Republican principles. Hello, everyone, im kate bolduan. Im john berman. When a president ial candidate kind of admits he didnt see a nonexistent video he described in great detail twice, thats an interesting development. When it comes as a surprise that a candidate kind of admit hess didnt see a nonexistent video twice, well, thats 2016. After repeat lid claiming he saw video of a plane delivering 400 million in cash to iran, donald trump now says no, he tweeted this morning, the plane i saw on television was the hostage plane in geneva, skwitzerland, not th plane carrying 400 million in cash going to iran. Despite his vivid descriptions of that video on the campaign trail over last couple of days. You need a reminder . Here you go. They have a perfect tape done by obviously a government camera and the tape is of the people taking the money off the plane, right. That means in order to embarrass us further, iran sent us the tape, right. Its a military tape. Perfect angle, nice and stea
Aid huma abedin to see if they are relevant to the investigation to Hillary Clintons private email server. Now Hillary Clinton left just a few moments fraeg white plains, new york, on her Campaign Plane foroh. Not seen in this picture, huma abedin. She is not traveling with secretary clinton today. Now the emails in question were discovered weeks ago by the fbi as part of a separate probe into abedins estranged husband Anthony Wiener the former congressman accused of sexting with an underaged girl. But fbi director james comey did not disclose the discovery until friday. That was just 11 days before the election. Since then, 100 former federal prosecutors and skbrus distance Department Officials including eric holder have signed an open letter criticizing james comey. Harry reid has accused him of violating federal law. One lawmaker is calling for comeys rez nation. Were going to take to him in just a second. First the latest from justice correspondent evan perez in washington. Evan, w
Former top Law Enforcement official testified bch before the Senate Judiciary kmp and the president weighed in on that testimony. The hearing took place a few blocks from here in a world removed from anything remotely conceivable until now unless its a spy 1 3. Sally yates talking publicly the first time today how she went to the white house to warn them the president the president S National Security adviser my knowledge flynn was vulnerable to washer russian blackmail whats more the notion was neither the only headline from the hearing to date more the only big story however a good place to start. Jim skrut skrut o with todays key moments. The National Security adviser could be blackmailed by the russian. A hearing sharply divided along partisan lines form acting attorney general sally yates sharply contradicted the white house version. Regard being Michael Flynn. Yates sold senators she gave the white house a forceful and detailed warning. That flynn lied when he denied discusses u.
Top of this hour of 360, the highest ranking Law Enforcement official in the land is, sally yates, an obama holdover, adding her official voice to the protest unfolding around the country and the world. In columbus, ohio, watching for the last hour. President trump firing back tonight, tweeting, the democrats are delaying my cabinet picks for purely political reasons. They have nothing going but to obstruct. Now have an obama ag. What he has not done is fire her. And we are joined now. The order from acting attorney general to department of justice, what are your sources telling you . Well, anderson, were told that sally yates, acting attorney general struggled with this over the weekend. She didnt learn about this executive order until friday when everybody else saw it. And it is something that the white house should have consulted with her, if you expected that, the Justice Department and the lawyers that work under her were going to have to defend this in court. So thats something s
Reporter in a hearing sharply divided along party lines, former acting attorney general sally yates sharply criticized the white house regarding the firing of National Security advisor Michael Flynn. She says she gave the white house a forceful and detailed warning that flynn lied when he said he didnt discuss u. S. Sanctions with the Russian Ambassador. Through general flynns underlying conduct, but we took him through it in a fair amount of detail about the underlying conduct, what general flynn hand done and the various press accounts and how it had been falsely reported. We also told the white house that Michael Flynn had been interviewed by the fbi. Reporter the gday after his firing Michael Flynnflynn sall t jatsajat reporter but yates said it was much more than a heads up. She spoke with the white house three separate times, warning that the president s closest advisor on National Security was in danger of being blackmailed by russia. We felt it was critical that we get this inf