robert hunt, vance story taught me a lot. what i'm working on is a portfolio [inaudible] riding a donkey unicorn in the process. >> my name is dawn richardson and musician, drummer and drum teacher. i guess i would say i started my professional path quh i started playing in bands and teaching drum lesson when i was in college. they were definitely not that many women that would do what is doing. in 198 8 i graduated from cal state los ang and studied mostly classical percussion and music education but at the same time i was in hollywood so played at night in rock bands so was doing two different things. >> the reason i'm [inaudible] the people. there is a extremely vibrant art community especially arounds the red poppy art house [inaudible] as a artist in the past 2 or 3 years there is a event called the [inaudible] every 3 months a free art music festival that i usually play at and just met so many people. >> i was teaching a little bit and doing odd jobs like waitressing and going at night and playing in bands and meeting a

robert mueller began interviewing and requesting interviews with people inside the white house and the intelligence committee about all of this. and the president blasted it as a witch-hunt saying robert mueller was now investigating obstruction. do you know when exactly the president ordered robert mueller to be fired? >> i don't know the specific date in june. it was at some point in june. if you look back at the clips when chris ruddy was talking about this, i think it was june 12th or 13th. i would assume it was sometime around then. >> why doesn't the president just do it himself? why does he need don mcgann, white house counsel, to carry out this directive? >> he doesn't usually fire people directly, as we know. i would not expect this to be any different. >> despite celebrity apprentice aside, which he was to do -- >> you're fired was created by essentially a promotional team. that is not something that donald trump was ever known for in his real life or has been sense. >> a lot of people want to know who the sources are and i would never ask what the sources are. we know stories are out because people are trying to send messages here. he is one of the biggest con

first, based on today's events, i have a message tonight for the special counsel robert moeller. your witch hunt is now over. time to close the doors. that is thes focus of a very important news breaking opening monologue. huge breaking news tonight. we have been telling you it's coming, it's now here, stunning reporting tonight from sara carter that we are confirming with our sources. classify doj documents of members of congress are now reviewing, it shows widespread and extensive fisa abuses against the trump campaign and we have names. here's how it all went down. the last minute, the house finally got literally within an hour, their subpoena request approved by the doj. members of congress were able to get their hands on all these classify documents. at the last minute, rod rosenstein t tried to stop it by going to paul ryan's office. paul ryan would have none of it. it is more disturbing than we ever thought. at this hour, our sources are telling us that the abuse of power is far bigger than watergate. watergate was a third rate break-in. we are talking about the systematic abuse of power,

first, based on today's events, i have a message tonight for the special counsel robert moeller. your witch hunte doors. that is thes focus of a very important news breaking opening

response on capitol hill has been coming into all of these reports about the robert mueller investigation. nbc's kasie hunt joins me now. what are you hearing there. >> reporter: this obviously a topic of interest on capitol hill today. especially among democrats who have been very focused on this investigation and its outcome and have been quite frankly very concerned about what they perceive to be the trump administration's meddling in law enforcement and potentially calling into question that sort of prerogative, long standing precedent around how these law enforcement agencies are supposed to be treated publicly. let's take a look at what some of the senators had to say and then we'll talk about it. >> it is not appropriate. and it is -- it is absolutely essential that the american public has confidence in the integrity of this whole process. >> i have never heard that being done before. i think it is inappropriate. >> that kind of question is totally improper. and potentially, in fact, evidence of obstruction of justice. there is now a credible case of obstruction of justice against donald trump. and

president on two occasions spoke of special counsel robert mueller's investigation as a witch-hunt and hogan gibbly on the team used same phrase when asked a question about it. if mr. mueller asked the president to submit to an interview, is that something that the president would be open to? >> look as we've said probably just about every day this year since we've been here that we'll be fully cooperative with the special counsel and we're going to continue to do that throughout the process but we're also not going to comment on who may or may not or could be interviewed at any point but we'll continue to be fully cooperative with the process. reporter: sarah, is it a witch-hunt as the president has said and other members of the administration has said, why doesn't the president just get rid of bob mueller? just fire him? mr. gidley also said he is wasting taxpayers money. in that regard, why don't he end the investigation because it is wasting the taxpayers money. >> we want to see this come to complete and full conclusion. i think we all know what everybody in this room would do if

