should robert mueller feel safe in his job? >> the day before muler was appointed special council, he met with the president that was speaking with the man who made him fbi director. it seems he should have disclosed that immediately to see, i think there is a real conflict and the public needs to see this as a agenda getting the president -- nobody in the white house has ever he needsed -- needed. it s a constant strain about the white house missing something. >> i about robert mueller is secure in his job? >> i don't want to make a judgment, but he was appointed special council without any legal basis. it says there has to be an underlying probe. i do think it is a good point, but i think the public needs to have a full disclosure of the facts here. what is the evidence of it? they keep saying the investigative agencies are saying there is no collusion, but you have to ask yourself why do they keep hiring prosecutors. >> let's get to the investigation, the focus today, i know based on my reporting that the president was very

director robert mueller didn't want them around. after you've been in a supervisory position for five years or more, you either come to washington and take up your little cubicle or get out. and again, robert mueller damage to able the f.b.i., to its experience, to its ability to root out and find criminals. that experience that he ran off from the f.b.i. absolutely incalculable. it is just priceless. he also spent millions on a software program, many tried to tell him, wait, you've got us inputting stuff in a system, it's not going to work, it doesn't fit our needs. i don't know if he had some relative there he got it from or why he was so sold on this terrible program. people tried to tell him. but those are the people he wanted out he didn't want anybody questioning his brilliant intellect. and as a result, they wasted ssive number of hours by f.b.i. employees, wasted the millions that were spent on the program trying to make the program work, later had to scrap it. why? because he was talked into a bad program and he wouldn't li

i've got to say, these attacks on robert mueller are ridiculous. he was a bush appointee in the fbi. i was in the bush white house when he was at the fbi. he was an excellent fbi director. and the idea that he is a partisan liberal is ridiculous. some of the people he's hiring may have given money to democrats, but we have a lot of people appointed, united states attorneys who have given money to the president's political party and they then have the power to prosecute anybody in the united states. so, yeah, we want to clean up our campaign finance system and get rid of the big donors. i'm all for it. but then to turn around and say, well, someone gave a few thousand dollars to a political campaign, and that makes them unable to be an impartial prosecutor and do their job professionally, that is a utterly ridiculous argument. what's more, bob mueller is a class act and he's going to do a good job. if the president were to choose to fire him, i think we'd have to be looking for a new president very quickly. it's not going to work that way. >> i want

is robert mueller next. a close confident of donald trump drops this bombshell. >> i think he's considering perhaps terminating the special counsel. i think he's weighing that option. >> you got to be kidding me. will he do it? can he do it? it's tough questions. the attorney general set to testify today in an open hearing about his undisclosed meetings with the russian ambassador and the trump/comey meeting that led to the fbi director's firing. >> my sense was the attorney general knew he shouldn't be leaving which is why he was lingering. >> no, this is not reality tv. a strange, strange trip, basketball hall of famer dennis rodman is in north korea, the former "apprentice" contestant knows president trump and kim jong-un. is he an emissary for the president? >> i'm pretty sure he's pretty much happy of the fact that i'm over here trying to accomplish something that we both need. >> extraordinary. all right. we're going to begin this morning with word that president trump is toying with the idea of firing

this will all be examined by robert mueller. it is very clear that the investigation is going to go on for a long time. and it is going to encompass all of this. the interrogation we just saw, robert mueller is going to conduct an interrogation like that under oath of donald trump. not weather, but when is the only question. >> would he have answered that? >> i don't know that he would have answered that, he might have answered that if he had still been the director of the fbi but he cautiously kept away from the legal significance of the evidence and stayed in the ballpark of "here is the evidence i can bring to you, you decide if it's of legal significance." >> i've got a quick question for you, we find out today that the former fbi director admits he is the one who funneled the information that got out there, these memos that he was keeping throughout friend. some other people outside the doj. so much has been made about leaks, the president had a disagreement with the fbi director, feeling like he wasn't handling them seriou

