reality leigh winner, the 25-year-old nsa contractor, leaking information. winner is accused of using a thumb drive to download and illegally transmit top secret information about russian hacking efforts. she faces a maximum of ten years in prison. prosecutors say she is not facing terrorism charges but they say she wrote in a notebook she wanted to burn down the white house. and sources say it s the first time the syrian sources attacked one of the areas where the coalition are training and advising in the fight against isis in syria. all right, 26 minutes past the hour, bombshell testimony from former fbi director james
passing any information on that way. but again, i mean, he did leak the classified information. i think it s interesting when you hear the spin doctors from the information. they are saying, the leaked information. point to me something that is classified. all he did was give a recount of the meeting because ithad been publicly discussed. about you better tell the truth because there were tapes. we have about 150 questions to go through, we thank you for joining us. julian seltzer, michael moore. all right, and gutting the obama era street reform law. and it undoes specific parts of dodd-frank, it lets some financial institutions opt out of risk-taking moves. that is a watchdog for consumers and agency created under
nina, yet another election surprise in britain? reporter: yes, that is right, boris. a big election surprise here, and what we ve seen is a lot of posturing going on, a lot of questions about who is going to be able to form the next government. if you look a the information this hour, 650 seats were up for grabs in the parliament. it seems they have not picked up the 620 seats they needed. they lost the majority, this is a big gamble for teresa may that she lost, they could be looking at calling for seats in the northern government, if they e partner up with the northern irish part. and teresa may has gambled, has lost and may face a particular leadership challenge from the
frightened in that situation, given who comey is it actually makes the whole account even worse. and finally the argument that he is the chief leaker of all of this information, that is how they re going after him. i don t know if that will hold. he doesn t come across that way, i think for many americans who are watching. you know, it s interesting, we heard from paul ryan yesterday on this, and some republicans who are just like come on, he is an outsider, you voted for an outsider. you can t expect him to know how the washington swamp works. listen to what paul ryan said. the president is new to this. new to government so he probably was not steeped in the long running protocols that is established between the doj and the white house staff, he is just new to this. does that fly? that doesn t hold water. a, that is not even clear that that is true. there are a lot of conversations that the president understood
that relate to the president-elect personally. and then the nature of the person. i was honestly concerned that he may lie about the nature of our meeting so i thought it really important to document. that is really a remarkable thing to say about the commander in chief. i am wondering and giving the response, michael moore from the president s personal attorney who said that comey was wrong on some of these issues that the president did not ask for a loyalty pledge. is this privileged communication? what is the legal baring of the dear diary, essentially i think they came in the law there is a benefit of having an executive privilege. i guess it s so the press can talk about policy and strategy and without fear that the information can get out in the public and put the information at risk. what the privilege does not do is cover criminal misconduct or