hunt. the entire basis of robert mueller's so-called investigation is based andob predicated on a lie and a conspiracy theory that wab cooked up by the obama administration, by democrats, and by your liberal news media as an excuse for why hillary clinton lost the election. that was never supposed to happen. for over a year, what has it been? trump. russia. trump. russia. collusion.n. collusion. collusion.d we have no evidence to date. the only evidence we do have tonight is that hillary clinton bought and paid for a salaciousa phony document filled with russian lies to try and influence all of you during that election. that's what mueller should really be looking into.in instead, his investigation isre now morphed into a democratic political hit job to remove a duly elected president from office and use the powerful tools of intelligence and the fisa courts to do it. now with more damaging information coming out every day, it looks like special counsel and robert mueller and his partisan hacks, they are trying now to change the narrative with their lame stream media friends with selective

the president on a few occasions has spoken of special counsel robert mueller's investigation as a witch hunt. poking didly on your team. he used that same phrase today when asked about it. did mr. mueller ask the president to submit to an interview? is that something that the president would be open to? >> look, as we've said probably just about every day this year since we've been here that we're going to be fully cooperative with the special counsel and we'll continue to do that throughout the process. we're also not going to comment on who may or may not or could be interviewed at any point. we're going to continue to be fully cooperative with the process. >> the president has said it a witch hunt and other members of the administration have said. why doesn't the president just get rid of bob mueller? mr. gidley, they're wasting taxpayers money? why doesn't he stop the investigation because it's wasting money? >> we want the see in come to a complete and full conclusion. i think we all know what everybody in this room would do if the president did that. i don't think that is helpful to th

investigation he had a more adversarial attitude towards robert mueller and it wasn't until ty cobb came on his legal team they backed off calling it a witch hunt. a lot of this has been known and it's been interesting to look at it in the context of roberts being supported. >> shannon: this is what the president had to say when asked about it in davos in the press when asked about ordering the firing. >> fake news. >> shannon: here's what a prominent republican said the latest reports are true, it seems to me they show the president listened to good advice from his advisors based on his statement from the last couple weeks he and his lawyers seem to be cooperating with mueller but that's not the way the story's being portrayed. >> it feeds into the narrative that's been building around the investigation that maybe president trump hasn't been as cooperative and what mueller is not looking at collision because no evidence has emerged but now it's obstruction and that's the conversation we're having if anybody tried to subvert mueller's investigation and it's interesting to see the goal post move as we get deeper in the investigation. >> shannon:

this time, the president himself was engaged in sort of an assault on robert mueller, criticizing the special counsel as a witch hunt and also chris ruddy, as you just played, came out publicly, publicly and on the record saying repeatedly that he believed his friend, president trump, who he talks to regularly, wanted to do this and he thought it was a bad enough idea that he needed to say it publicly. brooke? >> conspicuous silence. >> and -- >> go ahead. go ahead. >> reporter: and in addition to that, one of the reasons that don mcgahn, according to "the new york times," wanted to go ahead and push back on this suggestion from the president is he believed the underlying reasons why president trump wanted to fire robert mueller were essentially illegitimate. the president cited a couple of things that seemed quite unrelated to the issue, including an alleged dispute between bob mueller and trump international golf course in virginia, the fact that mueller worked for a law firm that represented his son-in-law, jared kushner and also that the president had actually considered appointing robert mueller as the fbi dire

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sit down with robert mueller‘s tea m to sit down with robert mueller‘s team and he has consistently called that investigation a hoax and a witch—huntn washington, dc. president trump has called on turkey to limit its military operations limit its military operations against kurdish fighters in syria, who are backed by the united states. in a phone call with president erdogan, mr trump warned about the risk of conflict with american forces in the area. on saturday, turkey began attacking the kurdish militia, known as the ypg. mark lowen sent this report from azaz in northern syria, close to the frontline of the turkish offensive. ya allah, bismallah, allahu akbar! the drill of war. syrian opposition police training for a new front. they are backed by turkey, the two working side—by—side in the offensive against the kurdish militia, or ypg. turkey says the target, ypg, is linked to outlawed kurdish insurgents in turkey. so some troops here are kurds, taking up arms against the kurdish militia. this commander denies he is betraying this people. translation: i am taking part in this offensive not to fight kurds but to save them from th

