Launching an investigation that some marines distributed nude photos of female colleagues on a secret Facebook Page that reportedly has nearly 30,000 members. Those are some of the top stories were following on this monday. From abc news, this is world news now. Good morning. We begin this half hour with the breaking news out of north korea. And another provocative show of force. The state fired four banned intermediate banned Ballistic Missiles toward the sea of japan traveling some 620 miles. Three of the missiles landed directly into japans Economic Zone 200 nautical miles from the coastline. The japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe called the launch a clear violation of u. N. Security council resolutions. They say it was likely in response to joint military exercises between south korea and the United States. This is north koreas second Missile Launch since President Trump took office. Its not the intercontinental ballistic Missile Launch that kim jongun warned is coming. Its part of
President trump has a full day of meetings ahead with cabinet members as the fbi refutes his allegation that former president Obama Wiretapped him. In fact, sources say fbi director james comey is now calling on the Justice Department to publicly reject the claims as the president calls on congress to investigate them. Abcs lana zak has the latest from washington. Reporter today, the senate is expecting to hear more from the attorney general Jeff Sessions abut his meetings with the russian ambassador. Overshadowing that is the fallout from the president s twitter bomb. Terrible, he tweets, just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. Nothing found. But the president provided no evidence to back up these claims and a senior Justice Department official told abc news the director of the fbi himself, james comey, has asked the Justice Department to publicly reject the president s five twitter statements as false. The former director of National Inte
Sitdown with former president george w. Bush, talking about a new book of his paintings, that pays tribute to military veterans, weighing in on donald trump, and opening up about regrets he may have about the decision to go to war after 9 11. I was heavy hearted when i made the decision both going to afghanistan and iraq. Because i knew that there would be some dire consequences. Our twopart sunday sitdown with president george w. Bush a bit later in the show. Lets begin this morning with the president s weekend twitter storm during which he accused president obama of wiretapping his offices here in new york. Nbcs casey hunt is live in West Palm Beach near the president s home there. Good morning. Reporter willie, good morning. President trump is already up and tweeting today about russia and the dnc hacks, but the focus is is still on those accusations he made against former president obama, without any evidence. This morning, more fallout over those explosive allegations from Preside
In the lead up to the election. Would president obama have the power to warrant surveillance of a private citizen . Absolutely not. After watergate, after nixon, Congress Passed a law that said whenever the executive branch wants to engage in wiretapping or surveillance of people inside the United States, they have to go to a federal judge and get a specific warrant. And, willie, i have looked at these warrant applications from my time inside the intelligence community. They are voluminous filings that are done by career lawyers and presented to a federal judge and those federal judges are hard graders and they turn the Justice Department around all the time and say, go back and do more homework. Bring me more evidence. Were throwing around the term fisa court, fisa warrant. As you suggested a response to domestic spying. What is a fisa court and how does it work . Its made up of judges from the federal courts who are appointed to serve on this special sppanel and they work wh the Just
Some, barefoot in their haste. The raging battle with civilians caught in the middle. Hundreds of thousands of people besieged by isis, starving to death. Plus, the new evidence this morning of a possible chemical weapons attack. And new patdown procedures. Why your airport screen may feel a lot different than before. Someone who is inexperienced would be very could be very threatened. The reasons behind it. And whos in line to get one . And good morning, everyone. As you can see, dan harris not here. Its so nice to have tom llamas by my side. Tom, thanks for coming in this morning. Great to be here. Busy sunday morning. Certainly is. We want to get to our top stories. Theres twitter video there of President Trump in florida on saturday. The first and only images we have seen of him since his tweet storm yesterday. Hes back on twitter this morning tweeting again. What he wr it all started early saturday. President trump taking to twitter and leveling a dangerous accusation against his