mueller, his lawyer wants to take down robert mueller and the question is why, and i think the answer is they want to lay the foundation to discredit whatever robert mueller comes up with. they are essentially engaging in a scorched earth litigation strategy and trying to discredit the prosecutor. >> jon: joining me now, former justice department official robert driscoll. is there any question if the president has the power to fire robert mueller he wants to? >> he can fire him through the chain of command just like any other employee of the department of justice. clearly he could do it, whether or not to do it would be much more debatable question. >> jon: it seems like the guy hasn't even really begun his investigation yet, there wouldn't be a good cause for it at this point, with there? >> theoretically he wouldn't need good cause. the political blowback from firing him would presumably be great. and at the end of the day, what serves the president most is to have an investigation that vindicates him. presuming he didn't do anything wrong, he would prefer to have an investigation o

robert mueller's an honorable man. hopefully he'll come up with an honorable solution. >> president trump blasting mueller even as he calls him an honorable man. sean spicer was asked about that today. >> is he still ruling out the firing of special counsel? >> nothing's changed on that in terms of his position. >> and his position is? >> while he retains the authority, anyone who serves, i believe stooeeve and ahave a healthy exchange. he has no intention on doing that. >> good evening, sir. >> good to be with you. >> do you know if robert mueller is a good friend of james comey? >> i don't, but it should be clear that the president doesn't have the authority to fire robert mueller. he's appointed by the attorney general and in this case the assistant attorney general since jeff sessions recused himself. the president would have to direct rod rosenstein to do it. if he declined, he would have to fire him and hire someone else to follow his order. >> rod rosenstein has the decision. if mueller and comey are friends --

let me ask you quickly again, go become to your relationship with robert mueller. we recently heard that chris ruddy, also a friend of donald trump in an interview said that the president was considering firing robert mueller. the implication was there was because this investigation was partisan. based on what you know, is there anything that would make you think that this investigation would be partisan? >> no, not in the least. director mueller as i said at the top of the segment is one the most director public servants i've ever seen. you can disagree with some of his opinions or some of his techniques, but one of the things you can never disis degree with when it comes to director mueller is his love for this country and his dedication to the job. thank you for joining us tonight. in the meantime shawn alluded to this, up top, the president has considered firing robert mueller. his name is chris ruddy. he is the ceo of news max. deputy attorney rod rosenstein said today \he\e \see\seas no reason to fire mueller. house speaker ryan said he should let the special

let's start with robert mueller. cast your vote on twitter @loudobbs. follow me on instagram @loudobbs tonight. president trump hiring another high-profile attorney for his legal team for the special counsel on russia. that investigation expands bizarrely and unnecessarily in some sort peculiar direction of fiction that is admired by the special counsel and obviously the republican elites and the list goes on. president trump adding 7-year-old former prosecutor john dowd. he represented john mccain during the keating 5 scandal. he joins marc kasowitz, and jay sekulow on the president's legal team. stocks closing mixed. the s & p up a fraction, the nasdaq down 14. the heaviest trading of the year due to the expiration of options and futures, 5.1 billion shares. amazon reaching a deal to buy whole foods. the shares of competing grocers plunging. housing starts falling for a third straight month. raising concerns about shortages of inventory in the housing market. coming up next, the swamp creatus in washington working to take down a president. specificall

let's start with robert mueller. cast your vote on twitter @loudobbs. follow me on instagram @loudobbs tonight. president trump hiring another high-profile attorney for his legal team for the special counsel on russia. that investigation expands bizarrely and unnecessarily in some sort peculiar direction of fiction that is admired by the special counsel and obviously the republican elites and the list goes on. president trump adding 7-year-old former prosecutor john dowd. he represented john mccain during the keating 5 scandal. he joins marc kasowitz, and jay sekulow on the president's legal team. stocks closing mixed. the s & p up a fraction, the nasdaq down 14. the heaviest trading of the year due to the expiration of ons and futures,.1 billion shares. amazon reaching a deal to buy whole foods. the shares of competing grocers plunging. housing starts falling for a third straight month. raising concerns about shortages of inventory in the housing market. coming up next, the swamp creatures in washington working to take down a president. specifically, p

