figure out where do we stand, what do you need, what's the status and when have you those conversations, there's an interesting kind of tell i'm sure about whether or not the probe is really going to wrap up as mueller has allegedly told again the previous lawyer and the current one. >> carol lleoning, great reporting. thank you. >> sure. >> with me now to explain what this means to the investigation, former assistant watergate special prosecutor jill wine-banks, renato mariotti former federal prosecutor. what do you think about this. >> so, you know, frankly what this tells us is that giuliani's proclamations he was going to end the investigation within two weeks are just that, you know, proclamations that have no basis in rate. he got nowhere beyond where john dowd went. mueller is not wrapping up the investigation anytime soon. he wants to wrap up the obstruction piece of the investigation but he wants to interview trump before he does that which makes a lot of sense. any prose

mr. giuliani. i think mr. mueller ought to be allowed to conclude his work. i received that information with great skepticism. i feel like it's lucy with the football to charlie brown and pulled away at the last minute. that's been the history of the invest thus far. no reason the president couldn't have sat down except for the resolving door of attorneys. wolf, the number of attorneys the president asked to have on the team and turned him down are the number of teattorneys on th team and walked is the size of a state bar in a small state. >> thank you for joining us. >> you're welcome, sir. >>> president trump said to be consumed by the criminal probe of his long-time personal lawyer and friend michael cohen in new york city. we're lenning new details about the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein told president trump about the investigation in recent days. touch is how we communicate with those we love, but does psoriasis ever get in the way? embrace the chance of 100% clear skin with taltz. for people with moderate to severe psoriasis, up to 90% had a si

mr. giuliani's hiring, it was assumed that they too were hired to represent the president on the russia investigation, on the mueller investigation. i mean, that was a little bit weird when rudy giuliani went on to say that evening that he was planning on ending the mueller investigation in two weeks. right? if that's your plan, why would you also need to hire two whole new lawyers to start working on that case on that same day if it's just about to wrap up. it was a little weird. well, now today we can explain the weirdness there. today we have learned that the new legal firepower the president brought on board alongside rudy giuliani, they are not apparently there to work on the mueller case. they're there to work on the cohen case. specifically the president brought on these new lawyers to try to stop the president from being legally exposed in the cohen case. "washington post" ran a profile of these two new lawyers for the president today, and it says in part, "among their early assignments is to try to use attorney-client protections to keep investigators from scouring trump's communications wit

mr. giuliani is going to join the president's legal team?d reporters he expects to be able to negotiate that end. he'll end the investigation in about two weeks. >> i saw that in the media. it struck me as interesting. i don't know what his vision would be for that. i don't know how it would be coming on to the new legal team, given the strength of rudy's personality and the president's. i just don't know. >> if somebody wanted to end the mueller investigation, how would they do it? >> i don't think you could accomplish that by firing director mueller. i think you'd have to fire everybody in the fbi and the justice department to accomplish that in practice given the people in the organization. i don't know what he has in mind. i don't. >> somebody new appointed to oversee the investigation, orders the staff to be under seconded, orders that there be no new major investigatory steps taken, presumably somebody in the oversight role that rod rosenstein has now to wanted to kill it could kill it. >> is it would be hard to kill given the culture

mr. giuliani when i was a prosecutor and mayor of new york. i didn't kn aow tively practiced law. but mr. trump has the ability to hire whoever he wants. at the end of the day, i hope this will also meamr. trump will also allow the mueller investigation to continueun peded because, at the end of the day, americans deserve the answer from his investigation and, frankly, from our senate intelligence investigation as g ll. >> reporter: speak the mueller investigation, you and other bipartisan senators are supporting legislation to protect robert mueller's job. wh >> well, judy, over the last year, we've seen this prede turn his ire on anybody that crosses him. we've seen him attack comey mueller. his own original attorney general mr. sessions had to recuse himself because he was involved with some of these ssian activities, and we set up this special prosecutor to be overseen by a long-term career individual republican rod rosenstein, and the president says there's nothing yet, yet he continues to think on press reports thrink of fiing mueller, may have tried to pull the trigger a co

