mueller testified before congress today, and i got to say, he didn't seem thrilled [ laughter ] he had the same look on his face that billy joel has when someone yells, play "piano man." "why you already know it. [ laughter ] this morning's house judiciary committee testimony from special counsel robert mueller ran behind schedule to the point the committee democrats were asked to limit their questioning time, because it's not like mueller could further limit his answers. >> yes no correct. true no correct. thank you. yes. [ laughter ] >> seth: in a new interview, supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg dismissed republican speculation about her health saying, quote, "there was a senator who announced with great glee that i was going to be dead within six months. that senator whose name i've forgotten is now, himself, dead, and i am very much alive." [ laughter ] and that's how we learned rbg one time killed a guy. [ cheers and applause today was cousins day, or as rudy giuliani calls it, my anniversary! [ laughter ] [ audience ohs ] hey, i mean. there's got to be a price for doing i

about former special counsel robert mueller's congressional testimony. for more on this, it's time for "a closer look." [ cheers and applause ♪ >> seth: yesterday, the man who oversaw a two year investigation into a criminal operation by a foreign government to interfere in a presidential election testified before congress on national television. and right off the bat he made headlines when he said this. >> did you actually totally exonerate the president? >> no. >> under department of justice policy, the president could be prosecuted for obstruction of justice crimes after he leaves office, correct? >> true. >> seth: man, he was quick on the draw with that answer. [ laughter ] it's like he been iting two years for someone to ask him that question. "and do you have the handcuffs picked out?" "yes." [ laughter ] over the course of seven hours, mueller laid out details of a criminal attempt to interfere in a presidential election. a campaign that openly welcomed and encouraged that interference in a series of lies and potential attempts to obstruct justice by the president and his

just repeated by robert mueller just a few days ago. >> you don't really believe this. do you believe this? we didn't talk about that. i spoke with president putin of russia yesterday. they're having massive fires in the forests. they have tremendous -- i have never seen anything like it. it's very big. i just offered our assistance because we are very good at putting out forest fires, frankly. i watched mueller. i'm not sure mueller knows what's going on. i know he said no collusion with us. no collusion and ultimately no obstruction because it led to no obstruction by a very smart dprup of people including our attorney general. so no collusion, no obstruction. as far as mueller's performance, you would have to say it was maybe not so good. >> about their first response by the president, you don't really believe that. never before has our country felt more vulnerable to attack in real time, in this case because we've been told we're under an ongoing attack in real time, while at the same time that view is not shared by the head of our government who took the oath about preserving and

mueller's congressional t la testimony last week. >> donald trump is not above the war but he damn sure should not be below the law. >> i'll go back to what i said when director coats left. director coats was willing to speak truth to power. i've seen no evidence, at least from what i've read and seen about mr. ratcliffe that he'll bring that same level of independence. >> reporter: in private, republicans also voiced concern. in public the response was muted. >> i don't know him. i think he deserves to have our consideration. we'll learn more about him but this one came as a surprise to us. >> reporter: meanwhile at a campaign rally in ohio, trump reveling at the at debate in detroit. >> the democrats spent more time april tacking barack obama than they did attacking me practically. >> and doubling down on his criticism of house oversight committee chairman elijah cummings, by talking about the homicide rate in the city he represents. >> the homicide rate in baltimore is significantly higher than el salvador, honduras, guatemala. >> reporter: trump even firing off a treat appearing to

mueller investigation. rick gates served as deputy chairman of the trump campaign. gates had been paul manafort's right hand deputy working for ukrainian e iaian oligarchs. manafort was pushed out in august of 2016 but rick gates stayed on right through election day. gates then served as the number two official on the trump inaugural committee. because he held those key positions rick gates was an up close first person eye witness to what was going on inside the trump campaign at a very high level. in october of 2017 he was first charged alongside manafort on multiple counts including conspiracy, money laundering and acting as an unregistered foreign agent. after prosecutors hit him with another round of felony charges for a total of 31, rick gates flipped. he pleaded guilty to two charges while agreeing to cooperate and provide information to robert mueller's team. this was a pivotal moment in the special counsel investigation. rick gates who knew so much about the inner workings at the very highest levels of the trump campaign was now willing to spill secrets to robert mueller's

