On saturday. A report in the New York Times uncovering yet another piece of intelligence the fbi had when they began to investigate collusion between the Trump Campaign and russia. This man, George Papadopoulos, is at the center of todays report. You may recall, hes the Trump Campaign aide who is since pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi and is cooperating with Robert Mueller. The New York Times reports papadopoulos was having adrink apparently with a top australian diplomat in may of 2016. They were meeting in london when he told this diplomat that russia had political dirt on Hillary Clinton. Two months later, when the dnc emails were leaked, australian officials told u. S. Officials about that conversation with papadopoulos. Now, this news indicates additional intelligence, separate from the dossier by a british spy raised concerns among officials. Sarah murray is live from West Palm Beach where the president is spending new years. Fill us in on the white house response to this. Lets
Streets to make a living we meet omar and use them like many refugee children they face abuse and violence as they struggle to help their families make ends meet. On little rock thank you so much for joining us everyone a blow for the Russian Space program an astronaut and a cosmonaut have been forced to make an Emergency Landing just minutes after liftoff the pair parachuted down in kazakhstan after a booster on their so use rocket failed on route to the International Space station fortunately they are safe and said to be in good Health Russia says it is suspending manned launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome pending an investigation. Safe and well the medical equipment the. Only sign of their ordeal a few hours earlier the two astronauts had been all smiles ready to spend six months aboard the International Space station three two one engines are initially things look to be going to plan and there is lift up these three use images kid the rocket successfully blasting off from its lau
Letters from jerry nadler. How likely is it that theyll accept his invitation to participate . Well, as you said, alex, were still waiting on official word from the white house about which way theyre going to go and that despite the fact that theyre in the 24hour range for the first deadline for the president to design whether hell send an attorney to the impeachment hearing. Sources say it is unlikely that the white house will agree to do that. The bigger question is whether they will send attorneys to impeachment hearings Going Forward and for that they need to make a decision by that second deadline on friday. The president , though, for now, alex, hes reveling in the contrasts of whats going to happen this coming week with that impeachment hearing on wednesday. The president will be abroad in london for the nato summit and he just tweeted a few moments ago, i will be representing our country in london at nigato whi the democrats are holding the most ridiculous impeachment hearings
You see it here. The plane first bounced off the runway before coming back down and then bursting into flames. Interfax reports that a loss of communication caused by a Lightning Strike forced the landing. Cnns Moscow Bureau chief nathan hodge is following this story live in the capital. The investigation under way. So many people watched this plane as it landed, bounced and then burst into flames. What more are you learning . George, i think what were all trying to find out at this point is what actually forced the plane to turn back . It was in the air for about 30 minutes after it took off from the airport in moscow, heading to a city in the north of russia. And it was forced to turn back because of at this point, according to the airline, aeroflot, a technical issue. And as we had the video that emerged last night showing the plane making this hard landing, literally bouncing on the runway and then landing again and bursting into flames as the undercarriage appears to hit the groun
The dead. Russia is now launching a criminal investigation. Cnn Senior International correspondent Fred Pleitgen is following developments for us. Fred, whats the latest . Some horrifying images coming out of moscow has video seems to show that play, the superjet from Aeroflot Airlines as its screeching down the runway after making an extremely hard Emergency Landing in the afternoon hours of sunday. It then seems to come to a stop and seems to go off the runway at the end as its further engulfed by the flames. There is also video from inside the plane that just shows those horrible moments as the plane seems to be screeching down that runway with flames outside the window very much there, seeming to engulf that plane from those shots as well. The people there obviously very much in horror as the pilot tries to keep control of the aircraft. Now the information that were getting from russian authorities is that the plane, this superjet 100 took off from moscows airport and declared an e