The power of the director of National Intelligence they believe it gets in the way including the cia. Trump also wants to expand the human spying capabilities by getting more people out of headquaters and into the field. The source citing criticism that the spy agency has been too reliant on electronic spying and the nsa signals intelligence under president obama. All of this coming hours after trump publicly sided with wikileaks founder. The president elect tweetings a saj said a 14yearold could impact them. Why was dnc so careless. Also said russians did not give him the info. Our source was not the russian government. But 17 u. S. Intense agencies concluded russia was behind the electronic cyberattacks. Trumps tweet creating upheaval he compromised community. Hes not a good guy or ally and friend to the United States of america. But trump did not feel the same way about him in 2010 when his website released millions of classified military and diplomatic documents. You had nothing to
Breaking news, attorney general Jeff Sessions speaks out. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Sessions saying he doesnt believe anything he said was improper or unwise. In the wake of his announcement he will recuse himself from any investigation related to the Trump Campaign. President trump defending sessions tonight and charging that democrats are quote, overplaying their hand. Listen to this moment from the attorney generals interview with fox tonight. I dont believe theres anything wrong with United States senator meeting with ambassador from russia. Right. I see youre asking questions about it, thats fine. But i think it was a perfectly reasonable meeting. I had professional nonpolitical staffers with me. And we discussed some Important International issues. I learned something perhaps in that meeting. I usually did. So thats the what happened. People were ambassadors were coming by to see me pretty often. Here with more on the sessions firestorm and what it means for Trump Admini
Finished a meeting with local leaders. They were near the niger border when their pickup trucks came under fire. The troops fighting back. Four of those men losing their lives before French Military assets came to their rescue. At some point during the firefight Sergeant Johnson got separated from his comrades. His body was found 48 hours later by niger een troupes and t known how he got there. How long he was alive. Why he was left behind. Joining me now as we sort out these details is our cnn senior diplomatic correspondent. Michelle, it appears the pentagon chief doesnt have the full story here. The lack of detailed information on how this happened, why the outcome, dismaying cnn is told by three officials even to the secretary of defense. He wants those answers. But there is an investigation going on. Doesnt seem like hes trying to rush the investigation. This is being handled by africa command. They are trying to establish a more detailed timeline, minutely minute if not more deta
From baghdad a move that has been rejected by kurdish neighbors and allies also coming up scores of people are still missing after saturdays powerful truck bomb in the somali capital mogadishu the explosion killed hundreds of people the death toll is expected to rise further and they ripple in the fabric of space and tom scientists have been discussing their existence for a hundred years so get ready to find out why Gravitational Waves exist and why theyre so important. Im worried gough its good to have you with us iraqs military is reporting progress tonight but not in the fight against socalled Islamic State iraqi forces have moved into the disk. Did city of kirkuk in a Boat Campaign to retake land from the kurds thousands of kurds are said to have already fled the city of tension has been high in the kurdish region following a controversial independence referendum held last month kurdish officials have called the iraqi advance a quote unprovoked attack none kurdish residents in the
To drown this army of terror before a call. Also coming up policing content on social media well meet a woman who quit her job as a Facebook Cyber cop to save or sanity her story in about seven minutes we begin the day with the slap of the century now that is how palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has described u. S. President trumps decision last month to recognize jerusalem as israels capital abbas has rejected any future role of the u. S. As a mediator in peace talks with israel saying should be ashamed of himself or today abbas added his own fuel to the fire when he put into doubt the oslo accords from one nine hundred ninety three of that agreement includes palestinians recognizing the state of israel. We said no to trump and others no we will not accept his project yeah told him the deal of the century is the slap of the century and we will retaliate. Abbass voice was part of the very loud chorus the world heard today a chorus of defiance against and rejection of u. S. Influence