Tonight. As negotiators keep on working, the wild card is the man in the white house. We want to welcome our view irs in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news tonight, tensions over the russia investigation explode at the first big oversight hearing since democrats took control of the house. Acting attorney general Matt Whitaker in the hot seat denies hes interfered with Robert Muellers probe or that hes talked to President Trump about it. Whitaker often defiant opened the hearing by declaring he would not discuss his private conversations with the president to protect executive privilege. Also breaking, federal prosecutors in new york are looking into allegations by amazon chief jeff bezos who said the National Enquirer. Tried to blackmail and extort him. The feds want to know if the enquirer violated an immunity investigation. This hour, ill talk with a member of the House Judiciary Committee who questioned Matt Whitaker.
Of their relationship and some of the reason perhaps why they were publishing some of this information and how they were using some of it politically. So the National Enquirer was trying in essence to kill the story, or they wanted to use a statement from the National Enquirer. So jeff bezos says essentially the National Enquirer was trying to blackmail him. He has emails. One of the emails that came from the National Enquirer, it said, quote, the Washington Post poised to published unsubstantiated rumors of the National Enquirers initial report, i wanted to describe to you the photos obtained during our news gathering. In addition to the belowthevest selfie, otherwise colloquially known as and then they write the enquirer obtained a further nine images. Of course, this all comes after the National Enquirer wrote an affair. That it did not end. It seems by these emails that the National Enquirer was trying to get the story killed. Theyre basically saying in these email, describing in g
Irans decision to shoot down the us drone of the United Nations refuses to condemn iran and urges all countries to exercise restraint. We will see what tom cotton thinks of that when he joins us to win. Chicago police releasing 70 hours of video on the investigation into Jussie Smollett at alleged a crime. He says he is innocent. We are going to the footage. A live report is coming up. Did someone on the inside leaked details of a planned ice raid in order to stop them from happening at is there any chance democrats and republicans get something done on capitol hill while the president hits the pause button . We start with iran and its claims that the newest round of us sanctions amount economic terrorism. Jillian turner kicks off our coverage. Is the Trump Administration rolled out the most targeted, biting sanctions in decades donald trump was laser focused on diplomacy and put the potential for negotiation front and center. We do not see conflict with iran. I look forward to the day
Whistleblower complaint that the Trump Administration is trying to keep secret from congress. Two people familiar with the matter telling the Washington Post that it centers on ukraine. Nbc news has not confirmed that ukraine is at the center of the issue though. And the white house did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The post citing two former u. S. Officials, previously reported that the complaint was made by a u. S. Intel official who was alarmed by a promise the president made to a foreign leader in a phone conversation. Trump spoke with the new president of ukraine on july 25th, the whistleblower complaint was filed less than three weeks later. Ukraine is significant because of reporting that the president was withholding military aid to that country. While at the same time trumps personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, was pushing for the Ukrainian Government to investigate democratic president ial frontrunner joe biden, and his son hunter. The confluence of these two s
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