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LEYNA: BREAKING NEWS TONIGHT
NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE
INVESTIGATION INTO POSSIBLE
COLLUSION WITH RUSSIA.
JEFF: CNN BREAKING THE STORY
THE FIRST CRIMINAL CHARGES IN
THE RUSSIAN INVESTIGATION HAVE
BEEN APPROVED BY FEDERAL GRAND
JURY.
POLITICAL REPORTER DAVE BRYAN
HAS BEEN FOLLOWING THE STORY.
REPORTER: THERE'S BEEN
PRESSURE FOR MONTHS ON THE
SPECIAL COUNSEL.
THE CNN REPORT INDICATES THAT
PLANS WERE PREPARED FRIDAY FOR
ANYONE CHARGED TO BE TAKE MEAN
CUSTODY AS EARLY AS MONDAY.
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE SPECIAL
COUNSEL DECLINED COMMENT ON THE
REPORT BUT THESE CHARGES COULD
BE A MAJOR BREAK IN THE CASE.
CNN REPORT THE FIRST EVIDENCE
THAT SPECIAL COUNSEL ROBERT
MUELLER MAY BE READY TO MOVE
FORWARD INTO THE NEXT PHASE OF
RUSSIAN MEDDLING IN THE 2016
ELECTION.
FOR THE MOMENT MUELLER WHO WAS
MADE SPECIAL COUNSEL IN MAY IS
NOT SAYING ANYTHING ABOUT THE
NEW REPORT BUT THERE ARE MORE
QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERED.
IT'S UNCLEAR WHO IS BEING
CHARGED AND WHAT THE CHARGES
ARE.
THE CHARGES ARE REPORTEDLY STILL
SEALED UNDER ORDERS FROM A
FEDERAL JUDGE.
ON FRIDAY TOP ATTORNEYS WHO ARE
HELPING LEAD THE MUELLER
INVESTIGATION WERE SEEN ENTERING
THE COURTROOM AT WASHINGTON,
D.C. FEDERAL COURTHOUSE WHERE
THE GRAND JURY MEETS TO HEAR
TESTIMONY IN THE RUSSIA
INVESTIGATION.
CNN REPORTS A FLURRY OF ACTIVITY
AT THAT TIME GRANTED JURY ROOM
BUT NO ANNOUNCEMENT MADE SOME OF
THE EXPERTS BELIEVE THE CHARGES
COULD BE A TACTIC TO SQUEEZE
INFORMATION FROM A RELUCTANT
PARTICIPANT.
WOULD THINK IT WOULD BE
SOMETHING IS THAT WOULD BE
ALMOST LOW HANGING FRUIT WITH A
SINGLE PERSON THAT IS UNABLE OR
UNWILLING TO GIVE MUELLER AND
HIS INVESTIGATORS ANYTHING MORE.
IT COULD BE JUST A
COINCIDENCE BUT THIS NEWS COMES
WHEN THE WHITE HOUSE UNLEASHED A
PUBLIC RELATIONS ATTACK ON THE
SPECIAL COUNSEL INVESTIGATION.
ANNOUNCING THERE'S PLENTY OF
EVIDENCE OF RUSSIAN COLLUSION
BUT NOT WITH THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN.
I THINK WE ARE SEEING NOW IF
THERE WAS ANY COLLUSION WITH
RUSSIA IT WAS WITH THE DNC AND
THE RUSSIANS.
THERE HAS BEEN ABSOLUTELY NO
COLLUSION.
IT'S BEEN STATED.
JUST THIS
TRUMP TWEETED THAT IT IS NOW
COMMONLY AGREED THAT THERE WAS
NO COLLUSION
TRUMP.
WAS COLLUSION WITH HC, THAT
WOULD BE HILLARY CLINTON.
A FEW DAYS AGRE VEALED THE
CLINTON CAMPAIGN AN DEMOCRATS
HELPED PAID FOR RESEARCH THAT
PRODUCED THE SO-CALLED RUSSIAN
DOSSIER.
SO FAR THERE'S NO EVIDENCE TO
BACK UP THE ALLEGATION THAT
CLINTON WAS IN COLLUSION WITH
THE RUSSIANS AND WHEN A CNN
REPORTER ASKED ABOUT IT AT A
WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING THE PRESS
SECRETARY WOULDN'T ANSWER.
SIR NO THE PRESIDENT MADE A
CHARGE.
I THINK I'VE ADDRESSED THAT
PRETTY THOROUGHLY.
I'M SAYING I'M CALLING ON
YOUR COLLEAGUE.
FRIDAY NIGHT PRESIDENT TRUMP
TWEETED ANOTHER ATTACK ON
HILLARY CLINTON WITH THE
HEADING.
WHAT HAPPENED?
THEN A LINE FROM A "NEW YORK
POST".
CHARGING IT MAY HAVE BEEN
HILLARY WHO CAME CLOSER TO
COLLUDING WITH THE RUSSIANS.
NOW WE KNOW, THE TRUMP TWEET
CONCLUDES.
BURBANK CONGRESSMAN SCHIFF
QUESTIONS WHETHER IT'S A
PREEMPTIVE STRIKE TO DIVERT
ATTENTION FROM THE SPECIAL
COUNSEL AT CRUCIAL TIME.
THE QUESTION IS THIS IN GOOD
FAITH.
IT'S HARD TO CONCLUDE THIS IS
DONE IN GOOD FAITH THAT WE HAVE
SUDDENLY AFTER THE FACT DECIDED
WE GOT TO DO ANOTHER
INVESTIGATION OF HILLARY
CLINTON.
ALL THIS BRINGING BACK
MEMORIES FROM THE CAMPAIGN.
IT'S JUST AWFULLY GOOD THAT
SOMEONE WITH THE TEMPERMENT OF
DONALD TRUMP IS NOT IN CHARGE OF
THE LAW IN OUR COUNTRY.
BECAUSE YOU WOULD BE IN JAIL.
IN A RELATED DEVELOPMENT
THERE APPEARS TO BE PLENTY OF
TROUBLE IN THE CONGRESSIONAL
INVESTIGATION WITH THE
WASHINGTON POST REPORTING THAT
PRESIDENT TRUMP AND THE
REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS
DEMANDING SCRUTINY OF HILLARY
CLINTON WHICH YOU SAW THAT COULD
JEOPARDIZE THEIR INVESTIGATION
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