Critical as its ever been since its inception, given the fact that the middle east is literally on fire and we are losing everywhere. The nsas authority will be likely restored when leadership aides accept a final act. The usa freedom act, targets a twoornt obtain call records from telecommunications companies. We are in the mix today because of the majority leader. The majority leader should have seen this coming. Reporter harry reid blaming his counterpart Mitch Mcconnell for not having a plan. After the aboutface mcconnell who wanted to renew it as is now says passing the compromised bill is the only legalistic way forward. I believe this is a program that strikes privacy on the one hand and National Security on the other. Reporter so whats next . We expect a final vote by around midweek. Thats because of Senate Procedures and several likely votes on amendments being offered. Of course, if they make any changes to the law, it will have to go back to the house of representatives for
The state you have. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Breaking news tonight. 100 americans have now left iran hours after the charter plane carrying them from afghanistan to dubai was ordered to land when it crossed into iranian airspa airspace. The fly dubai flight which often carries u. S. Contractors from Bagram Airfield in afghanistan to dubai failed to refile a flight plan after it delayed departure from bagram. Ground patrol told the plane to land at an airport, or iranian fighter jets could be scrambled. Pilot voluntarily landed before that happened, thank goodness. Fly dubai sent a second plane and transloaded the passengers and baggage on to the new plane. It took off to dubai within the last two hours. U. S. Officials tell nbc news it was resolved tippett ical ed di. Joining me now, nbc news contributor, journalist, expert on iranian affairs. Good to have you here. Good to see you. I guess the reason everybody gets panicked about this when i
And we found out from a reliable source, President Trump. Heres part of the president s interview today with nbc nightly news anchor lester holt. Monday you met with the Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein. Right. Did you ask for a recommendation . What i did was i was going to fire comey. My decision. It was not you had made the decision before they came in the room . I was going to fire comey. Theres no good time to do it by the way. Because in your letter, you said, i accepted their recommendation. So you had already made the decision . Oh, i was going to fire regardless of recommendation. He made a recommendation. Hes highly respected, very good guy, very smart guy. The democrats like him. The republicans like him. He made a recommendation. But regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. Well, for days the president s spokespeople told a very different story, and lets watch it. You said last week the president had full confidence in his fbi director. What changed .
I think hes weighing that option. You got to be kidding me. Will he do it . Can he do it . Its tough questions. The attorney general set to testify today in an open hearing about his undisclosed meetings with the Russian Ambassador and the trump comey meeting that led to the fbi directors firing. My sense was the attorney general knew he shouldnt be leaving which is why he was lingering. No, this is not reality tv. A strange, strange trip, Basketball Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman is in north korea, the former apprentice contestant knows President Trump and kim jongun. Is he an emissary for the president . Im pretty sure hes pretty much happy of the fact that im over here trying to accomplish something that we both need. Extraordinary. All right. Were going to begin this morning with word that President Trump is toying with the idea of firing special counsel bob mueller. A rumor met with sharp resistance from capitol hill republicans, but welcomed by some of trumps favorite right wing con
Murray, for the latest. Sara, the president did what a lot of people expected him to do. He basically got rid of his chief of staff, Reince Priebus. Thats right, wolf, and typical donald trump fashion, he broke the news on twitter. He said, i am pleased to inform you that ive just named general secretary john f. Kelly as white house chief of staff. He is a Great American and a great leader. John has also done a spectacular job at Homeland Security. Hes been a true star of my administration. Wolf, we were hearing last night and this morning the concern around Reince Priebus is growing. There were some close to the president who really felt he was no longer an effective chief of staff, not only in executing the president s wishes but also keeping things running smoothly in the west wing and ensuring the president s priorities were moving forward on capitol hill. This was a concern that was shared by the president s family members who work in this administration, with jared kushner, with