robert mueller‘s team. he said there was no collusion as far as he was concerned and such an interview would probably be unnecessary. he has described the enquiry as a witch—hunt a call for ground rules to be laid out very carefully in advance, if the president is to sit down with members of robert mueller‘s team. more on that, little later in the bulletin. on wednesday, judges in brazil will decide whether or not to uphold a corruption conviction against former president lula da silva. he‘s been found guilty of accepting a penthouse apartment as a bribe. but he has millions of supporters, who say the charges against him are politically motivated. our south america correspondent katy watson reports from brazil. jose points out his old house. for more than 20 years, he lived in this favela. he‘s grateful, but pragmatic. translation: his government was good when it comes to housing because lots of people had no means to live world and now they live in their own house. —— live well. but in general, politicians are pretty dirty. i‘m not going tojudge if he is innocent, but if he has really not done anything wrong, he‘ll prove it. on the other side of sao paulo, th

this will remove any doubt that the special counsel robert mueller and his team need to be disbanded. and their witch hunt needs to be shutdown immediately. these are the key players in all of this. they are high ranking obama fbi and doj officials. a lot more information them will come out in the next couple of weeks. the latest is under january 30th. we need to see it sooner. the trump hating fbi agent peter strzok and his mistresses page are at the center of everything. they called then candidate trump an idiot. loathsome, f-trump. there are still 9600text messages we have not seen. one message gets to the heart of what we are trying to find out. this is between peter strzok and page. it makes more sense knowing what we know. back in august, strzok wrote to lisa page. i want to believe there is no way he gets elected, but we can't take that risk: we believe that was andrew mccabe the fbi director. we believe that lisa page was the key counsel for mccabe. you have page, peter strzok and mccabe. what is the insurance policy? in case donald trump wins the election and hillary clinton loses. then you have

special counsel robert mueller has found absolutely no evidence of any kind of any wrongdoing whatsoever. that's our headline. and the next headline is witch hunt persists. the president's legal team is now apparently talking about a possible interview with the special counsel, the president and the special counsel could sit down apparently at some point within the next several weeks. our special guest tonight is congressman rhonda sanities. he says the mueller special counsel is infected with bias and must be shut down all together >>> also tonight, some progress in the efforts to purge the deep state department of justice. the department of justice official demoted last month because of his contacts with fusion gps. as we have learned, been demoted for a second time. demoted. i will point out he has not been fired. why? we'll take that up here tonight. bruce orr is no longer the head of the organized crime and drug enforcement task force though he still works for the department of justice. some would ask why is he still there. we'll have the latest. >>> and president trump today working hard to bring prosperity to all americans. the president

hunt and hoax. we don't know the full extent of robert mueller's probe. there's no way to know. as plenty of reporters have noted, there are signs that he's looking to whether the president obstructed justice when he fired james comey last march. let's turn to bob bianci. former defense attorney. bloomberg is reporting that mueller is close to wrapping up part of his investigation dealing with the obstruction question. you heard this question about fighting back. >> yeah, this is very problematic and every time donald trump opens his mouth, he puts himself deeper into the investigation. fighting back could be considered a corrupt purpose under the statute. that's very reckless that his even going to speak to them. >> it was a new line though. he was very specific. there is no collusion, there's no collusion and now he added this new thing. i wondered if that wasn't part of a defense strategy and what you thought of that. >> it could be. the golden rule is you don't say anything. it's a good defense strategy. it's better to launch it if you should be charged rather than let the p

