Politicsnation. Tonights lead, stormy days. Tonight more than half a million homes and businesses in and around houston, texas, are still without power after punishing storms slammed into the region yesterday, leaving at least seven people dead and putting intense strain on the infrastructure and power grid. The Lone Star State is weathering political storms as well tonight. Outrage is growing over Governor Greg Abbotts pardon of a white Army Sergeant found guilty of murder found guilty of murdering a black lives matter demonstrator in 2020. Critics are calling the pardon politically motivated. Well be talking about it all with the democrat challenging ted cruz for the senate, congressman cro little allred. Meantime, the white house is hoping to avoid political tempest tomorrow as the president delivers the Commencement Speech at Historically Black Morehouse College. Students and faculty have been divided over bidens support of the war and his presence on their campus. Weve got another
Once again, let me read that. very sorry the fbi missed all the signals by the florida shooter. this is not acceptable. they are spending too much time trying prove russian collusion. many are saying because they re a small number of agents involved in the mule investigation, that then drew resources and attention away from the warning that this shooting. do you think that is a substantive connection? i think that there s been multiare instances where they said the fbi dropped the ball when it came to the individual, the monster who shot up the 17, who killed 17 people. and the local authorities warned as well. so there is no dpout what he s tweeting is factual whuflt look at it, what the american people are saying, the fbi seems so consumed, the media is so
Mcconnell has joined the minority leader, chuck schumer and a number of others of republicans and democrats. and i m hopeful that we ll see those hearings. not just the intelligence community but armed services, foreign relations, we need to be united and firm. and pushing back. do you have any doubt that russia was behind the hacking and john podesta s e-mail account? i ve gotten conclusive evidence that they have done both. from new york, they re saying there was no dpout russia was responsible for the hacking. there is question of whether they can the john podesta e-mail. that s what he says. i think all members of the senate and the house need to
it will not change, nor will it stop. we have not seen any evidence of significant change. i agree with director pompeo. as do i. they also stand by last year s assessment that russia interfered in the 2016 election. there should be no dpout russia perceived that its past efforts as successful. despite this, the president has repeatedly called it a hoax. for 11 months, they ve had this phony cloud over this administration and our government. it has hurt our government. it is a democrat home. prompting members of the senate intelligence committee to ask the intelligence chiefs to push back. i just wish you all could persuade the president as a matter of national security to separate these two issues, the collusion issue is over here. unresolved. we ll get to the bottom of that.
Clear strategy. they said this is an issue they re confronting and something russia continues to do after the 2016 elections. with respect to russian influence efforts, let me be clear. the russians utilized this tool because it is relatively cheap, low risk, it offer what s they perceive as plausible deniability and proven to be effective at sowing division. there should be no dpout russia perceived that its past efforts have been successful and views the 2016 mid-term elections as a potential target for russian influence on operations. have you seen russian activity in the lead up to the 2018 election cycle? yes. i paused. i m trying to stay on the unclassified side. yes. we have seen russian activity and intentions to have an impact