Convenient knew monic device for us americans about british spy stuff, a convenient device to help us remember what the different british spy agencies are. They have one Domestic Intelligence agency thats mi 5. Thats the rough equivalent of fbi. They have mi6 which is the quilt of our cia. And theres this handy knew mono device which is mi 5 is the fbi. And mi6 is the cia. Its very handy. That said, it all falls apart when you get to the third agency which is called gchq, because that does not sound like anything. Theres no neat, easy to remember device to remind us all that the british Intelligence Agency called gchq is the equivalent of our nsa. Theres no easy way to remember. Thats hatheir headquarters. The shape reminds you its a global vacuum for information. Gchq stands for Government Communication headquarters. Thats a deliberately obscure name thats not supposed to attract attention. They started fairly small, as a cryptography outfit in britain. In world war ii it became very,
One will be made soon. Im really optimistic we can get there. There is still a lot of details to work out, sean. To say we have a deal that wouldnt be accurate. The president and i came to agreement in principle. What we are trying to do now is to make sure that our agreement is actually something that can be executed in a way that passes the senate. Wheile meadows is changing hs tune, some are sounding alarm after the late meeting with paul ryan. Charlie dent, chairman of the moderate group in the house, announced he is opposed to the bill. So with all the give and take, here is where it stands on this version of the bill to repeal obamacare. According to our count, 24 House Republicans are flat out no. 28 lawmakers in the definitely or likely no column. That could change quickly even fluctuate if the Freedom Caucus flips to support the bill. This is very fluid. As for the president himself, aides say he is not involved in the details of the legislation. One telling cnn, he either doe
Complete but its over because it has blown up. In facty the whole House Intelligence Committee seems to have ceased to function entirely even beyond doing that investigation. Theyre apparently no longer meeting as a committee to do business other than the trumprussia investigation. They apparently stopped all together. It appears like the investigation itself is done. Now, i will tell you, congressman schiff disagrees th that assessme he disagrees with that common wisdom. He is, as i mentioned, the top democrat on that committee. He is in a position to know what theyre doing. But honestly, it is starting to feel like the Trump White House has effectively shut down that part of the investigation into what happened between them, the Trump Campaign and russia last year, while russia was mounting its attack on the United States. Its obviously a big political risk. Potentially even a big legal risk for the white house to sabotage or undermine an official congressional investigation into the
Chairman devin nunes will meet behind closed doors on the senate side holding a public hearing on russia in one hour and Chris Stirewalt for analysis on all this. Good morning to you. We want to start with the comey matter. There was a draft or an outline meaning, comey, he said im going to go forward what do people think of this . In that meeting was secretary of state john kerry and Loretta Lynch and j. J. Johnson and National Security adviser susan rice. So take us back to the summer for context. What was going on, chris . There was no way donald trump could not win the election. No one more so than president obama. They were convinced. Remember what his top political minds were saying is that Hillary Clinton was win in a rout so the thinking, i assume, why bother upsetting russia on whom the country was dependent on the execution of an iranian deal and russia was important in that way and if you say russia is trying to interfere with the campaign of Hillary Clinton and skew the out
About not showing up for the game . The 11th hour begins now. Good evening once again from our headquarters in new york and 69 of the Trump Administration, the biggest story where the white house is concerned came from across town. A lot of people on this broadcast and elsewhere has said what the russia investigation is missing is a president saying he wants to get to the bottom of it all. This was a hugely consequential day and not in ways that they would like. Today we heard from the top two members of the Senate Intelligence committee. On the right, richard burr of north carolina. On the left, mark warner of virginia. In plain english, they sounded like senators ought to sound. Saying in effect weve got this. Promising a sweeping investigation. Already the biggest in decades and a bipartisan report when its all over if you can believe that. Taking questions under the hot lights in the capitol, they revealed theyve already reached out to 20 witnesses. The only thing they didnt allow,