Be grilled on capitol hill, as nbc news learns russianbacked election posts on facebook potentially reached onethird of all americans. And gridlock. The fema chief peppered with tough questions from lawmakers today on the governments response to the string of devastating hurricanes. Meanwhile, the fbi is now looking into how that Small Montana company landed that huge contract to restore puerto ricos power. Well get to those stories in a moment but we start at the white house, trying to undercut the special counsels case. While putting the countrys focus, trying to put the countrys focus on President Trumps agenda this week. His asia trip. His federal pick. Tax reform. Anything basically other than those two indictments and guilty plea. A short time ago, the president refusing to take questions from reporters. Are you going to pardon manafort . Thank you, thank you, everybody. Whats your reaction about George Papadopoulos thank you very much. Your reaction to the mr. President . Thank
We now know in detail what former Trump Campaign volunteer told House Committee investigating russian efforts to interfere. That detail is coming from newly released 243 page transcript revealing what were sometimes heated exchanges between page and the members of the Intel Committee last week. That is breaking news we will get to in a moment. Before we do that we want to return to texas. There is breaking news. We are learning more including a stay at a mental facility. There are new developments in the investigation. Devin kelleys cell phone is now in the hands of the fbi. Officers and investigators hope it will provide more clues about what led him to murder 26 innocent people at a church on sunday. A tragedy we have learned could have been prevented. Air force is admitting into National Database that would have prevented him from buying guns. That shattered the Small Community of sutherland springs. I can see his feet walking back and forth through the aisles. I told the lord i wan
Latest. Lets start with the interview with comey. This isnt something thats a shocker but it is probably pretty hard to overstate his knowledge of the kinds of things that Robert Mueller is looking at. Youre absolutely right, chris and it underscores that Robert Mueller continues to investigate this question of whether the president or members of his team obstructed justice because james comey as we all remember testified to congress that he wrote a series of memos about his interactions with President Trump, that he found troubling and that he found inappropriate and in one case he said the President Trump suggested that he drop the fbi investigation into then National Security adviser mike flynn. Now james comey has revealed that to the world. He was an extremely compelling witness but now we know that hes also spoken to Robert Muellers team secretly at the he end of last year and Jeff Sessions also has information potentially about Donald Trumps state of mind when he fired comey and
The white house. The shakeup at the v. A. , one cabinet secretary out, the president s personal physician on his way in. The departure of shulkin is not a shock. I think everybody surprised by the president s choice of who to replace him with. What do you know about whats going on behind you there . Reporter weve been hearing about the pending departure for weeks now. He becomes the eight major white house or cabinet official to leave the white house this month and were learning more, steve, about how dr. Shulkin was told he was departing much the same pattern that we saw with secretary tillerson, where two white house officials tell nbc news that it was chiefofstaff john kelly who reached out to shulkin sometime yesterday afternoon before the president dropped the hammer, if you will, with his tweet around 5 30 announcing not so much departure but his upcoming replacement, his personal doctor, the white house physician who has been here for the last two administrations, someone whos w
This is the time. Last year our country lost 817 billion on trade. These countries have been ripping us off for decades. It doesnt take a week. It takes a little longer, but were going to get it done. Another message from this morning tariffs are the greatest. Either a country which has treated the United States unfairly on trade negotiates a fair deal or it gets hit with tariffs. Its as simple as that. And everyones talking. We are the piggy bank thats being robbed. All will be great. We begin with Halle Jackson at the white house. Lets start with the relief from farmers. You got brandnew details on that. What have you learned. Reporter . Reporter we just spoke with officials at u. S. Da that walked us through this plan. One time shortterm program, 12 billion worth roughly that would be part of basically three prongs. The first and probably the most important one for farmers in the midwest and in other farm states is this idea of disbursements, in other words, payments to soy beans, c