Ambassador at the center of this kris . Is he a diplomat . Or as many people are saying in washington, d. C. Today, a spy . Are the Democrats Holding the Administration Accountable or are they, once again, overplaying their hand. . We have another big lineup this morning including the top House Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, congressman adam schiff. Also a member of the Senate Intelligence committee senator angus king and member of the Richard Blumenthal and ambassador mike mcfaul. Mika is down with the weather this morning. We have willie geist and John Heilemann and Nick Confessore and ai ari melber and kasie hun. Yesterday morning i got the sense we were going to be spending the next few days talking about an administration stonewalling and not getting it. Now, of course, Jeff Sessions moves out pretty quickly and follows the advice of a lot of us had around the set, which is get out there and recuse yourself and try to get that part of the story behind us. As we are saying
Story as opposed to the inauguration and i was think being it then. I was thinking about it during this period of time. Theres really no right time to do it. But i mean, im okay with it. As you know, i have a decision to make and i have to make the decision. He agrees that i have the absolute right to do it. Everybody agrees. But the former director of National Intelligence is calling the president s behavior disturbing and issuing this ominous warning today. I think this many ways our institutions are under assault and thats the big news here is the russian interference in our election system. And i think as well our institutions are under assault internally. Internally from the president . Exactly. This as north korea once again fires a Ballistic Missile test overnight. Well discuss the sharp response from the white house. But first the president blaming much of the controversy surrounding the firing of james comey to a vendetta by democrats. But a new nabc wall street journal poll s
Warheads on icbms. The language eclipses president kennedys during the cuban missile crisis. The last time word like this were used was during world war ii by president roosevelt. You can see why it truly matters what the words mean because north korea has issued a threat of its own. Cnn National Security correspondent jim sciutto joins us on that and other developments on this busy night. Jim, its a threat against guam. Reporter a specific threat, anderson. There are two major u. S. Military bases, air force bases. North korea threatening via the state news agency that it was considering specific weapons to target those facilities on guam, intermediate ballistic missiles. Why guam . They mention in there is the fact that guam is where u. S. Strategic bombers are based. We reported on monday that the u. S. Flew bombers based in guam over the Korean Peninsula along with japanese and korean fighter jets alongside. These are standard operations, the u. S. Has done it before. But it appear
Patriot and a good man and has been relentless in his advocacy that helped turn our country around. I regret my delay in responding to the reporting regarding don junior diverted attention from the president s historic accomplishments in the first year of his presidency. It may be too little too late, drawing a line in the sand calling allies to make it clear they must choose between the president and bannon. The president returned to the white house after a weekend at camp david and thats where we find boris sanchez. Pan on expressing support for donald trump. In what way . Seeming to offer an olive branch to the president and it has been days since we saw the first excerpts from fire and fury with explosive quotes to the chief strategist. Now we are first hearing this and the direct response calling this reporting inaccurate and the quotes attributed to him about the meeting at trump tower between officials and russian nationals where he is calling it unwait riotic and treasonous. Ba
Leading it. Theres a small number of these folks and mueller is going through them, as he moves towards interviewing the president. Look, this could be a sign that this is coming to an end or it couldnt. We really dont know. Victory lap . The Trump Administration is calling the end of the Government Shutdown a win for their side. Vice president mike pence gave his readout from the president in an interview with Andrea Mitchell. I know having spoken to the president since the government reopened, hes absolutely determined to take what was a clear win for the president , a clear win for republicans, and make it a clear win for the American People. And blame game. While some in congress are toasting their success, the finger pointing begins with the progressives and some 2020 hopefuls saying their party caved. You know, democrats are pretty good at articulating values, but a little weak on defending them. Dealing with dreamers, this is not politics. This is a moral moment for our country.