The reality is that this is what washington, d. C. , looks like. You have a third barrier that is now being constructed right here, but it is not just these three lines of fencing that are going up. Essentially, washington, d. C. , the whole heart of washington, d. C. , is shut down from here to the white house to the lincoln memorial. The streets look just like this one, outside of some pedestrians and folks on bikes, this place is essentially shut down here now less than 100 hours until Inauguration Day in large part that is because of what we saw on january 6th in the insurrection, in the violence that was directed to Vice President pence, the leaders of congress and to the rest of the congressional the rest of congress. I just think we should put into focus here, you know, the House Oversight committee, along with three other committees, Just Announced in a letter today that they are going to be conducting their own review of what took place, writing, in part, to the fbi and the di
And thats why, for the first time in history, im going to be elevating the president ial science advisor to a cabinet rank, because we think its that important. As Deputy Director of the office of science and Technology Policy and science science and society, i appoint dr. Nelson. Shes a professor at the institute of advanced studies at princeton university, president of the social Science Research council, and one of americas leading scholars, an awardwinning author and researcher, exploring the connections between science and our society. The daughter of a military family. Her dad served in the United States navy and her mom was an army cryptographer. Dr. Nelson tinkered with codebreaking equipment that every kid has around their house that she grew up with in her home. When i wrote that down, i thought to myself, how many kids, you know . Anyway. And that passion was a passion forged a lifelong curiosity about the inequities and the Power Dynamics that sit beneath the surface of Sci
Dan coats, kirstjen nielsen, National Security advisor john bolton and the head of u. S. Cybercommand and director of the nsa each delivered stark warnings about ongoing Election Interference donald trump was on stage at a rally in pennsylvania calling the entire investigation into russias effort to attack our elections a hoax. In helsinki, i had a great meeting with putin. We discussed everything. I had a great meeting. As i have said consistently, russia attempted to interfere with the last election and continues to engage in malign influence operations to this day. But i got along great with putin, and everybody said, wow, that was a great. The russians are looking for every opportunity regardless of party, regardless of whether or not it applies to the election to continue their pervasive efforts to undermine our
fundamental values. Now we are being hindered by the russian hoax. Its a hoax. Our democracy itself is in the crosshairs. If i get along with vladimir putin, thats a good
Fiance and her father. All told, the congressman and his family avoided over 768,000 in losses according to the document. And the big question we are asking today is, what does the arrest of Congressman Collins mean for the midterms . Joining me nbc news political director and moderator of meet the press, chuck todd. Nbc news investigations reporter tom winter, New York Times chief metro Political Correspondent shane gold macher and former s. E. C. Enforcement attorney seth waxman. Tom, you have been following this. You were downtown a little bit earlier today. Here is a statement from collins lawyer saying we will answer the charges filed in court and will mount a defense to clear his good name. It is notable the government does not allege that Congressman Collins traded a single chair of Innate Immunotherapeuticss stock. We are confident he will be
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Working for stone in 2010. In august 2017 she took over as stones scheduler, but she says she did not work for him during the 2016 president ial election. Kristin davis is a good friend of mine. She is a brilliant woman who has paid her debt to set. She was not working for me during 2015. She worked for me during a portion of 2016. She went back to school to learn i. T. Skills. She has helped me build some websites. She has no knowledge whatsoever of any russian collusion, collaboration with wikileaks, or anything else having to do with the 2016 election. Stone is not only under suspicion, but might be a target of the special counsels investigation. Already muellers team has interviewed two people close to trumps longtime confidant. A third was held in contempt for refusing to comply with a subpoena. Ari melber broke the news last
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