mr. giuliani is the kind of experienced white collar person you would want, however it is not so clear if this particular client is going to allow him to really take charge of the defense form. >> do you think that mueller in any way shawn would be swayed by the presence of giuliani in the investigations? >> absolutely not. i know mueller myself. we was been office mates. he's not a person to be swayed by anything like that. he'll be polite and greet him if they see him, but this idea that because you know somebody personally you can sway the course of the criminal investigation, i mean, josh knows that as well as anybody, that just doesn't really happen with professionals. >> great to have you with us. i do appreciate it. terrific discussion. >> thank you. >>> as we mentioned, the president's legal team has grown. rudy giuliani will be there and he says he can bring the mueller probe to a quick end. really? plus, a reporter says that donald trump lied to him to get on the forbes 400 list and used his alter ego. he claimed to be someone else to get it done. we have the audiotapes. >>> we'

mr. giuliani will longer over and get paid by the hour for mr. trump. g to do for the president of the united states? kevin: let's get really into the zeitgeist because for our audience, it's really interesting. a rough week for james comey's book tour. in the book, he pretty much called rudy giuliani a show boater. that's what someone argue is an interesting word choice. in the context of president trump's decision to part in scooter libby and higher rudy giuliani t, this is a big back and forth/ . he was rumored to be potentially a nominee for ag. he keeps him in the fold of the white house one not having to go through the confirmation process. francine: i could listen to kevin all day. the news flow is actually unbelievable. [laughter] people globally come a doesn't move the needle? -- does it move the needle? adam: what moves the needle is the reality of the china-u.s. trade. what moves the needle is the possibility that pompeo's mission to north korea may bear fruit and trump's treatment of abe. what moves the needle is how much the oil price moves

mr. giuliani can inform mr.pected, what is a normal course of investigation. and what realistic expectations about when this investigation is going to be completed, so, again, i think from my experience bob mueller this is not having an effect the way he believes this investigation should move forward and conclude but mr. gimr. mr. giuliani could have influence with respect to to president trump. >> the politicization that occurred in government agencies mark penn op-ed in hill writes the leadership of the fbi the cia a director of national intelligence, under president obama it becomes clearer every day the real abys rs every power in this drama, we know that the justice department inspector general horowitz issuing a criminal referral to the u.s. attorneys office in d.c. related to fired fbi deputy director andrew mccabe for lying under oath your thoughts where this goes, what is the process now that there is this referral of criminal charges? it goes to the u.s. attorneys office. >> u.s. attorney will simply

mr. giuliani will join trump's legal team?e said he will join the team to negotiate an end to the mueller investigation, and has told reporters that he expects he will be able to negotiate that and, will and the mueller investigation in about two weeks. in the media and it struck me as interesting. i do not know what his vision would be for that, and i do not know how it becoming onto the -- legal teamen and working with the president. i just don't know. >> of someone did want to end the mueller investigation, how would they do it? >> i do not think you could accomplish that by firing director mueller. i think you would have to fire everybody in the fbi and the justice department to congress that in practice, given the commitment of the people in those organizations. so i do not know what he has in mind. >> someone new appointed to oversee the investigation orders staff to be on seconded, orders that there be no more investigatory steps taken? somebody in the oversight role that rod rosenstein has now, who wanted to kill it, c

mr. rudy giuliani visit was to facilitate that cooperation. the president said he intends to cooperate. part of that would be if mr. mueller desires an interview that the president would make himself available. >> let me ask you about the secretary of state nominee, pike m -- mike pompeo. the secretary of state should be the loudest, hold out voice for international diplomacy dialogue and negotiations. are you concerned that mike pompeo and john bolton have the president's heear? >> i'm concerned that our chief diplomat, will he be an advocate for diplomacy. he wants to withdraw. we heard be macron today talk about how critically important it is for u.s. leadership on global issues that we need to be in the lead. we need a top diplomat that will make -- be america's voice in the international community advancing our universal values. >> thanks for joining us. just ahead, shocking new allegations surface. can dr. ronnie jackson survivor as the president's v.a. nominee? i'll talk with james clapper about cnn's exclusive new reporting on expelled russian diplomats and chilling spy mission t

