wolf, we see this all over. we just saw sheldon addleson and got a tax cut and dropped it into the campaign. both parties should unite. put bills on the president's desk to get rid of dirty maps and dirty money. i see it as an opportunity if someone on his team involved and doesn't approve, find a way do get it out of washington. >> but just to be precise, nothing illegal about devoting so much money for campaign purposes or other purposes, right? >> well, if michael cohen promised that he could provide access and that he could affect president trump's decision making then that would be illegal but it's too early to tell. it smells and, again, this is a team that's shown to be shadowy operators in paying off ms. daniels, how closely they drew us to the russians and now what we're learning about dr. cohen so, you know, i now i would rather verify before i trust anything that comes from the president or his team. >> the special counsel robert mueller's been digging into cohen's company for months now. well before

this is hammer, wolf.m talking to michael cohen, if the special counsel and his advisers are talking to michael cohen, you want oo him to feel like the walls are closing in tighter and tighter and he has no option but to talk. number one, does he or associates of michael cohen know of financial transactions that were illegal, the kind of linkages paul manafort had that merit investigation. and in investigating cohen, has cohen said anything that turns out to be a lie during an investigation of federal authorities? so i think the special counsel is going to go in saying all this stuff, this is what your associates said, you said something different, are you sure you want to stick with the earlier statement or do you want to talk now? >> phil, freedman, the so-called taxi king in new york, the associate of michael cohen, he's pleaded guilty to evading only $50,000 worth of taxes. as part of the plea agreement he faces up to five years probation but no jail time. he was originally after being disbarred earlie

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room. >>> breaking news tonight, the "new york times" is reporting that the homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen told colleagues she was close to resigning wednesday after president trump berated her during a cab nate meeting. also, stormy daniels lawyer michael avenatti joins me live this hour and our correspondents and analysts are standing by. first, let's go to kaitlan collins with more on the breaking news. what are you finding out? >> to set the scene, there was a cabinet meeting focused explicitly on immigration at the white house yesterday. of course at the beginning of the meeting they let the reporters come in with the cameras, the president speaks, we heard from the president yesterday some comments on north korea and what not. not a ton on immigration, just some. but things got interesting, apparently, when the cameras left the room. the "new york times" first reported this but cnn has confirmed that the president and homeland security secre

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> we're following multiple breaking stories tonight and a cnn exclusive on possible new legal trouble for president trump's personal attorney, michael cohen. a source tells us that special counsel robert mueller's team has questioned a russian oligarch about hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments to cohen after the election. i'll speak to former u.s. attorney, preet bharara. he's standing by and our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. first, let's bring in cnn crime and justice reporter, shimon prokupecz, and cnn reporter, caris ganell. they're learning more about this new twist, a dramatic twist in the mueller investigation. shimon, tell our viewers what you've learned. >> certainly is dramatic in that mueller's investigators, we've learned, have questioned a russian oligarch named viktor vekselberg about hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments made to president trump's personal attorney, michael cohen, in 2017. now, the paym

so far things are stable there, wolf.n of the big island. >> what's the latest on the danger to residents? >> well, there is always the danger of these toxic gases and the lava. they continue to allow residents in every day so they can check on their property there. it has been encroaching inside of leilani estates. i was in there, i saw where it's come closer to homes. some hopes have been lost. but they are watching this as one of the evacuation routes has been crossed over by the lava. they are preparing, they have helicopters ready where they can airlift people out if necessary. they're also asking people to be prepared to self-evacuate if necessary. >> stephanie elam on the big island of hawaii, thank you very much. meteorologist jennifer grey, jennifer, where is the lava headed right now? >> wolf, as mentioned there is that third channel now. i show you these hap -- maps. the pink is the old lava, the red is the new lava that has formed in the last 48 hours or so. you see where the new tracks are, if you will. zoom

