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class='resource-pool'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-label'\u003ePublisher:\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-name'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='text'\u003e\u003ca data-publisher-id=\"30356011\" href=\"/search?publisher_ids%5B%5D=30356011\"\u003eCurated Video\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-description'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='short-description'\u003eUS President Donald Trump's warning shots for Justice Department leaders and the former FBI director heading the Russian election-meddling probe reveal an escalating fury over investigations that increasingly have ensnared his family and...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eUS President Donald Trump's warning shots for Justice Department leaders and the former FBI director heading the Russian election-meddling probe reveal an escalating fury over investigations that increasingly have ensnared his family and closest advisers. \u003cbr/\u003e              The president's growing anxiousness about the scope of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation spilled into public view with a warning to Mueller that he would be out of bounds if he dug into the Trump family's finances as he looks for evidence of potential collusion between Russians and Trump associates. \u003cbr/\u003e              In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times on Wednesday, Trump exhibited a sweeping displeasure with some of the nation's top law enforcement officials, including Jeff Sessions, his hand-picked attorney general. \u003cbr/\u003e              Trump said he never would have appointed Sessions if he knew he would recuse from overseeing the Russia investigation, underscoring his continued anger over the decision. \u003cbr/\u003e              Attorney General Jeff Sessions, publicly skewered by his boss for stepping aside from the Russia-Trump investigations, declared Thursday he still loves his job and plans to stay on. \u003cbr/\u003e              Yet Donald Trump's airing of his long-simmering frustrations with Sessions raised significant new questions about the future of the nation's top prosecutor.\u003cbr/\u003e              The White House was quick to insist that the president \"has confidence\" in Sessions. \u003cbr/\u003e              However, the episode underscored how the attorney general's crime-fighting agenda is being overshadowed by his fractured relationship with Trump and the continuing investigations into allegations of Russian ties to the Republican candidate's presidential campaign.\u003cbr/\u003e              The challenges for Sessions were laid bare Thursday when the attorney general, at a Justice Department news conference to announce the takedown of a mammoth internet drug marketplace, faced zero questions about that case and was instead grilled on his reaction to being excoriated by Trump in a New York Times interview a day earlier. \u003cbr/\u003e              It all followed Trump's statements to the Times that he never would have tapped the former Alabama senator for the job had he known a recusal was coming. \u003cbr/\u003e              Sessions took himself off the Justice Department-led case in March following revelations he'd failed to disclose his own meetings with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. \u003cbr/\u003e              That placed the investigation with his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, who in May appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller to serve as special counsel.\u003cbr/\u003e              All this comes as the scope of Mueller's probe continues to take shape and as members of the Trump campaign's inner circle, including his eldest son and son-in-law, are being called before Senate committees next week to talk about the 2016 election. \u003cbr/\u003e              The three men _ Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort _ will almost certainly be asked about their attendance at a June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer. \u003cbr/\u003e              That gathering was arranged via emails that advertised it would reveal damaging information about Hillary Clinton. \u003cbr/\u003e              The lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, also said Wednesday she was ready to testify before the U.S. Senate and \"clarify the situation.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              The meeting raised new questions about the Trump campaign's possible ties to Moscow and how Trump's past business relationships may have factored in. \u003cbr/\u003e              According to emails released by the younger Trump, the meeting was brokered at the request of Emin Agalarov, a Moscow-based pop singer, whose real-estate tycoon father, Aras, paid $20 million for Trump to stage the Miss Universe contest in Moscow in 2013.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              Washington - July 20, 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              1. SOUNDBITE (English) Chad Day, AP Reporter\u003cbr/\u003e              \"So, the main thing that came out - actually there was a number of things that came out of this interview. But, the main thing that came out of this is that he is very anxious or nervous about the scope of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible collusion with Trump campaign associates and Russia's meddling in the 2016 election.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              ++BLACK FRAMES++\u003cbr/\u003e              2. SOUNDBITE (English) Chad Day, AP Reporter\u003cbr/\u003e              \"The main thing that he's very nervous about, or it seems to be upset about, is if Mueller were to venture into looking into his family's finances as part of his investigation. He particularly seemed to single out as a red line that if Mueller crossed that and started looking into those matters that might be something he considers to be a violation of Mueller's charge, you know, basically what he is supposed to be investigating. He did stop short of saying that he would fire Mueller, but it was clear that this was more of a warning shot across the bow that the president is not happy that Mueller would be looking into those things.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              ++BLACK FRAMES++\u003cbr/\u003e              3. SOUNDBITE (English) Chad Day, AP Reporter\u003cbr/\u003e              \"So, at this point there's been some reports today, the AP's not confirmed that, but there's been some reports today that Mueller is looking into, or at least has done some preliminary discussions with some financial institutions looking into Trump's business transactions. There was a report from Bloomberg and also The New York Times had a report that people at Deutsche Bank, which is a major lender for Trump, do expect to hear from Mueller about possibly a subpoena or some request for some records from them. There were also some reports out there that Mueller seems to be interested in looking at some of Trump's past business relationships with Russians.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              ++BLACK FRAMES++\u003cbr/\u003e              4. SOUNDBITE (English) Chad Day, AP Reporter\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Right, so that's another major thing that came out of this interview which is that the president seems to, basically, regret his decision to appoint Jeff Sessions, and said so openly, because he recused himself from overseeing the Russia probe. Obviously that seems to undermine Jeff Sessions. Today he was asked about this at the Justice Department in an unrelated press conference and he really ducked the question and just said 'I will continue to serve as attorney general as long as is appropriate.' But obviously not a vote of full confidence coming from the president for his attorney general.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              ++BLACK FRAMES++\u003cbr/\u003e              5. SOUNDBITE (English) Chad Day, AP Reporter\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Right now you can definitely tell that there's a lot of anxiousness going on in the White House about this investigation. I think that last week when you had the development of hard, documentary evidence of an email where the president's eldest son is meeting with someone who says they are representing the Russian government. Now, whether or not they were is still something we've kind of reported out, this lawyer has said she didn't have any direct connections to the government - but I think that's very worrisome. 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