robert mueller in the russia investigation. trump claims his testimony is not neccessary and called the probe the single greatest which hunt in american history. this coming months after the president previously said he would be willing to meet with investigators. and now he says republicans should take control of the probe. new details about that white house ban on personal cell phones. according to a memo from chief of staff, john kelly -- those new rules will take effect next week. and it turns out -- it's not just cell phones. the ban covers "all portable electronic devices" -- including laptops.. smartwatches.. even fitbits. lockers have been installed in lobbies of the white house -- and staff members are being told to leave their devices there, in their car - or at home. it's an infamous traffic spot here in our area. we've all been stuck there - that bottleneck at the end of the i-95 express lanes in virginia.. well this morning - some relief on the horizon for drivers. suzanne kennedy is live in mobiletrak seven with the announcement from virginia's governor. that announcement -- one of the governor's final acts before leavin

hunt. there any way you can respond to that? >> and under robert mueller going in a direction the president did not want to it go. >> i have a great company. i built an unbelievable company. see there is nothing in russia. >> if you listen to the statements of the president and his team about the mueller investigation, they feel like financial. >> trump's business dealings should be walled off. >> to look at a real estate deal from ten years ago would be way outside the scope of the mandate, and we would certainly object to that. >> but it is quite clear that mueller's team is looking directly at his business dealings for the beautifully understandable reason that money can be a motive. >> we follow the money to the very beginning of trump's connection to russia. decades earlier, in 1987, when 41-year-old donald trump took office for his very first business trip to moscow. >> in 1987, donald trump was flush with money. and donald was invited to russia. so he and ivana went to russia and they tried to make a deal to build a trump tower there. >> i'm

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robert mueller. nbc's kelly o'donnell is at the white house for us. nbc's kacie hunt is on capitol hill. kacie hunt, let's start with you. i understand we have some breaking news on daca. what do we know? >> craig, that's right, our capitol hill team here has been talking with senators and senator jeff flake telling reporters on capitol hill that the bipartisan working group over in the senate has reached a deal, he says, on daca, to -- and that he also says, quote, we've pretty much got a bill. he says they're talking to the white house about that. so i want to stress that this is not a formal announcement from that working group about a deal but, rather, one of the senators who's been at the center of those negotiations saying that they do feel as though they have reached a deal in principle, that then could potentially turn into a public release at some point this week. we have been tracking this and we know those conversations were very positive. they had several meetings throughout the day yesterday. and i think that the democrats in that room came out saying that they were pleasant

robert mueller requesting interviews with the intelligence chiefs. and the president blasting the russia investigation as a witch-hunt. there was a tweet where he directly talks about obstruction of justice. now they are coming after him on obstruction. so you know what's going on in his head. >> you get insight in real-time. you can compare it to the timeline. look, here's what we know. michael made the point if the president was a student of history. the president is not a student of history. we know that. he is not a deep strategic thinker. he is a genius marketer and hype man. but impulsivity leads to problems like this. for all the ratcheting up of pressure that apparently results in this request which would have been disastrous, don mcgann throws himself in front of the train. all of a sudden blanket denies. they go on air and lie and lie and apparently snow gop senators. >> we have all of that. at least a small smattering of some of those denials. so let me play it for everyone. >> while the president has the right to, he has no intention to do so. >> the president has not even discussed that. the president is

hunt. any way you can respond to that? >> under robertrection the president did not want it to go. >> i have a great company. i built an unbelievable company. but if you look there, you'll see there's nothing in russia. >> if you listen to the statements of the president and his team about the mueller investigation, they feel like financial issues, trump's business dealings, should be walled out, should be off limits. >> to look at a real estate deal from ten years ago would be way outside the scope of the mandate and we'd certainly object to that. >> it is quite clear that mueller's team is looking directly at his business dealings for the perfectly understandable reason that money can be a motive. >> we follow the money to the very beginning of trump's connection to russia. decades earlier in 1987. when 41-year-old donald trump took off for his very first business trip to moscow. >> 1987, donald trump was flush with money. and donald was invited to russia. so he and ivana went to russia. and they tried to make a deal to build a trump to

hunt. is there any way you can respond to that? >> and robert in a direction the president did not want it to go. >> i built a great company. i built an unbelievable company, but if you look there, there's nothing in russia. >> if you listen to the statements of the president and his team make about the mueller investigation, they feel like financial issues should be walled off. they should be off-limits. >> to look at a real estate deal from ten years ago would be outside of the mandate and we would object to that. >> it is clear that mueller's team is looking directly as his business dealings for the perfectly understandable reason that money can be a motive. understandable reason that money can be a motive. >> we followed the money to the very beginning of trump's connection to russia, decades earlier, in 1987, when 41-year-old donald trump took off for his first business trip to moscow. >> in 1987, donald trump was flush with money. and donald trump was invited to russia. so he and ivana went to russia and tried to make a deal to build a tru

