moscow. eight people are injured, two of the injured are mexicans. the streets of moscow are festive and packed with viewing parties and world cup fans from everywhere. these are photos from the scene, but horrific video online shows the taxi driver coming to an almost complete stop before it swerves to its right, accelerating onto a sidewalk, hitting pedestrians for five long seconds before the car stops. and then the driver just runs out of the cab as about a dozen bystanders chase him. the driver was detained. he s a citizen of the former soviet remix of kyrgyzstan, and he told police it was not intentional. russian authorities have opened a criminal investigation and are characterizing it as a traffic accident. witnesses find that hard to believe. translator: i have the feeling he did it deliberately, because he was in the traffic jam with the cars going really slow. how can you lose control of the
must-see tv, the numbers are in and they are staggering. neelz reporting today nearly 19.5 million people watching james comey s testimony just on cable network. that doesn t count viewing parties and online streaming. he was telling me there were bars in the city that were open early to watch this. it s like the whole entire city shut down. drama, the theatrics in both director comey and the president seemingly have a flare for to play to the story line. why doesn t director comey, by the way, release the memos? and why i don t know that he still has them. he may have copies of them, though. i mean, but he brought that on himself. release the memos. people have asked for them. what is it? let s just get to the bottom of this and put it on the table. why didn t coats and dni coats and also nsa rogers answer the questions two days ago before the senate committee
odd it was sent out the night before. we have heard word one from james comey, other than this introduction which we by now have all read. chris jansing is in the hallway just outside this hearing room. our senior national correspondent, chris, good morning. good morning brian. it s not an exaggeration to say anticipation here is at a fervor pitch. when is the last time you saw bars in washington, d.c., opening early, so they could have viewing parties and take a look at this line here. the first people got in line at 4:15 this morning. a lot of the folks that we talked to along here, are hill interns. good luck having an extra seat inside there because folks who ruthis comttee room say ey have not had a demand for tickets like they ve seen for this in decades. one compelling empty seat so far has the name of preet bharara on it, the u.s. attorney, like james comey was fired by donald trump. who to watch for, a lot of interesting things because
former director comey is only talking about his conversations with trump. he has not released, interestingly, information and the depth of the investigation with the russians. i know we asked you on to talk about the man who could replace james comey west got way laid by breaking news. come back. it will be some time before those comfort administration hearings get underway. i m hopeful all of this will come out into the public. the people in the districts can do what they need to do for the american people. thank you so much. thank you. appreciate it. up next, more only breaking news out of washington. the details we re getting from the release of our former fbi director comey s hearing tomorrow morning. they ll open some bars early in washington, d.c. and have viewing parties. you re watching msnbc. it s an important question you ask, but one i think with a simple answer. we have this need to peek over our neighbor s fence.
the first 16 minutes. her scoring put the u.s. in a dominant position over japan and the u.s. women maintained it now. young players outside of philly where lloyd grew up, in fact all over the nation, have a new hero. carli is such an inspiration to my daughter, who just made a team this year. we re so proud of here so proud of carli so proud of the u.s.a. team. can t believe it. athletes and not just they re pretty girls or whatever. they re legitimate athletes and they re good role models for people and they work really hard, and they re something we as a country can be proud of. also for the record become, the first team to ever take home a third world cup. took them 16 years to get the third one. now the u.s. women dominate the soccer pitch. go, u.s.a., as i said before. i was reading today.the ratings. looks like viewership tripled from the last world cup. they had viewing parties. one in chicago. it was an absolutely packed