Ambassador to south korea, mark lippert. The diplomat undergoing nearly three hours of surgery overnight, receiving more than 80 stitches on his face alone. Im bleeding here. Lippert slashed by a teninch knife in the face and arms moments before delivering a speech in seoul on wednesday. The weapon slicing open his left forearm, damaging the nerve system for his fingers. The gash on his right cheek four inches long and an inch deep. South korean surgeons say if the facial injury was any deeper it could have been lifethreatening. Hes one of our top asia policy experts in the u. S. Government. According to witnesses, the suspect, 55yearold king ki jeong pushed the diplomat on to a table before assaulting him. Bystanders tackling him to the ground as Police Rushed him out of the conference room. Witnesses say they heard kim yelling antiu. S. Sentiments shouting the south korea u. S. Military drills must stop a reference to the annual war games which north korea sees as a provocation. Nort
Sources that the fbi rejected a request from the white house recently to publicly knock down media reports about communications during the 2016 president ial campaign between Donald Trumps associates and russians known to u. S. Intelligence. A white house official says that the request was made only after the fbi indicated to the white house it did not believe all of the reporting was accurate. Multiple u. S. Officials telling cnn the white house sought the help of the bureau and other agencies investigating the russian matter to say the reports were wrong and that there had been in contacts, the officials said. Fbi director james comey responded by rejecting this request according to sources in part because the alleged communications are the subject of an ongoing investigation. White house spokesperson sean spicer says we didnt try to knock the story down. We asked them to tell the truth. The fbi declined to comment, poppy. Pamela, this is not a typical request at all. How did it all
Trump, frustrated by tales of turmoil in the white house took to the campaign trail this weekend after just a month in the office to defend his new administration. Youve seen what weve accomplished in a very short period of time. The white house is running so smoothly. So smoothly. Reporter he also served up more criticism of the media. We are not going to let the fake news tell us what to do, how to live or what to believe. We reporter and invoked a puzzling security concern. You look at whats happening last night in sweden. Sweden. Who would believe this . Sweden. They took in large numbers. Theyre having problems like they never thought possible. Reporter while trump was appearing to reference a reference of terrorism, nothing particularly noteworthy happened in sweden over the weekend. Trump said on twitter his comment came after watching a fox news segment related to swedens immigration policies. The swieshd Swedish Embassy offered their own response. Saying we look forward to inf
Staff at the National Security council. In isthis is a great team, w very, very honored. Reporter this coming after he admits, mike pence, that general flynn was a let down. We honor general flynns long service to the United States of america and i fully support the president s decision to ask for his resignation. Reporter flynn was dismissed after misleading pence about discussing sanctions with the russian ambassador, leaving the president scrambling to fill the spot. Trump, frustrated by tales of turmoil in the white house took to the campaign trail this weekend after just a month in the office to defend his new administration. Youve seen what weve accomplished in a very short period of time. The white house is running so smoothly. So smoothly. Reporter he also served up more criticism of the media. We are not going to let the fake news tell us what to do, how to live or what to believe. We reporter and invoked a puzzling security concern. You look at whats happening last night in s
julia khayyam. what was going on and chief charles ramsey was also with us. mary, let s start with you. initial lit airport officials were calling this an accidental discharge. we ve got a little more detail about how it happened. how are they trying now to evaluate not only how it got that far but the response time, you know, and just the the sequence of events that would follow. what will they learn from this? yes. well, what they are evaluating on is actually based on lessons learned from the 2013 airport shooting in los angeles. folks might recall back then there was an active shooter in the airport in los angeles, and he went through the airport looking for tsa agents to shoot or to kill, and because of that there were a lot of changes put in place. airports had to prepare for this.