Clearance was a meeting that he took at trump tower during the transition where he hosted the head of another russian bank. Jared kushner met with the head of a russian bank called veb bank. Its a bank but really just an entity of the russian government. The leadership of veb bank is hand picked by lad peer putin and veb banks connections with russian intelligence are not subtle. Sergei gorkov is a graduate of the fsb academy which means he went to kgb grad school. Veb bank was coordination of a spy ring, that was the russian Spying Investigation where carter page was found by the fbi to have been essentially a willing target for those russian spies. At least he was a source of information for those russian spies who were looking for
americans to give them investigation to help them with their Spying Efforts against america from their home base in new york where they were ostensibly working for veb bank but really they were spies. So there was the alfa bank servers communicating with t
Firing of a missile over japan, the u. N. Now condemning this latest test but isnt taking any action. Good morning, everyone, its august 29th. Im Ayman Mohyeldin along id Yasmin Vossoughian and louis burgdorf. Harvey will make landfall once again as some towns on the edge have measured 50 inches of rain. With the president s and first ladys visit yesterday, the situation became more dire for many in the city and across south texas. In all, there have been nearly 19,000 Water Rescues across south texas as of last night. The death toll has climbed once more, now to nine. But images are circulating across social media. Along those killed, Houston Police officer Sergeant Steve perez. The chief of police spoke about how he died and how he lived
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garland, and they re going to talk about some of the efforts that they re going to be putting together in sort of this alliance of prosecutors, the d. e. a., the atf. some of that tcombat ghost guns but also, drug violence and how it relates to the use of guns and gangs. all of that is something that the president and the attorney general all want to focus on and, of course, passing some of the new budgets and passing some of the new laws. the mayor this morning talked about some of those efforts and the help he needs. take a listen. we re saying to washington, dc, s.o.s. we need your help. we have to stop the flow of illegal guns in our city. 6,000 guns removed off the street last year. close to 400 since i ve been in office. they keep coming from gun dealers throughout this entire country. reporter: that is some of the efforts but also, the fact that the president is coming here to the nypd just a day after they
immediately go into sort of d.e.a. investigation mode but underneath that is an incredible sadness or pain and not a day that goes by where i don t talk to a parent, a child, loved one or friend of someone lost during what s just a devastating loss of 100,000 american deaths. many thanks to the d.e.a. anne milgram who believes many families, parents, all of us underestimate just how deadly and dangerous fentanyl really is and can reach all of us, even unknowingly. thanks for that. coming up for us, this in to cnn, the white house has begun reaching out to potential supreme court nominees. details and a live report next.
taking their masks off as much as parents would like to see that happen to benefit their children, there s a lot of factors in play here but this is really an important opinion and perspective to share that i know many of our viewers believe as well. dr. jennifer knips, thank you, we appreciate it. thank you very much. a new government report detailing just how bad america s opioid epidemic is getting. since 2019, mexico the dominant source of fentanyl trafficked into the u.s., the height of the pandemic, more than one in ten americans started or increased their substance use creating greater demand for fentanyl. so deadly. the commission behind the new report several to reduce opioid trafficking with the dangers of opioids, expanded treatment for opioid abuse and bolstering harm reduction interventions, the head of the dea said fentanyl showing up in every state in the