the president cannot directly fire robert mueller under the justice department regulations. he would have to ask the attorney general to fire mueller. the attorney general is recused so it would be up to rod rosenstein. rosenstein was asked repeatedly about this issue and said, i see no basis for firing robert mueller and i would only fire him for good cause. so i think he basically put to president trump today, if you want to fire robert mueller, i'm going to quick first. saturday night massacre style the way elliott richardson and william rucklehaus quit in 1973. so the chances of any attempt to fire mueller dropped considerably today after rosenstein's testimony. >> although, matthew, we should point out, president trump is a disruptor and does things differently. maybe two or three weeks ago if someone had said the same thing to you about firing james comey, perhaps you would have said the same thing. >> perhaps. >> who knows? >> who does know. and this president seems to use these types of situations to distract or change the narrative from whatever i guess is strengthe

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newt gingrich, first seen praising robert mueller and now disparaging robert mueller. is now weighing in on what special counsel mueller is investigating, namely whether the president is guilty of on instruction of justice, not that he denies the crime, he denies that any president ever could. >> presidents of the united states cannot obstruct justice. the president is the chief executive of the united states, if he wants to fire the fbi director, all he has to do is fire him. >> newt gingrich accused president clinton of obstruction of justice. page, first to you, first the fbi director does serve the president and can be fired any time. but do you agree that the president cannot obstruct justice? >> newt gingrich is right that the president has the constitutional authority to fire the fbi director, the attorney general, the deputy attorney general, anyone in the executive branch. but if a president acts with corrupt intent, if he's doing it for a bad purpose, he's stepping outside of his role as president and he's doing it as donald trump private citizen, and i think

mueller right now because robert mueller wouldn't be in the position and they wouldn't be in the position and they would not be a special counsel looking into this matter. clearly, more to come on this. david, thank you very much. another major story from washington dc: a gunman opened fire on members of congress as they were at baseball practice. five people were wounded, including the senior republican steve scalise, who's said to be in critical condition. president trump is shortly due to visit the hospital where he is being treated. laura bicker reports from virginia. gunshots. it was a regular morning baseball practice, but a gunman tried to turn it into a killing field. the horror was captured on camera by a dog—walker. the shots ring out for several minutes with few pauses. is that guy 0k? one of the victims was a congressman, steve scalise, as his colleagues could not get to him as the firing continued. i could see steve scalise out on the field. he was shot from near second base. he was a little bit further away from the gunman. he was lying motionless. i wanted to get to him b

robert mueller clearly has a widening brief and this is, as i say, an investigation which only a few weeks ago was purely focused on russia and its alleged involvement in the outcome of the us election. now that whole issue has almost been buried if you like because mr mueller has other things to look into an donald trump is in this position largely of his own making. if he had not sacked james comey as head of the fbi a month ago we may not have this expansive enquiry, one which could actually in snare the president himself. more to come on this clearly. david, thank you very much. another major story from washington, dc, a gunman opened fire on members of congress as they were at baseball practice. five people were wounded, including the senior republican steve scalise. doctors say he's in critical condition and will require further operations. a short while ago, president trump visited the hospital where congressman scalise is being treated. laura bicker reports from virginia. gunshots it was a regular morning baseball practice, but a gunman tried to turn it into a killing field.

we'll find out what that means, if the president tries to fire a special prosecutor robert mueller. we will find out if rod rosenstein simply refuses to carry out that order. and if he does refuse, then we will find out if he then immediately resigns following the elliot richardson model, or perhaps more interestingly, rod rosenstein refuses to carry out the order and he doesn't resign. and he tries to appoint another special prosecutor. then we'll see if the president then fires rod rosenstein. or might attorney general jeff sessions decide that he will carry out the president's order and fire robert mueller himself? even though he has recused himself from the russia investigation. then does rod rosenstein resign? with a president who is motived by the norms of political cost benefit analysis, we might be able to predict for you what might happen here. with any other attorney general, we might be able to predict what the attorney general would do. if the president wanted the special prosecutor fired. what we do know is that from the start, president trump has behaved not like a pol

