We got quite a lot of details from the president of the European Council and the commission and of course press conferences from francois and angela merkle. What is likely to happen over the next few months is that france and germany will try to negotiate a new framework for cooperation on intelligence with the United States. There was that sponing press conferences overnight. Angela merkle of course believes her own phone was monitored by the americans and her view the relationship with america has to change radically and she wants to see deep changes and assurances there will be a fresh relationship and in short she wants to make sure america sticks to the promise she had from president obama not to monitor her phone calls, this is reading between the loins but not that far between the lines, frankly that she doesnt want the United States to indulge in espionage because theres an expliss it threat from her and implicit threat that intelligence gathering next to terrorism is dent on t
Friday night gets underway. Good evening once again. Day 421 of the Trump Administration and we actually have two lead stories as we begin here on a friday night. The attorney general, Jeff Sessions has just fired the former deputy fbi director, Andrew Mccabe a little more than 24 hours before mccabe was set to retire after over two decades as a federal employee. President trump was highly critical of mccabe, attacked him a number of times. As the Washington Post reports mccabe has become a lightning rod. And political battles like the russia investigation. Mccabes firing was recommended by the fbi Disciplinary Office over misleading investigators about conversations he had with the media about an investigation into the clinton foundation. Additionally tonight we have a Major Development on the Stormy Daniels front as the president s lawyers have come out with an allout attack looking for 20 million from the porn star, a first for a sitting president. But first, the dismissal tonight o