mr. giuliani met with mr. mueller's team to discuss the interview.y have a quote from him saying "the president is tell his if he could story in front of a decent, fair-minded arbiter, the whole story would be over." dan for massachusetts, independent. caller: thank you for having me on. number one, i would just like to remind everybody that trump was elected by calling the press liars, by telling us they are not being honest with us. just a little reminder. he did it in almost every speech. you just had a guest on a little while ago that talked about empowering the special counsel even more than it already is. story, i readtle an article about that yesterday about empowering the special counsel even more, to make sure they keep attacking trump, who matter what happens. doesn't it seem odd that there is a real similarity with hillary clinton not getting hired by the american people, but kind of an insurance policy that we have got good -- big government taking care of everything while the press goes out and says whatever they can about trump. we have

giuliani trying to wrap this up. he said he could wrap it up in two weeks, really? and now mr. trump's personal attorney pleading the fifth. this is not going to wrap it up. the cloud is not going to move away. i do believe much more is going to come. >> what is your evidence of panic? >> panic by reaching out to rudy giuliani and not a more experienced lawyer in terms of handling matters like this, and also i think, you know, mr. trump said in the past, he said why plead the fifth if you're innocent. i mean, i don't -- i don't get why michael cohen is now pleading the fifth. >> let me read that quote. myself as an attorney, i know people have all kinds of rights and i don't prejudge their invocation of those rights, but that's just me. you're referring to the president's standard and whether his lawyer is following the president's standard because he said, quote, the mob takes the fifth amendment. if you're innocent, why are you taking the fifth amendment and he added, when you have your staff taking the fifth amendment, i think it's disgraceful. >> i remember that quote becau

mr. giuliani wanted to tell him what he had in mind. keep in mind, as well. when rude wawhen rudy was going. he said i can get this russia thing wrapped up in a week or two. are we any closer? stay tuned. if you were on line yesterday and looking at twitter account and a lot of you don't so you probably saw it on other media. kanye west officially melted the internet when he the day before was talking to a friend who was one of the djs at hot 97 in new york. the dj went on the air and says kanye really loves the president of the united states. and yesterday, he doubled down via twitter. ainsley: he said you don't have to agree with trump. but the mob can't make me not love him. we are both dragon energy. i love everyone. i don't agree with what everything anyone does. that's what makes us individuals. and we have the right to independent thought. steve: what is dragon energy. ainsley: they have fire in their belly. brian: different than the five hour energy. kanye tweets out i don't agree with everything he does but i like the guy. remember when steve harvey

mr. comey tells us rudy giuliani's comment prompted him, comey to order an fbi investigation into whetherple inside the fbi were feeding the trump campaign non public investigation of the clinton's investigation during the campaign. james comey ordered an investigation into that but he said he does not know what the result was for that investigation he ordered because he soon got fired. >> well, we are not 100% sure what happened to that investigation, we think what probably happen to it that we think it got rolled into a broader investigation by the justice department inspect general and the fbi and its activity related to the 2016 election. we think the leak issue is part of what the inspector general is due to report on very soon. >> the inspector report will be issued next month which means we may be about to get the results of the investigation james comey talked about so intriguingly last night including the part of rudy giuliani. right as rudy giuliani is becoming the president's new lawyer on the russia case. joining us now is congressman s eric swallow. >> thank you for being wit

