deal, the corruption case as they prepare to interview the fbi informant connect this informant was telling the fbi a year and a half for four uranium one that there was a network in the united states. he had his own experience, he had emails, he had documents. he had tapes where he knew bribery, extortion, money laundering, racketeering was all happening. not only that, sean. you drew up, your slides yesterday were magnificent. should be used in the court of law to prosecute everybody involved with uranium one who undermined the american national security. the fact here is we have a very, very serious issue of not only is the law being done, but is it seemed to be done as well? is just as blind, or is there special preferential treatment being given? this story gets deeper and deeper and deeper, and don t forget, loretta lynch threatened
to block fired fbi director james comey from testifying at a hearing that will be watched likely by the world. the new york times is reporting, however, at this point president trump is not leaning in that direction. one administration official said the president has nothing to hide. he wants mr. comey s statement tobz publicly aired. comey is scheduled to go before the cameras and the bright lights on thursday and tell the senate and the public about his private conversations with the president. whether trump made any requests for information that made him feel uncomfortable or pressure him to end the investigation into fired national security adviser michael flynn and his ties to russia. comey s testimony is so highly anticipated it s drawing comparisons to anita hill and the clarence thomas hearings. cnn s randi kaye gives us a time line of the events and interaction that s comey will almost certainly be asked about. in january this year, a dinner at the white house, now under s
the president tweeted this, we need to be smart, vigilant and tough. we need the courts to give us back our rights. we need the travel ban as an extra level of safety. that was right after these attacks started unfolding. then later, we must stop being politically correct and get down to the business of security for our people. if we don t get smart, it will only get worse. joining me now, cnn s senior political analyst and former adviser to four presidents david gergen and jennifer rubin. jennifer, you wrote a piece for the post just a day which you say the president embarrassed himself and america with these tweets. why do you feel that way? well, to begin with, he started off with a retweet of a drudge report. this is the chief of the american national security. he is the commander in chief. he s the leader of the free world. this is the information completely unverified that he is sending out. so the first entree into the subject was completely you irresponsible and unprofessiona
unfortunately, that s what i long heard from u.s. counter-terrorism officials, they wondered when it was going to start to catch on, when would people realize unfortunately ow easy it is to bring mayhem to the streets with very simple devices. right. you were at an event earlier where the president s national security adviser spoke. did mcmaster express a need for a travel ban as the president did in his first tweet following this attack? he didn t bring up the travel ban. he extended his condolences, his heart felt condolences to the british and afghan people making reference to those massive bomb that s have gone off in kabul and then the bomb attacks against a funeral there. and he spoke of unshakeable resolve against terrorism. he spoke of jihadists, a very technical term, has advertise chosen term. there s been a bit of a tussle going on in the white house and h.r. mcmaster has been credited with taking the phrase radical
kimberly, what do you make of the fact that three attacks happened in the uk in just three months time and prime minister teresa may says they are not connected? what s going nont uk that there s this increase number of events? well, part of it is the number of militants who traveled from the uk, served with isis in iraq or syria or other parts of the middle east and have come back. they re also many other sympathizers within the british society that british security is tracking. so you have a collection of individuals like minded with the skills or the will to carry something out. but you also have this sort of virus spreading of people seeing these attacks and n. places like nice in france where more than 80 people were killed. they re seeing the simple tactics work.