williams starts now. >>> tonight, the president dismisses the warning from mueller that russia is interfering in our elections. so he says he didn't raise it while on the phone with putin. we will go live to louisville tonight as the senate majority tonight as the senate majority leader who has to win re-election to keep his job title is angrily trying to shake off his new nickname of moscow mitch. after last night's friendly fire debate where even obama was under attack, impeachment talk is still growing and their hopes are rising in texas of all places with a big name retirement making news tonight. all of it as "the 11th hour" gets under way on a thursday evening. >>> well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. this was day 924 of this trump administration. and it was something the president said this afternoon that got our attention late today. this was in response to a question about the ongoing russian attack on our elections system, the warning that was just repeated by robert mueller just a few days ago. >> robert mueller said last week t

a key witness in the mueller investigation. rick gates served as deputy chairman of the trump campaign. gates had been paul manafort's right hand deputy working for ukrainian oligarchs before manafort joined the trump campaign and brought gates along. manafort was pushed out in august of 2016, but rick gates stayed on through election day. gates then served as the number two official on the trump nug ral committee. because he held those key positions, rick gates was a first-person eyewitness to what was going on inside the trump campaign at a very high level. in october 2017, he was first charmed alongside manafort on multiple counts, including conspiracy, money laundering, and acting as an unregistered foreign agent. after prosecutors hit him with another round of charges for a total of 31, rick gates flipped. he pleaded guilty to two charges while agreeing to cooperate and provide information to robert mueller's team. and this was a pivotal moment in the special counsel investigation. rick gates, who knew so much about the inner workings at the highest levels of the trump ca

. a headline few probably expected when bob mueller first testified which was just last week. if it feels like longer, maybe you've been busy like we have. tonight for the first time ever, we can report a majority of house democrats back impeachment, 118 members. >> if a majority of a caucus wants to the go forwarded with an inquiry, would you go for it? >> it's not even close in our caucus. >> but eventually. >> why are we speculating on hypotheticals? >> not even close. hypotheticals. those talking points just died. so while speak pelosi is working during this recess visiting ghana on a trip along with other members including one of the congresswoman ilhan omar, this is pressure clearly building on speaker pelosi and the rift of her party's leadership for when they do return to washington. chairman nadler who voted to impeach back when 40% of the caucus was for it asserts essentially this is already moving in a way even without what speaker pelosi is saying because he and others have said the impeachment investigation has begun. there's a major shift here. while washington is divi

. >> and i'm gary nanananafoferry. >> well, the mueller bowl just ended and it was a total victory for team trump. >> actually larry, referee mueller was clear: not a total victory. >> what does the ref know? he did not look good out there. point is the game is officially over. >> no, it's not over, coach trump could still be arrested post season. >> the whole thing is a witch punt. >> i don't think so. coach trump attempted to fire the ref at least ten times. >> but in the end, he was still the ref. no harm, no foul. next thing you know, they'll say it's a crime to attempt murder. >> attempted murder is a crime. >> news to me. for all of us at cbs news sports-- >> boom goes the democracy. >> anner: it's "the late show" with stephen colbert. tonight, mulling mueller. plus, stephen welcomes jeff goldblum and aisha tyler, featuring jon batiste and "stay human." and now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ( theme song playing ) >> stephen: whoo! thanks, everybody! please have a seat! very nice! delightful. what a lo

mueller day after day after day, and the president at some cellular level might have an awareness of that because he spent much of the afternoon attacking jim comey. >> yeah, the president is someone who his aides say, and he will admit this himself, is best when he has an enemy, an opponent and often a single opponent. so that's why when, for instance, the mueller report finally wrapped up, there was some question of why is the president still going after mueller? why is he still talking about a witch-hunt? and we saw in that statement that the white house put out today about comey, the first line seems transcribed directly from the president's mouth, calling him, comey is a liar and leaker. this is something the president will take this little tidbit and if history is any indication, he's going to run with it through -- who knows how long, potentially through 2020. if it turns out to be a good rally line f. it turns out to rouse his base, something maybe going negative on immigration and he can return to comey. >> harry litman, i want to step back for a minute and look at the sweep of h

