scottish coast for a military exercise called saxon warrior. on the other side of europe, russia is hosting its annual international army games, showing off its military prowess. it s a prelude to russia s massive naval drills planned for september, and belarus and china have been invited. nato officers say both drills were planned long in advance. it s been at least three years in the planning. it is indeed a coincidence. they come during uneasy times between moscow and nato as russia spars over ukraine and syria and its close encounters between naval and russian pilots rising. that promotes the potential for miscalculation. reporter: these joint u.s./british exercises aren t just a show of force to moscow,
because there s not an investigation, and there s you don t know whether oh, boy, this is weird. you don t know whether there s an investigation. kind of went on from there. sekulow also said that the president s tweet was only responding to the washington post report that mueller is investigating the president, a report that it is worth noting has been confirmed by several other news organizations, including nbc news. and about the claim or question from the president that there could be tapes of his conversations with james comey, today sean spicer said he would probably have an answer on that by the end of this week. there are also new questions tonight surrounding mike flynn with house democrats trying to figure out if flynn misled officials on his security form, omitting two trips to the middle east, one trip reportedly involving a, quote, joint u.s./russian business venture to develop nuclearacilities in and financed by saudi arabia. a deal said to be worth
omting two trips to the middle east, one tp reportedly involving a quote, joint u.s./russian busy venture to develop nuclear facilities in and financed by saudi arabia. a deal said to be worth $100 billion mp the white house is struggling to get any kind of policy message to rise above the noise being made by all of the russia investigations. possibly as a result there are multiple reports yet again that sean spicer may soon be leaving his role as press secretary for a more behind the scenes role in the white house communications shop. and along those lines there was this from tood s white house briefing. having a little fun with you there. we should explain that today s white house news brechg wos off-limits to camera and sound. the brechg in the house designed to answer questions for our president about our government
constitution for the activities alleged in something like this. of course not. why is that? because there is not an investigation. and there is. you don t know whether there is oh boy this is weird. you don t know whether there is an investigation. kind of went on from there. the attorney also said the president s tweet was only responding to the washington post report that muler is investigating the president. a report has been confirmed by several other news organizations, including nbc news. and about the claim or question from the president that there could be taped of his conversaons withames comey, today sean spicer said, he would by the end of this week.on that there are also new questions tonight surrounding mike flynn with house democrats trying to figure out if flynn misled officials on his security form, omitting two trips to the middle east, one trip reportedly involving a quote, joint u.s./russian busy venture to
that two u.s. service members were killed during an operation targeting inside afghanistan. the incident happened in the auction district. another soldier was killed there earlier this month. so also the area where the pentagon dropped that massive mother of all bombs as it s called. bent g pentagon reporter ryan brown is joining us. these service members were part of a special operations raid, joint u.s. afghan raid right there on the pakistan/afghanistan border. very remote area. it s kind of where isis has established its main kind of center, its main headquarters. very difficult area to access. that s one of the reasons that so-called mother of all bombs was used earlier this months because of these tunnels, these mountains, valleys. very difficult to access. again, it is kind of where the bulk of the u.s./afghan offensive against isis is located right now.