what the polish government hopes, this will be a way for the president to make a strong and powerful statement, in effect showing he s helping this effort to sort of counter russia on energy security among other things in this region. and what s particularly striking though obviously is what the message is to western europe. this is taking place here what s called the three cs initiative summit with a lot of about 12 central and eastern european nations which are viewed by western european countries, a lot of those strong eu countries like germany, to send an anti-immigrant, anti-eu message. there s a real concern about that. obviously president trump was strongly in favor of the uk and brexit. they fear some of the western european countries that this is an effort in a way to reshift or shift the balance of power in the region as well. peter, let me read you something from the new york times and talk about it on the other side. new york times this morning reporting there s a q
associates that the president was, quote, outside the realm of normal, even rgs quo, quote cra. the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein threatened to quit after he was made the fall guy by the white house. everyone and their mother this morning reporting that director comey had asked for more resources for the russia investigation before he was fired. the department of justice is denying those claims and cnn s best reporters picking up word that the president was, quote, white hot, livid or the continued russia probe and comey s public testimony. that is the backdrop for what you will see here live. so much to cover. let s begin on capitol hill with our manu raju. what are you hearing? time the senate intelligence t - committee will be meeting since
i do understand they ve expanded the search, though, this morning. that s right. they ve expanded the area to 15 square miles around that wreckage. this morning, a focus of the investigation is on the tail of the plane, russian state media this morning reporting that the tail was three meals away from the bulk of the wreckage. they say it was found unburned. that s potentially significant because of what happened in 2001. the same plane s tail struck a runway in cairo and required repairs and some experts say that those kind of repairs, if done improperly, could lead to problems, even decades later. we heard it was in pristine condition and it passed all of
naval yard and that employees, civilian employees as well as military personnel are reporting back to duty. this started around 7:29 this morning. a scary moment of deja vu looking back at that moment in 2013 where 12 people were killed during an active shooter situation right here at the navy yard. a woman called in this morning reporting that she had heard what she believed to be shots. immediately protocols put into place since 2013 went into effect. ert teams of law enforcement here in washington, d.c., responding to the area. also medical people staging on the outside along with backup law enforcement. there was a search inside building 197 which is the same building where those shootings occurred two years ago, the preliminary search showed nothing found. a secondary search showed
and reports out of australian papers this morning reporting that the hostages are actually being allowed to keep their telephones. they are allowed to text the conditions. some texting that the situation is dire and they need to get out as soon as possible. but there is no doubt there s been a concerted effort to get information out from inside the chocolate store. the propaganda out of the situation in there and with the hostage reportedly or actually, the kidnapper reportedly telling one news anchor that he was in part doing this because the news coverage of isis has been unfair to date. there s no doubt it s a strategy that perhaps it s a lone wolf. to get information from inside the store on how dire the situation has been and so you are getting streams of phone