Where President Trump is under new pressure over the sacking of james comey. The former fbi director will give evidence to senators on thursday about whether he was pressured to drop an inquiry into links between a senior white house official and russia. Ahead of that hearing, Written Testimony has been released from mr comey. In it, he says he believes the President Trump asked him to drop the investigation into general Michael Flynn. Here are the key lines from james comeys statement. Our washington correspondent david willis says mr comeys evidence is eagerly anticipated. They are saying that this could be Bigger Box Office as far as capital hill is concerned and the Clinton Impeachment and indeed, watergate. We had this Opening Statement released on the Senate Intelligence Committee Website revealing, amongst other things, that President Trump called for this pledge of loyalty for the man he later sacked, james comey, and he called for the investigation into Michael Flynn drop. Wha
Giants ceo. My grandfather told exxon executives about the risk of Climate Change in 1977. Most 40 years ago. That is how long exxon has known. Amy we will speak to Anna Kalinsky and to 350. Org cofounder Bill Mckibben who was just named by Bernie Sanders to serve on the Platform Committee at this years Democratic National convention. And then transgender rights under attack. Two hours ago, the state of texas filed a lawsuit against u. S. Department of education and the department of justice regarding their directive to open up all School Bathrooms to people of both sexes. Amy texas and 10 other states sue the Obama Administration claiming the president has overstepped his constitutional authority. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. An internal government watchdog has concluded Hillary Clinton broke government rules by using a private email server without approval for her work while she was secretary of
Laura first, at least 2 people have been confirmed dead after a shooting at the university of california in los angeles. Police responded to reports of a shooting and the campus has been on lock down for over an hour now. No more news as yet as to whether or not the shooter is still at large. Lets take a listen to lapd officer at the scene. What we did immediately upon having learned about this thet, we immediately campus alert notification system provides all of them in the Campus Community of an incident that occurred that could be dangerous to them and we stay out ofem to the area. Right now currently the campus is on lock down. We have literally hundreds of Police Officers and agents here on campus assisting in the sector situation. Laura we can go now to l. A. Our correspondent is there. What more can you tell us at this stage . A few minutes ago ucla did send out an alert saying that the lockdown continues and telling students to not go outside to the lapd has warned residents to
General. Then we go inside the exxon annual meeting where the granddaughter of a former exxon scientist questioned the oil giants ceo. M my grandfathther tolold exn executives a about thehe risk of climatate changnge in 197777. Most 40 years ago. That is how long exxon has known. Amy we will speak to Anna Kalinsky and to 350. Org cofounder Bill Mckibben who was just named by Bernie Sanders to serve on the Platform Committee at this years Democratic National convention. And then transgender rights under attack. Two hours ago, ththe state of texaxas filed d a lawsuit againt u. S. Department of education and the department o of justice regarding their direrective to open up all School Bathrooms to people of both sexes. Amy texas and 10 other states sue the Obama Administration claiming the president has overstepped his constitutional authority. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. An internal government watch
General. Then we go inside the exxon annual meeting where the granddaughter of a former exxon scientist questioned the oil giants ceo. M my grandfathther tolold exn executives a about thehe risk of climatate changnge in 197777. Most 40 years ago. That is how long exxon has known. Amy we will speak to Anna Kalinsky and to 350. Org cofounder Bill Mckibben who was just named by Bernie Sanders to serve on the Platform Committee at this years Democratic National convention. And then transgender rights under attack. Two hours ago, ththe state of texaxas filed d a lawsuit againt u. S. Department of education and the department o of justice regarding their direrective to open up all School Bathrooms to people of both sexes. Amy texas and 10 other states sue the Obama Administration claiming the president has overstepped his constitutional authority. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. An internal government watch