Incident. Detailing a revised timeline of the ambush that killed four troops. October 3rd, 12 members of the u. S. Special Operations Task force leave the capital of niger with 30 nigeren troops, their goal a Reconnaissance Mission 30 miles north. The intelligence at the time was contact with the enemy was unlikely. But they came under fire, about 50 local fighters with ties to isis. Nbc reports u. S. Officials are looking into whether the militants were tipped off by somebody in the village. The special forces team engaged in the firefight for an hour before requesting help, and within minutes french jets were scrambled but took another hour to arrive to the remote location. I dont know they thought they needed support prior to that time. I dont know what their initial assessment was of what they were confronted with. The french did not drop bombs. The pilots had the authority but could not readily identify allied forces. It remains unclear how Sergeant La David Johnson became separat
Defending Michael Cohen without revealing it was his lawyer too . It was a showdown in the courtroom. Lawyers for Michael Cohen tried to block investigators from examining materials seized in an fbi raid. Plus, more mixed messages on russia. President trump has put a stop to a new round of sanctions just a day after nikki haley announced them. And james comeys book comes out today. Good morning, everyone. Its tuesday, april 13th. We begin with new developments in the fight over who should get to see the documents seized during last weeks raid of President Trumps personal attorney Michael Cohen. A judge has rejencted a request to allow investigation of the materials seized in that raid. A new turn in the legal fight over what should happen to the records the fbi seized from President Trumps embattled personal attorney Michael Cohen which include some materials related to porn star Stormy Daniels who was swarmed by photographers, cohen and the president dont want the government to decide
Im dave briggs. Im christine romans. It is 5 00 a. M. In the east. This is the big story. The white house and allies quick to seize on a report from the Justice Department watch dog on fbi actions before the 2016 election. The doj Inspector General calling former fbi director james comeys actions extraordinary and insubordinate. He was not politically motivated. The report details numerous failures by top officials heading the Hillary Clinton email probe. Concluding the fbi actions cast a cloud over the bureau. One of the ironic findings, comey used a personal Gmail Account for official government business. And in the other issue with the fbi, peter strzok and lisa page. The Inspector General did not rule out antitrump bias with strzok. He noted the russia investigation for a month instead of following up on a cache of clinton emails. This is tout by trump allies by deep state conspiracy to damage the president and using it as fodder to get rid of the russia probe. Trump lawyer Rudy Gi