That he lied to congress in his recollections about his own contacts with russia and about his knowledge of Campaign Aides contacts with russians. His previous testimony was called into question after Trump Campaign age George Popadopoulos revealed that he had spoken to sessions about arranging a meeting between donald trump and vladimir putin. Frankly i have no recollection of this meeting until i saw these news reports. I do now recall that the march 2016 meeting at the trump hotel, that mr. Popadopoulos attended, but i have no clear recollection of the details of what he said at that meeting. After reading his account and to the best of my recollection, i believe that i wanted to make clear to him that he was not authorized to represent the campaign with the russian government or any other Foreign Government for that matter. But i did not recall this event which occurred 18 months before my testimony of a few weeks ago and i would gladly have reported it had i remembered it. Session
Touched her inappropriately, complaining that he rubbed noses at a fundraiser a decade ago. Former female staffers are coming to bidens defense after an expolitical candidate earlier complained she was bothered by what she described as inappropriate touching. And delayed for weeks. Boeing 737 max airliners will remain grounded for a while longer. The faa says boeings Software Upgrade will be delayed for weeks to allow time for additional work and a rigorous safety review. Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. Vice President Joe Biden touched her inappropriately, rubbing noses at a 2009 fundraiser. That comes as female supporters are stepping up their efforts to defend bidens record. Also tonight, a white house whistle blower has told congressional investigators that senior officials pushed through security clearances for some two dozen people who are initially rejected for reasons such as potential conflicts of interest and foreign influence. A source says the president s daugh
America and rogers professor, the presidency of vaernd built university, hes an nbc news and msnbc contribute by thetor jon meacham. Karine will be with us in a moment as will mark. I couldnt help think of you this hol siday season as one of the wealthiest men in prison was using his get out and vote campaign. I mean, well, your wit, i mean, a profile has to be im not has to be coming up there. But, i mean, its straight out of a charles dykens novel, isnt it . Yeah, it was a great well, this happens what . I guess the day before christmas and who broke the story . Was it the intercept that Mike Bloomberg or his campaign or some contractor affiliated with the campaign was enlisting prison labor to make some kind of phone call related to the campaign and the campaign quickly was publicly horrified and said that they discontinued the relationship. Yeah, i mean, its exactly the kind of story that you love to see the day before christmas. But looks like didnt it didnt blow up the campaign,
Facts. Anyone who stands in their way obstructs the truth itself. That, ladies and gentlemen, is why we send more than two full year is looking into the question of whether or not donald trump worked secretly as an agent of vladimir putin. It was never any evidence that he did that but haley Clintons Campaign demanded a thorough investigation and as you well know, we got that investigation. In the end, the investigation and effect clear donald trump of claims that he colluded with russia but it also inadvertently indicated quite a few other people for unrelated crimes. We learn, for example, that quite a few senior Law Enforcement and intelligence officials think nothing of lying to the public. Really lying to the public or of abusing their tremendous powersr political ends, we did that, we now know that. We also know the Obama Administration was perfectly willing to spy on clinical opponents in the middle of a president ial campaign. It did that come too. These are not small revelatio
The light of day and tonight we can read what the president and his attorney, bill barr, didnt want you to ever read. The website we viewing the email which barr heavily redacted. When i say heavily, i mean heavily. Look at this one, that is the two and the signature and there is the email. The entire email message is in black. Its the same with this one, some parts of some addresses the entire email itself in black, and then look at this one, same thing. It goes on and on, but now just security has seen what is behind this sea of black redactions and one of the things we are learning is that a top official emailed that the decision to withhold aid to ukraine came straight from president donald j. Trump. Clear direction from potus to continue to hold. Thats what was written in one of these emails. That email in fact was sent august 30th, likely after trumps own defense secretary, National Security adviser and secretary of state had personally and unsuccessfully lobbied trump to release