attorney and indian al gore preet bharara under allegedly same circumstances as james comey. >> preetused a request from the justice department that he step down and then tweeted he got fired. >> you have two individuals in a position to be involved in an investigation involving the president. mr. comey was with the f.b.i., they were running an investigation into michael flynn and russian connection to the election. mr. bharara had the ability to investigate trump university and maybe other claims relating to conflicts of interest. >> trevor: it must suck but also cool to get fired by trump because firing people is his signature move. like aids from charlie sheen -- i don't want to brag, but this is famous aids. ( laughter ) like i said, the president can fire whoever he wants, but some folks say the firings are obstruction of justice. is this fair or as donald trump would call it a witch hunt! hasan minhaj sat down with preet bharara. >> using my connections, i landed an interview with trump's most famous indian-american fireee preet bharara. i keep acting like i know what obstructio

said, preet related what happened with his relationship with donald trump.amiliar to what happened -- >> deja vu is the word he used. >> and when he said -- after he said we talked among our staff when he got a call -- after getting calls when he was president-elect, after he was president, they decided it wasn't appropriate and wasn't going to return the phone call. he was fired 22 hours later. >> this is why the political graveyard is littered with businessmen because the -- he doesn't seem to know the rules of the road when serving in the white house relative to the justice department and, you know, i realize he's been criticized for that defense, the ignorance defense, but and it's not going to help him if he ends up, you know, in a legal situation, but i do think there's truth to it which is -- >> except preet made the point he knew full well about justice department protocol when he -- >> in business you build relationships across the spectrum and what he's doing is building relationships and he didn't seem to understand -- >> to utilize for his benefi

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then preet doesn't pay off for him. he is not showing loyalty.ersonal lawyer according to your reporting says get rid of this guy. fbi was working in the jurisdiction and anything in terms of the finances, including dealings perhaps with russians or russian loans might have conceivably gone through the office of the u.s. attorney in the southern district and that certainly is something that lawyers in the u.s. attorney's office at the time suggested privately. whether that's the case i think what we're seeing is that the president has an inclination to try to shut down legitimate investigation when he thinks it's coming close or closing in on him and all of this is at a peace and once again what rosen stein today was doing was laying down a marker and saying if the president goes over that line with mueller, then a line will have been crossed that others think is irretrievable. >> we're going to take a quick break. next new word from a white house official about what robert mueller was doing just a day before. so you miss the big city? i don't mi

there is so much good preet bharara sound. i'm trying to pick something to go with, to go on with.'s start with the fact, i'll start with you, karine, donald trump tweeted earlier this morning, what preet bharara was referencing, "i believe the james comey leaks will be far more prevalent than anyone ever thought possible. totally illegal. very cowardly." what duds it mean we're setting up a contest of credibility not between comey and trump but trump and preet bharara? karine? >> sorry, i didn't hear that, joy. >> sorry. >> i'm so sorry. >> that's okay. i'm come ba imco i'll come back and make sure we have your mike on well. what does it mean the trump defense is setting up contests between credibility, donald trump, and people like preet bharara? >> well, you know, one of the intrinsic problems is we've got a president who seems to be competing with somebody that he fired or didn't rehire. the end of the day, we're going to have a lot of commentary on all of this and the president maybe will stand down but i doubt it. comey is a respectable figure in this whole process. he articu

preet bharara also said in the interview that he was let go.ithin 24 hours of refusing to take a call from the president. and he also talked about how prior to that he believed that president trump had been trying to cultivate a relationship with him. this is bad news for the. in goes to the point that jonathan mentioned a pattern of behavior. you know, if you have people like preet bharara and james comey against you these are serious figures making serious allegations about the president of the united states. that's -- that's deep water that the president is getting into there. >> and that deep water, jonathan, as this president moves forward, this white house moves forward, are they legally prepared, because it's not only the questions that we have been discussing so far in the last five minutes. there's also the trump organization. that is now going to be part of many, many questions and so is this white house ready legally for the number of steps and the number of questions that bob mueller might be asking? >> i don't think so. right now y

