Attack at istanbuls ataturk airport earlier in the evening. This happened right around 10 00 pm local time there. Just after 1 00 am on the ground now. Turkish official say that the attackers blew themselves up at the International Terminal entrance. You see that cct video of one of the bombings. This happened just before the Security Checkin area. Were hearing that one of the attackers may have opened fire on police with a kalashnikov rifle before detonating the explosive device. We dont know the identity of the attackers and no particular group has claimed responsibility. This is the latest terror attack in turkey and istanbul. There have been a string of others carried out by isis and also kurdish militants, in particular pkk and has been in a longrunning battle with turkeys government. Earlier this month, kurdish militants attacked a policeman killing 11 people in istanbul. In march, kurdish militants killed 37 people in ankara. In february the pkk claimed responsibility for a car
Should seek professional advice. Glen. Were moving beyond the legal question, just to followup with john. Moving beyond the legal question here, this is an issue of judgment about who you guys wanted your administration, if there were published reports that your potential National Security adviser had dealings with government of turkey, a controversial regime at this moment, congressman cummings sent a letter to mike pence during the transition informing him of this raising a red flag, mr. Pence was on television i believe twice yesterday saying he had no lodknowledge of that letter before you accuse the Vice President of things he said he was not aware of the filing, and he wasnt. In terms of the larger question, forget about filling out forms and the legalism. What does this say about the Transition Teams judgment about still appointing him as National Security adviser when you had knowledge of this information. Youre asking me forget asbot the legalisms. You cant forget about the le
Sanctions. And inside the chaos, disinformation and firm french handshake that spurred the president s decision to leave the paris accord. A lot of its a hoax. Its a hoax. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. In six days, james comey is set to give public testimony before congress in which he is widely expected to reveal attempts by the president to interfere with and possibly to obstruct the fbi investigation of his campaigns ties to russia. Tonight, the Trump White House is weighing whether to take the extraordinary step of trying to block comey from speaking. A former fbi director who was fired last month in t midst of the russia investigation is due before an open session of the Senate Intelligence committee at 10 00 a. M. Next thursday, june 8th. But now according to bloomberg reporter jennifer jacobs, the white house confirms theyre reviewing whether to invoke executive privilege to prevent comey from testifying before Congress Next week. Aske
Plus, look, they can Work Together. Republican rand paul, and ms. Harris talking to me about the issue bringing them together. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead snooch. Im jake tapper. So much going on in the white house right now. President trump just reacted to the vote on health care in the rose garden. He talked about his public humiliation to push out attorney general Jeff Sessions. Im very disappointed in the attorney general, but well see what happens. Time will tell. Time will tell. The president once again said sessions should not have recused himself in the russia investigation. Since early march, the president has been upset with sessions, one of his earliest key supporters after the attorney general bided by department of justice protocols and recused himself from overseeing the russia investigation. That was an action that came out that he had not disclosed meetings with russias ambassador during his confirmation hearing. President trump made it very clear that
Daca victory by the way and democrats are nowhere to be found. They are nowhere to be found. Because im happy clap along if you feel like a room without a roof because im happy clap along if you feel that happiness is the truth. Steve im just happy i was able to get into work. Rachel im happy i made it out of wisconsin. Steve we wound up with 2 feet of snow at my house. Brian are you kidding . Steve 2 feet . Imagine this, 1, 2. That much snow in front of my house. Brian almost hit our cameraman chris chulo. Steve he was celebrating a birthday earlier this week. Rachel is here. We know had you trouble getting. Rachel 2 feet of snow is a tuesday in wisconsin. Brian they dont shut for anything. Rachel they shut it when it gets below like 20 or Something Like that. Then they go okay. Brian a little too cold. Rachel yeah, get a little too cold. Steve we dont each do that. Thank you very much for joining us. We have got busy stuff. Boy, speaking of busy. Jeff sessions was busy yesterday. He