Kicked off their flight. How did this happen . Good evening, and its great to have you with us here on a thursday night, and the war of words erupting on capitol hill. President elect donald trump has taken aim at the u. S. Intelligence community after their unanimous finding that the russians were behind the hacking during the election. Tonight, the Intelligence Community which has been silent, silent no longer. Marching up to capitol hill today calling the criticism from donald trump disparagement. It was a few days ago when asked about the russian hacking, the president elect said, i know things other people dont know, and promise to reveal it. Nothing yet from mr. Trump on that, but tonight, we are now hearing from the Intelligence Community. Abcs mary bruce is on the hill tonight. Reporter under fire from donald trump, the director of National Intelligence came to capitol hill today to make his case. Sir, whats your response when you see donald trump still questioning reporter no
How they will be making moves against the right wing representation there. Good day. Were going to start with new reaction from omarosa about the explosive claims making where the president uses the n word. Here is what he told my colleague in an exclusive interview on Meet The Press. After i closed book, i had an opportunity to go out in los angeles and sit down with the person who actually has a copy of the tape. I heard his voice as clear as you i are sitting here. You have heard the tape . I have heard the tape. Since publication of this book . Yes. When he talks this way, it confirm hes truly a racist. Omarosa talking about timing
then you can go on without any type of difficulty in the future relative to your reputation. Its very, very important, i think, you understand theres some serious legal issues that have been violated. As youre open to some legal action that we hope, i think, we can control right . So with that, if you would stay here with these general me, theyll lay thi
To people who dont understand how these things work, it could be problematic. With some editorial pages demanding the Clinton Foundation be shut down, is the press right the clintons created the appearance of a paytoplay environment or are journalists just cherry picking. They jump on donald trump for toning down rhetoric or deporting immigrants as he and his team insists he hasnt changed his position. One of the biggest policy shifts or flipflops or whatever you want to call it between the primary and general. He says the laws are wonderful diminished by bush and obama obama, i dont want to change any of it. You have to question did he ever mean it . I think the answer is probably no. I just wonder why donald trump and others who go through the process of evolution and their campaigns dont get credit for doing one thing people say they should be doing, being thoughtful on the issues. Should the media be portraying trumps new language as a flipflop . And how should they handle the nast
Chicago bound and tortured on facebook live. What his captors were saying on the assault ahead. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Im john berman. It is thursday, january 5th. 4 00 a. M. In the east. New developments in the battle with donald trump and the Intelligence Community. Not only does mr. Trump doubt views on russian hacking, but doubting the whole apparatus is set up the right way to begin with. More on that in a moment that the russians directed hacking during the election season. The president elect sided with Julian Assange over u. S. Intelligence. The president elect tweeted Julian Assange said a 14yearold could have hacked john podesta. Also, russians did not give him the information. Dismissing claims and pointing to the russians for the release of the john podesta emails. All this ahead of the hearings of the Senate Armed Services committee of Cyber Threats to the u. S. Mean while, a review is expected to be released on monday. This as we learn
Lasted a month. He was fired in midfebruary after lying about conversations he had with the Russian Ambassador. That coming weeks after acting attorney general sally yates had warned the white house that flynn was vulnerable to blackmail by the russian government because of the nature of those conversations and the falsehoods he used to describe them. Tonight after news broke that he offered to testify in exchange for immunity, flynns lawyer released a statement reading, in part, general flynn certainly has a story to tell, and he very much wants to tell it should the circumstances permit. He is now the target of unsubstantiated public demands by members of congress and other political critics that he be criminally investigated. No reasonable person who has the benefit of advice from counsel would submit to questioning in such a highly politicized witch hunt environment without assurances against unfair prosecution. Congressional officials have previously told nbc news there was no agr