so much better yeah much better I prepared floral this is a Fox News Alert
good evening prepare in New York we began with a political blockbuster
tonight presidential attorney Rudy Giuliani says special counsel Robert
Muller is promising to follow Justice Department guidance that a sitting
president cannot be indicted this obviously has implications for the
Russia collusion probe and may come as a seismic disappointment to some of
President Trump's critics chief White House correspondent John Roberts starts
us off with the breaking details tonight from the North Lawn could even jump that
good evening to you I spoke with Rudy Giuliani on the telephone in the last
hour and he confirmed to Fox News dat about two weeks ago the Special Counsel
Robert Muller assured the president's outside legal team that he would follow
DOJ guidelines that a sitting president cannot be indicted
Giuliani says that Muller doesn't really have any choice he has to follow the the
findings of a 1999 Clinton era DOJ memo now that's not to say that Muller still
couldn't find some evidence of wrongdoing that Congress could act on
but the president's legal team doesn't appear concerned Giuliani telling Fox
News a short time ago quote this case is essentially over they're just in denial
while the president appears to continue to be consumed on an almost daily basis
with the Russia investigation he has more pressing matters at hand such as
whether his summit with Kim jong-un is on or off meeting with the president of
Uzbekistan today President Trump was unclear about the status of his summit
with North Korean leader Kim jong-un
we'll have to see North Korea pulled out of meetings with South Korean officials
this week protesting joint us-south Korean military exercises Pyongyang also
left open to question whether the u.s. North Korea meeting would be scuttled
White House officials think it all might be so much North Korean bluster this is
something that we fully expected the president is very Houston ready for
tough negotiations and if they want to meet will be ready and if they don't
that's okay to continue with the campaign of maximum pressure that's the
case but like I just said if they want to meet the president will certainly be
ready while military exercises were the initial rationale for its tantrum North
Korea also made clear it has an issue with what National Security Advisor John
Bolton told fox's Chris Wallace on April 29th Bolton saying there is already a
model for what North Korean denuclearization would look like and we
have very much in mind the Libya model from 2003 2004 there are obviously
differences the Libyan program was much smaller but that was basically the
agreement that we made and so we'll want to test North Korea in this first
meeting for evidence that they have made that strategic decision press secretary
Sarah could be Sanders today walked that back a bit insisting any vision for
denuclearization will come from the president and that he has his own ideas
I haven't seen that that's like a specific thing I know that that comment
was made but I don't think we're going off of there's not a cookie cutter model
on how this works this is the president Trump model he's gonna run this the way
he sees fit we all know that you're aware he's the best negotiator we also
got more insight today into why Rudy Giuliani dropped the bombshell on May
2nd that President Trump reimbursed Michael Cohen for the payment to stormy
Daniels in a financial disclosure released by the Office of government
ethics today President Trump reports in 2016 expenses were incurred by one of
Donald J Trump's attorneys Michael Cohen mr. Cohen sought reimbursement of those
expenses and mr. Trump fully reimbursed mr. Cohen in 2017 the president contends
he was not required to report the but did so in the interest of
transparency OGE disagreed in a comment saying it concluded that the information
related to the payment made by mr. cohen is required to be reported oh GE adding
that the president has now meant the reporting requirements the question why
didn't the president report the payment to stormy Daniels and reimbursement to
Cohen last year in March Citizens for responsibility and ethics in Washington
filed suit with the O GE and DOJ wanting to know if the failure to report
it is June 2017 financial disclosure was knowing and willful the acting director
of the office of government ethics said both reports and an accompanying letter
to the Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein for further investigation or
at least further consideration as to why Giuliani made that statement to Sean
Hannity Beck on May the 2nd sources tell FOX News Giuliani was aware that the
Cohen payments would come out of the president's financial disclosure and
wanted to get ahead of it by getting ahead of it Brett it would be Giuliani
who took the hit and not the president weeb Rudy Giuliani is on laura ingraham
show tonight 10:00 p.m. I want to ask you about something else speaking of the
investigation Robert Muller Roger stones social media director in the news today
what's that about yeah Robert Muller has issued a subpoena to Jason Sullivan he
was Roger stone a good friend of the president's associate of the presidents
in 2016 his social media director we contacted Jason Sullivan who
confirmed at Fox News that yes he did indeed receive a subpoena wouldn't go
much beyond that though but this is an indication breath that Muller may be
looking into any evidence that Roger stone knew what WikiLeaks was up to when
it was releasing all of those Clinton emails that ostensibly at least
allegedly had been hacked by Russia I guess Muller wants to know what Roger
stone knew and when he knew it Brett John Roberts loved on the North Lawn
jump thank you we have new information tonight about the infamous Trump Tower
meeting between the president's son Donald Trump jr. and some of his
father's campaign ads as well as a Russian lawyer who supposedly had
damaging information about Hillary Clinton or
that was thought of at the time correspondent Peter Doocy
is on Capitol Hill tonight with the latest Donald Trump jr. said he kept his
dad in the dark in June 2016 when Russians came calling with potential
dirt on opponent Hillary Clinton congressional investigators asked did he
say why wasn't I told about this meeting no he didn't did you find that odd
no because he wasn't aware of it the meeting almost didn't happen according
to the music promoter with Russian clients who set it up Rob Goldstone told
Congress I believe that was a bad idea and that we shouldn't do it and I gave
the reason for that being that I am a music publicist politics I knew nothing
about once the meeting started things unfolded like this according to Ikea
valid say a US citizen of Georgian descent who works for a group run by a
Russian oligarch mr. Trump asked if they got anything on Hillary and to which mr.