one compelling empty seat so far has the name of preet bharara on it, the u.s. attorney, like james comey was fired by donald trump. who to watch for, a lot of interesting things because number one, you have somebody in that witness seat who has a way of telling a story. we've seen it in previous congressional testimony by james comey, we saw it in the written opening statement that kind of reads like a dramatic movie script, so he's there. but then you have john mccain, a member who has decided to come in on this, you have the chairman richard burr, who really wants to show that this committee has credibility, you have marco rubio, and angus king, who showed yesterday in questioning other intelligence committee members that they're ready to go at it and i would watch, brian, for kamala harris, the only prosecutor on this team, they are ready to go. >> it will be very interesting to see which senators come to play and get out of the confines of party politics today. kristen welker, our white house correspondent, standing by across town. kristen, with a president

preet high profile. suddenly, reversing that previous assurance. for reasons that seem to be related to ongoing investigations. at least not proven to be so. everything about that is odd and inappropria inappropriate. here is where you hope someone assumes personal instincts of the office. the inability to do that is a problem for the united states. >> that is why this is so important. during the campaign we talked about this is donald trump being unconventional. part of the secret sauce. this activity and behavior is hurting the agenda that he says he wants to pass. by the way, there is support in the country for the agenda. he is hurting it. >> now a special counsel. everything is different with a special counsel. i want to bring up the word emoluments. the washington post appointing an attorney general to file a lawsuit saying the president has not separated himself from the businesses. i am not a lawyer. >> i took the l.s.a.t. >> if the lawsuits go anywhere, it could mean the president has to open up some of the financial books. that could ulti

preet bharara was the highest profile attorney in the country by a long measure.been assured by the president and jeff sessions, the attorney general, that he wouldn't be fired, that they'd want him to stay on in the new administration. so that will be one question for jeff sessions. why did preet bharara get fired after you guys repeatedly told him he would be retained. here is question two for jeff sessions on that front. it has been reported since then, preet bharara's office was investigating the possibility of moneylaundering involving either trump personally or the trump organization. so that's a second question for jeff sessions. was he aware of any investigation involving the president or the trump organization or any member of the trump family by any u.s. attorney's office, including preet bharara's office in new york when this sudden decision was made to fire all the u.s. attorneys. i mean, other presidents have removed all the u.s. attorneys. presidents have a right to do that. presidents have done that before. but it has never been the case that they w

but i wonder what you made of the interactions preet bharara described insofar as they seemed to track very similarly to what james comey described. that's to say the president reaching out multiple times to talk to preet bharara apparently in ways that bharara found inappropriately. ultimately bharara not calling him back and then finding himself essentially fired the next day. you were part of that cohort that was fired. what did you make of that chain of events? >> well, those calls were absolutely inappropriate. i think what preet bharara said was the president called him a couple of times just to shoot the breeze and seemed to be trying to cult vat a personal relationship with him. when i was u.s. attorney, we were all told there was a very strict protocol for communicating with the white house. if we were requesting some special event, there was a white house liaison, and we were to talk only to that person because we wanted to avoid any conflict whether actual or the appearance of a conflict by having direct communications with the president because there should never be any con

number one, preet bharara, the former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york who was actually fired by president trump like james comey. this is his first television interview since being fired and he knows both james comey and robert mueller very well, and we're also going to talk to a member of the president's legal team, a lot of questions for jay sekulow. one of the president's attorneys to ansr. >> real quick, you mentioned vindication but trump feels vindicated by comey's testimony as does his base. they are standing firmly by him. what's your take? >> so far. some of the polling shows -- breitbart and right wing media sites are all echoing the trump line right now. there has been some drop in -- drop in strong support for the president. one of the things you saw i think up in the senate at that intelligence committee hearing republican senators, a lot did try to put the best face on trump's actions. i think there's no question about that but you also saw them almost to a person vouch for james comey's credi

with preet bharara before firing him back in march.t the inside scoop from sam stein, and thanks to both of you for being here. you listened to him, and it sounds like james comey. how do you think that compounds the white house, the president's problems? >> i think it adds to them obviously. it sets up this pattern for president trump and potentially crossing boundaries that normally you wouldn't cross. so i think that's the issue. it also kind of sets up this idea of whether, you know, this attorney was fired because he didn't take one of president trump's calls, but when they were making the argument against comey, they were saying if comey didn't want to the president, he didn't have to. so it sets up this dichotomy, do the people that work under the president, do they have to take his calls and talk to him? >> it's a little bhit of the cherry picking we've seen the white house engage in. sam, you have republicans, including paul ryan, saying hey, he's new at this. you can't expect the president to know the boundaries. does that ar