for now, robert mueller is safe. i'm joined by "washington post's" devlin barrett, glenn thrush, and ashley parker, white house reporter for "the washington post." thank you all. let me start with glenn and work across the table here. let's talk about this. "the washington post" is reporting tonight that the special counsel robert mueller is in fact focusing on the president not about the russian matter so much right now, but what about he did to quash the investigation, whether he -- i think it's about comey and what he tried to get comey to do, swear loyalty to him, end the investigation of the michael flynn, and ultimately fired the guy. are they the elements of this case? >> well, you know, as people have said before, it's often not the crime but the cover-up. and we knew generally that the comey -- his interactions with comey were problematrom an obstruction of justice poi of view. i'm not say he obstructed justice, but certainly worth investigating. what's novel about this story is they're also talking to dan c

host: bring it back to robert mueller. newt gingrich tweeting that he doesn't think robert mueller will be fair in his investigation. do you agree with that? guest: i don't know mueller personally. i think he was a very good director of the fbi. i think he has a history of being fair. let's run through some of the issues here. wasn't -- one is a day or two before he was named special counsel, robert mueller met with the president. the president and him had a conversation about mueller being the next fbi director. isn't it odd that you would meet with someone that would not reveal they're under consideration to be the counsel and they maybe investigating you. they're having a private conversation about your most intimate and candid thoughts about the bureau and the investigation. we don't know what was discussed in that meeting. it seems ethically challenged for a lawyer to do something like that. i'm just little shocked that mueller, i reported that yesterday on pbs show, they had this meeting and the trump was seriously c

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robert mueller is not investigating james comey. he's investigating the president of the united states -- [inaudible] >> comey said himself that he licked leaked information to get the special prosecutor. did comey know that it was going to be robert mueller the entire time? we don't know. but we know their buddies and friends. >> gregg: it's good to see you both. we tackle three different subjects. thank you. more evacuations ordered overnight as hundreds of firefighters battled the country's largest wildfire. the flames wreaking havoc on a population destination for vacationers. will residents be able to return home anytime soon? >> we enjoy family reunions here for a lot of sarah is a fifth-grade teacher. when it comes to molding young minds, nobody does it better. she also builds her own fighting robots. destroy. but when it comes to mortgages, she's less confident. fortunately for sarah, there's rocket mortgage by quicken loans. it's simple, so she can understand the details and be sure she's getting the right mortgage. apply s

mueller to keep his job the president has to wake up every morning and decide not to fire robert mueller. for him to lose his job he just has to wake up once and decide this is the day to fire robert mueller. maggie from the new york times, why aren't people telling the president no? they're telling him all the time and he's not listening to them. they become more alarmed. just because the staff tries to protect him from himself doesn't mean he will listen consistently. >> you will see a bunch of people updating their linkedin profiles. if you're in the white house, the little things i've done for the president i could get wrapped up in this drag net and don't want to get involved in this anymore. >> someone once told me almost every administration sees someone go to jail, even if you're careful and this white house has not been careful. i want to talk about this morning and the resonance of that. you watch this develop in this extremely polarizing atmosphere, it's exhausting and blaming and who's the villain and connection of normal politics, bernie sanders, volunteered for bernie sande

thank you. >> the best thing to do is let robert mueller do his job. the best vindication for the president is to let this investigation go on independent land thoroughly. that is the smartest and best thing to do, and that's what i think hopefully will happen. >> heather: that was house speaker paul ryan on a report that president trump might consider firing robert mueller. he is investigating russia, the trim campaign, and the election. that information came from christopher ruddy, a friend of the president who runs a conservative media organization. the administration insisting that roddy does not speak for them. john roberts following this and he has more. >> good morning. you heard catherine herridge refer to a just a second ago, one person. adding -- parroting another person and adding to that and getting it utterly and completely wrong as well. the president, pushing back this morning and asking for an apology for all of the news reports that he has considered firing robert mueller. the president saying fake news is at an all-time high. where is

