gentlemen, it means he did not want anyone else to know about that conversation. we re going to know about that conversation next week. eli, the subpoenas are going to keep coming. there are too many people investigating too many prongs of this, and this is going to be, i know it already is in your life and at that white house a huge sub plot. right. there are too many subplots to keep track of. the comey thing is going to get a ton of attention. it doesn t have any direct impact on these investigations. but in the realm of public opinion, which does matter, and as jeremy said, obstruction of justice, that s the ball game. if he lays out a case, you re already trying to see the white house politicize jim comey, saying he s not trustworthy, to attack his credibility. he s hurt himself, i think, over the course of the campaign with some of the statements, the different responses to the different investigations, the different statements publicly and not speaking up publicly. he s allo
stay in the paris climate agreement. the pope urged him to stay in the paris climate agreement. but you will hear that cedes ground to china. so politically this will be a lightning rod. but his supporters are going to be cheering this announcement later today. okay. as you see, her camera position not far from the podium and the rose garden. the rose garden there, the news may deal with a different sub plot. among the folks waiting to talk to us is nicole wallace who will be coming up on the air with her show this afternoon at 4:00 p.m. what do you think will happen today? what s the meaning of today? i keep hearing from folks behind the scenes that are former diplomats and people part of national security am rat us that making china great again is
suddenly after being happy that the president upset but there s a sub plot of people saying this is steve bannon and the america first crowd somehow trying to suggest general mcmaster is out of favor. foreign policy like everything else is, you know, falls under a lot of this buzz saw that goes on inside the west wing. even though this is a matter of life and death of course. there are people with very, you know, strong views on. this steve bannon is one. of course, he will have different views than h.r. mcmaster. i m told that that story was potentially slightly overstated in the sense that the president might not be thrilled with everything from mcmaster but still respects him greatly and at the end of the day he did say he would allow his generals, his military advisers to sort of make some of these decisions. so if he were to retreat and walk away, that would be pretty extraordinary. it would be a defining moem fme
daily life a guessing game. and bloating made will i have pain and bloating today? my doctor recommended ibgard to manage my ibs. take control. ask your doctor about nonprescription ibgard. welcome back. new cnn reporting today on a key sub plot of the russian election meddling investigation election. what first brought to light the possibility associates of then candidate donald trump were coordinating or colluding with russian efforts to damage hillary clinton? well, u.s. intelligence officials cnn has learned were alerted by british and other european intelligence agencies who had intercepted communications between trump associates and russians who are under surveillance. our justice correspondent is here with more. a little twist in the spy novel. explain the details. that s right, john. it was the british and european agencies that were monitoring russians that first alerted the u.s. intelligence agencies that there were these contacts and
share that with you live. this is going to be a format we are not used to. and the other sub plot of tonight is it s going to give chris wallace broad discretion as moderator. there are only six topics. 90 minutes. debt and entitlements, immigration, economy, supreme court, foreign hot spots, fitness to be president. two minutes each. at the top of each of those segments, but each of those segments is budgeted for 10 to 15 minutes. so it s going to be a lot of discussion, a lot of cross-talk, we assume the same number of tangents as these things go off in and the moderator will attempt to get them back on schedule and back on topic. yeah, this is set up, i mean, just to underscore, this is set up as a question on each of those topics, two minutes to respond, and then ten minutes to jabber. ten minutes to discuss. i mean, and that defines this in