you think the mueller report -- >> i think the whole investigation was fake news. look, what bob mueller in his report, it was nothing. there's nothing there. the real question is, what in the world was going on with our government? what was going on and triggered an investigation that would derail a presidency, that would undo a presidency that had justice officials attempting to defeat donald trump in the residency. there is a much bigger issue that were dealing with. let's see if a reporter thinks it's interesting. there are couple had tackled this. i think is going to change. because they are investigating it. let's see what happens when the media has to cover, is going to be interesting. >> even the media now has been reporting about the average voter and how they feel about the mueller report form bob mueller or, they don't know. either they don't know or they don't care. and for them, cnn did a list of issues that they care about and literally 0% said mueller. so, why do you think they're such a disconnect between what voters care about or what the media chooses? >> the me

investigation entirely on volume one of the mueller report. she is the only member of congress to do that. almost everyone else supporting impeachment in the house has relied entirely on volume two of the mueller report. the part that vividly -- that vividly shows donald trump's attempts to obstruct justice, including his attempts to fire robert mueller. most of the testimony that the house judiciary committee is now seeking is about volume two of the mueller report. congresswoman underwood concentrated entirely on volume one. made no reference to obstruction of justice, no reference to volume two of the mueller report. volume one of the mueller report details the russian attack on our election, and that is what congresswoman underwood's announcement focused on. she said, quote, the mueller report lays out substantial evidence the president's campaign worked with a foreign adversary to influence an election, the president has stated he would welcome foreign help to win the 2020 election. i've long stated i support the impeachment-related investigation by chairman nadler. congress needs th

with constituents and in the time since bob mueller testified a month ago, it's now 39 more members of congress publicly coming out for impeachment. this is our nbc tally. and that includes if you've been counting seven just this week. >> we have to finish the work that mueller didn't. >> let me start by saying this. no one, no person is above the law. that includes the president of the united states. [ applause ] >> i'm announcing my support for formerly launching impeachment proceedings against president donald trump. >> essentially, the impeachment inquiry has already begun. and i support that investigation. [ applause ] >> i believe we should begin an impeachment inquiry. [ applause ] >> all of that plus the fourth ranking house democrat coming out this week as well. that's basically one of the top people who actually is on pelosi's team. this week she was actually facing protesters at an event honoring her about this event in san francisco. >> i need you to lead for my community i am undocumented. >> but the lifetime achievement award ceremony is quickly interrupted with people

an assignment and get itdo done. and that i arrived in his office that will foreshadow bob mueller and ways appointed by the attorney general special counsel then the appointee of janet reno. i'm standing in his office a very distinguished lawyer i imactually worked with him and to have the highest regard and bob said move your family to little rock you will be here for a long time. [laughter] he had found more than a failed land deal in arkansas. >> how big was your team and who were the key actors? >> the team expect - - expanded or contracted depending on the circumstances we assign lawyers d to specific matters like the death of vincent foster junior the fraudulent buildings of webster hubbell who was associate attorney general in hillary's law partner at the rose lawaw firm. and one of the victims was the united states government and with those matters under investigation so overnight from being a live person and a judge on the dc circuit i had two tours of duty but while nobody said this needs to go when we need a replacement with a specialal division and the independent coun

fakes. -- fake news. i hope we stick with that. the mueller commission and pompeo and donald trump admitted that russia meddled in our election and they were meant to drive down turnout. these are things we used to not deny until it became a partisan talking point. >> shannon: to rolling stone. under the article titled please stop thinking this will be a fair election. election security was a paramount issue for black and brown voters and should be for everyone planing to go to the polls in 2020? >> well, why is it voter suppression to ask somebody for an ied? you have to show id to buy beer. this party is lost without a message. they are not reaching out to middle america. they need to go after middle america like kamala harris going after pot smokers. >> shannon: not anymore, though. it was part of the dust up between her and gabbard on the stage. do you think voter i.d. laws will you categorize that as a voter suppression? >> i would and standing in the way of reenfrancing felons in florida that's voter suppression. what happened in georgia where polling places were not given ba

