game. 25 of those in the first half alone. al horford added 19 and celtics take a 3-2 series lead. turning to the ice and a pair of game sevens. the ducks are skating on to the western conference final after defeating the oilers 2-1 last night. while edmonton was first on the board, anaheim answered in the seco second. ea ducks will player the predators in the next round. and in the nation s capital, penguins marc-andre fleury turning aside 29 pucks to help pittsburgh blank washington last night. and they now look on to meeting the senators in the eastern conference final there. there was also extra action after pittsburgh had already built the two goal lead and first game seven fight in nearly
for his position that there was no russian meddling in the election. awkward timing for the white house. russia s top diplomat visiting washington only hours after president trump fires the fbi director investigating possible links between the trump campaign and russia s election hacking. does the comey firing cast a shadow over your talks, gentlemen? sergey lavrov s joking response before heading the the white house where all reporters were barred but just official photographers let in. russia s official news agency releasing more than 20 photos of the meeting, president trump with the russian foreign minister, president trump with the russian ambassador, a central figure in the controversy over the firing of michael flynn. no pictures released yet by the white house. not a lot was released about what they discussed, but we know they agreed on one thing, the russia investigation is fake news. vladimir putin, after skating in
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we have to investigate the investigation, folks. at the time the fbi said mccabe followed all protocols related to his wife s donation. the bureau also said jill mccabe s campaign had been over for three months by the time her husband became involved in the clinton e-mail investigation. still the president, he used it as part of his rigged system theme linking the donation to the fbi as recommendation of no charges hillary clinton. joining us from washington, daniel lippman. nice to talk to you once again. so senator richard burr leading the intel panel on the russia investigation, what has been his reaction to the fbi director s firing and could we see comey testify to the house intel committee next week? so i think burr realizes that his reputation is on the line. it has been for the last few months that he has been leading the senate intelligence committee investigation. and so he was very critical of trump for doing this. he said that comey was very fort
to name one because it would just kind of get the investigation out of their hands and you saw with bill clinton once you name a special prosecutor, you have no idea what will happen, it could take down a presidency. all right. live in washington, daniel lippman, thank you very much. let s turn to business where one of the hottest social media sites released its first ever earnings report and results are less than stellar. nancy, i guess snap s q1 earnings less than stellar there. that s right. and investors not liking what they saw in those results. the stock now off more than 20% near the ipo price when snap did do the highly anticipated debut. the reasons for the disappointment are largely down to user growth. somewhat disappointing and analysts were quick to say this is the facebook effect. we know facebook was striking back when it launched instragram stories featuring some products similar to snapchat including