mr. trump in special counsel robert mueller's russia investigation. giuliani told the "washington post" that he hopes he can negotiate an end to the investigation for the good of the country. >>> former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe may face criminal charges for misleading officials about his contact with the media. the justice department's inspector general has asked the u.s. attorney's office to charge mccabe with a crime. the referral to the u.s. attorney does not automatically mean mccabe will be changed. it's alleged mccabe was dishonest about releasing the information. his lawyer said he's confident the u.s. attorney will not prosecute. >>> the fugitive granny has been nabbed. the woman accused of killing her husband and another woman was picked up at a texas resort after being on the run at least since late march. hena doba has the details. good morning. >> good morning, anne-marie. olice believe she had a gambling problem and believe her modus operandi was to find women that resembled her and then steal her identity. >>> she was captured thursday,

mr. comey telling us that rudy giuliani's comments during the campaign prompted him, comey, to order an fbition into whether people inside the fbi were feeding the trump campaign non-public information about the clinton investigation during the campaign. comey confirming to us that he ordered an investigation into that. he said he doesn't know what the result was of that investigation he ordered because, of course, he soon got fired. we're not 100% sure what happened to that investigation. we think that what probably happened to it is that we think it got rolled into a broader investigation by the justice department inspector general. an investigation into the fbi and its activities related to the 2016 election. we think that issue is part of the what the inspector general is due to report on very soon. that inspector general report will be issued next month. which means we may be about to get the results of the investigation james comey talked about last night, including the part about rudy giuliani. right as rudy giuliani is becoming the president's new lawyer on the russia case. joining

rudy giuliani joined the presidents legal team. mr.ump tweeted, james comey illegally leaked documents to the press in order to generate a special counsel. therefore the special counsel was established based on an illegal act.really, does everybody know what that means? and deputy attorney general rosenstein reportedly told the president he is not a target of the investigation. congressman trey gowdy says that doesn't mean much. >> i don't think the president is the target as you and i use that term in a nonlegal sense. in a legal sense, that can change with one witness. one document. >>chris: you heard that long list of developments just this week, which of those developments really matters? >> i think to a large extent, this last week was about the nervousness in washington about whether the president will try to fire the special counsel robert mueller. if you look through all of the developments you listed, what was really important was rod rosenstein . congress threatened him with subpoena if he didn't give them the memos that jim

comey confirmed he looked into leaks from the fbi during the election because rudy giuliani kept dropping massive hints. >> mrald trump plan anything except for a series of inspiring rallies? >> yes. >> what? >> you will see. >> he has a surprise or two that you are going to hear about in the next few days. i'm talking about some pretty big surprise. >> i heard you say that this morning. what do you mean? >> you will see. >> that's weird. philippe, your reaction no the fact that comey initiated an investigation into that stuff. >> i guess my question is, he was there six months after the election. i'm not sure what would take so long for the -- either the fbi or department of justice to look into the matter. i guess the question is now, what is its status? who is conducting it? is the fbi office looking at itself? there's another data point beyond rudy looking like a peacock. laura trump was on fox on october 24th. she said they had a trick up their sleeve. i can imagine rudy walking around saying, i've got a secret, i've got a secret. shouldn't be too hard to figure out for an administration that calls for e

rudy giuliani entered politics in the president became a booster of his career. mayorthe criticized the for his silence, but mrtrump asked about giuliani's reticence, said, "i am very respectful of his stance." in maryland, democrat's line. caller: good morning. -- i fully support mike pompeo for nomination. i do want to carry out i am not a trump supporter. he is the most unfit person to ever have been president. i am not one of those that crossed over, but i think we are establishing a very problematic trend by now proposing everything because that is going to come back. that is not without remember when i was younger during the break-in and h.w. bush years and anduring the reag n hwb she is. east on his time in the house, cia -- the fact was in the old days, this would have been a no-brainer and he would have been confirmed. i will say this. i am against the one woman for cia, but i am retired military, and fully believe that torture was used, so i tend to take the mccain viewpoint of this. unfortunately, she was in the middle of it. for that reason, i would be against her, but mike pompeo is fully qualifie

