County, new york not far from the cabin where the police found the d. N. A. Rick . Greta, new York State Police have sent out teams of investigators to check out 2,000 or sofer the leads which have poured in since they escaped from that maximum security correctional facility some 17 days ago. Every one of those leads didnt pan out until this weekend. Now there has been a dramatic shift of resources here to Franklin County. As you mentioned about 20 miles west of dannemora. About 1,000 officers from local, state and county agencies have flooded this zone assist ising in the search after state police recovered evidence from a cabin and quickly made a positive id confirming d. N. A. Links to the escape killers. Authorities wouldnt go into specifics about what was found, but various reports suggest there were boots bloody socks toiletries, fingerprints and even prisonissued underwear in a hunting cabin deep in the thick adirondack woods. The tip came from the owner of the hunting camp who
Strategy for fighting isis president obama wednesday ordered an additional 450 u. S. Military advisers to join the more than 3,000 already in iraq. The move comes as militants continue their advance on baghdad, vowing in a new propaganda video to, quote, liberate the iraqi capital soon, so is the administrations latest escalation really an escalation at all and will it make a difference in the fight against the Islamic State . Lets ask wall street journal columnist and Deputy Editor dan heninger and columnist and Editorial Board member phil mcgern. Is it a tacit admission, hes not saying it outright but is it an admission his strategy is failing . Well the first thing i would do paul take issue with the word strategy the idea that he has one in iraq. A gesture. He calls it. He calls it a strategy. Calling in air strikes and sprinkling 3,500 advisers around. Train the iraqis. Train the iraqis. Meanwhile, Islamic State has forces of between 30,000 and 50,000 armed, trained fighters. Righ
Quote, done something during the campaign. He called carter page a weird do who colluded with russians, and said of mueller, let him arrest me. Are you worried about getting arrested . I think it would be funny if they arrested me. So carter page was colluding with the russians, you think . Yeah, i believe carter page was colluding with the russians. Do you think that they have something on the president . I think they may. What . I think that he may have done something during the election. But i dont know that. Sam now tells me that he is cooperating and hes preparing all the necessary documents. So what now . And why is this still a story . Because nunberg isnt the only one talking to mueller and hes not the only one describing lines of questioning. Spectacle or no spectacle, muellers team wants all communication and notes and documents related to at least ten people, including the president himself. Those are the people that we kn know. We can presume other witnesses could be asked
Senate confirmation running an agency as politically electric as the epa is. They dont want to get four confirmations for four slots, and before major election season, scrambling to have a cabinet that is functioning, trying to keep the seats warm. Part of the reason he has been able to hang on as long as he has. As the shoe drops, there will be more pruit stories, it will make it tough to last as long as he has. Emelba marcos here. He said this on air force one on thursday. I think scott has been a fantastic job. I think he is a fantastic person. They lost scott pruit. They feel strongly about him and love scott pruit. Coal and energy. Reuters, 25 more Industry Leaders than advocates. Add that to coal representatives. Yes, i think that certainly, the politics of trump trying to revive the dying coal and Energy Industry plays into this. What is more important is what he said about scott pruits effectiveness. The advocate shows how ineffective he has been. A lot of his actions tied up i
A. M. Out west. Heres whats happening right now. Were beginning with the breaking news. Coverage of a suspected chemical attack in syria, which has reportedly killed dozens, including 22 children. President trump responded with sharp criticism against Vladimir Putin, blaming him because of his support of syrian president Bashar Al Assad. Republicans including senator mike rounds, are praising the president s tough position on russia in this matter. Heres what senator rounds told chuck todd on meet the press this morning. I think he will hold not just syria, but i think he will make it clear he believes russia is also responsible. But lets get all of our facts together. Lets be prepared. Lets do our strategic planning. Lets allow the military to be in a position to where we can be effective in the way that we respond. Dont get pushed into doing it based on putins terms but on our terms. Helping us to go over todays top stories, nbc White House Correspondent jeff bennett, time magazines