Is a rare move. Can you give perspective, how rare are we talking . Reporter to give you some perspective, fbi directors are appointed for 10 year terms. Comey only served three of those years. The last time Something Like this happened was in 1993 under president clinton who then fired the fbi chief over ethics concerns. Kenneth craig, thank you. Reaction is boring and as you can imagine from california and bay area lawmakers. Allen martin follows that part of our story. Reporter senator Dianne Feinstein says President Trump called her to indicate that he would be removing director comey, saying the fbi needed a change. Now, as the Ranking Member of the judiciary committee, she wrote the next fbi director must be strong and independent and will receive a fair hearing in the judiciary committee. Senator, harris wrote on twitter i said it before and i will say it again, we must have a special prosecutor to oversee the fbis russia investigation. This cannot wait. An east bay congressman
Torres waits for his punishment life in prison or the Death Penalty. Today a jury convicted garciatorres of kidnapping and murder in the 2012 disappearance of the 15year old moran hill cheerleader. pam the body of sierra lamar has never been found. But dna evidence linked Garcia Torres to the crime. Kron4s rob fladeboe was in the courtroom today. When the verdict was handed down. pam Steve Marlene lamar sierras mother nothing will take a way the pain we have been feeling every day and will feel for the rest of our lives but we have been praying for this type of ending,,for justice. Sierra lamars mother marlene is talking about the justice metedout moments earlier tuesday as a jury handed down a verdict that found antolin Garcia Torres guilty in the march 2012 kidnap and murder of her 15 yearold daughter. Steve lamar sierras father i couldnt look up, i just kept looking down and i just felt a flood of emotions. There were audible sighs of relief and gasps in the packed courtroom as the
D. C. We will talk with a local democratic congressman what disagrees with the decision. That is coming up at 6 00. There will always be grief like this. It will never go away. I era lamars family reacting after a jury convicted Antolin Garciatorres for murdering her. Theyre left wondering what would their daughter sierra say about the outcome. Mom, the right thing happened, justice has come through. Jurors deliberated for a little more than two days before reaching a verdict. Jesse gary was at the courthouse when the verdict was read. Jesse, what was that moment like . Reporter frank, you could hear a pin drop in both courtrooms. I say both because the main courtroom was packed so they opened an overflow courtroom down on the third floor. That was also filled to capacity, standing room only, everyone nervous with anticipation about what would happen. Then the judge finally came in and said the jurors had reached a verdict. Antolin garciatorres sat motionless and ex stressless as the v
Off an alligator opening up about her ordeal. I started punching its forehead. It still wouldnt let go. How she used a trick she used on a field trip to save her own life. And kicking it off in style. One of the biggest pop stars in the world, harry styles, takes over our plaza for our first summer concert for the season, and the crowd is massive. Todays tuesday, may 9th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1 a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a Tuesday Morning. Were going to need more adjectives to describe that crowd. Harry styles has a new solo album come harry, look outside. Things are going to be just fine. We have six city blocks of crowd for him. Lets get to our top story this morning. The possible expansion of the u. S. Military effort against the tall ban in afghanistan. This is a plan that calls for the addition of several thousand more troops there. Thats one of the things were going to talk with kan
Interference in the 2016 he leaks. Just last week comey said that quote it made him mildly nauseous to think that either he or the federal bureau of investigation could have influenced the results of the to 16 election. Of course as we know comey had announced during the campaigning that the fbi had been looking into emails from the Hillary Clinton campaign, but to the cons stern nation of Many Democrats that the fiive was also looking into the rum p campaigns possible dealings with the russian government in regards to the russian attempts to influence the 2016 election. Now, over the last couple of months the president has sent out pointed twitter messages about the fbi and how it has conducted its business referring to many of the allegations directed at this campaign as fake newses. It has been no se secret, though, that the president at times has been unhappy with many of the things that james comey has said and done. This development is a stunner. Years left of the appointment. Th