and we're looking for a few dreamers to join us. >>> preet bharara know house james comey feels.said before being fired president trump tried to cultivate a relationship with. bharara said trump called him several times in what seems to be similar reactions to what comey testified to last week he said there seems to be evidence of an obstruction of justice case against trump >> i think a lot of people will tell you that the president himself makes accusations that turn out not to be true. when it comes down to who is telling the truth and who is not, most people would side reasonably with james comey. >> preet bharara was fired with 45 other u.s. attorneys, even though he said he had assurances from president trump that he could stay in his job. >>> among the top stories in washington, attorney general jeff sessions expected to testify in front of the senate today about the russia probe edward lawrence has the latest >> reporter: attorney general jeff sessions was supposed to testify on tuesday but supposed to go in front of the senate and house appropriations committee that is a

attorney preet bharara, who too says he had some sort of uncomfortable conversation with the president where he says it seemed as if during a phone conversation that the president was trying to forge some sort of a relationship between the two. of course, he was fired a short time thereafter. you know, you have at this point a number of gop lawmakers that want the president to simply stop talking, stop tweeting about comey, and then you also have a number of lawmakers actually on both sides of the aisle who say, just let the tapes come out. if they exist, let them come out to set the record straight. still unsure if that's going to happen, at least from this white house so far. also at this point, still unclear in terms of special counsel robert mueller what his fate may end up being. >> the president of the united states, as we all know, is a unitary executive. but the president is going to seek the advice of his counsel, inside the government as well as outside, and i am not going to speculate on what he will or will not do, but right now, the role of the president is to govern the u

but this is also a president that didn't know preet. nor did he know jim comey much. and this is a person that has dealt in a business with personal relationships and i'm certain that he probably wanted to know whether these are people he wanted to continue on with in his administration or that he would, you know appoint their successor. >> he said he felt those initial phone calls when he reflected on it that the president-elect trump was trying to cultivate a relationship with him. once he called out the president, the red flag went up that it was inappropriate. so mr. ambassador, we saw, you know, that tweet from the president this morning. he's back to it calling comey cowardly. senator lindsey graham weighed in on the president's statements just this morning. listen to this. >> here's what's so frustrating f for republicans like me. you may be the first president in history to go down because you can't stop inappropriately talking about an investigation that if you just were quiet would clear you. >> all right. so two things on. that your response to what graham

attorney for the southern district of new york preet bharrar fired.rcing this to four peopleal they say are familiar to the conversations and say he has been bragging that he told trump that quote this guy is going to get you with the implication being that trump should fire bharrara so he could not get him. if that is why preet bharrara was fired that raises a new set of questions for people who might be in a position to investigate this president. that is the president's >>> what happens if we do file the prf. that's the thing they've got to be worried about. >> now after 24 hours the question of firing the special prosecutor maybe has been settled by sarah. she said on air force one while the president has the right to, he has no intention to do so, problem is, the president doesn't have the right to, so i'

jenny, did you agree with preet bharara? >> absolutely.orked with both mueller and preet bharara and briefly with james comey and there's a basis to investigative obstruction of justice and i think bob mueller knows how to build a case. he's going to mike sure he look -- make sure he looks at all the evidence. >> we have to remember the articles of impeachment brought up against nixon and clinton, they were a broader use of power. we don't have to get into whether this was obstruction of justice because you can have articles of impeachment like abuse of pow e. remember the impeachment and the trial take place in the house and the senate and as gerald ford said before nixon's hearings went forward, he said this is not anything but a political process. it is inherently a political act not necessarily a legal judgment. >> good point there. final quick point, jenny. >> i would say we know from history that the president absolutely can be required to testify on these topics. and the question of who he could be indicted i think is still a very o

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but then after he called after inauguration, preet said it wasn't appropriate and he, too, went to his colleagues and reported what he thought was inappropriate behavior by the president and then 22 hours later -- fired. >> right. i don't think anyone really disagrees that these conversations were inappropriate. the focus now is going to become were they illegal. was something else going on here. was the president trying to influence these investigations, and if so, what needs to be done about it. >> so, steve, what potentially can happen next? you've got sessions who's going to be testifying. you've got this little drip drip drip of information coming from it barara. comey's testimony. then of course trump's latest tweets this morning. >> well, i think you're going to see a pattern of defaming the messengers, if nothing else. bahrara has some political baggage. he's only agreeing with comey because he got fired, too, not that i necessarily agree with that, but that's what you might hear. you're probably not going to hear a whole bunch if it is a closed session with -- right now there

