I want to remind folks that this is a lot of what we saw during the mueller investigation. Several parts going on. You had the parallel investigations. Investigations. Public investigation conducted by fbi agents and separately counterintelligence. Counter intelligence has to do with National Security. The big concern here, saying it from talking to folks that people were trying to influence policy working outside the normal channels of the state department, backdoor channels, getting to Rudy Giuliani who had the ear of the president to try and influence policy. That is a big part of what the fbi and the Counter Intelligence invessel gatien involves. Trying to see whether or not people were going to Rudy Giuliani to then try to get him to go to the president and other politicians, members of congress to try and influence policy. Certainly the issue of the firing of the ukrainian ambassador, Marie Yovanovitch, that is a big part of this investigation. It says as much, that indictment we
who took over a military base. the first fatality since the arrival of russian forces in crimea. sparking fears of an escalation to the ukrainian crisis. as russian president vladimir putin held an assigning ceremony to celebrate his annexation of crimea, and in a speech at the kremlin, poked a thumb in president obama s eye. translator: our western partners headed by the u.s. prefer in their practical politics to be guided not by international law but the law of the strong. the white house sent out their own top guns to defend the president, from secretary of state john kerry slamming putin. he and russia for what they have done are on the wrong side of history. to vice president biden visiting the region to reveal the u.s. is sending a dozen f-16 fighter jets to poland to get behind a key ally that borders ukraine. russia has offered a variety of arguments to justify what is nothing more than a land grab. while white house spokesman jay carney warned there may b
we have been confronted with an unexpected storm. there is not anybody in this room that could have predicted the degree and the magnitude of the problem that developed. sure. no. that is probably the case unless everybody who had been watching the weather. the weatherman mike sidell has the latest. it will literally shut down the city. not only were they warned but the call was coming from the house. the weather channel is located in atlanta. the weather channel is located in atlanta! also located in atlanta, the society for prevention of highway stuckage and the national high department of [ bleep ] seeing it coming! yeah, it was a rough day there. good morning. it s friday, january 31st. is that the thing louis was on? uh-huh. dangerous. what the heck is that? that didn t take long. former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst, steve rattner. and mom, former communications director for president george w. bush, nicole wallace. in wash
0 dot, dot, dot, network reporters and people on tv are having a hard time saying something nice about it or positive about it. someone needs to get some medication over to msnbc really fast. because that is the opposite of the truth. look, this is the problem that they re having. they re having a hard time telling the truth about obama care. how many times was did the president tell us that it was going to cut costs? when it didn t. how many times did he tell us it wasn t a tax when it was. how many times did he tell us you could keep your insurance when you can t. this is an epidemic of dishonesty. and yet reporters won t report it, and poor ed schultz is saying that it s just so positive that nobody dares talk about it. bozell is wrong on all accounts. across the board he s wrong. hannity has now been reduced to defending junk insurance policies. and i wonder if he knows that most junk insurance policies only last about a year, when people actually figure out they look, i believ
alison. let s kick it off with an update. dense fog advisory just issued a few moments ago for additional counties, including montgomery county maryland, louden county now under a dense fog advisory. i didn t get a chance to update this map until 10:00 a.m., again we are getting widespread reports your visibilities are a quarter mile or less. a few minutes needed as you commute down 270, fog will remain thick for the time being. all right let s push on nice looking tuesday, and a warmer tuesday as well. 44 right now regan national, how about afternoon high temperatures mid-50s. yeah, hard to believe. winds out of the west 6 miles per hour. cold front coming through, sunshine here shortly, sunrise this morning 7:21 a.m. and then off and running with a nice afternoon, dry afternoon as well as we ve got high pressure building from the west. early clouds, afternoon sun. 55 your daytime high. more details on the forecast in just a couple minutes, let s get to traffic and you kno