charlie: robert mueller is now special counsel. >> right. sessions said that he has had no contact with robert mueller and there was a lot of discussion when rod rosenstein was testifying before the that jeffions panel sessions was supposed to appear before and there were questions about will robert mueller have independence and will that be influence coming from the white house. rosenstein said, i am not going to fire robert mueller without cause and i have to greenlight it. says, i have not been talking to the trump administration about this. i was never briefed on it. how was i supposed to be a part of it? discussionsts of and understandings that could be happening that are not in the written record from around one comey was fired and afterwards with the special prosecutor being appointed. are they taking him and others is thereitten word or speculation that there is more going on in discussions behind the scenes that are not written down? have senators asking to see the notes and jeff sessions says that he does not deep notes. -- keep no

robert mueller is an honorable man. hopefully he will come up with an honorable solution. >> shepard: robert mueller and james comey worked together for years in washington when mueller was the fbi director and comey was a deputy attorney general. john roberts back live for us on the north lawn. what is the white house saying about the president's comments about robert mueller and james comey? >> first of all, let's go to the tapes with james comey. the president said earlier today to ainsley earhardt on the "fox and friends" interview that put out that wasn't a stupid thing. he believes it held him to recount the truth. the president indicating that it may be forced comey to tell the truth. there's a hole in that thinking because, of course, the white house after comey's testimony disputed the fact that he said the president was thought he was asking him for a loyalty pledge and also asking him to drop the investigation into the circumstances surrounding the firing of lieutenant general michael flynn. now, as to the mu

robert mueller clearly has a widening brief and this is, as i say, an investigation which only a few weeks ago was purely focused on russia and its alleged involvement in the outcome of the us election. well, now that whole issue has almost been buried if you like because mr mueller has other things to look into and donald trump is in this position largely of his own making. had he not sacked james comey as head of the fbi a month ago we might not have this expansive enquiry, one which could actually in snare the president himself. let's go back to the fire that engulfed grenfell tower 27 hours ago, our reporter sarah corker is at the scene. we still don't know how many people are missing, we know hundreds of people are suddenly homeless and it's really something the way so many people around london have come together to help? yes. well, to give you a sense of geography, where exactly i am, i'm about 800 metres from that smouldering tower block. this is a car park near one of the evacuation centres and this is the pile of donations that have appeared through the night. people from ac

robert mueller, there's some real conflict. he comes from a law firm that represent members of the trump family. he interviewed the day before -- a few days before he was appointed with the president looking at him to become the next fbi director. that hasn't been published, but it's true. i think it would be strange that he would have a confidential conversation and then a few days later become the prosecutor of the person he may be investigating. i think that mueller should have not taken the position if he was under consideration and had a private meeting with the president and was privy maybe to some of his thoughts about that investigation or other matters before the bureau. >> christopher ruddy earlier today. cnn's jim acosta joins us now from the white house. jim, has the white house had anything to say about the comments? >> they have. in the last hour, the deputy press secretary put out a brief statement saying that chris speaks for himself. and then a separate statement from white house officials thereafter saying tha

james comey, huge fan of robert mueller, and robert mueller hired andrew wiseman. if you don't know about him at home, he oversaw the enron task force and led the prosecution of the arthur andersen accounting firm. he also was a donator to hillary clinton's political campaign, he was highly criticized from the new york observer newspaper. guess who owned the observer at the time? kushner. and now this guy has been hired by mueller. >> there is a lot of shady business. >> julie: i like how you say that with an accent. i agree. >> the president said that he did believe that mueller was an honorable man. he is not completely throwing mueller under the bus, i do think it is a little shady that with comey saying he wanted to leak this information so he could get the special prosecutor and then he knew all along it was going to be his best pal. >> julie: do you see any issue with mueller and his involvement with james comey and his investigation? >> i have never seen such effusive praise for people on both sides of the aisle about anyone in washington. to suddenly sugges

of course, he was fired in may, and special counsel robert mueller took over the investigation. what these reports are saying -- the story was broken by "the washington post" -- is that robert mueller has broadened the scope of the investigation and they are looking at the possibility that president trump may have obstructed justice. two main areas, did he obstruct justice by firing james comey, who was overseeing the investigation, and by asking mr. comey to let go of the investigation into former national security advisor michael flynn. jane: the focus very much back on mr. trump again. how worried should the trump administration be? rajini: two or three things to point out. the burden of proof for obstruction of justice is very high and it is not conventional to charge a sitting president. putting all that aside, it is worrying because it shifts the focus back on president trump, who was able to say for the last few weeks "i am not being investigated." if you look at the tweetstorm , he is taking it very personally, describing it as the greatest witchhunt in american history,

