Spotlight. And this is a rare old talent, isnt it . Our colleague Steve Rosenberg not only knows all the winners at the eurovision song contest, he can play them as well. Im katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. The Us National Security agency was watching in real time last week as the russians hacked into the servers of the french President Elect emmanuel macron. Theyve also determined that the russian president Vladimir Putin personally directed the attack last year on the us election. Today in front of the Senate Armed Services committee the director of the nsa, admiral mike rogers, was questioned by senators and this was how he described his agencies warnings to french officials. He had become aware of russian activity, we had talked to french cou nterpa rts activity, we had talked to french counterparts prior to the public announcements of the events that we re announcements of the events that were attributed last weekend, the russians were seeing them, penetrati
The move to sack fbi chief james comey has caused huge controversy. Donald trump claims hes lost confidence in mr comey, and the bureau needs new leadership. But Opposition Politicians say its an attempt to block the fbis investigation into the possible links between the Trump Campaign and russia. Heres what mr trump had to say when questioned at the white house. Why did you fire directed comey . Because he wasnt doing a good job, very simply. He was not doing a good job. Did it affect your meetings with the russians today . Excuse me . Will the new fbi director be in charge of the Russian Investigation . Laura bickerjoins me from washington. Its been more than 2a hours since james comey was dismissed. What more do we know about why he was removed . The question everyone has been asking is, why now . Why remove the fbi director, the man in charge of the investigation into whether or not russia colluded with the Trump Campaign during the president ial election . That has been a big ques
The move to sack fbi chief james comey has caused huge controversy. Donald trump claims hes lost confidence in mr comey, and the bureau needs new leadership. But Opposition Politicians say its an attempt to block the fbis investigation into the possible links between the Trump Campaign and russia. Heres what mr trump had to say when questioned at the white house. Why did you fire directed comey . Because he wasnt doing a good job, very simply. He was not doing a good job. Did it affect your meetings with the russians today . Excuse me . Will the new fbi director be in charge of the Russian Investigation . Laura bickerjoins me from washington. Its been more than 2a hours since james comey was dismissed. What more do we know about why he was removed . The question everyone has been asking is, why now . Why remove the fbi director, the man in charge of the investigation into whether or not russia colluded with the Trump Campaign during the president ial election . That has been a big ques
Here in singapore, midnight in london, and 7pm in washington, dc, web donald trump is under new pressure over his sacking of the former fbi director. Where. James comey will give evidence on thursday about whether he was given any pressure to drop an enquiry into links between a senior white has official and russia. And Written Testimony has been released injames comey. In it, he says he believes that the president asked him to drop the investigation into general michael flynn. Here are the key lines from his statement. 0ur Washington correspondent says that the evidence is eagerly anticipated. They are saying that this could be a bigger box office, if you like, as far as capital hill is concerned, then the Clinton Impeachment hearings, all watergate. It will very closely watched. We have this Opening Statement released on the Senate Intelligence committee website. Or watergate. On the Senate Intelligence committee website. Orwatergate. It reveals, amongst other things, the donald trum
Here in singapore, midnight in london, and 7pm in washington, dc, web donald trump is under new pressure over his sacking of the former fbi director. Where. James comey will give evidence on thursday about whether he was given any pressure to drop an enquiry into links between a senior white has official and russia. And Written Testimony has been released injames comey. In it, he says he believes that the president asked him to drop the investigation into general michael flynn. Here are the key lines from his statement. 0ur Washington correspondent says that the evidence is eagerly anticipated. They are saying that this could be a bigger box office, if you like, as far as capital hill is concerned, then the Clinton Impeachment hearings, all watergate. It will very closely watched. We have this Opening Statement released on the Senate Intelligence committee website. Or watergate. On the Senate Intelligence committee website. Orwatergate. It reveals, amongst other things, the donald trum