hunt continues. >> reporter: sources told fox news the president's legal team is expecting special counsel robert mueller to ask for an interview in the coming weeks. today president trump was asked about that and when he was asked if he would commit or agree to an interview, he didn't answer. he simply said, we'll see. frank, julie? >> ellison barber in washington tonight, thank you. >>> in san francisco, many immigrants are hopeful after a federal judge blocked the administration from rescinding daca. san francisco leaders also reaffirmed the city's long- standing support of the program that has shielded more than 700,000 people from deportation. >> the people who are part of this country, the immigrants and the folks who are part of these communities is what makes our city and our country stronger. >> yesterday, a federal judge ruled that the program must stay intact while litigation plays out. and those already approved for daca protection and work permits must be allowed to renew them before they expire. >>> in sacramento, lawmakers will have a big budget surplus to play with going into the new fisc

hunt. so then, we found out that the president has ordered the firing of robert mueller, even though the president has repeatedly denied it. >> it is thought about leading to the dismissal of the special ko counsel and anything that would send you in that direction? >> i have not give n it any thought and i have been reading about it from you people saying that i will dismiss him, but i am not dismissing anybody. >> are you can considering firing robert mueller? >> no, not at all. >> are you going to fire robert mueller? >> no, i am not. >> i want to bring in josh dau si and contributor and write nor the new yorker robert antis. so now the democrats are calling for olegislation to protect mueller, and what would it take for the republican s s to embra this idea? >> the republicans are now saying that the intentions to fire mueller was seven or eight months ago and they are saying that the investigation will be wrapping up soon and from the statements we saw, it might, and they are are not embracing to put together any ledge are slags or anything to protect mueller. on capitol hill, there is cricke

special counsel robert mueller has found absolutely no evidence of any kind of any wrongdoing whatsoever. that's our headline. and the next headline is witch huntrsists. the president's legal team is now apparently talking about a possible interview with the special counsel, the president and the special counsel could sit down apparently at some point within the next several weeks. our special guest tonight is congressman rhonda sanities. he says the mueller special counsel is infected with bias and must be shut down

robert mueller. it's a lot of tweets. june 15. phony collusion of the russia story. witch hunt. june 16th saying there's no collusion.y has been able to show any proof, sad. again june 16th phony witch hunt. and june 16th i'm being investigating for firing the fbi director by the man who told me to fire the fbi director. witch hunt. >> it goes dormant and won't say anything. lately he's willing to cooperate and i'm not considering firing him. back then when he was asking him to fire him what happened. something else is that the "new york times" is reporting that the president asked don mcgahn to fire bob mueller and he declined. what the "new york times" reported in the past the president asked mcgahn to lobby jeff sessions to not recuse himself from the russia investigation. and as we're well aware the efforts failed. jeff sessions did recuse himself. the president fired the fbi director. mueller was appointed. we see why the president has been so frustrated with the investigation and his attorney general. who he pressured publicly to step down. and wouldn't have picked him -- >> the central role don mcgahn layed th

robert mueller knows. kaplan interview prep will give you the tools you need to ace your fbish meeting like questioning the legitimate ease-- legitimacy of the probe itself. >> they have no kollusion. >> the witch-hunt your lawyers turn the tables. maybe there should be an investigation of the and if all else fails stand. >> its' the late show with stephen colbert. tonight the-- hits the

hunt continues. we'll talk about all of it. i want to bring in julia kayam. asha and michael zeldin, robert mueller's former assistant at the justice department. thank you all for joining us. the president keeps saying no collusion, no collusion. the reality is, collusion is being examined and the scope of the investigations go far beyond that. >> absolutely, we learned today that maybe two months ago, bob mueller's team hired a cyber security expert. someone who's looking into potential stiber crimes, if anything, at least the tea leaves coming out of the mueller camp is that this investigation may have what you call multiple theorys of the case, right? it's not just collusion. and certainly collusion has not been disproved at this stage, and so basically he's just throwing out words there, to try to convince some part of the public or his base that this legal case is not occurring. two of his close associates have plead guilty and two are under indictment. so that's like not nothing at this stage. >> the reason i talked about the collusion part of it, and that sort of being a talking poin

