Washington anchor for bbc world news america, katty kay, and cofounder and ceo of axios, jim vandehei with us. Were going to begin with the testimony from the former director of the Central Intelligence agency john brennan. Speaking yesterday before the house intelligence committee, he said under his watch investigators have uncovered troubling information about contacts between russian officials and americans in the Trump Campaign. By the time i left office on january 20th, i had unresolved questions in my mind as to whether or not the russians had been successful in getting u. S. Persons involved in the campaign or not to work in their behalf, again, either in a witting or unwitting nafashion. Did evidence exist of collusion, coordination, conspiracy between the Trump Campaign and russian state actors at the time you learned of 2016 efforts . I encountered and am aware of information intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions between russian officials and u. S. Persons invo
Antimuslim rhetoric from the campaign, but called on arab leaders to unite against terrorism. Drive them out of your places of worship. Drive them out of your communities. Drive them out of your holy land. And drive them out of this earth. And dance of diplomacy. The president tried but the secretary of state, he knew the steps. Saying this wasnt his first sword dance. And joining hands opening a center to combat terrorism with a glowing orb that quickly lit up social media. And good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in jerusalem today where President Trump is launching a middle east Peace Initiative trying to prove he can accomplish what none of his predecessors accomplished. Hes about to make his appearance with Benjamin Netanyahu. He may have made more of a problem for himself over the breach of intelligence with the russians. The Russian Foreign smin fer more than a week ago. The intelligence cooperation is terrific. Just so you understand, i never mentioned the word or the name is
And queen of belgium and theyll meet with the Prime Minister of belgium. It will be the official welcome of the host country and then nato with the 28 member nations. This issen a opportunity for donald trump to mend some fences after calling this organization obsolete and then retracting that after he had a chance to meet with the secretary general and to have a bit of time in office to get a different view of how nato is a force in the world. It is expected that some of the conversation here which had originally been about things like russia and ukraine as the anticipated heavy story lines, now with the tragic events in manchester, theres an expectation that confronting terrorism and isis and al qaeda and the lone wolves that are especially showing their power in europe in particular, that that will be a big part of the conversation. For President Trump the issue of terrorism has been a thread throughout his journeys for the last several days, wanting to get nations in the arab and m
Delivering a public shaming to the veteran leader there is about nato funding. 23 of the 28 member nations are still not paying what they should be paying, and what theyre supposed to be paying for their defense. This is not fair to the people and taxpayers of the United States. And many of these nations yoe massive amounts of money from past years and not paying in those past years. We should recognize that with these colonic under payments, and growing threats, even 2 of gdp is insuperintendent to close the gaps in modernizing readiness and the size of forces. Kelly odonnell is covering the president in brussels. This was, by all accounts, watching it, painful to watch, his debut at nato and they were really angry. Yes, and secretary tillerson previewed this saying the president would be tough, but many expected him to come here and embrace nato and acknowledge the decade long bond. The berlin wall and 9 11 is part of what binds these countries together. It was striking that he did n
Myself. And new details from those close to james comey. The phone call he received from trump and how he tried desperately to avoid this moment with the president. The hug is entirely onesided and comey was just completely disgusted. Plus, go for joe, the president could announce a new fbi director this morning. Former democratic senator Joe Lieberman, now leading the pack. I think he would be a good choice. I think its a mistake to nominate anyone who has ever run for office. We begin today with the president just hours away from embarking on his first foreign trip. It is the president s major opportunity to put some distance between himself and the relentless wave of rough headlines here at home. We got a great team this morning to break all of this news down and i want to take you first to nbcs Peter Alexander live at the white house. Peter, we know that the president met with his lawyers about this new special counsel and hes also talking about it. What can you tell us . Yeah, ste