This is al jazeera ah, hello, im emily anguish. This is denise al, alive from doha, coming up in the next 60 minutes tops, diplomats from the us and rushes speak on the phone for the 1st time since the ukraine war began. I pressed the kremlin to accept the substantial proposal that we put forth on the release report we on. And brittany bryant, ukraine says its just waiting on the signal from the un in turkey to start grain shipments. They, 16 people have been killed in flags in kentucky, wiping our communities and some of the poorest areas in the us and how the heat wave that swept across the western Mediterranean Sea is threatening moraine life and ecosystems. And ill be the same. It will be a small donald Trump Defense hosting the saudi arabia, back loop, gulf series process to plan by march 11th families of the course, owned by the former president in new jersey. Ah, welcome to the news allan, the u. S. Secretary of state and russias foreign minister have held a phone conference for
Good morning, everyone. It is july 4, and im alex witt. The House Republican caucus held a private vote behind closed doors on a federal holiday. Lawmakers awoke to outrage with a torrent of angry constituent calls. At 8 00 this morning when i got in the office, the first phone call i picked up was from what a citizen said in my district that was so upset that the republican majority would have made this decision to eliminate this influence from the outside group to make sure we followed the ethics rules of the house. And there was displeasure from incoming president donald trump, with all that congress has to work on, do they really have to make the weakening of the independent ethics watchdog, as unfair as they may be . Their number one act and priority focus on tax reform, health care and so many other things to drain the swamp. Its a question lawmakers struggles to answer. Reporter why is this the most important thing for congress to be focused on right now . It isnt. Its not. The
Our stop story as we mentioned, the Trump White House has yet to provide any evidence to back up explosive allegations the president made against barack obama in a flurry of tweets early saturday, trump accused the Obama Administration of tapping his phones last year in trump tower. A spokesman for former president barack obama dismissed the allegation as simply false. A former u. S. Intelligence official called it nonsense. The president apparently blindsided his own staff when he charged, how low has president barack obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process. This is nixon watergate, bad, or sick, guy. Reporter the white house has not provided any evidence to sfoert t support the president s unsubstantiated allegations. They said that white house colleagues were surprised by the president s tweet storms. They didnt know about it. It is not uncommon for the president to wake up early and begin tweeting. In this case, he began tweeting at about 6 30 a. M. And
Doesnt resign, i hope hes not fired. If you look at so much of what the president of the United States wants to accomplish on his agenda, sessions is central to that. The weakness is that the president is trying to not use his power. Hes trying to get sessions to quit and i hope sessions doesnt quit and if the president wants to fire him, fire him. Do you think the president is demonstrating weakness by his handling of sessions . Absolutely. Lets get to our reporters covering all of this today. Nbc newss Kelly Odonnell at the white house. Kimberly atkins from the boston herald. Vivian salama. Kelly o, let me start with you. The men that we just played youve covered a lot of them. You have covered sessions, you have covered a couple of president s. Set up this standoff between sessions former colleagues, republican senators, some of the most conservative ones in the u. S. Senate, and the president he now serves. Well, Jeff Sessions had a reputation in the senate of being someone who was
Japan showed a government warning saying the missile had passed over northern japan. The white house says President Trump has been briefed on the situation. So what is the latest on this launch . What do we know about it . Reporter the south Korean Military announced that this had been launched around 7 00 a. M. Local time here, that it was fired east over the japanese island of hokkaido. Nobody hurt, no damage reported. And this is essentially the second time in less than two weeks, three weeks, rather, that it appears that north korea has fired a missile over japanese territory. This also comes less than two weeks after north korea conducted a nuclear test, what is believed to be its sixth nuclear test and just days after new United Nations sanctions were imposed on north korea in response to carrying out these tests and continuing to develop its Ballistic Missile technology. The South Koreans have responded in a way that we havent seen thus far. They announced that they fired their