attorney preet bharara spoke out sunday, offering his take on president trump's decision to fire him. bharara says that when he was federal prosecutor for the new york city area, mr. trump called him three times. he says less than 24 hours after he refused to return the third call, the president abruptly fired him. >> so, they're very unusual phone calls, and when i've been reading the stories about how the president has been contacting jim comey over time, it felt a little bit like deja vu. i said it appeared to be that he was trying to cultivate some kind of relationship. it's a very weird and peculiar thing for a one-on-one conversation without the attorney general, without warning, between the president and me or any united states attorney who has been asked to investigate various things. >> bharara says he felt it was important for him to keep at arms length from the president, giving his jurisdiction over business interests in new york, including the trump organization. >> all right, six minutes past the hour. >>> two new residents in the white house this morning, melania and ba

team. >> preet is becoming the twitter king. that's his whole gig. what he made his movements on is doing that. dowd is a name that's been around legal circles for a long time. i'm beginning to think that trump is simply hiring people he sees on tv the night before. that guy looks good, we'll put him on retainer. i don't know who's actually concocting the legal strategy here. >> betsy, given the way we know the way the president interfaces with the media, he's mediated by the media himself. it seems entirely plausible that that's what may be happening. >> i think the president made campaign staffing more than any other president in the american history. trump loves cable news. that said, i think sekulow's role in his legal defense isn't just that. it shows the growing influence of evangelical christian conservatives. they've made in roads in trump's world since he was nominated. >> that's interesting. >> sekulow is a part of that. sekulow is part of that world and an indicator that social conservatives, evangelicals don't have a

were the phone calls to preet bharara inappropriate? >> they were appropriate if he was trying to decide whether to reappoint him as u.s. attorney. it would be inappropriate if he was trying to somehow influence ongoing prosecutions. but they still wouldn't be criminal under either circumstance. >> that was more than yes or no but we'll take it. gentlemen, thank you for taking time out of your sunday to chat with me. >>> coming up, explosive new allegations against the nsa contractor accused of leaking a highly classified document. did she mishandle other national secrets? >>> and, the lonely president. a look at how trump has become increasingly isolated from the men who preceded him in the oval office. just like that?id of verizon, uh huh. i switched to t-mobile, kept my phone everything on it oh, they even paid it off! wow! yeah, it's nice that every bad decision doesn't have to be permanent! now you can ditch verizon but keep your phone. we'll even pay it off when you switch to t-mobile. ♪ pressure. i feel it everyday. but at night,

i mean, i think that preet is right. this absolutely merits further investigation. i think a lot of the discussion about whether or not a criminal obstruction case could be brought in the abstract against somebody who did what trump did here is a little -- it's not irrelevant, but it's a little beside the point. the u.s. attorney's manual says a prosecutor shouldn't bring the case unless they are convinced of the evidence to prove someone guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. here we're not talking about bob mueller or someone in the department of justice actually indicting a sitting president. in all likelihood, that decision would fall to the house to decide whether or not these are high crimes and misdemeanors and whether president trump should be impeached, and in the senate, if two-thirds of them agreed would convict him. so i think we're a little bit mixing and matching our evaluation here between what in the end is going to be a political question and what in the normal case would be a strictly legal question. >> again, that could change depending on what happens

i think preet bharara's tweet begs the larger question about obstruction of justice. i mean, i don't think that a lot of people are going to argue that it wasn't wrong and dumb. but obstruction of justice is a crime. it's an impeachable offense. that's the issue that i think is the focus now and i think it's a really problematic place for the president. >> so my question to you, following up, and let's give the president the benefit of the doubt. to your point, if there's this cloud swirling and there's a guy in the oval office -- >> and you know you're not a target and -- >> he keeps asking and -- >> because he wants to be -- >> sure. no one said he was being investigated personally but he keeps asking and asking and let's give him the benefit of the doubt. then why with comey in this recollection of mike flynn conversation in which he talks to the president and i replied only that he's a good guy, goes on and i did not say that i would let this go. the questions of the president saying to comey, let this go on the probe into mike flynn. >> right. i think this came o

