But it is not just isis. Why this country is attack another group of terrorists you never heard of until now. Will air strikes make us safer or put us in danger on the home front. We have a busy program to got to. Cnn reporters around the world. They will have the late forest you along with our team of military and security experts. We want want to begin with breaking news. Terror fears in the homeland. A senior official tells cnn, khoras khorasan, comes amid concerns of lone wolf attacks. Lets get the latest from cnns justice correspondent, pamela brown. Pamela, good evening. What can you tell us abut these attacks and khorasan . We can tell you that this group of al qaeda operatives in syria, called khorasan had been on u. S. Officials radar since at least the springtime. Recent intelligence suggested the group was in advance stage plotting an attack against the west, europe or the u. S. , by using western recruits. U. S. Officials felt like they had to act fast to disrupt the plotti
Decision. Before the trip next week possibly . Even that is possible. Those comments on air force one a moment before the president gave the commencement address at Liberty University this morning. Did he weigh in on this fbi firestorm . You decide. In my short time in washington, ive seen firsthand how the system is broken. A small group of failed voices who think they know everything and understand everyone want to tell everybody else how to live and what to do and how to think. But you arent going to let other people tell you what you believe especially when you know that you are right. We have Team Coverage tracking this story. Lets bring in ryan nobles live for us at Liberty University where now the crowd has cleared out. So ryan, have the President Trumps comments evolved any further on his decision to fire comey and this private dinner that happened just seven days after inauguration . Reporter a really hasnt and the president didnt offer any insight into his Decision Making pro
There are several reports about the meeting donald trump had with his russian lawyer in 2016, reporting the man has ties to russian intelligenct although he denies it. This comes as the hill is breaking another major story tonight about who donald trump, jr. , met with and how they are tied to the democrats, thats right, the democrats. According to the hill, this russian lobbying effort has ties to three russian businessmen and the lobbying a Team Included a former democratic congressman and a former government officia official. The report also details how these prorussian lobbyists including one of the people who met with donald trump, jr. , also try to meet with democrat and republican members of congress. In other words a lot of people involved in this. We are also learning back in march senator Chuck Grassley published p a complaint where he detailed how a russian lobbyist in this story worked with that group. Weve been telling you about fusion gps, remember they published the fake
Im not going to deal with petty stuff like that. He didnt deny calling the president a moron. The secretary did not use that type of language. He did not say that. Made up by nbc. They just made it up. For the record, nbc has total confidence in its reporting. Fake news. It was a totally phony story. The president can call this fake news but he himself has made it very clear that hes broken with his own secretary of state on a whole host of policy issues. He ends up not being supported in the way that i would hope a secretary of state would be supported. I dont think anyone in the world thinks that Rex Tillerson speaks with the full backing and authority of this president. A president undermining cabinet, cabinet members understood mining the president , this is the most bizarre thing i have ever watched. Secretary tillerson, secretary mattis and chief of staff kelly are those people that help separate our country from chaos. In an exclusive report this morning, nbc news revealed that
That trump cabinet members memoirs will be the best ever. Nbc reporting that Rex Tillerson called donald trump a, quote, moron. Im not going to deal with petty stuff like that. He didnt deny calling the president a moron. The secretary did not use that type of language. He did not say that. Made up by nbc. They just made it up. For the record, nbc has total confidence in its reporting. Fake news. It was a totally phony story. The president can call this fake news but he himself has made it very clear that hes broken with his own secretary of state on a whole host of policy issues. He ends up not being supported in the way that i would hope a secretary of state would be supported. I dont think anyone in the world thinks that Rex Tillerson speaks with the full backing and authority of this president. A president undermining cabinet, cabinet members understood mining the president , this is the most bizarre thing i have ever watched. Secretary tillerson, secretary mattis and chief of staf