>> certainly is, wolf.t to try to reassure president trump that the summit could still be held. moon is trying to get the u.s. president and the north koreans to back up. but also president moon under considerable pressure himself because some officials believe he undersold the south koreans promises. president moon is under enormous pressure right now. >> he certainly is. brian todd reporting. coming up president trump suggesting the fbi planted spies in his prejudice campaign. the justice department moves to let key republicans view highly classified information with no democrats invited. but the president may have a new cause for concern as the business partner of his long time lawyer and fixer michael cohen reaches a plea deal. whoooo. looking for a hotel that fits... ...your budget? tripadvisor now searches over... ...200 sites to find you the... ...hotel you want at the lowest price. grazi, gino! find a price that fits. tripadvisor. wi'm really grateful that usaaq. was able to take care of my family w

"wolf" starts right now. ♪ >>> hello, i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m.ere in washington, 6:00 p.m. in london, 8:00 p.m. in moscow. from wherever you're watching around the world, thank you very much for joining us. >>> he's called him everything from beleaguered to mr. ma go. now president trump says he wishes he didn't pick jeff sessions to become the attorney general, as we learn of an explosive request by the president. >>> plus, a republican congressman blows up the president's conspiracy theory that an fbi spy infiltrated his campaign. why trey gowdy now says that claim is bogus. plus, canceled but not quiet. roseanne barr blaming her racist twits on amambien. and now the president has responded. >>> but first, we're following new developments involving recusal, regret, and the russia investigation. president trump's battle with the attorney general jeff sessions is under scrutiny by the special counsel robert mueller and his investigators. according to "the new york times," mueller's team is looking into a march 2017 meeting between sessions and th

wolf? >> thank you. pamela brown at the white house. there's more breaking news tied to the investigation of russia's election meddling. intelligence officials briefed congressional leaders on the confidential source used by the fbi to contact trump campaign figures. president trump has been crying conspiracy calling that source a spy and a very surprising move the white house lawyer was at the meetings. let's go to senior congressional correspondent manu raju. how did the meetings go? did republicans get what they wanted? >> reporter: republicans have been silent since leaving this meeting, wolf. senate leader mcconnell left. and house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes who's been one of the forefront pushing this issue questioning whether or not there was in fact a spy implanted by the fbi to spy on the trump campaign, he has yet to issue a statement and would not answer questions about what he heard in two briefings that he attended today. but democrats on the other hand who did

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room. >>> we're following breaking news in the russia investigation. the special counsel's office asking the court tonight to wait two more months before going forward with sentencing for the president's fired national security advisor, michael flynn. this as the president and the white house are clamming up about a detailed list of dozens of questions that robert mueller's team is expected to ask mr. trump. the silence comes from a presidential tweet falsely claiming that none of the questions reported by "the new york times" address possible collusion with russia. i'll get reaction from the house intelligence committee member, congressman jim himes. our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. first let's go to our senior white house correspondent, pamela brown. pamela, tell us more about this late-breaking request from the special counsel's office. >> that's right, wolf, we are just learning today that special counsel mueller and his team of prosecu

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wolf?ank you. >>> more breaking news tonight, america's top diplomat says real progress has been made in the last 72 hours for reviving the u.s., north korea summit. secretary of state mike pompeo meeting with kim jong-un's former right hand man. kim yong chol is expected to deliver a letter from north korea's dictator to president trump at the white house tomorrow. let's go to senior diplomatcorrt michelle kosinski. where do things stand now? >> these talks were to determine if a trump, kim summit was possible. it is still unclear whether it is. today, pompeo said some progress was made in setting conditions for such a discussion. but we don't really know the outcome of that. he wouldn't really go any further into detail. so whether it will happen or not i guess we'll know in coming days. also, the u.s. is looking for some big gesture towards denuclearization by north korea as part of a trump, kim summit. but all that secretary of state pompeo could say is that north korea was contemplatin

