For the first time about general Michael Flynns russian connections. Its revealing she warned the white house that flynn had lied repeatedly to Vice President mike pence and others about his contacts with russians. These are lies that yates says left flynn exposed to blackmail by the russians. We believe that general flynn was compromised with respect to the russians. Logic would tell you that you dont want the National Security adviser to be in a position where the russians have leverage over him. Yates says she warned the white house multiple times about flynn. And that news comes as were learning about yet another warning, and this one was directly from then president obama to President Trump. At this meeting youre seeing, remember it . Just two days after the election when trump visited the oval office during that meeting, obama warned him about flynn. Now, President Trump late today firing off a number of tweets, actually, some moments ago, calling the, quote, russia trump collusi
At the pentagon by the first nation leader to lead during the Trump Administration, king of the of gordon. And we will look at the pentagon a little bit later in our program. And now this fox news alerts, the president kicking off his second full week in office, the executive order, as you likely heard. Hello, everyone, welcome to happening now, i am jenna lee. Jon i am jon scott, and cutting regulations, instigating a 12 out legacy. He will get to his nominee tomorrow, a little bit earlier than expected, and this is his executive order on immigration, the travel ban sparking protests over the country during the weekend. In essence necessary step against terrorism, just took a deadly turn, a u. S. Service member was killed in yemen, he is the first u. S. Casualties during the Trump Administration, and outside washington, d. C. , airports, more on the travel ban, conor powell in jerusalem looking at the terrorism raid, and we began with chief courthouse correspondent. Good morning to yo
The white house saying the president has never asked mr. Comey or anyone else to end an investigation, including any investigation involving general flynn. This is perhaps the most explosive revelation yet in President Trumps short tenure. Jake tapper, what are you learning about what happened in that room on february 14th between the president and jim comey . Pamela brown and i each have spoken to sources that confirmed the existence of this memo. The source i spoke with has a copy of the memo. Hes a source close to comey. He tells me that on february 14, director comey, then still the fbi director was in the oval office with President Trump, Vice President pence and the attorney general Jeff Sessions talking about an issue of National Security or the law. After that meeting was over, the president asked the Vice President and the attorney general to leave the room and then according to this memo, comey said, as you read, that the president said to him, i hope you can see your way cle
Well, the breaking news, results coming in right now in a special Congressional Election weve been following. And many see it as a leading indicator for 2018. Its drawn the biggest dollar combinations of any house elections. Were talking about 50 million. Right now in georgias sixth house district, it is close. You can see the numbers there. Cnns john king is tracking the results. He joins us once again. Lets walk through the numbers. Still very close, anderson, but significant since we last spoke, georgia six now red. You see it right there. Jon ossoff had a minor lead. Karen handel now has a narrow lead, about 500 votes or so. How did this change . Lets switch maps to show you the three counties in this district. I want to pull it out. Fulton county is the largest district. The district im sorry to have to do this, but the votes come in from the county, so the entire county fills in, but the district is up here. And the thing that has changed is more votes have come in from the most
That determined, quote, north korea has produced Nuclear Weapons for Ballistic Missile delivery. A mile spoken to many experts believed was years away. Today, that is new jersey golf club, President Trump issued this warning. North korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. He has been very threatening beyond a normal state. And as i said, they will be met with fire, fury and frankly, power. The likes of which this world has never seen before. Thank you. All right. Ill joined now by nbc chief Foreign Affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell, special assistant to president obama for National Security, and gordon, author of nuclear showdown, north korea takes on the world. Thank you all for joining us. A very big day here. Andrea mitchell, a couple questions. Lets start on the nuts and bolts in terms of what u. S. Intelligence knows. It sounds like as it speeds up the timetable potentially for what north kor