Be underway . We want to welcome viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. We have breaking news this hour on the fbi directors secret briefing up on capitol hill, james comey, meeting right now with top house and Senate Leaders who have a level of security clearance that would allow them to share sensitive classified information. Comeys visit coming as lawmakers investigate russias alleged meddling, possible ties to the Trump Campaign and the president s claim that he was wiretapped by president obama. Also breaking, cnn has learned that the Senate Intelligence Committee Wants all Trump Associates who allegedly spoke with russian officials to testify before the panel. That includes the ousted National Security adviser Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort. In the healthcare debate, the white house insists President Trump is not trying to jam the gop plan down anybodys throat this after the bill w
Story as opposed to the inauguration and i was think being it then. I was thinking about it during this period of time. Theres really no right time to do it. But i mean, im okay with it. As you know, i have a decision to make and i have to make the decision. He agrees that i have the absolute right to do it. Everybody agrees. But the former director of National Intelligence is calling the president s behavior disturbing and issuing this ominous warning today. I think this many ways our institutions are under assault and thats the big news here is the russian interference in our election system. And i think as well our institutions are under assault internally. Internally from the president . Exactly. This as north korea once again fires a Ballistic Missile test overnight. Well discuss the sharp response from the white house. But first the president blaming much of the controversy surrounding the firing of james comey to a vendetta by democrats. But a new nabc wall street journal poll s
Of those polled would prefer an independent commission or a special prosecutor. I want to bring in athena jones. What are you hearing . Reporter this is pretty remarkable, the fact that the president was surprised. He thought he would be applauded for making this move. And if you listen to what he sad judge janine peer ro on fox, he sounded surprised. I was surprised because all of the democrats hated jim comey. They didnt like him. They wanted him fired or whatever. And then all of the sudden they come out with these reports. Look, i thought that this would be a very popular thing that i did when i terminated comey because all of the democrats couldnt stand him. But because i terminated him, they say ah, we get political points, well go against trump. Reporter so there you hear the president saying hes surprised at the reaction but also sliming democrats for this reaction. One more exam. Is on wednesday within amidst the yup roar other his decision, he tweeted out a link that was a ma
Projectile that was fired . That is something that officials will all look into, trying to see what else they can learn about the projectile that was fired, see what they can gather about that firing, and about the Ballistic Missile program. You have heard north korea say they will continue the launches, one official saying you will see this happen on a weekly basis, and prior to what happened this morning you had already seen nine Ballistic Missiles launched at least over six different days since just the start of the year and just the beginning of the Trump Administration. Now, this latest projectile seems to have happened in the first week of the newly elected south korean president. So surely this will be a test to see how the newly elected president moon will handle it. You cant imagine there witting much will be much of a did epartu from s from the procedures, bit of background is that president moon is the First Democratic Party president here in south korea in the last ten year
Scene. The captain described the scene as very chaotic with a possibility of more than one shooter. It was a young crowd and we have had incidents in the past, but this is the worst by far. By the time individuals were the shots were fired, individuals ran outside, so there was not a lot of people inside the club. I believe there was a large crowd earlier this evening, but just a lot of chaos when the shots went off. If anybody was a witness to anything that happened obviously we need you to come forward with anything you have. We are sure there was more than one, but were not sure if there was more than two at this point. She was talking about there was one shooter, but they are not sure if there was more than two shooters. Some of the injured were able to drive themselves to area hospitals, and everybody ran from the club, she says, and they are looking for people that can tell them more about what happened. All of the victim are being treated, and no words on the extent of their inj