Ahmed Sheen responded why don't you do your own research on her we gave you the
idea but Ranaut Ahmed Jean a Russian lobbyist was asked by investigators was
there any discussion of anything that might reasonably be considered collusion
between the Trump campaign and the Russian government not to weigh I
understand it no Trump jr. told Congress that the meeting was instead primarily
focused on Russian adoptions today jr. said the public can now see that for
over five hours I answered every question asked and was candid and
forthright with the committee these Democratic lawmakers not so sure I have
no confidence
so the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee may bring Trump jr. back to
testify again things I'll take it under advisement this morning Obama era Intel
officials briefed a bipartisan group of senators about how they came to the
conclusion that Russians mettle to help Trump in an intelligence community
assessment or ICA which reportedly relied on the infamous unverified dirty
dossier and in a break with House Republicans Republican Chairman Richard
Burr now says quote we've seen no reason to dispute the conclusions today's talk
with the Obama era spy chiefs according to one Democrat in attendance focused
less on Trump campaign collusion and more on Russians using Facebook and
Twitter to interfere we never had social media to this extent than any other
election before former CIA director John Brennan and former national security
adviser James clapper were not chatty leaving their clothes for meeting Organa
tell us about what he told the communicator
so the last generation of spy Chiefs was characteristically tight-lipped as the
next generation got a step closer to the director's office at Langley Gina Haspel
was easily confirmed today by the Intel committee next stop a full Senate
confirmation vote it could be as early as tomorrow
Brett introduce you live on the hill Peter thank you let's get more now from
Oklahoma Senator James Langford who sits on the Intelligence Committee in the
Senate he joins us from Capitol Hill senator thanks for being here your
assessment of this report that came out of your committee today a lot of
write-ups saying that it goes really against the House Committee on this this
very topic yeah that's interesting spin to say it goes against the house
committee all that we did is we looked at the assessment from the Obama
administration that they did in December the literally the final month for the
president that he put out a quick run-through of what the intelligence
they had at that point we looked at it and evaluated what I had at that point
and said yes that's what they had at that point they evaluated they looked at
the Indians they were the Russians Frontale President Trump at the very end
yes the bigger question was not out there
were they always trying to help the Trump campaign no but that's not in the
report and it's not being reported on it the Russians started working on campaign
issues in the United States in 2014 they didn't know the candidates at that point
they determined everyone try to find some way it's available to meddle in the
campaign they work from multiple campaigns throughout the process so that
report looked at just those final months and yes were they trying to engage her
in the final months for Trump sure they work but where they threw the whole
campaign no they were not here is the Senate Minority Leader today about this
release of the 2,500 pages that transcripts around that Trump town
meeting Senate Republicans interviewed only 12
witnesses in total an infamous Kremlin connected lawyer was allowed to provide
only written answers our Republican friends decided not to even interview
two of the other key participants in that meeting Jared Kushner Paul Manafort
to call the Senate Judiciary Committee's rusha investigation half-hearted is too
generous your response that is a sad designation of what happens in judiciary
he knows full well that's the Senate Judiciary the Senate Intelligence
Committee has also gone through this I know Democrats are trying to be able to
make something of this this is a rabbit hole for them they're constantly trying
to accuse and say there must be something here that we can stir up or at
least just create an accusation that has the appearance of it we interviewed
everybody that was there we've gone through all the documents everyone's
story has been consistent there was no collusion that was a part of that
meeting that was a deceptive reach out from an individual that they had
connected to during one of the pageants that was a music personality they met
with as a personal favor and when you go through all the interviews it was
obvious there was nothing there there was no reason to even reporting to go
through it and my fear is that Democrats continue to make something out of
nothing that if you look at the facts including
all the testimony today you'll see there was nothing to that meeting where does
this go next obviously we're waiting for the next shoe to drop with the bob
muller investigation but where where does this all go next so the House
Intelligence Committee obviously releases their report we're releasing
the second of our 4-part report here in the days ahead
dealing with what's happening in Senate Intelligence what we're trying to be
able to get out as well the Judiciary Committee from the Senate is releasing
their reports we're all wrapping up our reports and trying to get through all
the final documents the hope is that the Muller investigation is also drawing to
a close to be able to finish out their investigation my fear is if you go back
to Iran Contra and the investigations that we've done with Special Counsel and
President Reagan it was six years they drug that out we want to be able to have
them do their work finish their work and to be able to get it done what about the
concern that Russia is going to do it again in the midterms or 2020 we see
we're not likely that Russia will try something again this is something that
Eastern European countries face every single year there's something Western
European countries have faced multiple times I would assume the Russians did at