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robert mueller if you're watching, i'm sure you are. i'm sure your corrupt team of obama, hillary clinton deep state witch hunters are watching. this witch hunt needs to be shut down. you clearly have stacked the deck against and started with a bias investigation against president trump. finally to the the government shut down is over. president just signed a temporary bill. it's no big deal. the panic of the media was a waste of your time. we have a lot to get to tonight. joining us now is invest gayive reporter and fox news contributor. sara carter, gregg jarrett, matt gates. let's talk about your -- you got a quote today in your article. tell everyone. amazing. >> yes, members of the fbi, like we have said before, sean. these are good people who want the truth out. former senior fbi officials and current fbi officials don't believe this was just a technical glitch. i can't use the language they shared with me when the news came out. something they did bring up that's important to get out to the audience. they said a lot of the text messages were done on unsecure samsung 5. >> the glitch. >> yes the glitch. it wasn't just us servers but for

he again called them a witch-hunt and demanded, and i quote, republicans should finally take control. well, the partisan attacks on special counselor robert mueller are especially shameful. he is a decorated marine, vietnam veteran, was nominated as f.b.i. director by president george w. bush and approved by the senate 98-0. when his term was up, president obama asked the senate to extend his term for an additional two years and that request was granted by unanimous consent. director mueller was confirmed for another two-year term by a unanimous vote of 100-0. and when mr. mueller was appointed special counsel in may, he was greeted with bipartisan praise for his integrity and professionalism. here are some of the quotes that we heard at the time. majority leader mitch mcconnell said, i have a lot of confidence in bob mueller. i think it was a good choice. senator rubio said, i think he will conduct a full, fair, and thorough investigation that we can have confidence in. senator isakson said, mueller has been appoint for a -- appointed for a purpose. let him carry out that purpose. yet today some republicans in congress are joining with v

it, this is a political witch hunt unlike anything this country has seen before and continues to be exposed. as we've been reporting for months the special counsel, robert mueller, his investigation is a cess pool of corruption. one lawyer represented hillary in one particular case on his team. none of them contributed to the trump campaign. key mueller prosecutors also have massive, massive conflicts of interest including genie ray serving as a lawyer for the clinton foundation. it is insanity, a partisan investigation meant to unseat a elected president the people voted for. president trump is weighing in on the fake news dossier and hammering feinstein for releasing from testimony from glenn simpson. the fact that sneaky dianne feinstein who has on numerous occasions stated collusion between trump/russia has not been found would release testimony in such an underhanded and possibly illegal way totally without authorization is a disgrace. must have a tough primary. i don't know about california. given the new information we're reporting on tonight about the dossier, it is clear senator feinstein and the democrats, they are now tonight trying to create

hunt and a hoax. and clearly there will be a call for ground rules to be laid out very carefully in advance if the president is to sit down with a member of robert thank you very much for that, david. on wednesday, judges in brazil will decide whether or not to uphold a corruption conviction against former president lula da silva. he's been found guilty of accepting a penthouse apartment as a bribe. but he has millions of supporters, who say the charges against him are politically motivated. our south america correspondent, katy watson, reports from brazil. jose points out his old house. for more than 20 years he lived in this favela. banks to a housing programme created when president lula da silva was president, he moved on to a new block of flats next door. he is grateful. translation: his government was good when it comes to housing to be many people have no means to live world and now they live in their own house. but in general, politicians are dirty. i will notjudge if he is innocent, but if he has not done anything wrong, he has not done anything wrong. on the other side of sao paulo, this man is angry. he owns a construction company. he