did they discuss the possibility of firing robert mueller? >> i don't discuss who i saw at the white house and what the topic of conversation is. >> we have three nbc reports. kasie hunt is on capitol hill, pete williams in our washington newsroom hallie jackson at the white house. kasie, start with a preview of this hearing, all the anticipation as we had five days ago with james comey, what should we be watching for today? >> well, chris, a couple things. i think this hearing today has the potential to advance this investigation and potentially make our create some more problems for the president if sessions doesn't handle himself in exactly the right sort of way. one question i think is going to be around that potential third meeting between the russian ambassador and jeff sessions this is a meeting that the department of justice denied has happened, or denied happened, this would have been a third meeting in addition to the two that were initially not disclosed on his form, and nbc news has reported that there is intelligence that suggest

how a special counsel robert mueller's investigation? speak of the relationship between special counsel robert moeller and the fire fbi director james comey has really been under the microscope since may when mueller took over the investigation. this video from 2013 shows coming when he was nominated by the fbi director taking over from mueller who had held the job for 12 years, to more than the traditional 10-year term, at the request of president obama. president trump telling fox news this morning that he is kind of thinking he wait and see attitude over mueller should recuse himself over the russian case. >> he's very, very good friends with comey, which is very bothersome. >> the president has continued to dispute comey's characterization of the private conversation, specifically over the former national security advisor mike flynn. sandra. >> sandra: thank you, catherine. so much news coming in the saffron. thank you for the update on all that. at the white house press precinct event briefing is now underway. but we are making it v

>> i don't see any reason at this point that would justify removing robert mueller from the job. the standard is good cause and i don't see anything right now that would supply the requisite good cause to terminate him. the president is well within his rights defending himself politically making public statements about what he views the truth to be or the lack of evidence supporting these sorts of allegations but i see absolutely no basis right now to remove bob mueller. >> asia, walk me through a timeline, once robert mueller gathers this information, what happens from there? some are saying, when is this going to happen already? the truth is, he's only been on the job less than a month and look at other situations, whitewater took years? >> yes. i would not expect this to be concluded very soon. what's going to happen is, he's going to continue the investigation, the original mandate with regard to the russia interference, any possible collusion, now obstruction of justice, and when he gets to that, whatever point that might be, where he has all the evidence, he has to present

that was more than a week before robert mueller was appointed to his job. presumably that means the obstruction of justice investigation into the president was already started before robert mueller got there and took it over. it has also been reported that robert mueller is managing the ongoing investigation into ukraine. money that appears to have been looted out of the government by the now deposed pro-putin dictator of the country whose long-time political guru was trump campaign chairman paul manafort. that investigation -- the ukrai ukraine investigation has been going on for years. that touches on paul manafort directly and that robert mueller has taken over the investigation that ukraine theft, corruption, money laundering investigation has now been incorporated into bob mueller's work as special counsel. in addition to that there is the case in virginia that he's taken over. this is turning out to be an important thing. one of the ongoing fbi and justice department investigations that was already under way before robert mueller was appointed special

and it comes just one day after revelations that special counsel robert mueller is examining whether president trump attempted to obstruct justice when he fired james >> the president's son-in-law reportedly under investigation. jared kushner's finances and business dealings are being looked at by special counsel robert mueller. investigators are said to be looking into meetings kushner held with russian officials last december after at presidential campaign. >> senate republican leaders have set a goal for revising the healthcare bill. the lawmakers want the legislation brought to the senate floor by the end of june. despite that ambitious time line, there's still a lot to work out according to some republicans. including disagreements over medicaid. earlier this week president trump called the house version of the bill "mean." >> today president trump is expected to make an announcement about a policy shift concerning cuba. according to the white house the official goal is to stop the flow of u.s. cash to the cuban military and security servic. thinks american money spent on that i

