Sponsor, Campbell Soup said its told league officials, quote, we expect the nfl to take appropriate action. Meantime, ray rice has until 11 59 p. M. , just six hours from now, to appeal his indefinite suspension. It could be a direct challenge to nfl commissioner roger goodell. Goodell says rice gave him a starkly different version of what happened in the elevator that night than what the surveillance tape shows. But a source close to rice tolls nbcs Peter Alexander that rice claims he did tell the commissioner that he punched his then fiancee. And if that werent enough, the nfl today is also dealing with new fallout involving minnesota viking Adrian Peterson, whose lawyer today is denying accusation of a second report of child abuse related to another child. Its another challenge for a league trying to contain the damage from multiple scandals. Joining me now is randal hill, a sevenyear nfl veteran, lisa bloom, attorney and legal analyst at afo. Com and bill rhoden, sports columnist f
Russias end game. With donald trump in the white house, moscow will see the first prorussian u. S. President in decades. So why is Vladimir Putin what is he hoping to gain . And not complex. Trump says the news media is making too much of his personal business conflicts of interest. But his team says separating trump from his empire is a legal labyrinth that forced him to postpone a News Conference planned for today. Why are trump and his top aides sending mixed messages . I am wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were learning new information about the series of russian cyberattacks, the United States how believes were designed to influence the u. S. President ial election. Sources telling cnn that the Intelligence Community has concluded russian president Vladimir Putin personally approved the hacking of democratic targets, including the dnc and Hillary Clintons campaign manager. The white house is sharply calling out president elect donald trump on the issue. For the second da
Senator wark warner reacting to the news that an eighth person has been identified. That meeting set up with the promise of incriminating information on Hillary Clinton, information that was said to be from the russian government. We now know that the name of that eighth person in the room is disclosed. He is ike kavalatse. You see him in las vegas in 2013. Now, he is a Senior Vice President at the Real Estate Development company run by ar ris ago lar rov. That is the russian billionaire whose family help set up the meeting at trump tower. The senator clearly outraged from the lack of transparency from the trump family. It is very strange to me that this meeting that was supposed to be originally was related as three or four people about russian adoptions. I doubt if this individual who had a history of setting up thousands of fake accounts in delaware was really there to talk about russian adoptions. So what we see here is, again, senior levels of the Trump Administration and now the
Investigation. Mark warner, the top democrat on senate intel here with us tonight. And what might be about to happen to all of us who rely on and pay for access to the internet because of what happened today. The 11th hour begins now. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 329 of the trump administration. We begin here with new reaction tonight from senator mark warner, democrat of virginia, vice chair of the Intelligence Committee to a detailed report in the Washington Post about how the president consistently rejects what u. S. Intelligence agencies have concluded that russia indeed waged a Covert Campaign to interfere in our 2016 election. Washington post journalist Philip Rucker who will join us in a moment is coauthor of that report along with post journalist greg miller and greg jaffey. And its based on interviews with 50 current and u. S. Officials. One told the post when it comes to talking about russia, quote, there is an unspoken understa