to keep private. but he is now losing that fight. one of the surprise revelations from the mueller report and from mueller's testimony to congress was that mueller and his team didn't do a financial investigation pertaining to the president, his business, his family. although robert mueller repeatedly asserted unequivocally that financial entang lts particularly secret financial entanglements are a primary means of foreign governments compromising u.s. persons, gaining leverage over americans including people in u.s. politics. mueller asserted any such investigation into the president, into whether president trump might have had those kind of compromising financial ties, that was viewed in the special counsel's office they saw that as a counter intelligence matter and not what they were doing, and so they didn't do it. if there were illegal or illicit or even just secret dealings involving foreign entities that could be traced through the president's personal and business finances, that obviously would be of serious national security interests, serious counter intelligence interest

if i said the names archibald cox, ken starr and bob mueller you know i'm talking about a very select group of social prosecutors, independent counsel, special counsel who were appointed, have been appointed to look into high-level high visibility cases involving the executive branch. there are some differences between each of those titles and we will get into that a bit later with ken, but first i want to take us, start off back to 1994. you had been in private practice with the chicago firm kirkland ellis and joined in the washington dc area teaching lot nyu and you get a call from judge sentelle who was calling to ask if you would be willing to stand you out about replacing bob is this correct that time was heading up the whitewater investigation and why did you want to leave this great job and time in the dc area and go back into the arena and did you have any idea what you're about to to get into? >> fools rush in and i had no idea whatsoever, but when i arrived in little rock, on the day of that my appointment and i thought it was a failed land deal in arkansas. it will t

. generally stressful, nice to see you today. >> sandra: robert mueller drawing scrutiny right now. why some are suggesting mueller may have misled congress. we are going to hear from former deputy independent counsel sol wisenberg. he will join us next. >> your may 29th the press conference, did it have anything to do with the fact that the previous day, the judge threatened to hold your prosecutors and contempt for misrepresenting evidence? >> no. attention veterans, if you own a home, newday usa can help you turn your va mortgage benefits into an important part of your retirement plan. newday veteran homeowners take out an average of over $50,000 or more to consolidate credit card debt and get some breathing room by lowering their payments by an average of $600 a month. newday can also show you how to pay off your mortgage years early, and all it takes to find out what your va mortgage benefits are worth is a short phone call to newday usa more money, lower payments, sounds like a good way to start planning for retirement. z<ç.]ñ8d]x+y join us for a walk? i'd love to, but my legs a

former special counsel mueller's assessment that russia is already meddling in the elections. >> you don't really believe this. do you believe this? >> he said it last week. >> mueller said right now do you believe russia is interfering. >> i watched mueller. i'm not sure mueller knows what is going on, if you want to know the truth. >> trump mocked the former special counsel. >> we have a few guys -- these are warriors. a couple of them you saw the other day. they were questioning bob mueller. that was a beauty. he was sharp, wasn't he. sharp as a tack. >> so the justice department has declined to prosecute james comey over memos that document encounters with president trump amid ongoing internal views beyond the probe of assists in 2016. according to the "washington post," justice department who was conducting one of the reviews is unlikely to produce a final report for at least a month. one aspect of his work is largely complete, comey's handling with those memos. a person familiar with the matter said the decision not to charge comey was, quote, not a close call. president trump

to do so in the eight days since robert mueller supposedly disappointing testimony. the total number of democrats favoring an impeachment inquiry is up to 117, nearly half the caucus. other recent additions also include the vice chair of the house democratic caucus and four committee chairs, including foreign affairs committee chairman eliot engel who is close to nancy pelosi and not coincidentally happens to have a primary challenger. when pelosi was asked back in june what she will do if the majority of her caucus ends up supporting an impeachment inquiry, she dismissed saying it's not even close. we're now in a five-week recess in which all of the members of congress will be hearing from their constituents. and if one more democrat comes out in favor of opening an impeachment inquiry, that will be majority of the house democratic caucus supporting it. jared hoffman thinks that week of september ninth that's when i think they will support impeachment inquiry, a tipping point. so when congress comes back in september, impeachment may be a very pressing issue on pelosi's leadership.

