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Melanie is live on capitol hill with the latest. No doubt President Trump idea or calls to impose a border and import tax is going to be a significant portion of todays meeting with those big three auto makers because it will have an impact on the u. S. And probably global auto industry. Meanwhile on capitol hill republican lawmakers are already handing mr. Trump cabinet victories. Lets start with last night. When congressman mike pompeo was confirmed as sworn in as next cia director after 66 to 32 vote in senate and this comes at time when new administration is trying to mend fences with Intelligence Community and some democrats and one republican kentucky senator ran paul opposed pompeo confirmation because of stance on torture and surveillance. And hurdle cleared for secretary of state nominee exxon mobile ceo tillerson has come under criticism for business d yest ....
Full list of passengers and crew members onboard. 298 people, most of them dutch. And thats why forensic teams are finding out across the netherlands today. Theyre collecting dna samples to identify the remains. We also learned the dutch Prime Minister had what is described as an extremely intense phone call with russian president vladimir putin. The Prime Minister demanded he shoate the world that he will help the investigation. Nbcs sarah dolof with the her last work focused on an anticancer drug. Snou friends and family left to University Officials say they may hold off on a memorial until fall when thexd majority o students return to nrcampus. At indiana university, im sarad dolof, nbc news. Were following all the angles of this developing story. For morec ze qrip estigation and how the rebels in ukraine are ....
Area light fog. A short sleeve summer morning and sunblock hotter summer afternoon coming up with lower humidity moving in. Last couple of day, we have had the rather steamy humidity. Dew point temperatures in the 60s and 70s, but now down in to the 50s. Police apartment humidity for much of the afternoon. Between now and then, that humidity will drop. But still fairly high humidity causing dense fog. These counties in gray. Visibilities here are generally under a quarter of a mile. All the way through 9 00. So throw down, use your low beams. Coming up, the hour by hour temperature warmup. The body of an American Hero is on its way back home here to the u. S. Major general Harold Greene was killed earlier this week in afghanistan. We have received confirmation his remains are on an aircraft, have already left a military base in germany on the way to dover delaware. Once the bod ....
The role of the u. S. On the world stage. Give us a call this morning on the democratic line, the republican line, and the independent. 585ure outside the u. S. , 3883. You can reach us on facebook or twitter or email. Good monday morning to you. We want to start with the interview with president obama and secretary of state Hillary Clinton from last night that appeared on 60 minutes. Heres how it played in a couple papers from around the country. Heres the New York Times headline and the culpeper star has i want to read you from the story that was in the hill newspaper this morning, the congressional newspaper here in washington. What we want to do now is take you to a clip from last night of that interview. Here is president obama. [video clip] we helped to put together and lay the groundwork for liberating libya. When it comes to egypt, i think, had it not been for the le ....
Death of that pilot. Its a day of mourning but also a day of defiance for a key u. S. Ally, which has been thrust into the middle of a worldwide crisis. Heres the white house a short time ago on our part in all of this considering recent events. Were always looking for ways that we can deepen our relationship with jordan. And i can tell you that while the king was here on tuesday, there was the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the United States and jordan. That would extend our security situation, or our security relationship, into 2017 and would guarantee the provision of Security Assistance on the order of about 400 billion a year. So its a substantial commitment of military assistance. We start today with former active duty Intelligence Officer jessica mcfate, who spent 15 months on the groun ....