Everyone. It is january 6, im alex witt alongside louis bergdorf. Some areas of colorado have been hit with nearly to feet of snow leaving residents with no option to dig out this morning. Now Colorado State patrol posted this picture of crews cleaning up after an avalanche blocked off an entire area. Some school doeses got stuck in the snow. When an Elementary School posted students with sleeping bags, they waited for the roads to be cleared. The school bus escorted by police took students home. Just 14 days until president elect donald trump is scheduled to sit down with leaders of the u. S. Intelligence agencies today. This for a highlevel briefing on russian meddling and russian affairs. Two top directors tell nbc news the report details Cyber Attacks on the Democratic National committee as well as attacks on the federal government, but the white house joint chiefs of staff and american corporations have activity dating back to 2008. Some of the hacks were successful say officials
Richard west ling. He began by thanking the jury for theirs service and they always told them along with his partners they felt very proud and honored to have represented mr. Manafort in his case. He also emphasized to the jury that there are some central tenets in the u. S. Justice department system. He said for the defendant there is a presumption of innocence and that the burden of proof is on the government, the prosecution to make the case and that has to be yard the defendants guilt. He brought out at one point a chart with variations on the guilty spectrum. He said to the jury it is simply not enough in this case to decide that mr. Manafort was maybe guilty or likely guilty or highly likely guilty. The government must show that he is guilty yard. , dana. Dana what was the theme of the Closing Argument . The theme was their position that he is a serial liar. That he lied about his money. He lied to hide the money. And when the money ran out in 2016, he lied again to secure multim
alexandria bolton writing in the hill of mitch mcconnell s plan for the next few months. not an agenda to sow political fights and base. task of congressional leaders especially before a midterm election. instead meant to show voters especially swing and independent voters that senate republicans are a study hand of the levers of government. i m joined by collin reed senior vice president of definers affairs and boston columnist and senior seeingman former fugitive governor joe corzine. that s a mouthful. a lot of the formers. dana: sara sanders is stepping to the podium so i am going to see if you can stick around. we will go to sara sanders now. as the head of the executive branch and commander-in-chief, i have a unique constitutional responsibility to protect the nation s classified information, including by controlling access to it. today in fulfilling that responsibility, i have decided to revoke the security clearance of john
violence pattern, two women raped in baltimore city, and police believe the same person is to blame. tonight, where the attacks are happening, who s being targeted and what police are doing about it. hello everybody i m denise koch. and i m vic carter. police are stepping up patrol tonight fearing there could be a serial rapist on the lose. this after two vie leapt attacks. the rapest may be targeting women at bus stops. kelly mcpherson has the story. reporter: both victims were waiting for a bus near a bus stop this weekend in east baltimore. the one woman in her 50s, the other in her 20s. police believe they had the same attacker but they do not know who he is. reporter: a man is dragging females to secluded spots to beat and rape them. here s finding them here alone at bus stops early in the morning. the first victim in her 20s tells police she was grabbed at this bus stop. i had no clue any of this was going on. reporter: how does that make you feel. i a