Could be suspicious because he just confirm ties between trauma many and russia. Are people going to say it was cover up absolutely. Historic shake up. Team coverag other big story what could be one of the biggest nights in d. C. Sports history. The Washington Capitals trying to keep their request for stanley cup alive. The Washington Wizards hoping to take the lead in round two of the eastern conference playoffs and the Washington Nationals trying to get back on the winning track when they welcome beltway arrival. Well be rooting for all three and good day at 9a starts now. Yeah. Here we go. We got the caps getting ready to get that stanley cup. Lets do it. Wizards get getting ready tot that trophy. Giving i was little breeze. A little breeze. Here we go. We got it all. We got it all. We got it all. Were rocking the red. All theea all the teams are winning. We got the cow bell going. There you go. Thats how you get it done right there. [ laughter ] good day dc. Too much excitement for
Jeff pegues, thank you very much. Were john dickerson, our chief washington correspondent is with us. John, the Political Climate on all of this, this is quite a surprise. Its quite a surprise, and obviously, there was already a considerable amount of back and forth and political blood in the water on the russia question this week alone, and now you have a situation where, i mean, if you read the letter explaining why comey was let go, its thick with criticism of his handling of Hillary Clintons email situation, that was something obviously deeply political. Now this week hes released, hes in the middle. The fbi is investigating connections between russian meddling in the election and the trump campaign, so the political ramifications here will be will be constant, and whoevers going to handle this election this investigation next will have to handle this super charged atmosphere. John dickerson, thanks very much. Were going to be following the details and the developments on this brea
To face challenges with russia and china. But we begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Theres still belief we can get o the bomb of this. If not, everyone suspects a coverup. President trump tells fbi director youre fired. This is what leaders do. They take Decisive Action based upon the information theyre given. Thats what President Trump did today. Hes full of criticismf ohis handling of Hillary Clinton emails. There was clearly a loss of confidence in director comey. I forgot my badge. Former president barack obama made his first overseas appearance after leaving office. They always blame the i always tell people you get the politicians they deserve. Theyre looking at how to safeguard an area around a nuclear site after a mysterious tunnel collapse. Violent landing after it landed at the air base. A tlltha put em up. A family dog playing a very dangerous game of tag with a bear. Go get him. They win in overtime. And all that matters President Trump fir
Please feel free as you come to your turn to introduce your family and friends who are here with you. We thank them for their willingness to support you and the efforts that youre getting ready to undertake. Thank you for being here. Thank you so much mr. Chairman. I dont have my two teenagers here. Many of you knew them when they were little babies and i was walking the halls with them because they are both back in dallas. I have my neighbor from virginia. We do hope to get you to nato by the time School Enrollment starts. Okay thank you. It is so important that my son start school on time so i think both of you for acknowledging that. I also want to thank you, mr. Chairman and mr. Ranking member for your courtesy throughout this process, and your leadership and the way you work this committee. I appreciate it so much. I appreciate all the members of the committee and i know how much you spend in time and effort to make sure our foreign policy, i ow our ambassadors and state departmen
Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We have a number of distinguished nominees here today and we welcome them. We also have a number of very distinguished introducers. We welcome you and thank you for coming to our committee. In order for you to be able to go ahead and do other Business Today we will defer relative to making Opening Statements and let you go ahead and do what you need to do. We look forward to those comments and we realize youll like to go elsewhere. I know senator mcconnel is coming today. Why dont we start in the order of seniority. We appreciate so much you being here. We welcome you all. Thank you for being here today. If you will, begin. Thank you mr. Chairman and Ranking Member of the committee. It is a pleasure to be back here. Sit the second time in less than a couple of weeks. Its not often i darken the door but as long as a president keeps nominating texans i promise to keep coming back often. She is truly someone that needs no introduction but i