boost high protein. be up for it. 17 minutes past the hour. back from the dead. in a cloak and dagger story filled with intrigue, a russian journalist reported to be shot dead in ukraine. he showed up alive at the news conference. he declared ukrainian intelligence services foiled an assassination plot. one is suspected of orchestrating the hit and the other potential assassin in custody. we have fred pleitgen following this from moscow. reporter: dave and christine, this was an absolutely bizarre
after mueller on twitter. we have a few sound bites from various republican lawmakers. let s listen. there was a brazen plot to illegally exonerate hillary clinton, and if she didn t win the election, to then frame donald trump with a falsely created crime. everything that we have seen from these texts and from all the facts developing shows that the fbi and senior doj officials conspired that was for a later question. we ll get to that. that s obviously not gop lawmakers. but gop lawmakers are coming out and lindsey graham is saying it s the beginning of the end. the goal posts feel like they re moving over and over. do you think this could be considered a road test for the eventual, if not the firing of mueller, then the orchestrating of the firing of mueller? i think from the president s
ask your dermatologist about otezla today. otezla. show more of you. welcome back. president trump is taking the national football league to task for allowing players to take the knee in protest during the national anthem. the players are protesting police brutality and racial injustice in america. trump has been relentless with his attacks. he has questioned the nfl s tax benefits and he s accused he himself has accused of orchestrating what some say was a stunt by vice president mike pence when he walked out of a colts game last sunday, and he claims the fans, they re on his side. it s this moment pro football players taking a knee during the national anthem that has ignited a battle. president trump versus the nfl.
of special trump s speech writers. i need to set the record straight. did i say that? i think you did. don t worry, he s on everybody s mind right now. i don t think he would have asked me to serve as one of his speech writers. clarifying for sure on that one. my apologizes. there s a lot of stuff going on with this military stuff. for that there s going to be a shorter segment than i had anticipated. but you write about the positively lincolnesque, president obama wasn t the only thing unshackled. so was the way he gets his messages crossed. you say that part of this starts with that hilarious between two ferns appearance. then a year later with the white house correspondents dinner. you took a massive role in orchestrating all that. how did that all come about? well, what i make clear in my book is that actually i thought between two ferns was not going to be a good idea.
president obama s white house gave to iran or how they saw the tilt in orchestrating, negotiating the iran deal. whether you support it or not, nonetheless, it gave iran a pathway the saudis have resented and they thought the focus of the white house were too focused on the persian side of the equation and not the sunni/muslim side of equation which saudis are the recognized leader. i think they re trying to push reset. they ve had several good meetings. the foreign minister has had a number of meetings with jared kushner, others in the white house. they re trying to put that forward. they re also trying to say, you know, anything they can show that is different than president obama, that the trump white house is willing to jump into as well. have you two parties trying to redefine the relationship right now. cole kel nell jacobs, one thing ayman mentioned is this big formal announcement. it s a $100 billion arms deal with saudi arabia. how will that affect the balance