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but wolf, we don't know.ry short statement from the first lady's office telling us she had that procedure yesterday, and then another statement today basically saying she's resting comfortably and we would likely not hear anything more. >> the president tweeted just a little while ago, the great first lady is doing well. will be leaving the hospital in the next two or three days. thank you for so much love and support. i think i speak with all of the viewers here and around the world. we wish her a speedy and safe recovery. >>> michael flynn pled guilty for lying to the fbi and is cooperating with robert mueller's special investigation. the former security adviser to president trump is praising his former boss in a brand new book, so could it impact the overall investigation? we have details. almost $800 when we switched our auto and home insurance. with liberty, we could afford a real babysitter instead of your brother. hey! oh, that's my robe. is it? when you switch to liberty mutual, you could save $782 on

tom wolfe, he was 88. in his dapper suits, was a pioneer of what came to be known as new journalism. his books "the right stuff" the electric kool-aid acid test and bonfire of the vanities set a standa few matched. >> these are the men who had the right stuff. right stuff. >> perhaps the three most famous word tom wolfe ever wrote to describe astronauts for his 1979 book that went on to become a box office hit. tom wolfe began his career in newspapers. then moved on to magazines where he helped pioneer the journalism movement by blending traditional fact based reporting with a first person literary style. as he explained to jeff glor in 2016. >> it drove me crazy. i couldn't -- in the right stuff about the astronauts, i wasn't on board. a lot of conversations. i missed. >> my name is peter fallow. >> his first novel, a best-seller became a movie. bonfire of the vanities. satire about an ambitious wall streeter touched on class, race, wealth in 1980s new york city. wolfe called his technique a paid voyeuris

news right now. >>> hello, i'm wolf blitzer. we start with our breaking news. it's happened once again right here in the united states. multiple fatalities after a shooting at a high school in texas and now fears from police as they say they have found several explosive devices both at the school and in the area. the shooting happened at santa fe high school in santa fe, texas. that's just outside houston. police say there are at least eight people dead, possibly ten. >> one person, a suspect in custody, a second possible person of interest that was detained and being questioned. there are multiple fatalities that have been confirmed. it could be anywhere from eight to ten, the majority being students. one male is in custody and then a second one, again, was a person of interest. both are believed to be students here at the school. >> at a white house event earlier today, president trump spoke about the tragedy. >> this has been going on too long in our country. too many years, too many decades now. we grieve for the terrible lo

wolf starts right now. >>> i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. here in washington, 7:00 p.m. in tehran. wherever you're watching, thanks for joining us. >>> the world holds its breath as the president gets ready to decide the fate of the iran nuclear deal, a decision that will have a ripple effect from everything to iranian relationships to gas prices. >>> he was a champion of the me too movement for now, new york state's attorney jena bankrupting resigning after allegations from four women. >>> also just in, cnn reporting on the embattled epa chief. why president trump may now be entertaining the idea of firing scott pruitt. stand by, we have new information. but let's begin with the biggest foreign policy decision of the trump presidency so far. about an hour from now, the president announces whether the united states will pull out of the iran nuclear deal. sources say he's expected to announce that he will reinstate sanctions against iran. that would be the first step toward withdrawing from the agreement. but those sources also caution that nothing is final until the anno

i'm wolf blitzer. t you're in "the situation room." >>> cnn has just learned that preparations are under way for the proposed summit between president trump and the north korean

>> reporter: good afternoon, wolf. you could hear the president there measuring his words very carefully, not saying anything too intentionally to provoke kim jong-un or not saying anything to disrupt the potential disruption of this summit. some of the questions were hard to hear there in the oval office a short time ago, because white house aides were screaming at reporters to leave the oval office. but the president was asked directly, is kim bluffing? he said, time will tell. saying we'll see to everything else. but he was asked at the end of that if he have is going to insist on a complete denuclearization of the korean pen peninsula. north korea saying they will not agree to that, but the reality is, about 12 hours into this confusion, it's unclear if it's a bluff or not. but sarah sanders talked to reporters and she said the plan for the summit is still on. >> this is something that we fully expected. the president is very ready for tough negotiations, and if they want to meet, we'll be ready. if they don't, tha