once they're gonna try to do it again people just need be aware when they see
things on social media that's not always an American and that's trying to be able
to put out that information on either side of an issue in America and
Americans frequently are seeing social media and assuming that's a fellow
citizen and it not there obviously are a lot of
Democrats some others that say they're not happy with what they saw from done
Donald Trump jr. in the committee and as this transcript of the the interviews
are being released here's senator Blumenthal on all of that what he's
calling for he needs to come back with may testify person under hope there is a
lot that needs to be explained the contradictions and invasions our panel
record but even more so when I attended this interview I have no you think he
needs to come back no I don't think it needs to come back he's appeared before
House committee severe before the Senate Judiciary Committee he's appeared before
the Senate Intelligence Committee he's done hours and hours and hours of
testimony that testimony has been consistent they're just digging and
hoping they can find something or leaving an innuendo that maybe there's
some secret question that they could ask to be able to find something the hard
part is after months and months and months of this investigation they're not
finding anything and that's really their frustration saying maybe if I bring it
back one more time I will it's just not there and what about the breaking news
that Rudy Giuliani has said that Muller told him he's going to adhere to the
Justice Department guidance and there will not be an indictment of the
president period well that's out quite frankly that's the same thing that Jim
Comey told the president a year ago that the investigation was not about the
president Jim Comey told the president that three times in their meetings that
that's come out both Comey and the president have said that over and over
again so I wouldn't be surprised by that obviously I didn't hear that firsthand
to be able to know there's not going to be an indictment but I wouldn't be
surprised by because it never has been the center of the investigation nor is
the role the Special Counsel to go try to get an indictment of the
president it his his role was very clear to see if there's any criminal activity
among the campaign the president never has been listed as the source of any
diss activities or that means those activities even existed ever he was
researching trying to find out if anything did occur
last thing how long do you think this is going to take before we know a
conclusion one way or another well in the next few months the Senate
Intelligence Committee will wrap up its working at all of its public information
out there so that everyone can see it and as much possible to tale as we can
get out an unclassified form the House Intelligence Committee is already
wrapping up its report we would hope that the special counsel would do the
same obviously we don't control the special counsel they're independent of
us but they've gone through an awful lot of interviews and awful lot of
investigations when they wrap up and they be able to close that they should
wrap it up rather than just keep searching though to find something and
at the end of the day I think there'll always be some conspiracy theory out
there by someone will say maybe if we ask one more person one more thing we
would find something but I think that's Democrats actually with hopeful thinking
against the president they politically opposed certain laugher we appreciate
your time tonight thank you we told you earlier North
Korea's again tonight threatening to cancel next month's scheduled summit
between Kim jong-un and President Trump but China is putting pressure on Kim to
stay the course let's get the latest tonight from senior foreign affairs
correspondent Greg Powell cut more diplomatic hard balls from North Korean
leader Kim jong-un his Vice foreign ministers saying in the
statement late Wednesday Korea time we are no longer interested in the
negotiation that will be all about driving us into a corner and making a
one-sided demand to give up our nukes as Chinese President Xi greeted in Beijing
a visiting North Korean delegation the north korean ally urged Pyongyang not to
give up talks next month with President Trump on him North Korea and the US
should meet each other halfway and demonstrate mutual sincerity to create a
conductive atmosphere for their leaders meeting and the denuclearization of the
Korean Peninsula the regime had already branded u.s. south korean air exercises
as provocative in a call of a meeting set for today at the DMZ between North
and South Korean officials Seoul too was upset someone
the South Korean government urges the north to come out to talks immediately
for the peace and prosperity of the Korean Peninsula most analysts think Kim
jong-un doesn't want to pull out of the summit that this is more posturing and
positioning before in the negotiations some from Washington say the president
should stick to his guns I would advise and caution not to give
in to their concessions before you can get to the negotiating table you want to
negotiate out of strength not out of weakness
North Korea's public dismantling of its only known nuclear test site is set for
next week whether or not that happens could be a sign of how real this
disruption is still the latest statement from North Korea does indicate the
possibility that they might want to reject the demand for deed
nuclearization a sign perhaps the regime is not yet ready to roll over right
great thank you the head of the European Union Council
says the actions of the u.s. under President Trump are capricious Donald
Tusk adds quote someone could even think with friends like that who needs enemies
tusk is leading an EU summit to address the outstanding issues with the Trump
administration those include the u.s. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal
and the threat to impose punitive trade Trey's actions on the 28-nation EU
palace
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