we're following tonight, and of course, on "this week," much mo more, hearing from the first time from preet bharara. the exclusive one-on-one with george. >>> as we mentioned, another big story we're following. stunning police images just released. a warning that these scenes may be too disturbing for some viewers. the dramatic moments caught on camera, when police in south carolina found and freed a young woman held hostage by a serial killer in a storage container for months. abc's eva pilgrim reports. >> reporter: tonight, the dramatic and disturbing new images showing the moment authorities walked up to this sealed shipping container where a woman was being held captive. authorities using a saw and crow bars to break into the container. once inside, pitch black. investigators, armed with guns, walk through. finding kayla brown chained up inside the crate. >> reporter: the 30-year-old, held prisoner for two months by. in the video, you can see brown with a chain around her neck. >> just one. attached to a chain through a wall and my neck's attached to the wall up here. >> okay. >> report

and preet bhaharara saying there's a case for obstruction of justice. here's mary bruce. >> reporter: president trump tonight back on twitter and back on the offensive against james comey. tweeting, "i believe the james comey leaks will be far more prevalent than anyone ever thought possible. totally illegal? very cowardly!" >> you're your own worst enemy, mr. president. knock it off. you may be the first president in history to go down because you can't stop inappropriately talking about an investigation that if you just were quiet, would clear you. >> reporter: no public events for the president this weekend, but he did pop by a wedding, after comey's shocking testimony, the president declared complete vindication. >> no collusion, no obstruction. he's a leaker. >> reporter: comey did confirm the president wasn't a target of the russia investigation, but the big question now -- will he be investigated for obstruction of justice? >> you are a former prosecutor. is there evidence there that -- to begin a case for obstruction? >> i think there's absolute

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the american people, and i do believe the american people see, when they hear this over and over preeted but there's no substance -- repeated but there's no substance being told to us that indicates the specific crime, the specific hacking incident that happened, no. we have no incidences where any type of russian interference in some way determined the outcome of the last election. but of course the distraction that's taking place is basically covering the fact that we have a group of people who lost the last election, who have been disrupting, who have a plan, a program of resistance and disruption of those who did win the election. if there's anything moranity american than that -- more anti-american than that, i don't know what is. talk about destroying democracy. so, with that said, what are we doing, if we aren't tied up in this russian problem? and let me know, there has been -- note, there has been, even to the point after all the hearings that we had, and there's no evidence of it, now some republicans have gone along with this effort and we have appointed what was called an spe

. >> eric: trump basically said he was going to -- what is preet going to do next? newt gingrich makes a good point. james comey, in the middle of the night, after he was fired, realizes he is going to somehow form the dialogue that's going to require a special counsel. in the middle of the night he gets up and leak his memo, tells his friend to leak the memo to "the new york times." at that point from his private citizen. he shouldn't be doing that. not his job to get an independent counsel appointed for the term case. it is going to be a witch hunt, i agree. >> eboni: may be jim comey thinks it's his patriotic duty to make sure we have a special counsel. >> kat: perhaps. also we are talking about newt gingrich, what he said about the special counsel when it was announced, that this guy was great. honest, integrity. the media better calm down. it's a case of deciding how you feel about somebody. based on what is politically convenient. >> eboni: let's meet today's specialists. she's an entrepreneur, family law attorney, and a regular on the fox news channel but she

but it's still quite mild, p five in washington and the dewpoints are high making it preet high humid. p two in leonardto dryer air will move in overnight prompting a much better tuesday forecast. we'll start off mild and partly sunny. 72-degrees. even though it will be 87 and sunny, very warm it won't be nearly as uncomfortable as the past few days. also much quieter. we don't have any storms in the forecast forth next forecast. >> sarah. this is the man police say murdered a 17 year old reston girl. his name is dar within torres and tonight we're learning new details about the suspect and the investigation. fox5's teisha lewis is live in fairfax county tonight with this story. teisha >>reporter: well, immigrations, customs and enforcement has filed a detainer tonight against the accused killer, 22 year old dar within torres who is likely here in the country illegally. now we do know that calls have been coming in to the fairfax county police from across the globe inquiring about this tragedy that many initially thought was a hate crime. police say right now there's not enough eviden

