Hill, joining us on the phone. Talk to us more about the reasoning and the timing, specifically, here. Katie the administration is saying that this is over comeys handling of Hillary Clinton, the investigation into the clinton private in l server. They said that his decision to publicly announce so much detail in july, the sort of bombshell letter that he sent in october to Congress Announcing that he had more letters, they are saying that this behavior is the reason they hit the road. What you are seeing from democrats are a lot of questions about the timing here. Why now . These actions were last year. For democrats, citing the is this related to the Ongoing Investigation from the fbi into any coordination between Trump Campaign officials . That fbi investigation, when a we expected to hear any kind of update on that from the now fired fbi director . Very little. Director comey testified last week and was asked about that. He said look, we are going to be sticking to our normal pract
Washington journal continues. Host Katie Bo Williams is back at our desk from the hill. She joins us regarding that russian interference in the 2016 election. Guest good to be here. Host what was one of the one of the key moments yesterday during testimony was john brennan. This is what he had to say in exchange with trey gowdy. I saw information and intelligence that was worthy of investigation by the bureau to determine whether or not such cooperation or collusion was taking place. That doesnt help us a lot. What was the nature of the information . I think this committee has access to the information i am alluding to, it is classified and im happy to talk about it in the classified session. That would be directly between the candidate and russian state actors . I said i am not going to talk about it. But that was my question. I responded to your clary and uery i will ry aboutond to your que contacts between russian officials and u. S. Persons that raised questions about whether those
Will it go to state legislators . Thats a possibility. We have been putting forward lawsuits across the country in states where we feel like there were egregious violations of peoples rights and the way this election process played out. We are open to anything. This comes as the coronavirus pandemic worsens by the day. New today, the head of the trumpetrump ed administrations operation warp speed said they could get a vaccine as soon as december 12th. We will have identified with each state, department of health, where they want the vaccines to be located. Within 24 hours from the approval, the vaccine will be moving and located in the areas where each state will have told us where they want the vaccine doses. We have a team of reporters following the latest this hour. Lets begin with josh ledderman. How are memberles of the Republican Party reacting to trumps legal challenges . Reporter republicans fall into one of three camps. You have a small group of diehard trump allies like doug
The investigation is headed . Reinventing the presidency. A new report shows how mr. Trump has changed the highest office in the land. Reaction on whether its been for better or worse, depending of course on your view. Is thats 2018 somewhere. Out with the old, in with the new. Happening in spectacular fashion around the globe. Well, the clock ticks down in new york city, a look at times square. A live look out there. Kind of quiet now, but theyre getting ready, when the ball will drop on what could be the coldest new years eve on record. Well bring you a live report, ahead. And we begin with breaking news out of iran, where two protesters have reportedly been killed overnight in a wave of demonstrations over economic woes plaguing the country. Irans semiofficial News Agency Says they are the first deaths linked to four days of protesting. President trump just tweeted another supporting statement for protesters while warning officials, quote, the usa is watching very closely for human
actual kidetails of which partsf the special counsel s office sees as connected. you know, right now you feel like there are a lot of disparate developments that we ve learned about through press reports and congressional leaks and so on. but we really haven t gained that full picture of it. and i think that s going to come to the forevery qui very quickl new year. as we heard, the big enchilada that s going to come out in 2018. katie, back to you and your latest article, how the trump administration has been maintaining many of president obama s policies on russia, how they recently approved the largest commercial sale of defensive weapons to ukraine. how they re also implementing sanctions on human rights violators and how are more sanctions are spoipaused to com against the kremlin. can you explain the president s strategy in speaking warmly to russia, while quietly carrying out what appears to be a mainstream approach here? that s the question i m