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issues for the benefit and safety of the american people. by grandstanding and political sizing the investigation into russia s actions, james comey created unnecessary pressure on our ability to negotiate with russia. james comey is ready to break his silence, seming an invitation to testify in open session before the senate intelligence committee at some point after memorial day. let s go now to riyadh, saudi arabia, where nbc s kristen welker is traveling with the president today. in a few minutes, president trump will officially be welcomed by the saudi royals. what will that look like? reporter: well, this is going to take place at the royal court palace. it will include the first lady and then a little bit later on the president will have a bilateral meeting with king salman. this is a day that s going to be filled with pomp and circumstance and the president will be meeting with saudi and arab leaders. his goal is to have a bit of a reset, to send the message he s n ....
today. today you can sense the chant coming from the trump people. listen closely and you can pick up a slightly different rhythm right now of don t lock me up, don t lock me up! yesterday it was reported first by the wall street journal that trump s former national security adviser michael flynn, the guy saw there going after hillary, his lauer is looking to get flynn immunity in order to testify about what he knows. according to his lawyer trump s former national security adviser certainly has a story to tell. this morning president trump tweeted that mike flynn should ask for immunity in is that this is a witch hunt an excuse for a big election lost by the democrats and the media of historic proportion. at the meeting today sean spicer conexplained the president was trying to convey his desire to see flynn testify. if you actually stop for a second and realize what the president is doing he is saying do whatever to do to go up and make it clear what happened, take whate ....
apparently he got the nickname of the commodore in his days as a kid running those ferry services in new york harbor. the other guys who worked the harbor alongside him called him commodore as a way of teasing him. and it stuck. and then that kid who they mocked as the commodore grew up to amass one of the largest fortunes in american history. the kind of fortune that leaves a mark. in 1917 right next to the then-brand new grand central station opposite vand built avenue, a huge new hotel went up with thousands of rooms. it was called the commodore hotel. it was named after correspond kneel i couldn t say, the commodore vand built. had a statute of him right out front. and that hotel was one of new york s big successful shmancy centrally located famous it was a big deal because the commodore hotel was a big landmark piece of new york real estate right next to grand central station. it also had this poetic storied connection to the great vanderbilt family. but it was a high-pro ....
they re telling us that they re starting slowly to unload these places. there are five sets of those. so it s very slow and we re pretty far back in the line. it s going to be at least two hours. he also says he doesn t know what s going to happen to us once we re deplaned, where we ll go in the airport and what resources will be available to us. he said it will take a number of days before things get back to normal. we re in it for the long haul. we ve totally run out of water. they ve asked us kindly not to flush the toilets. otherwise everyone seems to be in a relative calm. they gave us beverages about an hour ago and we re just waiting. wow. it doesn t sound good. how long have you been stuck there? we landed at 2:15. so about five hours. wow. and the pilot is telling you it could be two hours more before you can get off. did you hear what led to this? reporter: it s unclear to us. it s a construction issue. as far as we know there s no power at the airport. lucky ....
like to be on the white house staff. got to watch twitter to see what people are going to do. you were in, you were around when the colin kaepernick protests were going on when he was playing for the 49ers. what did you think then about that? i fully supported his right to speak out. i thought he made some mistakes, some big mistakes early. he wore the socks. remember the socks that were pigs in policemen ewan forps. he didn t have a clear message at first. but i supported his right to protest and i think what he did was really admirable. he went out and sought the advice of a man named nate boyer, a former player with a seahawks. a military veteran, who gave kaepernick the advice to kneel. he said in stead of sitting on the bench, kneel. it s also a sign of respect. if you think about you bow in front of somebody. and so this was the advice kaepernick sought out. he sort of refined his message, saying i thought things had made more sense in terms of clarifying what he was p ....