Attempted a fix today that was then quickly broken. On social media, as late as this evening he continued to insist, quote, the meeting between president putin and myself was a great success, except in the fake news media. Now, before we get to the mistaken word the president said he got wrong yesterday, here now a reminder of what he said in helsinki while standing next to putin yesterday. My people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others, they said they think its russia. I have president putin, he just said its not russia. I will say this, i dont see any reason why it would be. Those words set off alarm bells around the world. They brought about charges of treason by seasoned intel vets in this country and resulted in a hastily arranged meeting of the Trump Administration National Security types this morning. Nbc news is reporting tonight it was Vice President mike pence and secretary of state pompeo who urged the president to publicly clarify his comments. One of the anchor
Allowed to look into as part of this investigation, there are now these multiple reports tonight that the fbi is going to wrap up early. Attorneys for dr. Christine blasey ford say that the fbi has not spoken with her client at all as part of the kavanaugh Background Investigation, not this week and not ever. An attorney for Deborah Ramirez, who made another allegation about Brett Kavanaugh that dated to his time as an undergraduate at yale, her Attorney Says that Deborah Ramirez herself did meet with the fbi and she also gave the fbi agents who interviewed her a list of other witnesses who could corroborate elements of her story. According to ramirezs attorney, though, nothing ever seems to have become of that list. According to her attorney, quote, they are not aware of the fbi ever affirmatively reaching out to any of those witnesses, not to any of the names that were given to them on that list. So that raises real questions as to the scope of this fbi review. It renews questions ab
Disagree with him. In this case, its a very specific group of people. Americas top former intelligence chiefs, the people who ran americas intelligence agencies. Will the president consider senator pauls suggestion and call for the removal of former director brennans security clearance . Not only is the president looking to take away brennans security clearance, hes also looking into the clearances of comey, clapper, hayden, rice and mccabe. The president is exploring the mechanisms to remove security clearance because theyve politicized and in some cases monetized their Public Service and security clearances. Lets be clear, its an unprecedented thing if it happens. No president s ever done it and its an extraordinary list of people. The former cia director john brennan, the former cia director and nas chief general michael hayden. Former fbi director james comey. Former director of national intelligence, james clapper. Andrew mccabe and the former National Security adviser, susan rice
From our nbc headquarters in new york. Day 608 of the Trump Administration and the pressure is being turned up on Christine Blasey ford. She is accusing Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were both at a high school party. She must decide if she will testify before the Senate Judiciary committee on monday about her allegation. In a letter from her attorney today, chairman senator grassley of iowa wrote, quote, you have stated repeatedly that dr. Ford wants to tell her story. I sincerely hope that dr. Ford will accept my invitation to do so either privately or publicly on monday. I must remind you that consistent with Committee Rules dr. Fords prepared testimony and biography are due on friday, september 21 if she intends to testify on monday. But through her lawyers ford has requested that the fbi investigate her allegation before she testifies, a request that grassley has already rejected. He did offer to send Committee Staff to california to speak with ford. Tonight
And while acknowledging the impact of dr. Fords words, republicans were projecting absolute confidence they would hold this vote and kavanaughs nomination would head to the full senate. As Mitch Mcconnell put it, quote, in the coming days. This morning, even moderate republicans who were still on the fence about Brett Kavanaugh appeared to be falling in line. Senator jeff flake, who was as of last night telling reporters that this was a tough decision for him and who was reportedly visibly torn over whether or not to confirm kavanaugh announced this morning that in fact he would vote to confirm kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. The white house expressed pleasure with the decision, as did republican senators. There were even reports this morning that democratic senator joe manchin had decided to join and vote to confirm kavanaugh as well. His office later denied those reports. This morning, it really felt like this was it, game over. Until suddenly, it wasnt. Throughout the morning, hundr