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the "situation room." >>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> breaking news, president trump bypasses the justice department and pardons dsd'souz and may pardon martha stewart and former illinois governor, rob blagojevich in prison for corruption. our correspondents are standing by with full coverage. let's get to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. he profiles a conservative and more may be on the way. what is behind the latest move? >> reporter: a new episode of president trump's white house version of "the apprentice." this time the presidential pardon edition. he is pardoning a darling to the far right, d s'souza and seem detached from reality. >> we are going dallas. we are going to houston. we are going to have a little fun today. >> reporter: president trump left washington for texas, sounded like he was contemplated a reality tv catch phrase, not you are fired, but you are pardoned. he started for a far right commentator, d'souza, accused o

wolf starts right now. >>> hello i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. in washington. 2:00 a.m. saturday in pyeongchang. wherever you are watching from around the world, thanks for joining us. everybody plays games, prumtd saying cancelled summit with north korea kim jong-un may still happen. why north korea response is surprising many experts. plus, the president's conspiracy theory that the fbi planted a spy in his campaign blows up. why even some republicans briefed 0en this classified information are dismissing it. >>> and he was once one of hollywood's power powerful man. today harvey weinstein in handcuffs and charged with rape. see what happened inside the court. >>> up first, though, homding out hope for a summit with north korea. president trump says it could still happen. >> we'll see what happens. we are talking to them now. it was a very nice statement they put out. we'll see what happens. we'll see what happens. it could even be the 12th. we are talking to them now. they very much want to do it. we'd like to do it. we'll see what happens. >>> in the statement, the p

tom wolfe, who died at the age of 88.tyjokes and her thoughts on sex. they had been covered with gummed brown paper — apparently to hide her writing from her family. the teenage girl spent more than two years in hiding — before being caught by the nazis. the bbc‘s tim allman has more. it's a story that is familiar to so many. for more than two years during the second world war a jewish family hid inside this cramped attic in amsterdam. desperate to avoid detection and arrest by the nazis. among them, anne frank. perhaps the single most well—known victim of the holocaust. her diary of that time was published after the war and has been read around the world. but now the contents of two new pages have been revealed for the first time. i think the only element perhaps that might be interesting from the point of view of her development as a writer and as a teenager is the fact that she's creating kind of fiction in order to address sensitive topics. they were written in september, 1942 and anne then covered them up in black pa

wolf? >> all right. good point, jeff zeleny at the white house, thank you. the president's advisers complaining that the investigation is simply gone on too long and at this one-year mark the special counsel's authority is becoming clear. we're joined by correspondent sara murray and chief national correspondent jim achute to. there's a document showing outlining the full authority of his mission. >> well, let's remember what that language says, investigate any links of trump campaign aides and the russian government. in addition to that, any issues that arise as a direct result of that investigation. keep in mind so far a year in there are 22 indictments, 5 guilty pleas, one prison sentence put on and that's just in the first year while continuing the special counsel continuing lines of inquiry, as well. >> reporter: tonight, one year into special counsel robert mueller's investigation a federal judge has the full memo outlining the parameters of the probe. written by deputy attorney gener

. >> reporter: wolf, he is, indeed. rudy giuliani, who is the president's lawyer, he's been on the team about three weeks or so. he is trying to set the stage here certainly in a political sense and a legal sense as well on this one-year anniversary at the beginning of bob mueller's russian probe here. he is saying the president cannot be indicted. that, of course, is the word from the justice department, he says. and following the protocol that the justice department has had since the nixon administration. saying the president cannot be indicted, trying to make the beginnings of the argument that if he can't be indicted, perhaps there is nothing to this investigation. but that doesn't mean the president would be out of the woods. he could still be in hot water, of course. the special counsel could make a referral to the house of representatives, he could make a referral elsewhere. so what rudy giuliani is trying to do is set the table here as the president is -- we're not hearing from him, but we're reading his tweets

