Killed four americans including the ambassador. During Hillary Clintons time as secretary of state. Cnn given exclusive advance access to part of the report. Chief Political Correspondent dana bash has gone over that section. She has it in her hands. She joins us now. Dana, the house created this select committee more than two years ago. Finally this morning, this morning this report is coming out, you have seen some 200 pages of this document. What can you tell us about what is in there . We were given advanced exclusive access to a little more than 200 pages and were told the full report is 802 pages. So the section we have seen describes the events leading up to the deadly attack on benghazi and the compound there. And the committee uses what they say are 75,000 new documents, 81 witnesses never questioned before congress. With the report we have seen paints a narrative of the benghazi outpost as a bureaucratic and diplomatic nomansland, which made it unnecessarily hard to get fundi
Special edition of outfront this evening. Im erin burnett, live from the nations capital, where donald trump will be sworn in as president of the United States this week. We begin, though, with major breaking news. Red flags for one of trumps cop cabinet picks. Cnn reporting at this hour, new revelations about trumps pick for secretary of health and human services. Congressman tom price. Cnn has learned that price purchased shares in a medical device manufacturer days before introducing a bill that would have massively helped that company. The companys pack subsequently then made multiple donations to prices reelection campaign. His spokesman would not respond directly to cnn today, but said, quote, dr. Price takes his obligation to uphold the public trust very seriously. Now, this is just two days before price appears before congress in what was already sure to be a highly charged confirmation hearing. Manu raju guess our coverage. He broke this story. Manu, this certainly when you lo
Even sparking a lock her up chant. While also pushing his world view as president. From now on, its going to be america first. Okay. America first. And a surprise announcement. Trump shocking even his closest aides, naming his secretary of defense. We are going to appoint mad dog mattis as our secretary of defense. But were not announcing it until monday, so dont tell anybody. Dont tell anyone, but who is mad dog mattis and why does he need special congressional approval just to serve . Raw wounds. Top Campaign Operatives for trump and clinton meet to reflect on the election and then it turns into a shouting match. Do you think i ran a campaign where White Supremacists had a platform . It did. Plus, road rage. A former nfl player gunned down in the middle of the street after a traffic confrontation. There were statements being made that i told you not to mess with me. New questions this morning. What started the feud . We begin with the president elect kicking off his thank you victory
Senators who said their patient freedom act is the real reform the country needs. And it is not a full repeal of obamacare. This is mtp daily and it starts right now. Good evening. Im chuck todd in washington and welcome to mtp daily. Quite a week. After firing james comey, the white house finds itself battling an historic credibility crisis at best and an obstruction of justice charge at worst. Compounding matters, comey has declined for now though he has agreed to appear in principle at some point. Heres what the president tweeted. James comey better hope there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. He did put tapes in quotes. We know in the past theres an indication that quotes arent necessarily for accuracy. The spugs the president is recording conversations with the fbi director is mental news today and has a lot of people raising their eyebrows wondering, does this really exist . It came amid conversations about a conversation on january 27th ami
French capital. He and first lady guests of honor at bastille stday. At the center of it all, the meeting that took place in june of last year with the president s oldest son and russian lawyer who supposedly had dirt on hillary clinton. Now exactly what was said or discussed in the meeting is not clear. The details keep changing. We now know there were more people in the meeting. Twice as many as previously disclosed. O our Jessica Schneider explains. Reporter another player erupts from the meeting with donald trump jr. And the russian lawyer. He disclosed everything there was to know with the several emails tuesday. As far as you know, this is all of it . This is everything. This is everything. Reporter now news that the russianamerican lobbyist was in attendance. He told the Associated Press he was in the room for the 20to30 minute meeting with the openlde son and the lawyer and Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort. Cnn has learned at least two others were in the room. A translator and r