Facebook is putting out tips on how to spot it, but could the British Election be the next to feel its impact . I am katty kay in new york, Christian Fraser is in paris. It is an extraordinary achievement. Not since the days of napoleon has a frenchman risen to power so young and with such speed. Not since world war ii has a leader taken power without a party and a parliamentary base. There were very few in the established Political Class who endorsed Emmanuel Macron or believed in his bid to become president , but president he will become this sunday when he assumes power from francois hollande. He has already resigned his leadership of the movement he began a year ago. It will now be re named La Republique en marche. Politicians from right and left will be allowed to campaign under its banner in next month crucial parliamentary elections, so long as they quit the parties to which they belong. The President Elect says he wants a coalition of the willing. Starting our coverage, our eur
the person who said to nbc news, when i decided to do it, i said, this russia thing with trump is an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election they should have won. in your view, was russia the reason that director comey was fired? i can t speak to that. that s one of the important questions that we all need answers to. do you believe that the firing of director comey will have impact of the russian investigation? i ve worked with the men and women with the justice department and the fbi, for over 27 years now. they re committed to finding the truth. b this is a troublie ining situat. they should be able to do their jobs without fear. the testimony you re about to give the subcommittee is the truth, the whole truth, so help you god? this is the first time sally
let s just set the scene. february 14th. everybody knows there is a pending fbi investigation of michael flynn, of the trump campaign regarding false statements he may have made. white house has been informed by sally yates that the fbi has already interviewed michael flynn. correct. there is a pending investigation. donald trump tells his attorney general and his vice president to leave the room, suggesting that he wants to say something that he doesn t want overheard. at that point he says to director comey, please let it go. end the investigation. that if it is true, if it s borne out by records, tapes, whatever, that to me is the definition of obstruction of justice. richard nixon on june 23rd, 1972, six days after the watergate break-in, he said to h.r. haldeman, tell the fbi stop investigating watergate. he wanted to get somebody from the cia to tell the fbi.
and michael flynn was still the national security adviser. you re watching day after day go by and nothing seems to have happened to the national security adviser that you have informed the white house about. just as a private citizen at that point. did it concern you? sure. it took the white house 18 days after sally yates first warned them to get rid of michael flynn. on february 13th, he resigned as national security adviser. the next day, sean spicer said she was let go because of an issue of trust. when the president heard the information as penaltied by white house counsel, he thought that general flynn did not do anything wrong. and the white house counsel s review corroborated that. to you agree there was no legal issue with flynn s underlying behavior? i don t know how the white house reached the conclusion that there was no legal issue.
daze. the white house didn t get k access until the 22nd. you wanted the white house to act? yes. we expected the white house to act. did you expect them to act quickly? yes. there was urgency to the information? we had made arrangements over the weekend. that was one of the issues he had raised. whether that they could look at the underlying evidence, that established general flynn s conduct. this is unusual for us tore o fbi to allow that. because there s an ongoing investigation. on that day, january 30th, sally yates was fired. she was out.