by choosing wolf as their avatar, the d.c. media elite have confirmed their bias for anyone who will give them even the slightest benefit of the doubt. boy, was i glad my kids and i weren't watching. >> i know people really want me to go after trump tonight but i think we should give the president credit when he deserves it. like, he pulled out of the paris agreement. and i think he should get credit for that because he said he was going to pull out and then he did at that that is a refreshig quality in a man. people say romance is dead. mike pence is what happens when anderson cooper isn't gay. mike pence is also very antichoice. he thinks abortion is murder. which, first of all, don't knock it till you try it. then when you do try it, really knock it. you know, you got to get that baby out of there. >> laura: tasteless. aggressively unfunny. it was frankly sad for her. i thought about that a while after. of course, it was insulting to half the country who believes in protecting innocent lives. debbie wasserman schultz doppel

the writer tom wolfe has died. he was 88. it seems to satirically capture something of public discourse today, particularly the identity politics that animates it. he was also amusingly scathing of the rich finance guys — the masters of the universe — 20 years ahead of the crash. he once said... "i have never knowingly written satire. the word connotes exaggeration of the foibles of mankind. to me, mankind just has foibles. you don't have to push it!" well, he wasn'tjust a novelist — as a long—form journalist he wrote the right stuff about the test pilots and early astronauts researching rocket powered flight. so—called "newjournalism" was his genre — journalism written in the present tense, for one thing. our culture editor stephen smith is a fan. this is how tom wolfe began a book—length essay on las vegas, the word or sound "hernia" repeated 56 times, meant to capture the running singsong, as he called it, of the dealers at the crap tables. that kind of detail had always been there, wolfe liked to suggest, but people hadn'

tom wolfe, who died at the age of 88.aining a handful of dirtyjokes and her thoughts on sex. they had been covered with gummed brown paper, apparently to hide her writing from her family. the teenage girl spent more than two years in hiding before being caught by the nazis. the bbc‘s tim allman has more. it's a story that is the milera to so it's a story that is the milera to so many. for more than two years during the second world war a jewish family hid inside this cramped attic in amsterdam —— that is familiar. desperate to avoid detection and arrest by the nazis. among them, and frank. perhaps the single most well—known victim of the holocaust. her diary of that time was published after the war and has been read around the world. but now the contents around the world. but now the co nte nts of around the world. but now the contents of two new pages have been revealed for the first time. contents of two new pages have been revealed for the first timelj contents of two new pages have been revealed for the first time. i

>> yes, i did, wolf.ht that abbe was trying to say in his narrative that kushner was in fact a witness, but also one status as a subject or a target is movable. that you could be a witness today and a subject tomorrow. so he doesn't like to use those terms per se. but clearly i think the message today was my client is seen by the special counsel as a witness. whatever you want to call him, he is not in the cross hairs of a likely indictment. >> david, listen to what abbe lowell said about kushner's security clearance. listen to this. >> it was just done the normal, regular way. and in fact the delay that people reported about and reported about was caused by the things we said, which was a backlog in a new administration. and remember mr. kushner has expensive holdings that each and every one required someone to look at to determine the nature of the finances. so of course it took a long time, but it was done the normal process. >> so what do you think, david? does that add up to you? >> believes it was d

now i turn you over to wolf blitzer in "the situation room." thanks so much for watching. >>> happening now, breaking news, walking away. president trump follows through on his pledge to walk away from the iran nuclear deal and announces the u.s. will renew the sanctions. will iran now renew the nuclear program. >>> pompeo in pyongyang. mike pompeo has gone to north korea to prepare for a summit with kim jong-un. could he set the stage by bringing home american detainees. >>> and irritated. sources say president trump has grown irritated and frustrated over the negative coverage generated by his new lawyer rudy giuliani. could rudy giuliani's brash comments on the russia probe get him and the president in hot water? >>> and scandal and resignation. the new york powerful state attorney general resigns hours after a shocking article in the new yorker in which four women accused him of violent abuse. i'll speak with ronin farrow. i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room". >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> breaking news. preside

i'm wolf blitzer.oom. >>> we're following breaking news in the russia investigation. the special counsel's office asking the court tonight to wait two more months before going forward with sentencing for the president's fired national security advisor, michael flynn. this as the president and the white house are clamming up about a detailed list of dozens of questions that robert

