Olympics, is the Trump Administration now warming up to the idea of direct talks with the rogue regime . I know that people are watching for a wedge between south korea, republic of korea in other words, and the United States. Theres no wedge there. Its really up to the north koreans to decide whether theyre ready to engage with us in a sincere way, a meaningful way. And good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. The Trump Administration is circling the wagons as abuse allegations rock the white house in the midst of renewed chaos. The commander in chief making matters worse by defending the men accused of abuse and seeming to ignore the women who claim they were victimized. Another major failure highlighted by former staff secretary rob porters dismissal, the fact that dozens of white house aides are still working without full fbi security clearance more than a year into this administration. Joining me now, msnbc political analyst peter baker, chief White House Corresponden
To you, live look outside as the sun is rising over new york city. Thats a beautiful morning. Right . Rob hot one. Jillian youre bringing me down, rob. Rob its june. Jillian good morning, youre watching Fox Friends First on this monday, im jillian mele. Rob im rob schmitt. Thanks for getting up early with us. Deadline for fbi, Top Republicans demanding answers about alleged informants. Jillian devin nunes saying his party isnt satisfied with Information Set by the bureau, todd piro with latest demands. Jillian an rob happy monday, 5 00 p. M. This afternoon, thats when nunes is demanding to confirm that informants were used, how many inform antidepressants were use and how much was spent on operations, all of this after the fbi sent a classified letter to house gop officials disclosing whether the agency used top secret confidential inform neants the Trump Campaign prior to opening an investigation into Russian Election meddling. The agency adding that it had forwarded House Republicans
Resolution will be introduced tomorrow, tuesday, and then voted on the floor on thursday. Cnns manu raju is on capitol hill with this breaking news. Manu, what are you learning . What are the details here . Reporter this is significant because it signals the next phase of the impeachment inquiry is about to take shape. That next phase being the open hearings. Now what this essentially does is how they release public transcripts and ensuring that this intelligence, the evidence that they have gained through the House Intelligence Committee as part of the closeddoor depositions, how that could be transferred over from the House Intelligence Committee over to the House Judiciary Committee. And why is that important . Because the House Judiciary Committee will take the first step in determining whether or not President Trump will be impeached. That committee is the one that will ultimately vote on the articles of impeachment. So this sets forth the procedures there. So now im told from dem
She also is blaming the no vote for its nogo on subpoenas, on requests, on everything else, including the new noncompliance from the Defense Department this morning. More on that, plus what one of my sources is telling me about an internal review inside the white house. Behind closed doors, mike pompeos former righthand man until about last week is getting his turn to testify in front of investigators, arriving just in the last minute or so on capitol hill. You see him there, as well as another former diplomat who just showed up for round two. Impeachment a hot topic at last nights president ial debate. You wouldnt know it this morning with candidates out everywhere talking everything but. My plan is the clearest, it is the boldest and to your point, it is politically difficult. The Biggest Issue for me is that theres another in better way. Demeaning or degrading the character of someone on the stage, that to me is unacceptable. Weve got our nbc news team here with a lot of new develop
Our team is covering this and all the mornings big stories from across the country and around the world and i want to start in the region. Matt bradley is in northern iraq. Courtney who covers the pentagon for us is here in washington. Matt, first to you, tell us what youre seeing. Reporter hallie, you know, this incursion is starting off with air strikes which would be a typical order of battle that you would expect from the turks. They have amassed on the border and this is actually starting in that peace corridor. Hes described that he wants to move 20 miles south of the Kurdish Border so theyre no longer flush against the turkish southern border. Were starting to see air strikes and there are turkish troops that have amassed. I should tell you, hallie, its not just turkish troops. Were starting to see Free Syrian Army forces and these are turkishbacked syrian arabs who are coming from mostly the northwest part of syria who the turks actually removed from syria, took by bus presumab