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attorney preet bharara comes ex includesive -- exclusively to this week.go one on one with george stephanopoulos. you can watch the full interview at 8:00 this morning here on abc7. >>> 5:35 the time. today los angeles ends its pride weekend celebrations with the resist march. the march replaces the annual pride parade. organizers say the resist march was inspired by the women's marches that took place after president trump's inauguration. thousands of people are expected to take part in today's march. it starts at 9:00 this morning at hollywood and highland in los angeles. >>> in washington, d.c., capital pride celebrations are happening all weekend. there will be a street festival and concert headlined by miley cyrus. thousands lined the streets to watch the parade through the city. this is the 42nd year of pride celebrations in the nation's capital. >>> happening today, the bay area will celebrate pride month in san jose with the equality march and unity and pride rally. the two events give the community a chance to come together and show inclusion for

. >> reporter: preet bharara alleging he had uncomfortable interactions with the president before he was let go. >> he called me in december, ostensibly to shoot the breeze. it appeared to be was trying to cultivate some kind of relationship. >> reporter: bipartisan lawmakers now calling on the president to turn over tapes if they exist, of his conversations with comey, almost one month after trump tweeted they may exist. >> i don't understand why the president doesn't shore this matter up once and for all. >> i doubt they are there. >> if there aren't tapes, he should let that be known. no more game playing. >> members of trump's team hinting disclosure could happen soon. >> the president will address the tapes next week. >> you're your own worst enemy, mr. president, knock it off. >> senator lindsey graham saying to stop. >> you may be the first president in history to go down because you can't stop talking about an investigation that if you were just quiet would clear you. >> according to "the washington post," the attorney generals from washington, d.c., and maryland, will file a

heard that the special counsel was going to look into the obstruction charges, i think after hearing preetrara and seeing what happened, it's not a huge surprise. if you have a special counsel, and there's a hint of obstruction, you know he will look into it you're seeing it in print. who didn't know the fed would raise rates at this point. it's not that 400-point loss we saw. i already -- my mind already has sort of -- what was that when they announced -- when comey was fired. they announced something portended big trouble for the trump presidency that might derail this rally that was unsettling, not to mention the poisonous political atmosphere certainly an illustration of how -- no one would want a political environment like this if they could choose i know i'm worried about scalise still. you get shot in the hip. you think that that's -- he got shot in the hip. then it bounces around hits the pelvis, breaks bones there, hits internal organs. the poor guy still in critical condition. our thoughts with him. he's not out of the woods. needs more operations. i would sell stocks today i gue

southern district of new york fired, despite the fact that the president and attorney general had told preet that he can stay in his job. they're sourcing this to four people. they're familiar with these conversations. they say that kasowitz that he told him, that this guy is going to get you with the implication of being that trump should then fire him so he cannot come get him. if that is why he was fired, that raises it's whole whole new set of questions about behavior, improper or otherwise of this administration for people who might be in a position to investigate this president and that's the president's lawyer stepping in that without even being asked. his lawyer is going to need a lawyer soon. but that does it for us tonight. we'll see you again tonight. good evening, lawrence hey. can we fire the prosecutor. >> what happens if we do file the prf. that's the thing they've got to be worried about. >> now after 24 hours the question of firing the special prosecutor maybe has been settled by sarah. she said on air force one while the president has the right to, he has no intention to do

attorney preet bharara tweeted, where is the president's long overdue statement. >>> joining us fromashington, d.c. is politico's daniel l lippman. let's talk about the drama inside the white house. how is the russia investigation in particular playing out inside the white house? >> it looks like mueller's investigation has really gotten into trump's head. trump keeps insisting to his friends that he's not personally under investigation, although that seems to not be the case right now. and he even tivos morning tv shows and watches them in the afternoon or evening when he has free time to basically -- it's almost like hate watching television because it's all about the russia probe and what's going on. that's not really good for his agenda for getting things done. >> we also have sort of these simultaneous investigations going on amongst the congressional committees as well. how are they responding into the investigation, the obstruction of justice by the president? >> i think the congressional committees want to let bob mueller do his job. mueller has hired a ton of top-flight lawy

preet barara was there.red how much people nat in the new york washington corridor would be interested. heard from a lot of people in kansas which i regard as the american center of america about 100 miles from where i used to live. they were very much watching this plot line. was that stage craft? >> he is a friend of mine and came down to support jim comey. he also was fired and was a prosecutor like comey in the southern district of new york. one thing interesting he knows the russia file because he was in charge of the investigation in 2010 when the fbi and the cia wrapped up those russian illegal operatives living here. he was the prosecutor who ran that case. >> and they were apparently here according to the dni report they were here to monitor the 2008 election. this is where you see the contrast. if you read the department of justice complaint back from the summer of 2010 when they were arrested it is ridiculous. they do things like anna chapman, it wasn't just them -- she bought a burner phone and s

