manhattan in october. and all of those instances, the attackers driving the vehicles turned out to have links to islamic terrorist groups or at least to be inspired by that ideology. in this instance, today in toronto, again, dwe do not yet know the motivations of this attacker, if he had any, but he himself did survive it and police have him. so, we will let you know more as we learn more over the course of this evening. that s basically the extent of what we know thus far. as i mentioned, in washington tonight, there has been some drama over the course of the day into this evening. the first drama resolved in the white house s favor. it surrounded the nomination of ex-republican congressman now cia director mike pompeo. he was the president s pick to be the next secretary of state after rex tillerson was fired over twitter. up until the last minute, mike pompeo was set to become the first ever secretary of state nominee to get voted down by the foreign relations committee in the sena
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of speculation over whether he would still tweet once he took office. in december the president-elect pretty much answered that dwe with what else, a tweet. from december 5th, if the press would cover me accurately and honorabley i would have far less reason to tweet. sadly, i don t know if that will ever happen. and sure enough, as ptd trump has repeatedly made the case that he needs twitter to tell the people the real truth. but mine is much better. i like at real donald trump. in 140 or 280 or, you know, you could extend them. all i do is did the dot dot, right, and you extend it. but i can do messages around the media and get my word out the way i mean my word. i have my own form of media. that s the great thing about twitter. when the press is dishonest, which is most of the time, i can tweet. that was a false story. boom boom boom. so twitter definitely skipped a beat tonight when the
he s got a right to be frustrated about that. i m sure he s very frustrated. just when he thinks he may be turning the corner working with the democrats. i think this is a blow to the president and it really dish it does send a signal that at least a couple of people in the inner circle, and paul manafort was in the inner circle as chairman for a period of time, they just can t deny that. yeah. that they brought in a guy who is under this much of investigation is sort of it s pretty stunning. i ve never heard of anybody being hired in a major campaign or white house position who was under investigation in this way. and frankly, why the hell didn t manafort tell them? it was totally unfair of him to walk in there if it was not known. yeah. under the circumstances. a lot of dwe. there are also new details about how president trump s own attorney is reacting to the special counsel investigation. a new york times reporter overheard a conversation at a popular lunch spot. what h
this morning. yp didn t ag sessions replace acting fbi director andrew mccabe, a comey friend who was in charge of clinton investigation but got big dollars, 7 hundred,000 for his wife s political run from hillary clinton and her representatives. drape the swamp. the remarkable and possibly untrue statement considering that sessions was the first senator to endorse trump. and remember that sessions is the man the president hired himself and one whom he can fire at any time with or without tweeting about it. i m joined now by nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. i guess this is the dwe on everybody s mind and we go to you because you re the justice correspondent. i don t know if there s a justice answer to this. if the president is so angry at jeff sessions, why doesn t he just get rid of him? well, i don t know the answer to that question. i know it s up to the president. by the way, you re right about the tweet. mccabe did not get money. his wife was running for public