We can expect Democratic Senators to hone in on mccabe to try to get some information about what is happening. Shifting timelines from the white house, undercutting republican support and their resistance for the calls for a special counsel or prosecutor here. That will, obviously, dominate this hearing. The Intelligence Committee moving on another track. Remember, this is the only show in town. The Ongoing Investigation that they have now. There was a deadline the other day for a voluntary submission of documents from general flynn and others involved in this controversy. Obviously, not met a subpoena forthcoming and, also an invitation now from the same committee to jim comey himself now, of course, a private citizen to come and testify before this committee and presumably in close session as early as next tuesday, hallie. I want to know what is going on behind you. See anybody coming in and out. Anybody saying anything to this hearing so far . No, weve seen the chairman richard burr
Defends the timing of the clinton email revelations. It was in fact a big october surprise. Well talk with the top democrat on the Judiciary Committee, Dianne Feinstein and the kremlin connection. How is it shaping up after a briefing at langley . Mark warner, the committees top democrat, joins me. This is mtp daily and it starts right now. Good hump day evening. Welcome to mtp daily. Folks, the power of the president s words have seemingly gone from shock and awe the to hum and hawe. Hes said a lot, b but accomplished little. It seems with every new promise, washington seems to be in the mode of shrugging. President slammed the integrity of james comey. Just before comey testified on on capitol hill amid a probe into the president s campaign. Mr. Trump tweeted fbi director comey was the best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton in that gave her a free pass. Also suggested that the fbi was investigatie ining phony russia story. Thats a pretty blatant example of meddle iing in an
Questions that the acting director, no doubt, needs to face today. Especially given all weve learned in the last 12 hours about what is reportedly what drove this president to fire the fbi director. Lets bring back in our panel, mark preston, niamalika henderson, bob baer, laura coates, dana bash, evan perez. And evan, to you first. As andy mccabe sits down, what questions will he be drilled with off the bat, do you believe . Well, one of the first questions im sure theyre going to ask him is how he found out that his boss, james comey, was fired. We know how comey found out. He was addressing agents at the Los Angeles Field Office when fox news incorrectly reported that he had resigned. And he sort of laughed it off because he knew he hadnt resigned. Then he sees cnn and others start reporting that high been fired, and thats when he really found out. So, that is the big question for mccabe. And obviously, the other question is how is this firing going to affect this investigation into
Hearing. Deputy White House Press secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders explained how President Trump came to his decision. He asked him to put the comments that he had already made directly to the president in writing. The findings in the letter in the recommendation were original thoughts by mr. Rosenstein. The Deputy Attorney general along with many others felt like director comey is not who should be running the f. B. I. At this point. The president very much had been thinking about letting director comey go since november 9. Wednesdays testimony didnt help. I think was the final piece that put the president in a place where he felt like director comey was no longer the person that should be leading the f. B. I. Shannon chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge is live on capitol hill. There is a critical meeting that seemed to pave the way for comeys termination. A meeting with comey and his new boss Rod Rosenstein. Republican senator James Langford last night they had the me
And germanys foreign and defense ministries are hit with a cyber attack reportedly launched by Russian Hackers the same group is false who have previously attacked the German Parliament and the Us Democratic party. And babs no more the International Olympic committee lifts is stoping ban on russia so does this mean the world is ready to trust russian powerful leads in competition again. Im brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show we start out this program in slovakia where the murder of a young investigative journalist has sparked protests in the capital brought a small about a thousand people turned out for a march organized by the conservative Opposition Party to on. Reporter. And protest against political corruption a twenty seven year old was shot dead outside his home last week alongside his fiance. While the news website he worked for has published his last unfinished article hours after it hit the web its explosive claims triggered fallout at the very highest level of govern