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On september 20th, 2016 wikileaks twitter account sent a private message to trump jr. starting in exchange about a trump putin website. well, trump junior promised to ask around about it, e-mailing senior officials with the campaign. on october 3rd wikileaks and trump jr. had an exchange about a wikileaks story and about hillary clinton. on october 12th wikileaks reached out again to thank the trumps for praising them and to pass along a link to stolen documents. a source tells cnn congress has had the documents for a while. trump junior was briefly asked about them during a closed door interview that he did with the senate judiciary committee back in september. you know who else is going to find those documents really interesting? the special counsel, robert mueller, and his team. so let s get right now to cnn s senior political analyst mark preston. justice correspondent pamela brown. and julia ioffe, who broke this wikileaks story for the atlantic. good evening to all of you. jul ....
Slow-walking the irs criminal investigation. but here in congress, the probe is in full force and there is more bipartisan agreement and what they ve found so far than meets the eye. outside the capitol, thousands of tea party supporters rallied, railing against the government agency that targeted them, the irs. we will get the truth and we will hold those responsible accountable. inside the capitol, sources tell cnn congress am investigators conducted their eighth recorded sfl view with an irs employee, trying to get to the bottom of why tea party groups were subjected to inappropriate irs scrutiny and delays in applications for tax-exempt status. a new cnn/orc poll shows during the month that congress has been investigating, american suspicion about white house targeting of tea party involvement has jumped, from 37 in may, to 47 now. that flies in the face of what ....
Present. for two years since atlantis touched down at the kennedy space center, the u.s. has been without its own means to put astronauts in space. we call it a gap. not sure how long it s going to last, that s dependant on the future providers. providers have taken on carrying cargo to the international space station, but not people. now the gap has widened, it s a very iffy 2017. target dates are etched in sand, not stone. not enough money from congress, nasa says, so astronauts fly on russian rockets. jones believes a new generation of space explorers will find their inspiration right here. a young person can come in here and say i want to fly something like this. i want to help design something like this. and it can be a part of their future and that s a very bright future for america in the 21st century if we capitalize on the experience we have here. nasa is also working on a rocket for deep space missions. that, too, is years away. ....
On september 20th, 2016, wikileaks twitter account sent a private message to trump junior starting in exchange about a trump putin website. well, trump junior promised to ask around about it, e-mailing senior officials with the campaign. on october 3rd wikileaks and trump junior had an exchange about a wicks i leaks story and about hillary clinton. on october 12th wikileaks reached out again to thank the trumps for praising them and to pass along a link to stolen documents. a source tells cnn congress has had the documents for a while. trump junior was briefly asked about them during a closed door interview that he did with the senate judiciary committee back in september. you know who else is going to find those documents really interesting? the special counsel, robert mueller, and his team. so let s get right now to cnn s senior political analyst mark preston, goeng to all of you, julia, this is a scoop for you, ....
Direct sources that said the trump campaign had constant contacts with russian spies, basically treasonous types accusations. i can assure you, and i ve been approved to say this, that the top levels of the intelligence community have assured me that that story is not only inaccurate, but it s grossly overstated and it was wrong. there s nothing to it. pamela, is the investigation still going on? it is going on. the fbi s counterintelligence division, also several members of the house and senate intelligence committees tells cnn congress is still investigating those alleged contacts. that has begun and they re starting to collect documents and records as well, erin. which is obviously important. that s going to determine what happened here. evan, this is not a typical back and forth between a white house and the fbi. there may be disagreements, but this is not how it usually plays ....