Committee as the fbi to turn over memos relating to comeys interactions in the trump and obama administration. Reporter more questions this evening during what is turning out to be another week of turmoil of the Trump Administration. This is some lawmakers a beginning to call for the president s impeachment. You cant let them get you down. Reporter President Trump remaining mom on two controversial reports. First from the washington post, timing President Trump disclose highly classified information to russian officials last week. And second from the New York Times claiming the president asked former fbi director, jamey comey to end the investigation into michael flynn. A memo has not been independently verified just after his talk with the president. The white house is obstructing an investigation coming up for general flynn for refusing to provide not a single document. Reporter speaker of the house paul ryan calling on congress to have patience and wait to hear from comey himself. T
Quickly. It is good we have a point of view of somewhere we all trust. He was appointed by the Deputy Attorney general looking into ugs influence in the 2016 election. My decision continue a finding that crimes have been committed or that prosecution is warranted but says the nature of the investigation requires someone who exercises a degree of independence from the normal chain of command. To have no one truly independent in politics and has all the resources that he needs to focus on the oversight of what russia did. There has been support for him. He worked in the private sector since 2013 and schumer tweeted he has confidence that the investigation will follow the facts where they lead. Support coming from a republican senator who earlier didnt want a special prosecutor. I was out spoken of that now this seems to be a hybrid to bring sometime in to work with the fbi to make sure they can get the job done. He is planning to brief all senators aft the capital tomorrow and house memb
Publicly on a news report that President Trump asked him to collusion between the Trump Campaign and russia and also make remarks about the manchester bombing. This is just over two hours. [indiscernible conversation] that morning. Armed Services Committee meets this morning to receive testimony on worldwide threats. We are pleased to welcome our distinguished witnesses. Dan coats and Lieutenant General been stewart. Vin stuart. We will conclude this hearing at 11 30 in the interest at time and to ensure the members of the committee can ask their questions. I will be brief. I know that comes as a disappointment, especially to the senator from south carolina. I ask witnesses to please submit their written statements for the record if they can. It is not required but anyway. Last night the horrific attack in manchester was a gruesome reminder that the world is on fire. Everywhere we turn, we can see threats to the rulesbased order securityrpins global and prosperity. When it comes to the
Hearing and they were even threatening to subpoena drimz jr. And Paul Manafort if they had not responded by the deadline, which was yesterday. But weve heard from them that they have worked out a deal with the Senate Judiciary committee to talk to them privately and casually and provide documents to them before agreeing to go ahead with a public testimony. We do not know dates of these interviews yet. We know the topic will be the trump tower meeting in june months before the election when donald trump jr. Thought he was meeting with a russian government attorney who hadd incriminating information on hillary clinton. Now, donald trump jr. After the details of this meeting were revealed which were not revealed by donald trump jr. At first, they were revealed by the media, but he did tell sean hannity that he would be willing to testify before congress on everything that happened during that meeting and how it came about and what was said during that meeting. But it sounds like hes talke
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has reportedly filed his first set of charges, although at this point its unclear what they are. The charges are part of sealed documents, which could be revealed as early as monday morning. At that point the defendant or defendants could be taken into custody. Nbc has not yet independently confirmed this report. Meanwhile, conservative online news site Washington Freebie con telling the House Intelligence Committee that it paid for the research that led to the socalled trump dossier. The news site says it hired fusion gps during the primary to research a number of candidates, including donald trump. And nbc has learned that a former Trump Campaign adviser, carter page, was questioned by the Senate Intel Committee staff yesterday. The interview happened behind closed doors and lasted for more than five hours. Page will return to capitol hill thursday, where he will meet with the house Intel Committee members, also behind closed doors. New reaction to just