Good morning. Welcome. You are watching the pulse. Here in london. Im guy johnson. A greek rethink and a mission to moscow. Greeces finance minister and the finest mr. Returned home to jubilant progovernment protest. Are they protests . They are a sign of embracing the government. The antibailout plan received a cool welcome in berlin yesterday as they rethink their plans to revive the economy and protect their banks. What happens next . Angela merkel and the french president friends what hol Francoise Hollande heading to moscow to push put in for a ceasefire. Hollande is going back to moscow later this evening. He is now in paris. Lets go straight to moscow were Ryan Chilcote is on the ground. What is the timeline on these talks and how do we think they will unfold . The talks have gotten pushed back. They were scheduled for 5 00 p. M. Moscow time. They are now scheduled for 6 30 p. M. As you said, the leaders are in the respective capitals the for the come there. Their aides will sit
Of the country. Well tell you if the worst of it is over. We begin with politics and new fallout over reports on the cias conclusion that russia intervened in our elections to favor donald trump. Todays headlines suggest a rift between the president elect and the cia after his Transition Team dismissed the reports. The New York Times is summarizing it this way, an extraordinary breach has emerged between president elect donald trump and the National Security establishment with mr. Trump mocking american intelligence assessments that russia interfered in the election on his behalf, and Top Republicans vowing investigations into kremlin activities. And then here is what senator john mccain told my colleague casey hunt about Congress Plans to further investigate. I have not had a classified briefing, but no doubt in my mind that the russians were involved. Every expert that i know and respect like the head of the cia and director of national intelligence, ill say thats the case. Whether t
Facebook, under fire today as Senate Judiciary leaders demand that Mark Zuckerberg explain what his company knew about the hijacking of the data from 50 million users. Wed actually like to hear from all the social media ceos. We in the government have to start looking at it differently, just like you protect people from Rotten Tomatoes or you protect them if their credit card information is stolen . We have to protect them when they innocently go on the internet. And breaking news. Good day, im Andrea Mitchell in washington where we begin in texas and the fifth bombing in three weeks. This one at a Fedex Distribution Center north of san antonio. Authorities are investigating if this package was bound for austin and if it is part of the four other attacks in austin that officials believe were the work of a serial bomber. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez is in austin with the latest. Gabe . Reporter hi there, andrea. Good afternoon. Well, yes, this is a very fluid investigation, as you just heard, lo
The only question that remains, what did the president know about the contacts and coverup . For his part, the president once again landed firmly on the sides of the liars and felons, with tweets over the weekend alternately defending himself from prominent members of his own base over that cave of the wall and attacking federal Law Enforcement for arresting stone and investigating his associates ties to russia over the weekend the New York Times out with brandnew analysis, revealing more than 100 contacts between the Trump Campaign and russia. That stands in contrast to repeated denials about top campaign officials. I have had no contacts from russians or intermediaries for russians i have no russian clients, no russian communications. Its disgusting its so phony. I cant think of bigger lies. Are there any ties between mr. Trump, you or your campaign and putin and his regime no, there are not thats absurd. Theres no basis to it. I have nothing to do with russia john, how many times do
Russian officials have announced the arrest of 11 individuals linked to a devastating terrorist assault on a concert venue in a suburb of Moscow, which now sees a death toll of 133.