And there sis revelations that he exaggerated stories from a iraq mission, and the network calling it wrong and inappropriate for someone in brians position. And now joining us is cnns senior media correspondent, and dan abrams founder of mediaite and frank sesno and the bureau chief and now the director of media and Public Relations at Georgetown University and i want to e begin with brian selter and how did we get here . Suspension without pay . I dont know. Because i have never seen anything like it. And it started with Brian Williams starting with an apology of misremembering something, and he said that an rpg struck his helicopter and he said that did not happen, and then he started with an apology, and it was not adequate, because it started with more questions than answers, and started a crisis inside of the network. The network believes they can calm the storm by suspending him b , but the morale is so low, and this is the worst period for nbc news. And i heard from one staffer
37 of all terrorism agencies. So he may not understand that the money he uses to buy that heroin is being used to support terrorism here and tloupd world. 70 to 80 of the worlds heroin comes from afghanistan and if you can focus our attention on the people that could cause us harm, wed have a lot more impact. In this particular case were up against the biggest drug trafficker in the world. As a former fbi agent and chair of the intelligence committee, i had had oversight over all of our intelligence agencies. My name is mike rogers. I have access to classified information gathered by our operatives, people who risked everything for the United States and our families. You dont know their faces or their names. You dont know the real stories from the people who lived the fear and the pressure until now. On september the 11th enemies of freedom enacted a war against our country. The leadership of al qaeda supports the taliban regime. Missile explosions light up the night time skies. Night
Also, the two state solution. Is israel making it a virtual impossibility. And the United States withholds 1 billion from pakistan. Will that nation finally get tough on terror . All that with top minds in Foreign Policy. Finally war in the south china sea. How likely is it to happen in 2018 . Gps viewers looked into their crystal balls. Ill tell you what they, what you told us. But first heres my take. The most enlightening commentary on what is going on in iran was written 162 years ago. In his book on the french revolution, revolutions are not always brought about by a gra e le decline from bad to worse. Often bursts into rebellion the moment it begins to grow lighter. The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor and experience teaches the most critical bad governments is the one which witnesses their first steps to reform. Why are these protests taking place in iran and not in say north korea . This is the question for u
The white house. The shakeup at the v. A. , one cabinet secretary out, the president s personal physician on his way in. The departure of shulkin is not a shock. I think everybody surprised by the president s choice of who to replace him with. What do you know about whats going on behind you there . Reporter weve been hearing about the pending departure for weeks now. He becomes the eight major white house or cabinet official to leave the white house this month and were learning more, steve, about how dr. Shulkin was told he was departing much the same pattern that we saw with secretary tillerson, where two white house officials tell nbc news that it was chiefofstaff john kelly who reached out to shulkin sometime yesterday afternoon before the president dropped the hammer, if you will, with his tweet around 5 30 announcing not so much departure but his upcoming replacement, his personal doctor, the white house physician who has been here for the last two administrations, someone whos w
Our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 755 of the Trump Administration and we have breaking news from today in the Mueller Investigation. The president s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, is tonight facing the very serious prospect of living out the rest of his days on earth in federal prison. Things did not go well for his side in court today. Late today a federal judge sided with special counsel muellers office and ruled that manafort lied to prosecutors in violation of the plea deal he struck just last fall. Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that manafort made multiple false statements to the fbi, special counsels office and to the grand jury. This came in a closeddoor hearing a little more than a week after another critical sealed hearing in which muellers team laid out its case against manafort. Prosecutors arguedos that manafort intentionally lied to them about matters central to the investigation, including ae meeting with russian ukrainian associate Konstantin Kili