questioning of suspected al qaeda operatives. cia fighting to get her through. trying to win over members of congress expressed this concern. manu raj u is outfront. what s so significant is pushing this? yeah, challenge getting her confirmed. behind the scenes trying to aswaug the concerns about tactics water boarding black site in thailand. she is distancing herself from all this. she is saying, look, this is post 911 mindset. cia was acting differently back then. laws were different. in 2015 they outlawed water boarding. and now she would follow the law she says because it is no longer permissible. and more whoever, you recall in
the president just spoke of great unity within the republican party. but his administration is now defying law make tears over a pln that was approved overwhelmingly not just by republicans but also democrats. talking about the sanctions against russia for interference in the 2016 presidential election. and despite signing the bill into law, president trump has missed its october 1st deadline, actually put the sanctions in place. the white house is placing blame on the state department for this who is now doing review on its portion of the law. let s straighten all this out with manu raj u who is our national correspondent. you talked about corker and mccain on this issue. what did they tell you? they say there is frustration.
himself, that he was not going to be in contact with russia-related maerltsd much longer, and that turned out to be the case. and that turned out to be the case. we know now from my colleague manu raj u that during that closed session that comey had with the intelligence panel, he talked about a possible third meeting that sessions may have had with the russian ambassador. that is what he was talking about when he said he didn t want to discuss it in open session. now, the department of justice has denied that third meeting but we can expect that this is among the many questions sessions will be asked on tuesday. boris? athena jones reporting from new jersey where the president is spending the weekend. thank you. let s bring in our panel of experts. joining me is michael deantonio, auter of the can book, the truth about trump. and steve moore, a retired fbi.
this comes, erin, as the intelligence committee plans to ramp up its investigation after today s meeting, hearing with gyms comey. planning to meet with bob mueller, the special counsel next week. one thing that the committee and bob mueller want to get hold of is the tape that president trump suggested may have existed, tape of conversations between president trump and james comey. mark, one of the top democrat on the committee told me they re willing to even subpoena for the tape. take a listen. we ve seen in past history that secret taping systems used by presidents don t end up in a very good position. is this something you re discussing in the committee to subpoena them? if they exist we want to get a look at them. erin, republicans are not ruling out the idea of subpoenaing those tapes even as both sides are raising serious concerns about whether there were any crimes committed here and whether or not any obstruction of justice occurred as well. manu, thank you very muc
find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. . welcome back to a very special edition of out front front. the fired fbi director jim comey breaking his silence about his conversations with president trump before the senate intelligence committee today and we re learning that the committee will soon meet with another crucial player in this, jared kushner. manu raj u is out fro out front this. we are expecting a meeting between jared kushner and staff as soon as this month and afterwards we re told by sources fam with the matter that he s actually going to provide records and documents to the committee and then would be willing to meet with senators about his communications with russian officials.