the former mayor rudy giuliani signing on to help defend mr. trump as he faces mounting legal troubles. also tonight new insight into the direction of the special counsel's investigation saying that paul manafort had a potential back channel to russia. i'll get reaction from jeff berkl berkley. and our correspondents are stand ing by. let's go to pamela brown . pamela, what more can you tell us about rudy giuliani's joining the legal team? >> we have just learned today that the former mayor and u.s. attorney and trump ally rudy giuliani will be joining the president's legal team. rudy giuliani met with the president for 30 minutes. they released a statement saying he's taking a leave of absence for an unspecified period of time. he spoke to dana bash saying his role will be limited but he's there to, quote, push the count b conclusion of the robert mueller investigation. he said that is really what the big focus of his is. he says that he's known mueller for had years. when he was the mayor in new york city that mueller was the fbi director. th

city, and it seems as if ma mayor giuliani's role will be trying to establish the ground rules, those in which the president of the united states will be interviewed by mr or his associates. i will say one thing about mayor giuliani. he has been craving a job in the white house since the inauguration of president bush. he wanted to be secretary of state. he's got some rather complex business relationships that i think made him an impossibility to become secretary of state. he's represented or provided support and assistance to somebody who was charged with violating the iran sanctions agreement, other fairly nefarious characters. but he will thrive in this. he brings star power and legal power to the trump administration. >> okay. but carrie, no one really believes he can bring an end to the probe in the next two weeks. do you think giuliani has a strategy that he will put into play at that point? >> there's nothing wrong with trying to set goals and targets, and i agree that he's an impeccable choice. he took down the mafia, helped with big cases. he's america's mayor. this is a man dedicated to public service. and we heard from rosenstein that the pre

let's play part of giuliani on fox promising that october surprise. >> mr. mayor, we have 14 days, this bill, does donald trump plan anything except for a series of inspiring -- >> what? we have a couple surprises left. >> early surprises? >> prizes in the way to get our campaign out there. maybe in a different way. we'll see. and i think it will be effective. he later confirmed after the fact that kate coomey was going to reopen the investigation into hillary clinton on october 28th just days before the ex-wilecti. >> there were a number of leaks about secretary clinton and whether they were going to investigate the clinton foundation. there was a report and confirmed he knew something about it. whether he had a leak from the fbi or from the retired agents he seems to be close to. or whether he was bragging based on nothing. it is important that he launched the internal investigation, not just because of the reporting but because of what rudy giuliani said on tv. when the inspector general comes out with this report in may, the fbi and the department of jus

with the addition of giuliani a long-time ally of the president, mr. trump gains an experienced litigator and former manhattan u.s. attorney. trump is looking to bring his involvement with mueller's investigation to a close and is considering whether to sit for questioning by the team. in addition to giuliani, two other former federal prosecutors will be joining trump's legal team. >>> in all likelihood, prince had no idea he was taking a counterfeit pill that could kill him. >> investigators looking into the death of music legend prince have officially closed case. why no charges will be filed in his death, coming up. >> more than 100 empty businesses in one san francisco neighborhood. we'll tell you what one city leaders is doing to try to bring the businesses back. >> the weekend is just around the corner. now we have spring weather to talk about for the first time in a whe,f ra n a lot to look out for. ♪[ music ] by living off the gr. completely. or... just set the washing machine to cold. do your thing. with energy upgrade california. >>> the olde

mr. trump. >> just another friday morning. >>> former new york mayor rudy giuliani joining the president's expandingan end to the russia investigation. this as "the washington post" comes out with a bombshell report alleging donald trump lied, posing as his alter ego john baron in 1984 all to get onto the "forbes" 400 list. we begin with abby philip who joins us live from west palm beach, florida.

