Our own Jeremy Diamond was on the same plane as mark lauder whos representing run pences reelection effort. Here he was. Are you on here to meet with campaign for the Pence Campaign . Not for the Trump Campaign. So those are just some of the signs that pence is the man. Though we have no official word of any sort of formal offer yet. Trump, a pageant producer, reality tv star, businessman, master of making the most of the final round here, he has hailed his big vp reveal just 21 hours from now. We know it happens tomorrow morning, 11 00 eastern. Lets begin this hour with cnns Jason Carroll and sun llen serfaty. You are outside the Governors Mansion. What do we know about trumps decision to go with mike pence . Reporter brooke, there are considerable signs that all point to mike pence but of course nothing confirmed or official just yet. As you said, we are outside the Governors Mansion where governor pence, we believe, is still inside where hes been hold up for the last about three hou
Police saying that the car can had been sitting in an area where vehicles are not allowed. When offices approached, the driver took off at a high rate speed and crashed into a walled. The driver was arrested at the scene. Police said it is still unclear if the crash was deliberate or not. Of course well keep an eye on that. Also breaking news out afghanistan where three u. S. Soldiers were killed and a fourth wounded a ter after afgn soldier opened fire on them. They call it an insider attack. It took place this nangarhar province. U. S. Troops have been fighting against extremist factions. Rots saying that the afghan sold yes was a taliban hill tant who infiltrated the afghan army. In march another afghan soldier was killed of a at theafter he and wounded three soldiers in that incident. Courtney is following the latest. And what we saw just within the recent hours was an unfortunate increase there two to three u. S. Soldiers that died because this insider attack. What are you hearing
Interview. This is President Trump talking about jim comeys firing and its relation to the russian probe. Look, hes a show boat, a grandstander, the fbi has been in turmoil. You know that, i know that. Everybody knows that. You take a look at the fbi a year ago. It was in virtual turmoil. Less than a year ago. It hasnt recovered from that. Monday you met with the Deputy Attorney general rod rosenstein. Did you ask for recommendation . What i did, i was going to fire comey. My decision. It was not you had made the decision before hand . I was going to fire comey. Theres no good time to do it any way. In your letter, you said i accepted their recommendation. I was going to fire regardless of recommendation. He made a recommendation. Hes highly respected, very good guy. Very smart guy. The democrats like him. The republicans like him. He made a recommendation. But regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey, knowing there was no good time to do it. And in fact, when i decided
The attack took place in the achin district. They have been fighting against extremist factions in that area. The afghan soldier was a taliban militant. Nbcs National Security producer Courtney Kube is following the latest for us. What more are we learning about this insider attack . Well, as you mentioned, richard, there were three u. S. Soldiers who were shot and killed in this attack. They were shot by someone wearing an Afghan Commando uniform. We dont know yet whether that individual was in fact an Afghan Commando, someone who infiltrated the military or someone who may have just been wearing the uniform. In the years past in afghanistan, weve seen both things happen. It was an insider attack, what the military often calls a greenonblue in eastern afghanistan which has been plagued by isis in the last year or two. They have tried to step up their offensive in the last few months. We saw where the u. S. Dropped the largest bomb ever used in warfare that we know of. And then just at
This past december, december 2016, that protocol was broken was a very Senior Member of the emwroughty royal family, the crown prince of united ash emirates came to the United States in december in secret. He did not notify the Obama Administration, he did not notify the u. S. Government that he was coming and thats weird. That said, its not like he didnt get noticed, hes pretty high Profile International figure and u. S. Intelligence agencies picked up the fact he was here. And his visit and their surveillance of his visit presumably was way more intriguing to the Intelligence Community than it might normally have been under normal circumstances, specifically because he tried to sneak in. You see somebody doing something a routine thing, let you know in advance, you Pay Attention but you dont really pay that much attention. You find somebody sneaking in and trying to do something without telling the government hes here, theyre going to focus on that. This guy didnt tell the Obama Admi