Is one of the truly egregious crimes, and it shouldnt have happened. And it shouldnt be allowed to happen. Do you think that assad should leave power in syria . I think what happened in syria is a disgrace to humanity, and hes there, and i guess hes running things. So something should happen. Something should happen. You heard the president. Well, joining me right now from london with more is nbc correspondent Richard Engel. Richard, theres something happening, and im wondering what we know at this point. What do you know . Reporter well, ive been speaking to senior u. S. Military officials, and they say that something is seriously under consideration, that it could happen imminently, that a wide range of options are being presented to the president. This could develop very quickly, perhaps even in the next couple of next several hours. And that the president is leaning toward a more limited option, not a Massive Military Campaign that would change the regime, not toppling Bashar Al As
Focus on the president s agenda laid out in his joint session to Congress Last night. And for 22 hours after the speech, that narrative held. About the president s solid reviews about his speech that is, until two stories reignited questions about the Trump White House and russia. As weve covered these last two hours, the New York Times was the first to publish tonight with the headline Obama Administration pushed to preserve intelligence of russia election hacking. Quoting in the story. In the Obama Administrations last days some white house officials scrambled to express information to undermine the president ial election and about possible contacts between soeshlgtsz of. Are dont jvrmt trump and the russians. They had two aims. To make sure it isnt duplicated necessity lexes and to leave a clear trail of intelligence for government investigators. That headline was followed moments later by another one. This time from the Washington Post as we told you. Sessions met with russian envo
Chair and rankings of the Oversight Committees that we were taking additional steps of the Clinton Administration because i testified under oath repeatedly that we were done, that we refinish there. With respect to the russian investigation, we treated it like the clinton investigation. We didnt say a word about it until a month into it. I would expect we are not going to say another peep about it until were done and i dont know what will be sent when youre done, but thats how he handled the clinton investigation as well. Let me ask you this. During our investigation into Hillary Clintons emails, a number of surrogates claim to have a pipeline to the fbi. He boasted that numerous agencies talk to him all the time regarding the investigatio investigation. He even said that he had advanced warning about the emails described in your october letter. Former fbi agent made similar claims. Either they are lying or theres a serious problem within the bureau. Anybody in the fbi during the 2016
In kind. We have columnist and associate editor David Ignatius, mike barnicle, kasie hunt, sam stein and clint watts. Good morning, everybody. Good to see you. Lots to talk to you about. Clint, the home of President Trumps former Campaign Managers home was raided by the fbi. Well get to that in just a moment. Lets start with north korea. Were hearing from secretary of defense general jim mattis for the First Time Since President Trumps fire and fury remarks tuesday. In a statement general mattis says in part, quote, the United States and our allies have the demonstrated capabilities and unquestionable commitment to defend ourselves from the attack, the dprk, north korea, should cease any consideration of actions that would lead to the end of its regime and the destruction of its people. The dprk regimes actions will continue to be grossly overmatched by ours and would lose any arms race or conflict it initiates, end quote. Meanwhile, the north korean army has released a new statement t
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