false claims. host of reliable sources brian stelter is here, when you heard this number, i think there were people who were thinking how long is it going to take to get to this number based on how quickly he was going already. and because the pace has been speeding up, glenn kesler says he s surprised they re already at the 5,000 mark. it s something that the post started doing after inauguration day, deciding to fact check everything that president trump said to see if it was false or misleading. they usually don t call them lies but the rate of falsehoods or mistruths has been picking up. they hit 5,000 as florchs was approaching land so it didn t get a lot of attention. i asked kesler about it for today s reliable sources and he told me that the turning point for his count was right
intelligence agency. the document says, gates and person a were directly communicating in september and october 2016, person a has ties to russian intelligence, service and has had such ties since 2016. gates told him mueller that person a was a former russian intelligence officer with gru. one former cia director says the investigation is speeding up, not slowing down. you can see the pace picking up. we re seeing a great body of evidence that the president, his family, his business, his campaign had a lot of contacts with a lot of russians which may be entirely innocent, but now we re seeing bob mueller explore each of those linkages. corrine where does this take us at this point. mueller focusing on gates and using him to explore collusion? right. it takes us backwards and forwards, really.
fbi. joining me now, democratic congressman judy choo of california, member of the ways and means committee set to unveil tax legislation next week. let s talk about the budget and taxes with you. i do want to get your reaction to monday s expected indictment. did the revelation come as a surprise to you? i am very much anticipating it, yes, it did come as a surprise that it was here this early. but i am anxiously awaiting the naming of those being indicted. do you get a sense this indictment is going to be the start of a speeding up of the process, maybe getting us closer to understanding what s going on or do you think we re a long way off from that? it s a clue where mueller is going. i do think that this is only step one of the process and that we re going to see deeper and deeper kinds of actions taken here. all right.
is the firing of the national security adviser, michael flynn. but also this famous meeting on air force one when the president and others constructed what turned out to be a misleading explanation for that june 2016 trump tower meeting. so just one of several interviews of senior white house officials that the special counsel intends to conduct. so many questions. jim, i want you to stick around. i want to bring in a couple of other people for this discussion. bob cusack is the editor in chief of the hill. thank you all for joining the panel with jim and i here. david, what does this say about the speed of this investigation to you? well, i m not sure it s speeding up, but it sure is moving towards the highest targets. they ve clearly waited toward the end of the investigation to go for the chief of staff of the white house. you know, you gradually build it up to the top and that suggests
but it s going to continue to have hurricane-force gusts all the way up into southern georgia. so we ll see widespread areas from pretty much the rest of the evening from kissimmee to orlando and further north. an ocala up to gainesville as it makes its way up to the north. as it moves father north we ll see localized flash flooding. it will start speeding up, the forward movement is 14 miles an hour. the faster it goes the less we ll see in the flash flood threat. but the winds. those winds clearly are strong enough to down trees and down power lines. in those situations.