kristen welker at the white house. after learning he haddan joining the trump campaign as anned a as i voor in early march 2016, papadopoulos was in contact with an overseas professor someone he quote understood to have substantial ties to russian government officials. those communications began around march 169:. i m going to show you. those communications began around march of 2016 when he joined the campaign. the professor only seemed to be interested in papadopoulos because this new stat with us the campaign. on march 24th, papadopoulos e-mailed an unnamed campaign supervisor and several members the foreign policy team to inform them that he had met with professor, and with a female russian national, described as putin s niece. though authorities determine the woman is not in fact the russian president s niece. this was march 24th of 2016. one week later, here s the picture.
you know, we ve put sanctions on hezbollah, but we need to put also put sanctions on these iranian militias. it is amazing we haven t. i know a representative has said that s something he wants to see happen and the representative also brought up in a subcommittee this past week about a huge siege that the assad regime has been raining down he s been using starvation as a weapon of war, babies starved to death, people starved to death. yes, it is terrible. i know the representative had even tweeted out photos about those babies and again, it goes back to iran. on march 24th, iran had shut down there was a push for a route out of but iran actually is the one who stepped in and shut that down.
allowed nsa to gain a robust body of knowledge concerning the person network of he and his associates. over a two-year period using fisa section 702 collection and in close collaboration with our i.c. partners, nsa produced more intelligence on his institutes including their location. nsa and its tactical partners then combined this information, the section 702 collection which was continuing and other intelligence assets to identify him and track his movements. ultimately, this collaboration enabled u.s. forces to attempt an apprehension of him and two of his associates. on march 24th, 2016, during the attempted apprehension operation, shots were fired at the u.s. forces aircraft from
healthcare vote in under the wire at the 100-day mark. he said the press sort of reported there was a give-up. there is no give-up. they never give up on healthcare and moved on. they were moving onto tax reform. so, certainly sounded like on march 24th of a give-up on part of the white house. he said we have enough roles, meaning military roles. our political director, host of meet the press, chuck todd, listening and watching along with us. what were the headlines to you? well, i think you went through the headlines as far as what we said. i thought it was interesting. that was the president determined not to make a lot of news. he was to me very disciplined.
i look forward to it. the report in the washington post is 100% false. we encouraged them to go ahead, but to suggest that we stood in the way, that is 100% false. the white house denying claims it tried to block former acting attorney general sally yates from testifying on russia. the washington post publishing letters between yates lawyer and the justice department. on march 24th, doj writing yates would be limited on what she could y. doj also saying yat needs to consult with the white house. her lawyer responding that it would be unu tennellable not the talk about information and that same day, this happened. postpone the previously scheduled march 28th hearing. we strongly object to the cancellation of this hearing. i think this is a serious mistake. chairman nunes denies he talked to the white house about yates. that committee hearing was supposed to be today with a rhered