That was also false, was it not . I would like to think so, yes. Your investigation is not a witch hunt, is it . It is not a witch hunt. Weve heard from the white house about todays hearing. Press secretary Stephanie Grisham called it an epic embarrassment for the democrats. President trumpweeting out several thoughts about his hearing. Like quote i would like to thank the democrats for holding this mornings hring end quote and just a few minutes ago he addressed reporters at the white house. Take ae list we had a very good day today, the republican party, ourc nt country. There was no defense of what Robert Mueller was trying to defend. Whether his performance was aed about one or a good one. I think everybody understands that. I think everybody what was going on. There was no defense to this ridiculous hoax this witchhunt thats been going on for a long time. Continuing our coverage of the muellh rings, were joined by mark murray. The senior Political Editor tore nbc news. What was yo
Is still shutown because of this accidenlo outer op after 50 in virginia a crash there as yoll. Can see on the left side oy, the roadwa that is getting by so that s not too much an issue. Megan mcgrath is out on the scene there on 270. Megan, what are you seeing . Are there twoanes open there . Reporter just wthin the last a couple of minutes they startedno open lanes o 270. Il peek over here. It was two lanes that were reopened. Now looks le we may have three sanes. Yes, three lane on 270 now open. What is still impacted by the cra, though, is the ramp for 118. Germantown road, they are still working on some of the debris thr is in the aea as a result of this accident. That is still closed but the good news here is that 270 had really been bottled up in the southbond direction right here at exit 15. They only had one lane getting by for a wecle bause of the accident. That just changed literally withco the last a uple of minutes. Now we do have quite a few delays. A big bakup here so i
We begin ith another deadly shooting in the district. Justin finch is live with what we are learning, hi, justin. D. C. Police are right on the case of another deadly shooting here in the district. This one happening closeo 11 00 or so last night, a man now dead. St as Law Enforcement forced a new partnership in our region to stamp out these illegal firearms. Sun up and crime scene investigatos out. A man gunned down overnight on the 300 block of 50th street northeast. Police searching for a suspect in a white suv with tints on h windows and sunroof. The suv pulled off into the darkness. The victim left for dead at the Lincoln Heights House Development earlierthis week, a special agent in charge from atf theup gro came together with tougher prosecution. Turns out more than a third of the illegal guns turn out in virginia. Were going to have to get after this, andake it extremely hard for individuals to get guns and thats our commitment. As then homicide rate i d. C. Is up. L year, 2018
Are b stonewalled. In the only did the russians attack us in t2016, buty are still attacking us today. Weve not put in place common sense bipartisan legislative solutions to protect our democracy. Its crazy. Lig craoswell joins us live from capitol hil looking into this issue and a new legal effort by democrats in the house, correct . Nd doreen jim, good evening. A new wave of legal action by democrats today to enforce subpoenas and get more evidence from the muler report. Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have crossed a threshold. They filed a petition in federal court to get secret grand jury evidence used in robert er muell report on russian interference in the 2016 elections. The committee is exercising its authority to investigate all these scandals and to recommend and decide what to do about them which could includearticles of impeachment. Reporter House Speaker nancy pelosi dealing with a growing number of democrats to call for imaeachment proceedings sng she will make
Hot, hot saturday morning, temperatures only going up from here. That is why were in weather lert mode this morning. Another dangerously hot day is on tap. He foratest well check in with Lauryn Ricketts. Its like ablanket. Its that heat blanket covering you out there right now. Even as we headed into the early torning hours you can s haze out there. Sun coming up, just about two minutes ago. See if we canet that sun for you. But again it is a hazy day out there already. Of course you see ouranners are red for weather alert. Take a look, these are the temperatures right now at 6 00 a. M. On your saturdaymorning. In the 70s right now in d. C. , coming in at 81 degrees. But lets go ahead and factor in that humidity. It feels like 86 out there. And last hour it felt like 88. Its come down a little bit, improvement, improvement, people. Temperatures right now, again, are on the warm side. And so it feels pretty hot wen you head out there. Thats why we have that excessive heat warning and it