The middle east. Our interview with exxon crown prince and his plea to america. You feel in your heart that one day this regime will fall . Absolutely. There is no question about it. Eric americas news headquarters starts right now. Our top story, the search for the next director of the federal bureau of investigation. At least six candidates today headed to the Justice Department to be interviewed for the top position, as a President Trump says the administration could announce james comey successor is early as next friday. Reporter this is a saturday, but the department of justice has stayed busy all day. We started this morning expecting for interviewers to take place but the list keeps growing. Now the candidates are interviewing today are Andrew Mccabe, Michael Garcia, josh rainier, john cornyn, alice fisher, henry hudson, virginia judge, and fbi special agent, adam lee. All but one of those people have come and gone. If you are talking and are saying no, when they leave. They jus
There is plenty to suggest his team is well on the way toward meeting that goal. A number of big names out there. One of them drawing a little bit of interest. In particular former representative rogers of michigan. He has been endorsed by a group of current and former fbi agents. Rogers himself is a former special agent. For his part, the president spent in lynchburg, virginia but on the way down to liberty where be the way he addressed about 50,000 people he said about this the search that is, he said, it shouldnt take long to wheedling down the list. Before you saudi, before departure . Outstanding people very well known. Before the trip, possibly . Even that is possible. Can we now, in case youre wondering, look, my sources simply say its highly unlikely the president will pick someone solely from a political background arthel, although they quickly add the president is unpredictable. Arthel theres still folks up there on capitol hill floating their own ideas about who they think m
Sports memorabilia. During the closely watched parole hearing the 70yearold former football star said he had no intent to commit a crime and that hed quote, done his time. Now turning to a blockbuster day in political headlines, starting with the 50 minute New York Times interview that President Donald Trump gave yesterday about musing he wishing he had a do over when it came to his attorney general, Jeff Sessions. His beef the recusal from the russia investigation. Well talk to the reporter who was inside the room and peters voice is the first you will hear after the president s. Sessions gets the job. Right after he gets the job he recuses himself. Was that a mistake . Well, sessions should have never recused himself. And if he if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job and i would have picked somebody else. He gave you no heads up at all . Zero. How do you take a job and then recuse yourself . If he would have recused himself before the job i wo
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Be leaving the podium. Well discuss all of this. Lets get straight to cnns jim sciutto with more on our breaking news. Jim, good evening to you. We have new reporting tonight on what must be a thorn in the president s side. Former National Security adviser Michael Flynn failing to disclose a middle east trip about a russia deal. What can you tell us . Reporter thats exactly right. This is a letter from the ranking members, ranking democrats on the House Oversight committee and House Foreign Affairs committee to general flynns lawyers as well as two of his Business Partners asking about a trip in the summer of 2015 to saudi arabia, to arrange, it appears, a nuclear deal between saudi arabia and russia to build Nuclear Power plants. Undisclosed on general flynns security clearance renewal form when he took a position in the trump white house. Theyre also asking about a trip later that year in october of 2015 that general flynn provided no details for including where he stayed there, who