Ready to reach for peace, but he does not say how to achieve what he has called the ultimate deal. And d ger moore has died, the britishh actor Won International fame playing james bond. He was 89 years old. Brent it is good to have a with us. Tonight, police in britain have named in the man that blew himself up at a packed concert venue last night. 22yearold salman abedi detonated an improvised explosive device at the Manchester Arena on monday evening. He died at the scene. The Islamic State group has claimed responsibly for the bombing, which killed 22 people, including an 8 year old girl. It is the worst terror attack in britain in 12 years. [explosion] , god. Correspondent the moment when an evening of pop music turned into a nightmare when an explosion shook Manchester Arena minutes after a concert from Ariana Grande ended. Panic spread throughout the crowd, children, teenagers and parents rushed to the exits unsure of what was happening. [screaming] we were in the arena. We hear
Attack. So many people are murdered by evil losers in life. I will call them, from now on, losers because that is what they are. Theyre losers. Interference, following the reports, the president asked two top intelligence chiefs to tamp down the russia investigation. National intelligence refusing to confirm or deny the report. I have always believed that given the nature of my position, and the information of which we share, its not appropriate for me to comment publicly on any of that. I dont feel it is appropriate to characterize discussions and conversations with the president. And the russia connection, a veteran cia man that is cia chief in the 2016 campaign that says he saw enough to warrant the fbi contacts. By the time i left office on january 20th, i had unresolved questions in my mind as to whether or not the russians had been successful in getting u. S. Persons involved in the campaign or not to work on their behalf. And good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in jerusalem.
Foreign trips next leg. Heather very exciting today. Reporter pope francis is already back at work giving his general audience which is why Donald Trumps meeting with his holiness is so early this morning because the pope would never jeopardize as his wednesday audience, hands were shaken, gifts were given, the pope gave trump a metal by a romebased artist and the olive, a symbol of fees signed by the pope that he gave donald trump three books, one about religion, one about family and one about the environment and the president gave pope francis some books, first vision by Martin Luther king jr. And those are significant because pope francis quoted Martin Luther king jr. In some of his most poignant parts of his speech. Very beautiful procession through the apostolic palace this morning that got underway and there was the private meeting between pope francis and donald trump. Great smiles and finally an expanded audience with members of the first family and also members of Donald Trump
And new bombshells, the president reportedly pressuring the heads of intelligence to push back on the russia allegations, one of those men the director of National Intelligence, testifies publicly this hour. We will begin this morning with that deadly attack at that concert in manchester. At least 22 dead, nearly 60 injured, many believed to be children, including at least one 8yearold. Our team is standing by with the very latest. Now the chaos unfolded at the tail end of the concert, a lone bomber was just outside the main venue and he detonated an explosive as people left shows, the moment caught on tape. Oh, my god. [ inaudible ]. This is crushing. Nbcs matt bradley is live in manchester. Matt, isis is now claiming responsibility. Has that been verified . It has been, stephanie. Experts told nbc news this is a verified account and that this is a legitimate claim of responsibility by Islamic State. Of course, stephanie, its always very hard to read the tea leaves when it comes to th
Mr. Director, i want to say that i have been up to the agency to review those documents that you had referred to before, and i look forward to talking about the information therein in our closed session. I also want to mention something that we had talked with admiral rogers and mr. Comey for in our last or two open sessions ago from the house intelligence committee. Its one that sort of got a lot of hoopla on tv with regard to our side of the aisle here trying to make a diversionary tactic when we talk about the importance of what leaks do with our Intelligence Community. I just want to ask you if you agree with admiral rogers, that when high level Intelligence Community officials i think some news reports had almost 20 people leaking classified information to the press if you agree with admiral rogers that that kind of leaking, with our ability to have to reauthorize things like 702 so we can gather intelligence on bad guys, for political purposes, if you agree that kind of activity