And what now may be an investigation to criminal obstruction of justice, attorney general, Jeff Sessions, the nations top Law Enforcement officer will testify less than 24 hours from now before an open session, Senate Intelligence committee. Sessions appearance tomorrow at 2 30 p. M. Comes just five days after fired fbi director james comey sat before the same committee and accuse the president of the United States of lying and of attempting to possibly the interfere in the russia investigation. According to the president and his legal team, comey was lying under oath. Initially, it appeared sessions was trying to maneuver his way out of testifying in public. Over the weekend, he cancelled planned appearances before the house and Senate Appropriation committees which of course allocate the Justice Department budget citing expected sessions, democratic senator, appropriations vice chair responded on twitter. My message to attorney general sessions, appropriations and jew dash area have
Tonight we need to make America Great again. My sense was the attorney general knew he shouldnt be leaving which was why he was linger. The massive question facing the attorney general as sessions prepares to testify before a surprise hearing less than this hours from now. As the special counsel hires more fire power. I think hes considering perhaps terminating the special counsel. The growing group of republicans trying to get Robert Mueller fired, comey was not allowed, what we learned when he broke his silence. When ive been reading the stories about how hes been contacting jim comey over time, like deja vu. Mitch mcconnell and republicans are planning to spring on american sight unseen, all in starts right now. And what now may be an investigation to criminal obstruction of justice, attorney general, Jeff Sessions, the nations top Law Enforcement officer will testify less than 24 hours from now before an open session, Senate Intelligence committee. Sessions appearance tomorrow at 2
Lived through the devastation of Hurricane Irma and maria and is still in purt rueco trying to rebuild. Harsh words, bigotry, casual cruelty. Former president s george w. Bush and barack obama mentioning the state of affairs. They didnt mention his name but its clear who theyre talking about. Will their rebuke change anything . We start with breaking news on that october 4th attack in niger. A senior congressional aide briefed on the four u. S. Deaths now tells nbc news that the ambush stemmed in part from a, quote, massive intelligence failure. The news comes as were expecting defense secretary mattis to meet with senator john mccain on capitol hill any moment now. The facetoface coming just a day after mccain said he might seek a subpoena to try to get more information on the attack. It also comes after pentagon officials confirm to nbc news that the fbi is now also investigating the attack. Lets start with nbcs National Security reporter courtney kube, and hanz nichols is standing b
Backup plan if the president s pick to run the cia gina haspel if that falls through the president is rallying and ramping up support today. First lets go to Caitlyn Collins at the white house with more. Lets begin with Rudy Giuliani and the russia probe. What is the president saying this morning . Reporter the president was actually relatively silent about all of this over the weekend. His lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, certainly was not. He did several interviews in an attempt to clarify the bombshell remark he made about the president reimbursing Michael Cohen for the president made to Stormy Daniels. After the president said friday that Rudy Giuliani needed to get up to speed Rudy Giuliani was quoted as saying i havent been able to read the 1. 2 million documents in relation to the special counsels investigation and saying im focussed on the law rather than facts right now. He continued the whole situation of the 130,000 doesnt require an analysis of the facts because it wasnt intended as
Right. Yeah. So whats your big take away . All the anecdotes certainly ring true to the man we know and the man who never evolved or stepped up when he won the presidency. So theyre not surprised, but certainly it certainly gives flavor to it all. I think the book also reveals there are some patriots hanging in there trying hard to keep this thing together and i guess we owe them a debt of gratitude. You know . I dont know what sometimes you really cant imagine what you would do if youre in that position, in the position of secretary mattis, or in the position of gary cohen taking papers away to tree to prevent something from happening. Theyre basically trying to handle someone who is unhinged and not well, and not thinking in the best interests of our country. Willie, was there a part for you that stuck out . I think to me it was secretary mattis saying were dealing with somebody with the intelligence of a fifth or sixth grader, talking to the president with his understand of the worl