As teams on both sides of the investigation beach up their staf beef up their staffs. And the Senate Judiciary committee could receive the comey memosup their beef up their staffs. And the Senate Judiciary committee could receive the comey memos as early as monday. The committee requested the m o memos on friday from the man, comeys friend, who comey testified providing them to a reporter. On tuesday attorney general Jeff Sessions will testify before a senate panel where he will likely be grilled on his own alleged contactswith the russians and the firing of james comey. Here now to did you all of that is ryan nobles and laura jarrett. Ryan, Dianne Feinstein is pushing her committee to look into potential obstruction of justice. Yeah, thats a very Important Development mainly because diane fieinstein sits on both the judiciary and tell against committees. So she has been privy to almost aurl of the discussions surrounding the russia interference and in particular james comeys role in
And the president s first tweet target of the day. Mitch mcconnell, and Trump Supporters turn on republicans, putting money behind primary challengers to sitting senator, who criticize their president. Hes profoundly wrong on free trade. We begin this morning with the president s aide and his allies in south korea, all insisting they are speaking with one voice on north korea, but until yesterday, no one was exactly sure what that voice was going to say. Youre in luck. We have a team here to break all of it down, starting with nbcs chief global correspondent bill kneely live in seoul, south korea south korea. Take us there. What are people on the ground saying . Yeah, good morning, stephen any. They are taking this very seriously certainly in the presidency, because they have to. Where im standing is 35 miles from north korea, and of course theyve been facing north korean missiles for decades. There is no such thing, stephanie, as a limited war here, so south Koreas National Security C
Front of his adoring fans. The russia story is a total fabrication. He cannot lie to the fbi, to the grand jury. This is about matters of law. This culture of leaking must stop. Sessions scolded everyone today about this. I have this warning for wouldbe leakers. Dont do it. Classified leaks have played an Important Role in bringing to light, you know, really crucial public information. Are there any russians here tonight . Any russians . Hes the one who keeps bringing this up. This is what the president does when hes backed into a corner. Im not sure it can hurt him to get out of town for a while. Mueller has a grand jury, and now he wants documents. This latebreaking story from the New York Times tonight, friday. Muellers investigators bearing down on Michael Flynns financial ties abroad. Now asking the white house for documents related to flynn, and theyve questioned witnesses about whether he was secretly paid by the turkish government during the final months of the trump president
Because we have to begin tonight naturally, the universe has welcomed me back with latebreaking trump russia news. According to tonights Washington Post, yet another senior serving National Security official in the u. S. Government has reportedly now told associates that the president directed him, the president told him to intervene with the fbi to try to stop the trump russia investigation. When james comey, the fbi director, was fired by the white house, we first got a song and dance from the white house about all sorts of other reason yes he might have been fired. The president then soon admitted that he had the trump russia investigation on his mind when he fired fbi director james comey. We soon thereafter earned that james comey had told associates he had committed to writing. He had written in a memo and told other senior people at the fbi that the president had told him to stop the trump russia investigation. To l off the mike flynn part of the trump russia investigation. Agai
Worked so hard to keep everything running in my absence. I want to thank my bosses for their understanding while i was out sick at a quite inopportune time, i guess. I want to say thanks to all of you who said nice things and wished me well and told me you were praying for me while i was out. Im not totally well as you can probably tell, but i am like, i dont know, 90 of the way back. Would you say im 90 . Close to 90. Well see. I am certainly well enough to be here tonight covering the news. And as grateful as i have ever been to have a job like that. Because we have to begin tonight naturally, the universe has welcomed me back with latebreaking trump russia news. News thats just broken in the Washington Post within the last hour. According to tonights Washington Post, yet another senior serving National Security official in the u. S. Government has reportedly now told associates that the president directed him, the president told him to intervene with the fbi to try to stop the trump