This weekend detailing the placement of potentially crippling malware in russian systems. The malware has been placed as a depth that has never been attempted before, and it was reportedly done without President Trump being briefed about it in detail out of concern that the president might end the operation or discuss it with other foreign officials, including russian president vladimir putin. I spoke with the New York Times david sanger who broke this story. What makes this particularly interesting is we know from other reporting in other cases that the chairman of the joint chiefs, the intelligence officials and others are reluctant to give very indepth briefings to the president on issues related to russia for the uncertainty about how hell react. Boris sanchez joins us from the white house. Why is the president reacting so strongly to this New York Times report calling it treasonous, even though top officials knew about the plan before the story hit . Thats a great question. He sai
2016 was a president ial election year. It looked like it might go better for democrats, right . Lee zeldin in 2016 was definitely on the bubble as to whether or not he was going to be just a oneterm congressman. But at the apex of that crucial race for him in 2016, congressman lee zeldins campaign did something that was a little hinky, especially in retrospect it seems really hinky. But even at the time people could tell there was something wrong. At the height of that campaign in 2016, lee zeldins campaign sent out a mailer that apparently targeted specific voters in his district, and that mailer told voters that they had to mail in their absentee ballots a day after the deadline when those ballots were due. If voters in zeldins district had actually followed the instructions on that mailer from their own congressman, their vote wouldnt have counted. He is telling them to send in their votes a day late. Thats terrible, right . Terrible. Now, was that a mistake . The Zeldin Campaign s
Diverse class of lawmakers in the history of our country. Today both the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the Congressional Black Caucus swore in their largest numbers ever. The progressive caucus, members of congress who proudly identify themselves as liberals or progressives, the progressive caucus is now on track to include about half the entire Democratic Caucus in the house. A record 102 women were sworn in today to serve in this congress. 35 of those 102 women will be serving in congress for the very first time. Today the youngest African American woman ever to serve in Congress Took her seat. So did the first muslim women, plural, as did the first native american women, plural. There were a lot of firsts as the 116th Congress Took their seats today. I want to start with something today that has happened once before. Today nancy pelosi took back the gavel to become speaker of the house. That puts her third in line to the presidency, second in the line of president ial succession
Baghdad, but the state department is urging u. S. Citizens to leave iraq immediately. Sandra meanwhile, secretary of state mike pompeo giving me reaction on fox news earlier this morning, saying soleimani force the president s hand. President trump made the decision, a serious decision, which was necessary. There was an imminent attack. It dont like the orchestrator was Qassem Soleimani. What was sitting before us was in his travels thereof region an effort to make a significant strike against americans. There would have been many muslims killed, as well. Iraqis, people in other countries come as well. It was a strike aimed at both disrupting that plot, deterring further aggression. We hope setting the conditions for distillation. Sandra congressman Michael Waltz a standby direction. With a closer look at who soleimani was. True youngsters reporting live from amman, jordan. Trey good morning, major escalation overnight as the United States assassinated the Top Commander in the iranian
You almost never get footage of these things right as theyre happening. Even if get footage of these kinds of confrontations, its often from some great distance or through some grainy surveillance interface, and you kind of need a narrator to figure out whats going on. In this case, we got something very rare. We got up close like cinema varitae you are there footage. Not only from an eye level footage. You could even hear the russians swearing in the background. Russias navy chasing three ukrainian ships. This video appearing to show the moment of impact. One ship rammed, shots were fired. The ship seized. Two dozen ukrainian sailors captured russian war planes threatening above. The ukrainian ships were hit at the Narrow Strait between russia and crimea which it illegally annexed. Russia now claiming these waters as its territory and blaming ukraine for provoking the incident. That was a report from nbc correspondent bill neely right at the time that this happened. We also got public