It started last month, remember President Trump set out a tweet accusing the Obama Administration of surveilling him during the election. Since then, weve been peeling away all the layers of the president s claim with the help of the investigative reporting from people like sara carter and john solomon. For sarah and john uncovered the existence of an fbi investigation into a server being utilized at trump tower. They also discovered that a fisa warrant that allowed federal officials tol cant capture trup team prior to the present taking office. And they reveal that highranking officials with direct access to president obama may have had access to unmasked federalsk surveillance of Trump Transition Team members. This is all very important. They may have brief the president about thiss information. On march 22nd, devin nunes revealed he had seen reports that had proved President Trump and members of his Transition Team were in fact unmasked and that the intel had nothing to do with russ
White house and john roberts. Good evening. Good evening to you. White house is disputing report in the New York Times tonight that back in february in a private meeting in the oval office, the president asked then fbi director james comey to drop the investigation into Lieutenant General michael flynn, former National Security advisor. According to a note that was reportedly written by comey about the meeting, President Trump allegedly said to the director about the flynn investigation, i hope you can let it go. The white house and a background statement said while the president has repeatedly expressed his view that general flynn is a decent man who served and protected our country, the president has never asked mr. Comey or anyone else to end any investigation, including any investigation involving general flynn. This is not a truthful or accurate portrayal of the conversation between the president and mr. Comey. What we do not know at this point at least is what the president did s
Action. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt, reporting tonight from south korea. Good evening to our viewers in the west. We are once again in the airbase in south korea. Where we learned moments ago from south korean officials, they have filed a missile into thes sea, also known as the sea of japan. As we told you those launches are identified and tracked and identified on this base. This move highlights how tense things are in this region and why americans remain in a high state of readiness. We spent time with some today and more on their training in just a moment. And another trouble spot overseas, syria, the world reacting with horror and revulsion to the apparent poison gas attack that killed dozens of civilians and sickened dozens more, many small children. The white house tonight pointing the finger of blame to syrian president assad, also calling out the obama administration, suggesting if it stood up to assad during its watch, th
And pyongyang, if they do not get their act together, they will face dire consequences. Tonight, the options that america has to stop north koreas growing aggression, we will get to this in the breaking news opening monologue. The president continues to slam who i called the weak, spineless, sanity Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell for saying that he has excessive expectations. Take a look at the president from earlier today. I just wanted to get to repeal and replace done. I have been hearing repeal and replace for seven years. I said, mitch, get to work. Lets get it done. They should of last one done. They lost by one vote. First thing to happen like that is a disgrace. And it should not have happened. That i can tell you. Sean senator, why do you not have the sense of urgency that the president has . My name today was brought up when President Trump was asked if Mitch Mcconnell should infect step down . Watch this. What do you think about him stepping down, conservative analysts inclu
Get their act together, they will face dire consequences. Tonight, the options that america has to stop north koreas growing aggression, we will get to this in the breaking news opening monologue. The president continues to slam who i called the weak, spineless, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell for saying that he has excessive expectations. Take a look at the president from earlier today. I just wanted to get to repeal and replace done. I have been hearing repeal and replace for seven years. I said, mitch, get to work. Lets get it done. They should of last one done. They lost by one vote. For a thing like that to happen isac a disgrace. And frankly, it should not have happened. That i can tell you. Sean senator, why do you not have the sense of urgency that the president has . My name today was brought up when President Trump was asked if Mitch Mcconnell should in fact step down. Watch this. What do you think about him stepping down, conservative analysts including sean hannity s