melissa: possible new front into the congressional probe into the steele dossier. the washington examiner reports investigators may now be looking into whether the obama state department had any role in the collection and spread of that unverified information. a new book claiming that dossier author christopher steele was well connected within the obama state department. quote, between 2014 and 2016, steele authored more than 100 reports shared wide within the state department. more than 100 reports? and sent up to secretary of state john kerry many of steele s secret sources were the same sources who would supply information on trump. what do you think about that? katie: i think the more and more we learn about this the more we understand that there are multiple factions of the obama administration that were involved in this. let s not forget that
records of business transactions by former trump campaign manager paul manafort on michael fine line. and according to reuters, subpoenas have also been issued in connection with the june 2016 meeting between donald trump trr, his son-in-law jared curb nurx paul manfort, a russian lawyer and other russian nationals. the new york times reports investigators have also asked the white house for documents related to flynn and have questioned witnesses whether he was on the payroll of the turkish government while also working for trump. nbc news has not independently verified the times report. while the investigation vepz completely out of his control, donald trump finds himself boxed in on capitol hill, as well. the united states senate with the full support of republicans who till now have generally protected trump at every turn have blocked hip from potentially replacing his attorney general with somebody who could end the investigation while congress takes its august
the new york times reports investigators are examining that meeting to determine what the two discussed. our justice producer is joining us right now to talk about all of this. putin s allies, key figures close to the president, to the probe of the russian investigation. let s talk first of all about this banker, sergei gorkov. what do we know? he first surfaced in naefmar when we reported he meet with kushner. we re now learning that meeting was u.s. government intercepts. there was discussions on those intercepts about what the communications were. what s interesting about gorkov is that he s a close friend of vladimir putin, the russian president. he was appointed to his current position which is he runs a major bank, a major russian bank. he has ties to the russian government. he went to their spy school. so he has this craft in knowing how to sort of lure people in,
and ma relik. officials claim some items were recovered, but they won t confirm that they re related to the shooting. and this is stunning. a new report indicates u.s. immigration officials missed critical information in their background information for malik. she entered the u.s. last year on a fiance visa. the new york times reports investigators had not uncovered her social media accounts where she talked about supporting and wanting to be a part of violent jihad. there s tens of millions of people coming into the united states lawfully, so this is the legal immigration system. most of them, 99.9% of them are law-abiding immigrants who are coming here for education, for travel, or to actually live here like on a k 1 visa to marry someone. the capacity to go back an
as you re hearing, all these reports investigators are saying the intentional downing of the airliner you might be wondering could more be done from the ground to keep pilot or terrorists from crashing a plane? in this case the co-pilot was deemed unfit to work. a website that has activated data says someone dropped the aviation. i ve got tom forman and former faa safety inspector david