in the mueller report. one of the things that was interesting to hear from him tonight is other non-mueller report grounds on which they are considering articles of impeachment against the president right now. and it's not all derived from mueller but a lot of obviously what they want to continue to investigate is and they have now got everything in place to get what they need including the testimony from the various witnesses but they are also steaming in a goal oriented way towards what they want to get done. all the ambiguity and all the discussion about this stuff is now moot. it's on. it's happening. >> yeah, he basically said to me last week in a similar interview that this is it. this is the impeachment process underway. he clarified there is no bright line procedurely in the house judiciary committee that says today is an impeachment process and yesterday wasn't. once they start moving in that direction and asking questions in that direction, it is as you said, it is on. >> it's on. once the committee chairman says yes, we're considering articles of impeachment and voting to

this week. >> we have to finish the work that mueller didn't. >> let me start by saying. this no one, no person is above the law. that includes the president of the united states. and zbl i >> i'm announcing my support for formally launch impeachment proceedings against donald trump. >> the impeachment inquiry has already begun. and i support that investigation. >> i believe we should begin impeachment inquiry. >> all of that plus the fourth ranking house democrat coming out this week as well. that basically the top people who actually is on pelosi's team. she is still opposed. this week she was facing protesters at an event honoring her about this in san francisco. >> i need you to leave from my community! >> i am undocumented. >> the reward ceremony is interrupted with people holding impeach now signs. >> impeach now! impeach now! >> police escorted shouting protesters out of the room. >> this is part of what democracy looks like. i'll be joined by one of the members that just came out for impeachment. we begin on the law with maia wiley and a former prosecutor. good to see both of

see how it plays out. we have to remember as we think about the mueller investigation, we have to go back to the beginning. it was started as a result of an illegal leak by the former fbi director who was fired and in pursuing a vendetta against president trump, leaked documents to get his friend ultimately appointed as special counsel. >> sean: thank you. you've been doing great work with judicial watch. i know we have other foia requests that we expected we will be revealing more stories in the days and weeks to come. i know for some of you this has taken a long time. i know the wheels of justice sometimes move slowly. the issue of mueller is gone, done, and finished. the issue of the abuse of power and corruption, it's not only just started, they are deep into discovering the things that we have told you on this program. every one of them will be proven to be true. every single solitary report that this show and our ensemble team has brought forward will be proven true. that is news that i can report to you tonight, confirmed to me from very high sources. by the way, judicial watc

president, and she was convinced by what she sees as overwhelming evidence in the mueller report, but it's in volume i of the mueller report, not volume ii about the obstruction of justice, volume i about the russian interference. that is a unique take on impeachment by this congresswoman. we're going to have that next. great riches will find you when liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. wow. thanks, zoltar. how can i ever repay you? maybe you could free zoltar? thanks, lady. taxi! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ ♪ work so hard ♪ give it everything you got ♪ strength of a lioness ♪ tough as a knot ♪ rocking the stage ♪ and we never gonna stop ♪ all strength, no sweat. ♪ just in case you forgot ♪ all strength. ♪ no sweat secret. all strength. no sweat. we're pretty different. we're all unique in our own ways. somos muy diferentes. muy diferentes. (vo) verizon knows everyone in your family is different. there are so many of us doing so many different things. (vo) that's why verizon lets ev