brooklyn museum of art when mayor rudy giuliani decided to censor the art there as being sacrilegious. as a testament to his stance on first amendment rights, mr. abrams has more recently helped argue a side more aligned with conservative views in the famous case of citizens united, a landmark campaign finance case holding that the government may not prohibit corporations and unions from spending their money to finance political ads during federal election campaigns. has one too many awards to catalog, but very e has formed the floyd abrams institute or freedom of expression. its mission is to promote free speech, and scholarship and reform, and to provide law students the clinical opportunity to be involved in litigation, drafting legislation, and advising policymakers. mr. abrams is also an accomplished scholar as well as an accomplished lawyer. he has taught at columbia's graduate school of journalism as ale and columbia's law school. he seeks to educate the public about the first amendment and how it provides the most robust protections for free expression in the world. his book the justices the topics we have been doing with in our sympos

mr. trump. >> just another friday morning. >>> former new york mayor rudy giuliani joining the president's expanding legal team to push for an end to the russia investigation. this as "the washington post" comes out with a bombshell report alleging donald trump lied, posing as his alter ego john baron in 1984 all to get onto the "forbes" 400 list. we begin with abby philip who joins us live from west palm beach, florida. abby, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica. the highly anticipated comey memos are finally out, and president trump claims that they vindate him. in a late-night tweet he said they show no obstruction and no collusion, but the memos do show a president who is consumed by this russia investigation even as it's intensifying. personal memos from fired fbi director james comey obtained by cnn detail conversations comey had with president trump. >> i think what folks will see if they get to see the memos is i've been consistent since the very beginning right after my encounters with president trump. >> reporter: comey revealing in his memos the president said he had serious res

giuliani wouldn't giv employee a clear answer. >> there are tons of people saying, don't do it, mr. president, it's just a trap. you look at histories of how the president behaves when he's deposed, he can perjure himself pretty easily. h sos got all sorts of people saying don't do it. on the other hand, maybe he inks rudy giuliani can somehow negotiate terms for an interview that will protect him. which is better, to try to shut down the mueller, pro by firing rod rosenstein or something else, or just keep on discrediting mueller, undermining his credibility? so in the end, no matter what he comes up with, you can tell your base, just to dismiss it as fake news. >> i think that's absolutely 100% the strategy. the problem that historically republicans have had a lot of really great things to say about robert mueller, who himself is a republsan. and tha why these arguments -- you know, they may uork with the base, but, know, as the investigation moves closer and closer to the president himself, he h n ensnared his personal lawyer. it becomes more and more difficult for republicans to t mat argument. >> and the p

brooklyn museum of art when mayor judy giuliani decided to censor the arts there is being sacrilegious and as a testament to his stance on first amendment rights mr. abrams has more recently helped our youth aside more aligned with conservative views in the famous case of citizens united, a landmark came-- finance case that the government may not prohibit corporations and you'd-- unions from spending their money to finance political ads are doing federal election campaigns. mr. abrams has one too many words to catalog, but very notably gail klos cool has-- law school has the freedom of expression to promote free speech and scholarship and longer form on emerging questions this concerning traditional and new media and to provide law students the clinical opportunity to be involved in litigation, drafting legislation and advising policymakers. mr. abrams is also on accomplished scholar as well as an accomplished lawyer trick he has taught at columbia's graduate school of journalism as well as gail-- yale and club you law and written a number of books on first amendment topics including his most recent called "the soul of the first amendment" which

mr. trump said vladimir putin boasted about having some of the most beautiful hookers in the world. meanwhile the president is adding rudy giuliani who his legal team. he will focus on interacting with special counsel robert mueller to close out the russia probe. they already know each other from their days on the justice department. >>> another blow to the trump administration on the sanctuary city front. a federal appeals court upheld an order blocking the justice department from acquiring jurisdictions to cooperating with ice. the president fired an angry tweet accusing sanctuary cities of releasing dozens of gang members who went on to commit violent crimes. he added we are doing a great job of law enforcement thing such as this make safety in america difficult. it is worth noting that three judges on the appeals panel are all republicans. >>> president donald trump dropped a bombshell on his border war with governor brown. he says the feds will not be footing the bill over the hundreds of national guard members the governor agreed to send south. dave bryan has more on the border battle. >> reporter: the day after governor je