Ambassador at the center of this kris . Is he a diplomat . Or as many people are saying in washington, d. C. Today, a spy . Are the Democrats Holding the Administration Accountable or are they, once again, overplaying their hand. . We have another big lineup this morning including the top House Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, congressman adam schiff. Also a member of the Senate Intelligence committee senator angus king and member of the Richard Blumenthal and ambassador mike mcfaul. Mika is down with the weather this morning. We have willie geist and John Heilemann and Nick Confessore and ai ari melber and kasie hun. Yesterday morning i got the sense we were going to be spending the next few days talking about an administration stonewalling and not getting it. Now, of course, Jeff Sessions moves out pretty quickly and follows the advice of a lot of us had around the set, which is get out there and recuse yourself and try to get that part of the story behind us. As we are saying
Night as the 11th hour begins. And good evening once again from our headquarters here in new york. This was day 111 for the trump administration. Where does the time go . The day after the president fired the head of the fbi. And while fighting off comparisons to Richard Nixon after firing james comey, the president met in the oval office today with nixons secretary of state henry kissinger. While also fighting off claims that comeys firing was about the russia investigation, the president met in the oval office with two men named sergei. Russian foreign minister sergei leave rove and Sergey Kislyak of mike flynn and carter page fame. The meeting with the russians was closed to the press. The still photos we are able to show you here and now came from tass, the russian Government News agency. Today also saw the white house on defense, trying to explain the reasoning and the timing for comeys firing. The president took the advice of the Deputy Attorney general who oversees the director
In an open hearing. The hearing meant to be aya general review of the fbi. But it is quite likely some questions about russia will come up. Comey is also on the hill again on thursday, this time with the National Security Agency Director mike rogers. They will face questions together directly related to russia from the house intel committee. Notably, it will be the first highprofile action for that committee since chairman devin nunes stepped aside from the investigation. We will see none of that, however. That hearing will be behind closed doors. Also today, the Associated Press shed more light on what were likely to hear from sally yates when she faces questions on the hill next week. The report says yates will recount in detail her january 26th warning to the Trump White House about ousted National Security adviser mike flynns meeting with the then Russian Ambassador sergey kislyak. A reminder. Here is how sean spicer reacted just over a month ago now when asked about yates testimon
Way into any ties between russia and members of the trump team. Tonight we will talk with two members of the House Intelligence Committee who took part in todays hearing, one democrat, one republican if you can believe it. First a look at what we saw today. The president was at a campaignstyle rally tonight in louisville pushing the Republican Health care plan to an adoring crowd. He did not mention or go anywhere near the story that dominated today and will keep dominating the headlines into tomorrow. And thats comeys testimony. Todays hearing got under way with an Opening Statement from house intelligence chairman, the california republican, devin nunes, who had been a member of the trump transition team. Nunes, like many in his party today, concentrated on leaks of classified information to reporters, then it was congressman adam schiffs turn, the lead democrat on that committee. The months of july and august 2016 appear to have been pivotal. Its at this time the russians began usin
Move to ease russian sanctions right from the start. The 11th hour begins now. Good evening once again from our headquarters here in new york. Day 133 of the still young Trump Administration, and the president today stunned many people around the globe, announcing americas withdrawal from the paris climate accords. We will cover that in depth in just a moment. We begin with yet another new report out tonight on this white house and russia. Washbased investigative journalist michael i could have been acknowledged and outlines President Trumps plan to ease sanctions on russia. It is a plan that reportedly fell short. I could have been says, there was quote there was serious he says he received several panicky calls from u. S. Government officials who told them they had been directed to develop a sanctions lifting package and imploring him please my god, cant you stop this. It was apparently stopped in large part thanks to pushback from veterans at the state department. But there is a Mic