Administrations dont get a head start. Welcome back to a. M. Joy. Now that donald trump landed back state side after his nine country world tour, hes experiencing a bit of political turbulence. This week the russia investigation got its second wind or third or fourth. Honestly, its easy to lose count at this point. When news broke that Jared Kushner had asked Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak about creating a secret channel of communication between the Trump Transition Team and russia, with kushner officially a person of interest in the investigation and the white house setting up a warroom to combat the endless russiagate news, what happens next . Joining me tnow to discuss this mindboggling week in washington, congresswoman Maxine Waters. Congresswoman, good morning, first of all. Good morning. I should say hello. This morning on meet the press john kelly who is the director of heland security was asked to respond to what people are calling a backchannel. I dont know if its a real ba
Ringing out in the distance. Five people shot. One of them, the majority whip Steve Scalise of louisiana in the hospital tonight. Gravely injured. The president of the United States and the first lady paid a visit to the hospital a short time ago. And i believe we have pictures of them visiting Medstar Hospital Center in washington. The hospital released a statement just a short moment ago, a status report on the congressmans condition. Here is what it says we are quoting this. From medstar Washington Hospital center. Congressman Steve Scalise sustained a single rifle shot to the left hip. It fractured across his pelvis, fracturing bones, injuring internal organs causing severe bleeding. He underwent a surgery to stop the blooding and received blood transfusion. His position is critical and he will require additional operations. We will closely be following, of course, updates on congressman scalises condition. As you know by now and as we said a second ago the gunman responsible for a
Ringing out in the distance. Five people shot. One of them, the majority whip Steve Scalise of louisiana in the hospital tonight. Gravely injured. The president of the United States and the first lady paid a visit to the hospital a short time ago. And i believe we have pictures of them visiting Medstar Hospital Center in washington. The hospital released a statement just a short moment ago, a status report on the congressmans condition. Here is what it says we are quoting this. From medstar Washington Hospital center. Congressman Steve Scalise sustained a single rifle shot to the left hip. It fractured across his pelvis, fracturing bones, injuring internal organs causing severe bleeding. He underwent a surgery to stop the blooding and received blood transfusion. His position is critical and he will require additional operations. We will closely be following, of course, updates on congressman scalises condition. As you know by now and as we said a second ago the gunman responsible for a
Kind of rifle, they say. And now investigators are trying to pinpoint a motive. I actually left right before the shooting happened and had an interaction with who i believe was the shooter, based on the profile that i saw on tv. Ive given a statement to the Alexandria Police department this morning after i heard about the shooting. They asked me to come down there because i had an interaction with someone in the parking lot who asked me if the Team Practicing was democrat or republican team. I told him they are republican. He said okay, thanks. I turned around and left and found out that my colleagues were targeted by an active shooter. Reporter the dead gunman has been identified as james t. Hodgkinson, 66 years old from bellville, illinois. The fbi says its too early to know whether this was an act of terror or whether lawmakers are targeted for assassination. Mo brooks was there at the scene, he used his belt for a tourniquet to stop the bleeding. I was getting ready to have batting
Open title shooting to 23. 00 times grand slam champion Serena Williams to clinch for the 1st ever slam. On the whole fairly shifts good to have you with us we begin the show with a long awaited exchange of prisoners between russia and ukraine the swap is being viewed as a step towards easing tensions between the neighboring countries and could also increase the chances of resolving the conflict in Eastern Ukraine 5 years of fighting between your cranium troops and russian backed separatists has left more than 13000 people dead. Their 1st steps of freedom back on home soil 34 former prisoners arriving in kiev a handshake from the president is nothing. Compared to the embrace of a loved one. Some had been separated for months others years never knowing what would come next. But most of the now its possible yes that is kept on changing we heard that the prisoner swap was going to fall through. The end of august it was a difficult time i couldnt sleep for 5 days. They only told us today a