Wednesday, january 24. It was a day of revelations in the russia probe and suggestions that bob mueller is closely examining jim comeys allegations of obstruction of justice. The Washington Post reporting mueller is seeking to question President Trump in coming weeks about the firing of comey and former National Security adviser michael flynn. Comey was interviewed by the special counsel late last year, a source close to him tells nbc news focusing on memos comey drafted after private meetings with the president. Comey testified that trump asked him for loyalty and to let go of the fbis investigation into 234ri flynns contact with russians. The president has denied asking for allegiance and tweeted last month that he never asked comey to stop investigating flynn. Times reported that Jeff Sessions was questioned by the special counsels office last week. A person familiar with discussions told the times oig th appeared to be asking about comey and flynn. Take a listen to this. Im not at
Its tuesday, january 30th. We begin this morning with republican members of the House Intelligence Committee who have voted to release a controversial and classified memo that Party Members claim shows corruption in the fbi that is, quote, worse than watergate. But democrats argue the memo is reckless and full of cze cherrypicked facts. Reporter the mystery over a secret memo, the latest flash point. So whats in the memo . Only a few lawmakers know for sure. Transparency is a good thing. Republicans say the memo details abuses by the Justice Department, that the agencies acted inappropriately when requesting surveillance words for the president s campaign team. Evidence that say the investigation was tainted from the start. This document that they put together is false, misleading, misrepresentinging. Why does the memo matter . Its another effort to discredit the russia inquiry just as special Counsel Robert Mueller is eyen ago interview with President Trump. Rob rosenstein approved an
Im ayman mojedean. The winter blast is leaving places buried in snow. For places used to getting fresh powder, residents are screaming enough as the snow continues to fall. Nbc news ron allen has more. Reporter its one for the history books, a record breaking snowstorm in erie, pennsylvania, now declared a disaster emergency. I wouldnt even go out in this stuff. Reporter nearly 57 inches in two days. Conditions so hazardous the airport is still closed. I have been swiefk on vending machine food. Dead rewalsh is stuck there. They keep cancelling the flights, now i cant get home. Reporter they are burying cars, big trucks, having trouble getting through. Im sitting here in the passengers seat t. Closer we get to erie, the worse the conditions get. From buffalo, new york, through wind swept pape to kansas city, missouri the snow is creating headaches for anyone trying to travel. Icy roads, more than 40 accidents there today. Four dead in a crash in abilene, kansas. Slick roads there may b
Good morning, everyone. Its monday, february 12th, i should say. I am aohyeldin along with Yasmin Vossoughian along with louis burgdorf. White house aide rob porter resigned after a publication with a photograph showing one of his exwives with a black eye that said he had given her. President trump had words of support for porter. Well, we wish him well. He worked very hard. I found out about it recently and i was surprised by it, but we certainly wish him well. Its a, obviously, tough time for him. He did a very good job when he was in the white house. And we hope he has a wonderful career and hopefully he will have a great career ahead of him. But it was very sad when we heard about it and certainly he is also very sad. As you probably know, he says hes innocent and i think you have to remember that. He said very strongly yesterday that had hes innocent. So youll have to talk to him about that. But we absolutely wish him well. Did a very good job while he was at the white house. Then
Its monday, february 5th. We begin today with what could bring new Action Response to Congressional Republicans and their memo which alleged surveillance abuses at the Justice Department. It spurred controversy over the weekend. The House Intel Committee is likely to vote today at 5 00 p. M. On weather to release the democrats tenpage rebuttal. Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer wrote to the president yesterday telling him that refusal to release the memo will confirm the american peoples worst fears that the release of chairman nunes memo was only for undermining Robert Muellers investigation. The bureau disclosed to the court that the information it had received from him was politically motivated. The memo is said to argue that republicans distorted the testimony by andrew mccabe, the fbi official, and left out reams of other evidence including that by the fbi to support the the bureau suspicions that fbi director carter page was, in fact, acting as an agent of russia. So President