Power. Rex tillerson. Michael caputo, Jeff Sessions attorney general for donald trump, and members of the trump family itself. This matters. Its serious. Our battleships werent sunk and our towers didnt collapse a la 2011. But no mistake, 2016 is are year we should mark on our calendars. And its still going on. The attack didnt end on election day. And will continue, as you have suggest, unless we, all of us in this room, stop it. A admiral rogers you have proudly worn that uniform your entire career. I am proud of your service and grateful for it. But i would ask you, sir, not even with respect to this specific investigation, to use your own words as someone who no doubt has been in theater, who has lost brothers and sisters in combat, to explain to me, but more importantly, to the American People. Dont assume they know the answer. Tell them in your words, why we should care about russias active measures campaign aimed at destabilizing our democracy and that of our allies. In your wor
Thats right, the big question in the wake of Rod Rosenstein Deputy Attorney general announcing special council, were told that former director comey didnt share his memos with top doj officials including Rod Rosenstein and as of last night he had not seen those memos. Its unclear how much of the revelation of the memos in the times and else where factored into his decision to announce bob mueller would take the reigns of the russian probe. As of last friday he was telling people close to him he didnt think it was necessary to appoint a special council unless the fbi investigation was in peril and then there was this investigation yesterday that raised the question how much it factored into his decision. So he never read comeys memo before deciding special council. As of last night he did not read those memos. Comey did not share those with him. Its unclear if the people who had it shareed it with Rod Rosenstein but as of last night he did not see them and director comey only had shared
Subsequent actions they took afterwards. One thing they have to close down the entire area for three days in order to collect evidence. Of course, we imagine there will be questions about the shooter and what they know at this point in time. Well let you know as soon and we hear from them in regards to that. One thing a lot of people are curious about and ask about are the victims. A number of people were injured. Three separate from done chat rooms. Reportedly improving. Steve scalise is still in Critical Condition at a hospital here in washington, d. C. , dr. Say that when he arrived, he was in shock. He had multiple surgeries including one this weekend on saturday. Steve scalise suffered one gunshot wound from a rifle two of the right hip. The bullet traveled across his pelvic, fracturing bones and injuring internal organs all along. Lost a significant amount of blood, and dr. Say, he is not out of the woods yet. Heres the doctor. Speak on the initial period is about hemorrhage cont
Im don lemon. Its 11 00 p. M. Here on the east coast. Live with the breaking news include lg this. Reporting the attorney general Jeff Sessions has been pressuring the fbi director Christopher Wray to fire Deputy Director Andrew Mccabe. That the public urging of President Trump. We have lots of get to tonight. We want to get to pam brown. What is the white house saying . The white house did release a statement. Let me read it here. This is from White House Press Principle Deputy press secretary. As you see heres what he said. The president has enormous respect for thousands of rarng and file fbi agents. Who make up the worlds most professional and talented Law Enforcement agency. He believes politically motivated Senior Leaders including former fbi director comey. And others he empowered have tainted the Agency Reputation for unbias pursuit of justice. The president appointed chris wray because hes a man of true character, and integrity, and the right choice to clean up the misconduct
Including against russians. Today President Trump tweeted that his lawyers quote have shown conclusively that there was no collusion with russia. The latest inaccuracy he is hurling after his nearly 90minute speech out on the stump last night. He not only cited fake facts but delivered real insight on to what his 2018 mid Term Campaign trail will look like as republicans faced these mid term elections. The president unleashing some improvising more than an hour of praise about his tax cuts. His looks, 2020 campaign and a whole lot more. He only spent a few minutes though on the republican candidate. He was supposed to be promoting. He also slammed multiple democrats. Slammed the news media. Past president s. But take note of the soft touch he took when it came to the north korean dictator, kim jongun, expecting to meet with President Trump by may, within the next two months in a historic diplomatic first. South korea came to my office after having gone to north korea and seeing kim jon