is that he wasn't muler r muellered. he came out and whispers it he's past his prime and he's a little decrepit, i think those will be tamped down for a while. he turned into a malleable scold. at one point, he said the world has changed since obama because he was taking so many incoming that he wanted to wiggle his way out of that. i mean, you asked to speak metaphysically. i'm not sure this is, but what the people on stage didn't do as they're trademark the greatest legislative achievement of the democrats over eight years, the aca, was compare what obama did even on deportation which as your other guest said, 3 million is not something that to be proud of. but no one compared it to what trump is doing. i mean, by comparison, you know, gallup finds barack obama the most admired person in the world. and in our fractious times, 66% of americans across all parties approve of barack obama. how much better can you get than to be associated with barack obama. >> that's a striking statistic. how do you reconcile that with donald trump's ig ral crowd being so much larger depending on

possible obstruction? >> he has referenced several times throughout the mueller report about the obstruction of justice. efforts about allegedly the president underwent to try to undercut the mueller probe, try to thwart it. according to what the president said, the president said he wanted lewandowski to reach out to jeff sessions and to limit the scope of the mueller probe and exclude the president's campaign and focus on future campaigns. lewandowski tried to set up the meeting, it did not occur. the president followed up with lewandowski. lewandowski turned to rick dearborn who was then a former -- who was then a white house official, then a former chief of staff to jeff sessions. why don't you go to jeff sessions and try to set up this meeting. he delivered a message. it was typed out delivering the president's words. dearborn apparently did not set up this meeting but the same committee, house judiciary committee wants to hear from rick dear born. we'll see if cory lewandowski decides to talk about those episodes because in the past, as i said earlier, he has not wanted to

and rick dearborn, former top white house official, were featured prominently in the mueller report red lighted to president trump's efforts to curtail the mueller investigation. in one instance, president trump dictated, according to the mueller report, to corey lewandowski directly, a message to be shared with then attorney general jeff sessions about curtailing that investigation. a month later, the president checked in with corey lewandowski to see if it had been done. it had not. so corey lewandowski went to rick dearborn, who is the former chief of staff of then senator jeff sessions. wolf, what you know right now is that democrats are very clear on this committee that they want to ramp up the investigations. this would call for a public hearing on september 17th. wolf, they want to make that happen. the big question is, what will the white house do to try to stop it. >> what are you learning about white house efforts on that point to try to stop this subpoena from being implemented? >> wolf, a really interesting element of this is democrats have been urging jerry nadler and t

president trump, at that point, president , to special counsel robert mueller. now, we haven't gotten any confirmation beyond the fact that it would seem to fit what we have is a nexus here of fusion gps glenn simpson, clinton campaign funding, we have john solomon's reporting that the fbi determined in early 2017, at some point, over 90% of the steele dossier was garbage and not verifiable but we also know it's unverifiable because an interrogatory in great britain, we know steele didn't stand by his own dirty dossier. yet, all this information, and you see a desperation.n. then you see more acknowledgment, oh, yeah, still had an agenda, he hated trump. okay, hillary hates trump. nellie ohr is digging up dirt on donald trump. and together, they are all working and bruce ohr is in the middle of this. what do you think the impact is specifically on bruce ohr because he is now only been demoted how many times? >> well, you know, bruce ohr, the initial impression one had of him was that he was a receiver. just a receiver and a conveyor of information. these documents show he was an activ

trump was looking according to our reporting was looking at him potentially as dni, pre-mueller testimony. it was that moment when the congressman was really trying to take the former special counsel to task, alex and pamela, when he thought, huh, this could be my guy. >> i don't want to interrupt alex but i was told that basically ratcliffe was already the front-runner, was already being discussed even before the mueller hearing and i was told it was his to lose at that point. but clearly the congressman knew that the president was watching and he wanted to impress the president. so we are told that even though his name had been floated out there before for attorney general, some of his allies had been pushing for him, he wasn't really taking seriously as someone who would have a position in the administration until more recently when it was clear the president wanted to replace dan coats. and then of course the mueller hearing came along and that sealed the deal for ratcliff, brooke. >> and can you just underscore how significant a role this is, how sensitive in terms of intel

