Philadelphias. We begin tonight with the new details of the contact between officials at the highest level of the obama era Justice Department and that former british spy. Long after the fbi cut ties with this Christopher Steele character and the Trump Dossier Author well what happened . Bruce ohr, who was at the time a senior Justice Department official continued to maintain extensive contact with steele. He wasnt supposed to. This according to new emails fox news has obtained. Bruce ohrs new connection to this whole sword i did affair is made worse when you consider his wife nellie. Fox news has confirmed she worked for the Outfit Fusion Gps during the 2016 election. Explicitly hired to help Investigate Trump and russia related subjects. If you think the Trump Legal Team isnt following all of
information. Christopher steele was not to have contact with the fbi after they had to disassociate themselves from him when he, against policy, was leaking information to the press. Right. Now
Including at the top of the hour. You mentioned his meeting with the leader of venezuela, this is one of several one on ones that the president has today. Msnbc happens to be able to be in the room, interacting with the president. One of our teams producers is there. Ill be in the room for the meeting with the president and the leader of ukraine in just a bit. It is now 10 00 and were going to get to breaking news. As this moment is Trump Administration is releasing what the president describes as the transcript of that phone call that launched the democrats impeachment investigation. What we now know, it was a 30minute call with the president of ukraine two months ago. Weve got a team of reporters covering the story and lets get to julia at the Justice Department. What are we learning so far . We went over the transcript of the call and we also went over why the Justice Department is not going to release the whistleblower complaint. What stood out to me about the transcript is that th
Tonight, the new bulletin coming in from the fbi. Security on high alert with just days until joe biden is sworn into office. What theyre now saying about potential loss of life, disruption of government and emergency response. The sweeping Law Enforcement crackdown. Up to 21,000 National Guard members deployed to protect the Nations Capital on inauguration day, after the deadly siege on the capitol. Concerns extremists feel emboldened by what they did at the capitol. And just in tonight, what were now hearing from the fbi director, christopher wray. The entire Capitol Complex shut down. They may now close the National Mall. Concern tonight in all 50 states. And news coming in this evening on suspects and arrests. The man seen in the capitol with the Confederate Flag. The retired firefighter seen on video allegedly throwing a Fire Extinguisher at the police. A friend reportedly seeing him in the images and turning him in. A middle School Therapist in the crowd. And tonight, at least 30
BJP heavyweights Nitin Gadkari, widely regarded as the brain behind the country's infrastructure push, and Piyush Goyal, credited with expanding India's commercial interests and heft, lead the six ministers from Maharashtra in Prime Minister .