The stores and more next on prime time. To put any assets thursday to suffer fest here in korea lot from seoul. I need to pay them come and thank you so much for joining us. We begin with some welcome news for the nation into on the korean tradition of making and sharing and she paid unescos intangible Cultural Heritage of humanity list on this thursday korea time for more details on how the decision came about and what this means for the country. We connect live on the phone to professor pat sent me from azerbaijan shes a member of the World Heritage section of the Cultural Heritage committee and she took part at the eighth annual unesco World Heritage conference thank you very much for joining us and congress to link fence. You couldnt be well first off tell us what the atmosphere there was like at the moment the decision was made and what does it mean to be on this unesco blacks. Im going. Yes that is why. In it. On the point chc vez government welcomed the move. Erica like the prom
Welcome back to the point. The white house, one of the big political stories since the election to be about stopping obamacare instead today the surveillance debacle. Still exploding across washington. We have that story. And if President Trump hasnt heard enough from fbi director james comey, in a single day, essentially fact check those claims of a wiretapping order by president obama and then confirmed a russia probe regarding trump associates, there may be more. This week comey returned to the hill testifying again before the House Intel Committee about russia, his time in a closed session. And the committee itself facing its own chaos because as you probably saw, republican Chr Devin Nunes may not have been pang close attention. Director comey was the present statement that obama had his wires tapped in trump tower a true statement . With respect to the president s tweets about alleged wiretapping directed at him by the prior administration, i have no information that supports tho
Am joy. If you woke up this morning breathing a little sigh of relief you are not alone. This week the world has been holding its collective breath as north korean regime and Trump Administration engage in back and forth saberrattling. Kim jongun marking the birthday of his grandfather, founding dictator of north korea with massive parade showing off military wares including prototype of missiles. U. S. Military dropping mother of all bombs in afghanistan a week after the launch of 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian Military airfield. That was followed by a twitter war between trump and north korean regime with trump tweeting north korea was looking for trouble and seeming to threaten retaliation if the hermit king demonstrated nuclear capacity. Vice foreign minister tweeted back calling trumps tweets aggressive saying if he wants war, its on. Some experts feel he may use today to conduct a nuclear test. Telling nbc news u. S. Considering preemptive strike with conventional weapons if they
According to this report, the same man, Paul Manafort has been extensively wiretapped by Law Enforcement officials both before and after last years president ial election. Now, of course, both of these stories broke at like 7 00 tonight, which is we have had a joke on our show staff for awhile now, once you get into like 7 00ish, it becomes russiaoclock. Russiaoclock hit with a bunch of tells in toning in the distance. When we had been planning to report as the big news in the russia investigation tonight before this stuff blew it up, what we thought would be the big rush of the story tonight was about something called the Asset Recovery initiative. Which was started by attorney general eric holder during the obama administration. Last week President Trump hosted the Prime Minister of malaysia given Everything Else going on, was not the highest profile story in the world. But that visit by the malaysia Prime Minister was notable in terms of corruption and Law Enforcement and high Publi
The wikileaks founder, asking for access to Hillary Clintons emails. No hesitation. President trump says he was extremely nice to the widow of a soldier killed in niger and contrary to her account says he didnt flub her husbands name, insisting he said it with no hesitation. So why is the president still bringing this up . And take it literally. Saying kim jonguns regime has always turned its words into action. A top north korean official now warns the world should take literally his countrys threat of an above ground nuclear testify. Is north korea right now ready for a Hydrogen Bomb test . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Breaking news. President trump is now in texas for a republican fundraiser after a remarkable show of bravado in the wake of stinging texas from the republicans. The president appeared to be in a celebratory mood when he talked to reporters as he left the white house. She shrugged off the criticism from bob corker blamed the m