[Wolf Blitzer, Cnn:] We're covering the official memorial ceremonies for former President George H.W. Bush. Let's also go to the White House right now. Our correspondent Kaitlan Collins is joining us. Kaitlan, President Trump will be here up on Capitol Hill later this evening I understand to pay his respects?
[Kaitlan Collins, Cnn White House Correspondent:] That's right, Wolf. In the next hour or two, President Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, are going to come up to Capitol Hill to pay their respects, and then tomorrow, they are expected to visit with the Bush family at the Blair House. That's the president's guest house that is right outside the White House that the president has invited them to stay in while they're here in Washington. And, Wolf, of course, it is no secret there's some animosity between the president and the Bush family since that 2016 campaign when it turned ugly. But since president, the former president died on Friday night, there's been nothing but praise from President Trump, who cancelled his press conference in Argentina, he said, out of respect for his predecessor, for the former president. And he also followed protocol and sent Air Force One to pick up his casket to send him here for the final flight from Texas to Washington. Now, he is going to visit with them tomorrow and then he is expected to attend the funeral on Wednesday, but, Wolf, we are told he will not be speaking during that funeral.
[Blitzer:] Kaitlan, the decorum the president is expect to display later tonight is quite different from what we've seen earlier today. Tell us about that.
[Collins:] Yes. He's had quite a different tone for the special counsel Robert Mueller. It seems he has bottled up his anger while he was in Argentina over the weekend and now he has tweeted multiple times today, going after the special counsel, saying they are trying to get people to lie instead of telling the truth, and also tweeting about his former attorney, Michael Cohen, saying he wants him to get the maximum penalty for his crimes that President Trump says are unrelated to him. He wants him to go to prison for that. And also tweeting about Roger Stone this morning as well, which some people saw as dangling a pardon in front of him. Now, as far as Michael Cohen, President Trump says he should go to jail for these crimes that he committed that he says were unrelated to him, but, of course, Wolf, we know that two of the most high-profile guilty pleas that have come from Michael Cohen have been, one, violating campaign finance laws which he says he did at the direction of President Trump and, two, lying to Congress, which he says he did out of loyalty to President Trump. So we're continuing to see him lash out and go after his former attorney Wolf.
[Blitzer:] All right. Kaitlan, thank you. Kaitlan Collins over at the White House. Let's bring in CNN political correspondent Sara Murray right now. Sara, tell us a little more about what is going on in the Russia investigation that clearly provoked the president's bitter attacks earlier today.
[Sara Murray, Cnn Political Correspondent:] Well, Wolf, I think part of the president's frustration or concern is that the probe seems to be inching closer and closer to him. You know, we learned from some filings related to the Michael Cohen case, of course, the president's former personal attorney, that Michael Cohen was keeping then- candidate Trump apprised of what was going on with the Trump Tower Moscow project into June of 2016. Now, in one of the filings we got over the weekend, Cohen also pointed out that he was in touch with the president's lawyers as well as White House staff when he was crafting his congressional testimony. That testimony that he would later admit was actually a lie. We also learned that there was a period of time when Cohen actually believed that he would get a pardon from president Trump if he sort of stuck to the party line, and eventually he came to believe it was unlikely. That's why we saw the change of tone. So, obviously, these were all unsettling developments to President Trump. You need to look no further than his Twitter feed to see that, Wolf.
[Blitzer:] What could we learn from Robert Mueller later this week? There's a lot of anticipation, Sara, building right now.
[Murray:] We could potentially learn a lot, because we know that in the filings Robert Mueller puts out, he gives sort of bread crumbs, inklings of where his investigation is going and what he has learned. And on Tuesday, we're expecting to get a sentencing memo in the case that Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser, this is one of Mueller's earliest cooperators and someone we know almost nothing about in terms of the information he's providing. We really haven't heard much about what he's providing to investigators or really what's going on with him since December of last year, when he decided to plead guilty. So we should get an update on that. And then on Friday, there will be an interesting filing in the case of Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, who had a plea deal going, he had this cooperation deal going, all of that went up into flames. Mueller's team said he's not being honest with us and they're supposed to explain a little bit more on Friday about why that was the case, that cause this plea deal to blow up. So, that will certainly be an interesting development as well Wolf.
[Blitzer:] We'll watch all of this very closely. Sara Murray, thank you very much. We're going to continue our special coverage. Much more on the breaking news right after this.