Now be at risk if the information gets out. And now u. S. Military and diplomatic posts all around the world on high alert. Fox news digital politics editor joining us, its great to have you on the program. A white house spokesperson just said this about the report. Aside from the fact it will be released tomorrow now, the repairing for months in what way, chris, what they have been preparing for months for this release . In a manner of speaking, they have been preparing for years. This has been a essenticentral president obama, who this was a big Campaign Issue for him talking about what he said publicly in a surprise to me when e he said that the United States engaged in torture. He said it plainly and e declaratively before the report was released. He believes, obviously, that the claims in there are true, but these are disputed claims. This is not something that breaks easily down the middle in washington. This is something that republicans on this committee certainly say is not bo
Passenger who recorded the encounter. Lets begin with the military targeting isis in afghanistan with a massive bomb. Wa want to bring in a former Senior Adviser to the Trump Campaign. Major general spider marks and colonel Cedric Leighton and a former department of home land security official. Good evening to all you have. Thank you for coming on. General marks, we start with you. As weve been reporting today, the United States military dropped americas most powerful nonnuclear bomb on isis targets in afghanistan. This was the first time this type of weapon has been used. Heres the president. Did you authorize it, sir . Everybody knows exactly what happened. And what i do is i authorize my military. We have the greatest military in the world. And theyve done a job as usual. So we have given them total authorization. And thats what theyre doing. And frankly, thats why theyve been so successful lately. If you look at what happened over the last eight weeks and compare that to whats happ
Thats one day after he suggested patriotic Russian Hackers might act, quote, behalf of their country. He wont judge President Trump for quitting the Paris Climate Accord even though he supports is. Is he messing with trump now . Plus you know whos going to be to go some talking soon . James comey. The white house is trying to muzzle him. Lets talk about all of this. Get to National Political reporter maeve, cnn contributor john dean. Good evening to all of you. Timothy, fbi, former fbi director James Comey Testifies on capitol hill where hell certainly be asked whether President Trump pressured him to drop the russia investigation. How consequential do you think this could be for the Trump Administration . This could be huge. After all james comey could lay the basis for a charge of obstruction of justice plchlt de. Mr. Dean with part of our group tonight and when he testified in 1973 he made a case the president was involved in a coverup. If mr. Comey lays out the case he was pressure
Senator Jeff Sessions. Sessions should have never recused himself and if he want if he was going to recused himself, he shouldive rr told me and i would have picked somebody else. So Jeff Sessions takes the job. Gets into the job. Recuss himself. I then have which frankly i think is very unfair to the president. How do you recuse yourself . If he had recused himself before the job, i would have said thank you jeff. Im not going to take you. And he accuses him of using the infamous dossier against him. And delving too far into his familys finances. This comes as were learning dates are set next week for his son don jr. , son in law Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort to testify under oath in the russia investigation. Plus senator john mccain, patriot, president ial candidate, war hero facing another battle diagnosed with brain cancer. An out pouring of support for the senator. We have much more on that throughout this hour. So lets get right to the New York Times. A cnn political analyst. A
S. Mueller iiis russia investigation build a case against what they allege are his conflicts of interest, discussing the president s authority to grant pardons according to people familiar with the effort. Jeff, why would the president be asking about a pardon . Well, don, this is thing that we got a glimpse of in the president s own interview with the New York Times that is still causing shockwaves more than 24 hours later. And it was he was raising the question of a conflict of interest of Robert Mueller. The special prosecutor in this case who is really conducting what is now a widening, deepening investigation that appears to go beyond election meddling in the 2016 election and it is clear the president and his team are focusing intently on the potential conflicts of interest as theyre saying. But theyre also talking about pardons. This woeWashington Post story very interesting in the sense the president is basically talking allowoud now. Weve heard him in so many respects, when he