cnn, fails to mention robert mueller, the special counsel, his report, the president's exoneration. that is after the mueller disastrous testimony under cut their phony russia collusion story line, things got complicated at cnn. we take up that and a great deal more with attorneys victoria tensing and joe digenova. >> ugly scene in cincinnati. during a major league baseball game, after the break. stay with us. here you go little guy. a cockroach can survive submerged underwater for 30 minutes. wow. yeah, wow. not getting in today. not on my watch. pests never stop trying to get in. we never stop working to keep them out. terminix. defenders of home. helping kids like grace, and her whole community, to shine. there's nothing quite like it. at world vision, we've seen what happens when a child gets clean water, or nutritious food. when she feels safe, gets to learn in a classroom, or discovers that she has infinite worth. together we're working to help every kid, everywhere, grow into who god created them to be. reach out with us today and help people change their own lives for good.

the steamboat institute in colorado. he talked about impeachment, free speech, the mueller investigation and his former clients jeffrey epstein and oj simpson. this is 45 minutes. he talked about the mueller investigation, jeffrey epstein, and o.j. simpson. >> there is a little bit of dinner service going on over here, but everyone is trying to be as quiet as they can. i believe all of the service staff is out of the room now and we can have your undivided attention to enjoy what is sure to be a compelling discussion. lifedershowitz spent his defending civil liberties, defending free speech on college campuses, and defending israel. he joined the harvard law school factory at the age of 25. blanklyof one of our fellows. -- blankley fellows. he became america's professor after teaching more than 10,000 students. professor dershowitz has been called the winningest criminal lawyer in history. he has one -- won a vast majority of his cases. he continues to devote have his bonoice to pr -- to pro cases and causes. he has written nearly 40 bucks including his 10 most recent books

mention robert mueller, the special counsel, his report, the president's exoneration. that is after the mueller disastrous testimony under cut their phony russia collusion story line, things got complicated at cnn. we take up that and a great deal more with attorneys victoria tensing and joe digenova. >> ugly scene in cincinnati. during a major league baseball game, after the break. stay with us. my experience with usaa has been excellent. they really appreciate the military family and it really shows. with all that usaa offers why go with anybody else? we know their rates are good, we know that they're always going to take care of us. it was an instant savings and i should have changed a long time ago. it was funny because when we would call another insurance company, hey would say "oh we can't beat usaa" we're the webber family. we're the tenney's we're the hayles, and we're usaa members for life. ♪ get your usaa auto insurance quote today. bill's back needed a afvacation from his vacation. an amusement park... so he stepped on the dr. scholl's kiosk. it recommends our best cust

the dossier not being verified, it being political, but that's only one path. now, in the mueller report, correct me if i'm wrong, the professor joseph misfud, he was, in fact, they thought he was a russian agent. we found out he was a western intelligence guy. then you have you have stefan halper, he's spying on carter page, sam clovis, and papadopoulos. who set that up? do we know who was involved or not? was intelligence farmed out to other countries, allied countries, because it would have been otherwise illegal to do it in this country and they were circumventing american law to do so? >> i can report absolutely that the durham investigators have now obtained an audiotape deposition of joseph misfud where he describes his work, why he targeted papadopoulos, who directed him to do that, what directions he was given, and why he set that entire process of introducing george papadopoulos to russia in motion. in march of 2016, which is really the flash point, the starting point of this whole russia collusion narrative. i can also confirm that the senate judiciary committee has als

floor today. >> robert mueller said last week that russian interfered in u.s. elections right now. did you raise that with vladimir putten >> you don't believe this? do you believe in do you believe this okay, fine we didn't talk about that. >> so, there is the president of the united states saying in next, he doesn't believe that russian -- russia interfered with the election or russia plans to interfere with the election when he is confrontwood that by robert mueller's testimony through a reporter he says you don't really believe this. >> same old thing. robert mueller said it under oath that the russians are doing it as we speak. trump's own fbi director christopher wray under my questioning and others just last week said the same thing. his own intelligence director dan coates who is now sadly resigning said that they are getting bolder. so it is undeniable that this is happening. they've done it through hacking and done it through dirty propaganda online. and both of these things we could take steps to decrease the possibility of in happening. as i said today, this is about o

