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hello, good morning. iam annita mcveigh and welcome to bbc newsroom live. the us director of national intelligence has rejected suggestions made by donald trump that official agencies leaked claims russia had compromising material on him. in a statement, james clapper said he had called the president elect to say the information had not come from the us security services. meanwhile the bbc understands the ex mi6 officer who is believed to have prepared the memo containing the unsubstantiated claims is now in hiding. christopher steele, who runs a london based intelligence firm, is believed to have left his home this week. our washington correspondent laura bicker has the story. donald trump s not a huge fan of the press corps, but he had a message to send to the media and to us intelligence agencies. he believes they leaked unsubstantiated allegations that his election team colluded with russia. it is all fake news, it is phoney stuff, it didn t happen. there are al ....
european business. coming up on newsnight, president trump s press conference was one of the strangest we remember and we will analyse it and how he is viewed by his opponents. good evening and welcome to bbc news. in a tempestuous news conference at the white house which lasted an hour and a half, president trump has rounded on his critics, especially in the media, and accused them of undermining his presidency. he sought to deny the existence of any compromising connections with russia and announced he was preparing a new executive order on immigration to replace the one suspended by the courts. our north america editor jon sopel was there and sent this report. ladies and the of § united ladies and the of i: united §fflfti ladies and the of é united % ati press c0 nfe re nce was notice a press conference was announced, highly unusual. ostensibly to announce his new secretary but really to get a lot out of his chest. the press has become so dishonest that if we do ....
and it starts with copper, the mineral copper. there s copper in brass. there s copper in bronze. the statue of liberty is sheathed in a layer of copper. that s about the thickness of two pennies. pennies themselves used to be copper, but now they re just copper-covered zinc, which sort of seems sad. it makes financial sense, because copper over time became too valuable to use in something as cheap as a penny, because most of what we use copper for now is conducting electricity. we use copper for wiring. there is a massive global appetite for copper. and the world s largest producer of copper is an american company. it s a company that used to be based in new orleans but now the mining company freeport is based in phoenix, arizona. and the freeport mining company of phoenix, arizona, they do still mine copper in arizona and they mine copper in new mexico and in colorado. but they are a gigantic firm. and they re a global operation. in south america, they mine copper in chile, ....
today the russia investigation took a major step forward. for the first time a member of the president s inner circle faced questions on capitol hill. put another way, this investigation has now come within one man of the president. he is arguably the closest man to the president. white house senior adviser and son-in-law jared kushner spent more than two hours with the senate intelligence committee and then he made a public statement saying he never colluded with russia. it comes as trump pours the pressure on his own attorney general, jeff sessions, who rekuzed himself from the justice department s russia investigation months ago. a decision the president has not been able to get past. . he wrote about sessions on twitter this morning, referring to his own attorney general, mind you, as our beleaguered attorney general. and tonight the washington post as a new report headline, trump leaves sessions twisting in the wind bile berating him publicly. it reads in part sessions ....
someone who bragged about i only hire the best people can t seem to keep people. i m looking forward to the president having the cabinet that he deserves. the special counsel is looking now into trump businesses. its investigation 101 to follow the money. the president believes very strongly there is no collusion. there is no individual in the united states who is above the law. it was loud. it sounded like a bomb. when i looked closely, cars were squooshed. we want to do our best to find out exactly what happened here. this is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. welcome to your new day. it s thursday, march 16, 8:00 in the east. cnn reporting that president trump is ready to oust his national security adviser general h.r. mcmaster and is considering even more changes to his embattled cabinet. a major development in the russia investigation. special counsel bob mueller has subpoenaed documents from the trump organization. the new york times ....