Comey and the nsa director mike rogers will testify behind closed doors before the house intelligence committee. All specifically on the russia investigation. Shed more light on what were likely to hear from sally yates when she faces questions on the hill next week. The report says yates will recount in detail her january 26th warning to the Trump White House about ousted National Security adviser mike flynns meeting with the then Russian Ambassador sergey kislyak. A reminder. Here is how sean spicer reacted just over a month ago now when asked about yates testimony. I hope she testifies. I look forward to it. If they choose to move forward, great. We have no problem with her testifying. Folayan and simple. Two and a half months, you got this story today. Other things going on. You have got russia, you have got wiretapping we dont have that. You allegations on capitol hill. I know, but you keep i have said it from the day that i got here until whatever that there is no connection. You
The russians james comey is a nut job, told them the pressure is off the russia investigation because comey has been fired. Then from the Washington Post, a senior white house adviser is now a significant person of interest in the russia investigation, a person likely to be on Board Air Force one with the president right now as the 11th hour gets underway. Good evening once again from our headquarters here in new york. This was day 120 of the trump administrati administration. If the russia investigation was ever just a distraction or a subplot, as of tonight, it defines and has consumed this presidency thus far. Which by the way is aloft at this hour. Air force one is about four hours out from landing in the neighborhood of 3 00 a. M. Eastern time in riyadh, saudi arabia. Upon departure, within half an hour of wheels up from andrews two big stories came out that dominate our coverage tonight. The New York Times has been shown a transcript of the notes from a meeting between the presid
Leadership and the house russ investigation, the expectation was that things would go more smoothly in the senate. But we are learning tonight that the Senate Committee doesnt have a single fulltime staffer assigned to the russia inquiry. According to two new reports democrats on the committee are demanding immediate changes. All this as donald trump nears the 100day mark with some of the lowest approval numbers ever recorded at this point in a presidency. Lets bring in tonights panel, john hilemon, is the cocreator, executive producer and cohost of showtimes the circus. There is an emmy in there soon, right . Yes. Eli stokels is a White House Reporter for the wall street journal. And jeremy barb joins us from washington, d. C. , former chief of staff at the pentagon and cia. Jeremy, im going to start with you. One of your other jobs was on the House Intel Committee and you have been in contact that people that might be involved and might be sharing some of the consternation about the
Our headquarters in new york. Day 132 of the trump administration, and again tonight, the russia story seemingly without end. Supplies us with our lead story and that is were going to hear from james comey. A source close to comey tells nbc news, the fired fbi director has been, quote, cleared for takeoff, to testify in public next week to the Senate Intelligence committee. That clearance came from special counsel, bob mueller whos now over seeing the russia investigation. It will be comeys first Public Comment since he was fired by donald trump. Its been 22 days ago now. And about what comey will say. Tonight the wall street journal reports, comey to testify that trump asked him to back off flynn investigation. That would certainly match his notes. And although we werent allowed to see him today, heres how sean spicer reacted when asked about comeys testimony in the offcamera audioonly briefing. Did the president engage in obstruction of justice in repeated meetings with james comey .
Defines and has consumed this presidency thus far. Which by the way is aloft at this hour. Air force one is about four hours out from landing in the neighborhood of 3 00 a. M. Eastern time in riyadh, saudi arabia. Upon departure, within half an hour of wheels up from andrews two big stories came out that dominate our cerage toght. The New York Times has been shown a transcript of the notes from a meeting between the president with the russians, lavrov and kislyak. He is quoted as saying i just fired the head of the fbi. He was crazy arc real nut job. I faced great pressure because of russia. Thats taken off. Mr. Trump added, im not under investigation. The white house has not denied this report. The second story was from the Washington Post. Quoting from that report, the Law Enforcement investigation into possible coordination between russia and the Trump Campaign has identified a Current White House official as a significant person of interest showing that the probe is reaching into t