Facilities. The secretary will meet with the appropriations committee. The house passed a bill looking at the ba secretary, giving him more flexibility at ba facilities. V. A. Facilities. We want to get your reaction in the first 45 minutes. To the actions that took place yesterday and what should be done overall about it. Heres your chance to call and give your thoughts. 202 5853880 four democrats. 202 5853881 for republicans. Ndependents, 202 5853882 a special line for veterans to give their thoughts. 202 5853883 you can post on our facebook page. 50 posts so far. Can email us, too. Joining us on the phone to give us the latest concerning the announcements yesterday and what happens Going Forward is leo shane with the military times. Hes a congressional reporter for that publication. Thanks for joining us. Caller thanks for having me back. Host what has been the reaction on capitol hill to the actions late yesterday . D movement heid not folks on capitol hill. They have been critical
Neighbors has to be stepped up and put as priority number one. Again, youre at the World Economic forum and we just heard from Goodluck Jonathan thanking the countries attending and saying if they hadnt come it would have been a victory them. What are they saying about the fight against boko haram . One of the things the summit has drawn attention to is the effort to really help nigeria, more effort needs to be made to help nigeria not only address this particular immediate issue of trying to find these young women and also the larger issue of helping them with their capability both Human Resources and the resources to address the larger threat that boko haram not only presents to nigeria, but i think that one of the things thats very important to take away from this, that this is becoming a regional problem and the neighbors have to get involved and think about this as a regional problem and not just a nigeria problem and that is one of the main aspects that have come out of the discu
From sally yates . And boots on the ground. Is the United States about to up the ante in afghanistan. Well see if sean spicer comments on that, too, at todays briefing. Our team is here. Nbcs Peter Alexander is at the white house. Peter, i know you are standing by waiting for that briefing to begin. What do we expect sean spicer to address . Well, we think among topics addressed today is the issue of Michael Flynn following the former acting attorney general sally yates after testimony before the subcommittee yesterday. Whats notable is 18 days passed between the warning from sally yates to the whi hse council and president actually firing his National Security advisor. Yesterdabefore the testimony began, sean spicer, press secretary here said simply he was not going to relitigate that issue, one he addressed many weeks ago. Now with new information from the former department of justice official well certainly be peppering him with more questions about that. Also, more importantly, thi
Who is she mad at . She will be here live. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. The white house is trying to contain the fallout from the most potentially damaging week of Donald Trumps presidency just in time for another highstakes undertake when he travels abroad for the First Time Since taking office. President trumps actions and firing the fbi director and the subsequent white house bed lanl could have longterm consequences as lawmakers on capitol hill begin to push for any recordings the white house may have made, and debate begins about who will take comeys place and whether he or she will be asked to pledge personal loyalty to the president as a source close to comey says happened to him. Cnns sara murray is live at the white house for us. Sara, what is the white houses timeline for replacing the fbi director . Reporter ideally the administration would figure out their candidate to select someone before the week before the president leaves for his forei
Adviser, basically saying, from my experience with him at the Defense Intelligence agency, you could probably find somebody better to be your National Security adviser. But the narrative that the white house is going with today is the fact that the leak should be the story, as to who it was that leaked flynns name after he was caught up in surveillance. President trump asking in a tweet last night, quote, ask sally yates if she knows how classified information got into the newspapers soon after schecks plained to it the white House Counsel. Then tweeting biggest story is on surveillance. Why doesnt the media report on this, hash tag fake news. Well get a chance to ask sean spicer about all of that when he comes out. He is half hour late. We expect we will be coming out in the next few minutes. Maria well circle back when that occurs. Right now the Senate Intel Committee is meeting about what its docket lists as quote intelligence matters. This after a morning of testimony from nsa dire