, not a single fact has been disproven. the mueller report validated independently every single fact that jim comey put on the public record. >> yeah. and frank, it does seem like an unusual situation. i guess i'm curious. maybe with the benefit of hindsight. could you look back and see a way for comey to have achieved what he was trying to achieve that would have lived within the rules of the doj and the fbi to establish? >> well, let's understand the context. it even says in the ig report, he told the ig, i'm doing this because i could not trust the white house. i could not trust the president. and as jeremy said, all of his mistrust was actually right on the money. he ended up getting fired soon after did this. so what would i have done? i've thought about this. there is a possibility you could have provided those memos to the house or senate. intelligence committees. you could have sent them to the ig. the ig works for the doj and the attorney general. he did what he felt he had to do. i once read an account of a state trooper who saved a family are a burning car on the highway.

lawmakers or the public that president trump didn't try to obstruct justice during the mueller investigation. or will it convince democrats that the president ought to be impeached? >>> not going home. israel reverses courses to agree to led representative rashida tlaib visit her grandmother in her family ancestral home in the west bank but the congresswoman turns down the offer and now she's slamming the restrictions she would have had to follow if she went. it started a new round of angry finger pointing. >>> love me or hate me, amid reports president trump is worried about the economy, and a possible recession, he connells up with a creative new argument. telling a crowd that love him or hate him, everyone has to vote for him because the economy will crash and wipe out their retirement savings if he loses. >>> walking away. we're learning frightening new details about the plane crash that retired nascar driver dale earnhardt, jr. walked away from with only minor injuries, including the plane bounced twice before running off the runway. i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the sit

says he believes russia is interfering in the election. pres. trump: i'm not sure robert mueller knows what is going on. all i know is he believes no collusion with us, no collusion. ultimately, no obstruction. because it led to no obstruction by a very smart group of people including our attorney general. no collusion, no production. -- no obstruction. as far as mueller's performance, you would have to say it was maybe not so good. not so good. [indiscernible] our country is doing very well. we are setting records in every way. including employment, unemployment, we have more people working in the united states than ever before. the stock market, it will take a hit but it will be phenomenal because it will be better because of what i am doing. someone should have done this with china and long time ago. they decided not to do it. they made a big mistake. i will say, there has never been a time in the history of our country like we have right now. the highest number of people employed. the best employment numbers for african-americans, hispanic, women. the best numbers we've ever

she was convinced by what she sees as overwhelming evidence in the mueller report, but it's in volume i of the mueller report, not volume ii about the obstruction of justice, volume i about the russian interference. that is a unique take on impeachment by this congresswoman. we're going to have that next. ♪ limu emu & doug and now for their service to the community, we present limu emu & doug with this key to the city. [ applause ] it's an honor to tell you that liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. and now we need to get back to work. [ applause and band playing ] only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ >>> there was an important development in support for impeachment proceedings in the house of representatives today. important both in who the new support comes from and what that support is based on. congress woman lauren underwood of illinois is one of the freshmen democrats who flipped a republican district last year in winning her election. she brings the total number of house diplomats supporting i

russia is election?g in the >> i'm not sure that mueller knows what is going on if you want to know the truth. no collusion, no production. as far as mueller's performance, you would have to say it was probably not so good. doing very well. we are setting records in every way. we have more people working in the united states than ever before. becausebe phenomenal someone should have done this with china and long time ago. say there has never been a time in the history of our country like we have right now. the highest number of people employed. the vast numbers we've ever had. our military is being rebuilt and it is going to be at a level stronger and better with the new aircraft, missiles, new everything. what did you think of the democratic debate and the charge congresswoman gabbard that you are assisting al qaeda. >> no one knows what she is talking about. short whileber, a ago, i defeated isis. you are always going to have someone around. --have captured over 10,000 they were going back to france in europe. we have captured one of percent of the caliphate and have done a big jo