By President Elect trump yesterday at his first News Conference since july. Today, he tweeted that the Us Intelligence service said it was phoney and falsely circulated. In fact, James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, effectively distanced the Us Intelligence agency from the unverified video, saying it didnt leak it and hadnt made a judgement on its reliability. Since then, the spotlight has been shone on the man credited with producing the memo Christopher Steele, a former mi6 officer respected by British Intelligence agencies, the cia and the fbi. He has since gone to ground. The focus is now on what British Intelligence knew and whether anything made its way onto ministers desks. But the wider question persists is this a scandal of watergate proportions, or one of the biggest smears in the history of politics . Heres our diplomatic editor, mark urban. Were learning more about the world of private intelligence gathering and how information gleaned from across the globe
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I95. That is our very latest active weather on storm scan three. Lets look at these peak wind gusts, this was unbelievable at 3 00 oclock line of heavy rain and gusty thunderstorms moved through. Some thunder but mainly gusty wind. 71 miles an hour gust peaked in philadelphia, 55 in allentown, 52 in trenton. 409s in new castle and reading. The marry bet sent in this picture from bethlehem. This treat completely broken off its trunk in the front yard and it looks like it just miss ed or hit the roof and hood of that car. Owe damaging wind the big threat with these storms and through the evening we will have some lingering heavy rain. Wind not expected to be as strong but look at the the temperatures, falling very quickly. Fiftysix in philadelphia. Fiftytwo in reading. Already 40s in the poconos. We are going way down tonight. Temperatures will fall, 30 degrees from their daytime highs. More on that coming up later in the broadcast jessica but this was quite an afternoon. A lot of change
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