The latest news from around the world with host Fredricka Whitfield. Speak out on the stuff that you know . And they have shifted gears so much on that, i think that its interesting to say its from that investigation that develops, but at best, he spoke too soon. So the president has said he wants this russia thing to go away, he wants people to stop talking about it, stop asking about it, but hes the one whos bringing it up. So here we are a couple of months away from the midterm elections, so how important is it to get out in front, change the narrative, when the president keeps bringing it up. Every day, the news of the day is dictated by what the president tweets. One thing we can all appreciate about the president s twitter account, is that we dont not know what hes thinking in the more. I think as we were talking about in the previous segment, republicans want to talk about the economy, they want to talk
about jobs, the Unemployment Rate and yet the president is talk about other
A look at Breaking News, politics and reports from around the world. White house correspondent jim acosta. The white house wants to show the Administration Takes Election Interference very seriously despite doubt the president continues to cast. Update our viewers. Reporter thats right. The white house tried to show The World Today that its serious about stopping russian interference in u. S. Elections. But the Top Administration officials on display today insisting they are on the case had to grapple with one very key question, whether the president himself takes the threat to american democracy seriously. The president has made it clear reporter it was a show of force as the white house and Top Administration officials from the director of National Intelligence to the National Security advisor to the fbi director to assure the American People they are determined to combat russian interference in the u. S. Elections. We continue to see a pervasive messaging campaign by russia to try t
Where we have new battle lines in a familiar flight. The president previews his next 20 months and how he plans to use the Mueller Report to his advantage. Going after the man he fired as fbi director. Were sharing a new piece of our exclusive interview with james comey and where he thinks this goes next. Is this a case of question asked, question answered on the issue of collusion . Is this over . Our lester holt joins us live with more of that sitdown. Plus, another investigation on capitol hill. Not involving putin but paychecks and the elusive tax returns the president has never shared. The oversight chairman now wants a decade of financial records with one member of that committee here in just a minute. Plus, that news breaking on Jussie Smollett. The feds reviewing the dropped case. But our Pete Williams has a context check on how big a deal this is or is not in a story that has captivated the country. Weve got our team here covering all of it this morning. And on top of all of t
Anybody in the national press. Ive been teased for it. Criticized for it. I know the intensity of our coverage, of what we now know of, the russia scandal, our dedication to the story, by necessity has squeezed out time that we may have devoted to other stories. I know that. Im totally cognizant of that. On this of all days, heres why we have covered it so intensely. Since it first became clear that there was something wrong and illicit and unexplained about the relationship between this particular foreign adversary and the unlikely rise of this unlikely politician who shocked everyone by winning the last u. S. President ial election, there was no reason as a president ial candidate he would stick with some care to say anything remotely critical about russia and its president. There was no reason why he would dig out of the vault a Campaign Chairman who had not worked in american politics for more than a generation but he had spent more than a decade doing Vladimir Putins work in the s
Changed. Something really shifted in the conversations about the president. Uncomfortable questions moved into the main stream in a big way. Trumps odd behavior with Vladimir Putin is compelling so many people to ask what does putin have on trump . Has trump been compromised . All of those people, those experts, those reporters, they are looking at the fact pattern and seeing something strange, even sinister. No rational president would act this way if he werent being blackmailed on some level. You cant just dismiss the idea that putin has something on trump. Im not a conspiracy theorist but his behavior is so bizarre and against the National Interest that it certainly raises the possibility that something untoward is going on. See these concerns are now in the bloodstream in a whole new way. I dont think theres any coming back from this. Josh marshall of the liberal talking points memo put it this way, he said the press conference in helsinki made cautious prominent people start to co