The Senate Intelligence committee. The firing of former f. B. I. Director james comey and russia. Bill team fox coverage this morning. John roberts live at the white house and James Lankford is here in a moment. First Catherine Herridge begins our coverage back in the hearing room on capitol hill. Catherine, what will happen today . Good morning. Our expectation is that the attorney general Jeff Sessions will address at least two key issues that were raised during last weeks testimony from the fired f. B. I. Director james comey. The first takes us back to midfebruary of this year and this discussion between comey and President Trump about former National Security advisor mike flynn. Youll recall based on that meeting comey testified that the president told him he hoped he would let go of the flynn investigation. Mr. Trump has disputed the characterization of comeys testimony. In any event comey said he did not take the matter to his boss, the attorney general, because comey had either
First to Kristen Welker with the breaking news out of the white house. The release of this student. Walk us through the nuts and bolts here. I know this has just come out in the last few minutes. This is significant because we have seen all of those recent provocations by north korea. Let me tell you what the white house is saying at this hour. They just released a statement that says, at the direction of the president , the department of state has secured the release of otto warbeir from north korea. He is en route to the u. S. Where hell be reunited with his family. The department of state continues to have discussions with north korea regarding the three other american citizens who are detained there. Of course, that continues to be a focus of this administration, trying to get those three detained students freed. This all comes as something incredibly curious happened overnight, hallie, Dennis Rodman, former nba star, visiting north korea. I spoke with a white house official and sa
Which should have stopped him from buying a gun. This as investigators learn more about a possible motive. And we hear from the neighbor who chased down the killer. Theyre friends of mine, theyre family. And every time i heard a shot, i knew that probably represented a life. I was scared to death. And virginia is for voters. Its election day. A tight race for a governor in virginia seen as the biggest price in todays offyear elections as Political Parties there brace for the outcome. In fact, this race is very, very close. Every vote will count today. I hope my supporters come down and vote because its going to make a huge difference. Hi, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. Tracking President Trump, the diplomat. In south korea today expressing optimism about a negotiated solution to the north korea crisis instead of fire and fury, while here at home the spotlight is on the russia connection and attorney general Jeff Sessions as we learn that a trump volunteer, carter page, did
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