robert mueller. and the president is a very smart man, and he knows the optics and he described it as a witch-hunt. if he's said a witch-hunt, he's corned himself in terms of, why don't you explain yourself? and that's that. and you're the president of the united states and you have the authority to fire people. >> so you say he doesn't have a choice. you mentioned tim o'brien who wrote a biography of donald trump. donald trump didn't like it. donald trump sued him and tim o'brien had a piece in bloomberg today about what it was like to deposition donald trump. he said hammered by o'brien's attorneys, trump had to admit 30 times that he had lied over the years about all sorts of stuff. he also lied during the deposition about his business dealings with career criminals. they say he lied about his wealth, statements that he had made in the past. are you worried that this is going to ultimately be a perjury trap for robert mueller? >> doesn't have to be a perjury trap, but i think at the end of the day robert mueller and mueller investigation, they want to get an all-out lie on this and they spend a

robert mueller. >> there is collusion, but it's with the democrats and the russians, far more than it is with the republicans and the russians. so the witch hunt continues. >> the president now c republicans to take control of the investigation. and when he was asked whether he would be willing to sit down with the special counsel for an interview, the president did not give a direct yes or no answer. guys, back to you. >> blayne alexander, thank you. >>> the race against time in southern california as the death toll rises and crews searched for people trapped under the rubble of mud and debris. a live report in minutes. >>> plus, a technical glitch impacting dozens of pet owners. how their home addresses wound up on the internet for all to see. >>> and arecent >>> devastating mudslides in southern california has wiped out 100 homes. the death toll is at 15 but officials fear that number could grow. jinah kim is in santa barbara county where the rescue effort is continuing. what's the latest? >> reporter: i'm standing on the 101 freeway and you know that is pretty remarkable because this is usually packed with cars and it's a major all of this

robert mueller it's believed to be the first time a member of president chum's cabinet has been questioned in the choir chum powers described the accusations of collusion as fake news and a witch hunt. from the white house. it certainly is sickness to get of team that's because when it comes to the investigation looking into whether there were ties with the donald trump presidential campaign in russia and whether or not the president tried to obstruct that investigation jeff sessions has unique insights given the fact that on the presidential campaign team he oversaw foreign policy given the fact that he too was very much involved with the firing of the former f.b.i. director james cole me and as well recused himself from that russia investigation something the president has complained bitterly about that sessions in fact should have done more to protect him but when asked in the oval office whether or not he was concerned about the answers that jeff sessions may have given to investigators donald trump brushed off those suggestions thank you over a much more ground do you think you're going to be relieved a little with you know i'm not a christian and i do hope you know i didn't b

robert mueller. >> there is collusion but it's really with the democrats and the russians. far more than it is with the republicans and the russians. so the witch hunt continues. >> reporter: the president now calling on republicans to take control of the investigation. and when he was asked whether he would sit down with the special counsel for an interview whether he would be willing to do so, the president did not give a direct yes or no answer. pat? >> blayne alexander, thank you. >>> heading into the martin luther king jr. day weekend, a lot of discussion about the state of racial equality in the u.s. whur's taylor thomas is here with today's "talk around town." welcome back, taylor. tell us about this new report and what your listeners are saying about it. the results are very interesting. >> very interesting, to say the least. wallet hub cuc district of columbia. they had voter turnout to standardized testing and one of the things that came out of it that 92% of blacks feel that whites benefit more from services and programs throughout the u.s. where whites only felt they agreed with that statement 46% of the time. some of our listeners were

this is a political witch hunt unlike this country had evertiwi seen before and it continues to be exposed. as we have not been reporting for months, the special counsel robertueller, his investigation is nothing but a cesspool, an absolute cesspool of corruption. members of his team, they don't donate to republicans, but over 50 granted democrats, including giving money to hillary clinton and barack obama, will lawyer actually represented hillary in one particular case, and none of them contributed to the trump campaign. team mueller prosecutors also have massive, massive conflicts interest including jeannie rhee. it's a partisan investigation meant to unseat a duly elected president of the people voted for. president trump is also weighing in on the fake news dossier, and hammering senator feinstein for unilaterally releasing the testimony. the president responded, on twitter... i don't know about california but giving the new information we are reporting on tonight about the dossier, it is clear that senator feinstein and the democrats, they are now tonight trying to create a massive distraction. they want to hide the truth. you also heard feinstein had m