attorney preet bharara comes exclusively to this week. and former colleague of ousted fbi director james comey will go one on one with george stephanopoulos. you can watch the full interview at 8:00 this morning here on abc7. >>> the time is 6:34. today los angeles ends its pride weekend celebrations with the resist march. the march replaces the annual pride parade. organizers say the resist march was inspired by the women's marches that took place after president trump's inauguration. thousands of people are expected to take part in today's march. it starts at 9:00 this morning at hollywood and highland in los angeles. >>> in washington, d.c., capital pride celebrations are happening all weekend. there will be a street festival and concert headlined by miley cyrus. yesterday thousands lined the streets to watch the pride parade through the city. this is the 42nd year of pride celebrations in the nation's capital. >>> happening today, the bay area will celebrate pride month in san jose with the equality march and unity and pride rally. or

attorney for manhattan preet bhara. >> here it is in 60 seconds. >> the attorney general set to testifyhould it be public or private? is sessions simply trying to avoid public scrutiny. >> i do think it matters you pull this guy out in front of the cameras and ask him what the heck is going on. >> the attorney general has asked this hearing be public. >> during the afternoon president trump holding his first meeting of his full cabinet. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> does president trump have audio recordings of his conversations and meetings with the former fbi director, james comey? >> the president made clear in the rose garden last week he would have an announcement shortly. >> the other big story, a new lawsuit. >> maryland and washington, d.c. filing a lawsuit today over the president's businesses raking in foreign cash. >> foreign governments are spending money there in order to curry favor with the president. >> the president's interests do not violate the immoll youments clause. >> day four and ding ding ding, get ready for round two. this time, attorney general jeff

also in preet bharara's testimony, he talked about the trump businesses. he said he felt cultivate by trump in the same way that james comey thought that trump was trying to cultivate him. when he declined to take the president's call because he thought it was improper with the president having asked him to stay on, he was fired within a dat day. there is a pattern there. >> there is that pattern and maybe this isn't evidence or is evidence, but donald trump xiblted a lot of presence of mind around these issues during the presidential campaign when he repeatedly hit hillary clinton, when he went after bill clinton and loretta lynch for having that fateful tarmac meeting. he looked like a man that knew you're not supposed to be interfearing with the justice department at a time when you or a family member is under investigation. so he has shown some grasp of this when it applied to other people. i think it's very difficult, paul ryan is making a very difficult case this guy has no idea what he's doing. he knows what he's doing. >> right how about that? joan

attorney preet bharara now says president trump also made him feel uncomfortable during a series of phone calls. bharara says he reported one of the calls to attorney general jeff sessions' chief of staff because it made him uneasy. bharara was fired less than 24 hours after refusing to take a call from president trump. testifyingns will be tuesday, although, it is not yet known whether the testimony will be open to the public. meanwhile, california senator dianne feinstein is separately calling for congress to look into comey's statements during his senate intelligence committee testimony that former attorney general loretta lynch asked him to downplay his investigation into hillary clinton's emails during the 2016 presidential campaign. formerly imprisoned army whistleblower chelsea manning has given her first television interview after being released from prison last month. all of this information. death, destruction, mayhem. eventually -- i stopped thing just statistics and information and i started sing people. >> there are those who say you may have been motivated to get the informa

attorney preet bharara from new york, he was in the audience here, that actually caused a little bit of a stir n that back row there were seats reserved for members, for congressional members if they wanted to come. then those tables, that's where the press sat, i sat over there by the wall. and then in thedá:ñ back you ce there actually aren't that many seats for the public, but people could come in, the public could come in, but i tell you most of those seats were taken up by interns, washington interns, who lined up13?étju hours this morn, hundreds of them, down the hall, around the corner wanting to be here for history. jim. >> getting some real world experience there. lauren mayk and our live %uáz washington, d.c. afternoon. >>> ahead at 4:30 now the world took in today's testimony that- included watch parties at bars and restaurants, including some of the philly area. join us for a look at that story coming up at 4:30. let's send it back to my co-anchor jacqueline london for a look at the rest of the news of the day. >> we'll see you soon. >>> turning now to today's sexual ass