this is not the only crime scene, wolf. and that is one of the things that we want to emphasize because as you and your experts have been talking about, according to authorities, there are multiple areas with explosive devices. not just on campus, but off campus. there is an aj -- adjacent trailer on the air and the pictures of the air -- checking the trailer and figuring out if there were explosive devices and we've heard about two search warrants for homes, the search warrant of a vehicle as well. and so there is a lot going on and if you just kind of take a look at this surrounding here, this is -- this is a pretty small town. there is wooded areas and so authorities have to be very, very careful. we're also learning more about the explosives from the governor. take a listen. >> various different kinds of explosive devices have already been detected. one was a co2 device, another one as a molotov cocktail and this tl are various other types of explosive devices identified at home and as well as in a vehicle. >> reporter:

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>> i don't know, wolf.reporting is correct that she told megan mccain she was going to apologize publicly and since hasn't done it and the story has continued for the last several days it suggests that, yes, she's caught in this decision where she either has to apologize publicly and get a clear sort of slate on this versus keep her job at the white house. if that is the case, it's unfortunate because she's making a choice that's going to keep her boxed in. >> the president doesn't like apologies. >> no. and if he had wanted her to apologize, she would've apologized. it's very clear the president didn't want this to happen but can i remind everybody of michael wolff's book, fire and fury, whatever it was called, that full of leaks actually on the record leaks, many of them, and, you know, the president was in a tirade over that and yet, this continues, this continues in this white house. these are the president's people who as ron says may feel left out, may disagree and may feel this is the only way to get

i'm wolf blitzer.'re in t"the situation room." >>> we're following head spinning twists and turns of the on again, off again summit of the world's most unpredictable leaders. we're getting word they just might be able to pull off a june 12th meeting in singapore. the president having second thoughts

>>> i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room. >>> president trump's attorney rudy giuliani puts new pressure on the special counsel saying just now that if robert mueller doesn't wrap up his investigation by the end of the summer, he'll basically be meddling in the fall midterm elections. a speaker woman of the homeland security committee, and our correspondents and specialists are standing by with more coverage. let's get to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. rudy giuliani just came out, seemed to put the squeeze on the special counsel, robert mueller. tell our viewers what rudy giuliani is now saying. >> reporter: that's right. the president's outside attorney rudy giuliani was inside the white house today talking to reporters on the south lawn after a different event wrapped up here over at the white house. he talked to reporters about what is going on inside the president's legal team, what their thinking is on a variety of subjects. one of the subjects that came up that a reporter a

wolf? >> very quickly, that meeting scheduled tomorrow at the white house briefing, republicans only on all of this, i know democrats want to participate as well and some other republicans would like to come. what's the status of this highly classified briefing that's been prepared for tomorrow? >> reporter: the status of the briefing is it is going on. white house officials themselves will not be at this white house. white house chief of staff john kelly is setting it up. some democrats were saying he should not be at the meeting. we're told he's not going to be. but democrats are not going to be there either. but the president was say thing is going to get to the bottom of all of this. he was also asked if the obama administration was responsible for this, as he's suggested. he said, i don't have any proof of that. of course, that hasn't stopped him from saying so on twitter. wolf? >> we'll monitor all of this. jeff zeleny, thank you very much. before the president took aim at james comey

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wolf? >> athena jones, thanks for that update.e president is girding for the battle against robert mueller, the special counsel's team was interviewing a former trump campaign aide today. let's go to our senior congressional correspondent, manu raju. manu, what are you learning? >> reporter: michael caputo, former trump campaign adviser did meet with the special counsel robert mueller's team today, this after he has met with other panels that have been investigating the russia matter. caputo himself has been a longtime friend and associate of roger stone. stone is someone who's been very close to the president over several decades. and stone himself has come under a lot of scrutiny as part of this investigation, because of contacts that he had with an intermediary, with wikileaks, which is the organization that released those hacked clinton e-mails. stone also had jokingly told a friend that he was having dinner with julian assange during the campaign season. he later said it was a joke. even his text messages and other records sh