robert mueller has support on both sides of the aisle in congress. we've heard democrats and republicans say it's important to get to the bottom of this investigation, and that's what we need to do. >> sounds good. thank you so much. senator jeanne shaheen of nam. in a statement last name, the white house press secretary did not exactly deny christopher ruddy's statement that the president was considering measures to remove mueller, peerly saying mr. ruddy never spoke tot president regarding this issue with respect to this subject. only the president or his attorneys are authorized to comment. today ruddy took issue with spicer's statement and stood by his story. >> i never claimed that i had spoken with the president or i got any information from the president. i think the white house communications office is doing a disservice to the president by not focusing on the fact that you have several now top prosecutors with director mueller that have donated to obama's campaign and hillary clinton's campaign. this is a partisan -- i believe it's a partisa

very clearly. >> what if robert mueller reports to office and as a case to be made outlining obstruction or some other issue, and republicans in congress refuse to take action? >> he would not necessarily be reported to congress, his investigation would go to the court, and he might have information that is maybe not -- >> but if a president cannot be dieted and only a congress can take action if there are issues that need to be resolved, do you think the republicans in congress who now control congress would ignore that? or do you think we would go down the road of impeachment? >> without stipulating more to the fact that they are investigating the president, that is not necessarily what robert mueller is doing. he is investigating the situation. that can go to the courts. there would be information that might emerge from his investigation that would be useful to the congressional investigation which is a different at least hothreshold to impeachment. i don't even like to use the word. it's not about opinion or anything else. let's get the facts so we can clear this up one way or anothe

every republican, many in this chamber, voted unanimously to ratify robert mueller for another two years asifier -- as f.b.i. director. what a great endorsement. that vote made mr. mueller the longest-serving f.b.i. director since j. edgar hoover, the only to serve under presidents of both parties. madam president, mr. mueller represents the best of public service. he will pursue this investigation without regard to politics or pressure of any kind, and that's exactly what america needs. the chorus of extreme commentators and media personalities who seek to curry favor with the president by trying to tear down in man of great integrity are only heaping dishonor on themselves. worse yet, they're trying to discredit our most important democratic institution, the rule of law. these critics know mr. mueller is a straight arrow and many of them said as much when he was appointed. but because he's in a position to examine the president's actions and perhaps take action, they're attacking his character. this is not, my colleagues -- this is not a political game. this is a very serious investiga

special counsel robert mueller is investigating criminal conduct by the president. mr. trump says the investigation is a witchhunt. ♪ brent: anger is rising in the aftermath of the london high-rise fire. the death toll has risen to 17 but many residents remain unaccounted for, their bodies probably inside the smoldering shell of what was once in their home. prime minister theresa may has announced a full inquiry but it is not likely to assuage the anger. >> some part of the grenfell tower are still burning. these are visual taken of the interior. emergency crews can only entnter parts of t the b building. the fire department reported the chance of finding anyone still alive are basically nil. what cost of the fire and how could it spread so quickly are the questions being asked by residents and the mayor of london felt their anger. >> understandably the residents are angry and concerned. >> someone needs to be held accountable. the deaths could have been prevented. >> we welcome the call from the prime minister for a independent public inquiry. >> we need it now. >> p

now the president's fate in robert mueller's hands. >> do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? >> in vivid testimony comey questioned trump's character and honesty. >> those were lies, plain and simple. >> no collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker. >> but will the president's story stand up to scrutiny from the special counsel? >> would you be willing to speak under oath to give your version of these events? >> 100%. >> and what about those tapes? >> i've seen the tweet about tapes. lordy, i hope there are tapes. >> you seem to be hinting there are recordings of those conversations. >> i'm not hinting anything. i'll tell you about it over a very short period of time. >> the key question, did trump pressure comey to end the investigation into michael flynn? was it obstruction of justice? we'll ask preet bharara, the federal prosecutor also fired by the president in his first tv interview since the firing. a "this week" exclusive. responding for the president, new trump lawyer, jay sekulow, only on "this week." key senators from the intelligence