>> not as extensively, wolf, the topics post inauguration are very limited. and they should be -- >> obstruction of -- potential obstruction of justice, right. >> sorry, go ahead. >> obstruction of justice and the firing of comey, i assume that was one of the subjects. >> you should assume the follow, that the special counsel is looking at two things, looking to see whether there was collusion with russia in the in the campaign and if anybody was involved and if that violated any law and a broad topic that they call or the media calls obstruction of justice. they would have asked questions of all of their witnesses including jared kushner about those topics but he has a unique role. he was there in the campaign, he was there in the transition and he worked in the white house when events occurred after the inauguration that is of interest to the counsel. they asked him question and he answered every single one. it was thorough. and i think what is interesting is that you all -- i don't mean you all at cnn -- the media gets ahead of itself so often. they talk a

vladimir duthiers reflects on wolfe's legacy. >> these are the men who had the right stuff. >> reporterthey are perhaps the three most famous words wolfe wrote to describe the astronauts for the 1979 book that went on to become a box office hit. tom wolfe began his career in newspapers and then moved on to magazines where he helped pioneer the new journalism movement by using fact reporting using a first-person literary style as he explained to jeff glor in 2016. >> it drove me crazy in "the right stuff" about the astronauts. i wasn't on board and a lot of conversation i missed. >> reporter: his first novel was a bestseller that also became a movie, a satire about an ambitious wall streeter that touched on issues of class, race, and wealth in new york city. wolfe called this technique a kind of voyeurism. >> when i wrote "the bonfire of the vanities," i decided to include a party scene. the next time i was invited to such a thing, i shut up and listened. >> it was just his words that were a dandy. it was his light suits. in all, he wrote 17 books, and near the end of his life he had no

wolf?esident decides to pardon manafort or flynn, is there anyone who would have the power to stop him? >> there could be, wolf. a prosecutor could actually go to a judge and say to the judge to ignore the pardon, because it's not valid. the prosecutor and then the judge could cite that part of the constitution, on the fai faithful execution of the office of the president, to say that the president violated that clause and that the pardon is not valid. we don't know that that's ever been done, but it's worth thinking about. >>> breaking news ahead, a top white house lawyer quits and the president hires a former clinton impeachment lawyer. what it all means for the russia investigation. we have new details, that's next. let someone else do the heavy lifting. tripadvisor compares prices from over 200 booking sites to find the right hotel for you at the lowest price. so you barely have to lift a finger. or a wing. tripadvisor. with a $500,000 life insurance policy. how much do you think it cos

tell us what he said. >> reporter: he did, wolf.as in the cabinet room and he visiting california officials from sanctuary cities, all points of immigrant. listen to what he said specifically, how he treated immigrants. >> we have people coming into the country, trying to come in, we're stopping a lot of them, but we're taking people out of the country, you wouldn't believe how bad these people are. these aren't people. these are animals. >> reporter: so we've heard the president talking some harsh words before. but this certainly ranks among them. he's been furious at the immigration laws and building that wall of course. he promised and said he would push for full funding for that, important to remember he got very little of that wolf from this republican congress. >> there will be some reaction to that word "animals". >> thank you very much. >>> a closer look at what vladimir putin wants from the united states which we've now learned is a big reason why a group of russians came to that election year meeting with top members of th

but israel said, you know, wolf, that is a red lie. they said they would not allow anyone to cross over. they said they would use tear gas, which we saw a lot of tear gas. drones dropping cans of tear gas into the crowd. they also said if people get even closer, then that's when they'll use live ammunition. we just heard from hamas, wolf, and they said all of today's blood is on the hands of the americans. sfwhofl. >> ian, i'd like you to stand by as well. he's right outside the gates of jerusalem. why don't you tell us us what's going on where you are and what's going on on the west bank. >> reporter: wolf, these israelis are very much celebrating. on the wall behind me are projections of the israeli and u.s. flag saying, thank you, president trump. there have been smaller protests in and around jerusalem, the west bank as well. one outside that embassy as they officially opened. but that can't at all dampen the spirits of israeli leaders who have seen not only last week, but this week. not only did president iran netanyahu was pushin