The witness, Fbi Director Christopher Wray is in the room as our the chair and ranking member. You can hear them testing some of the audio, this is being called a hybrid hearing. House judiciary members charming invite remote viewer. Should get started shortly, this is live coverage. Chmn. Nadler without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everybody to the searing of oversight of the federal euro of investigation. I would like to remind members we have issued an emailers for exhibits, motions and other materials that members might want to offer. If you would like to submit materials send them to the Ml Address previously distributed and we will circulate the materials as quickly as we can. Email address previously is remitted and we will circulate the materials as quickly as we can. I ask all members but those in person and appearing remotely to mute your microphones when you are not speaking. This will help prevent technical
All of this comes as russia a Russian Court Designates A Group run by navalny as an extremist network, banning it from future politics, raising the stakes for next Weeks Summit between President Biden and Vladimir Putin. Here at home, the Fbi Director made his first appearance before the house since the January 6th insurrection, facing questions about what the bureau knew before the attack took place. Also, Defense Secretary Lloyd austin telling a Senate Committee that he supports taking Sexual Assault Investigations outside the chain of command. Some lawmakers say more needs to be done. We want to take all serious crimes out of the chain of command, carving out uniquely military crimes. Thats what the best legal minds who look at the military Justice System have recommended. Its what our allies have done. We begin this hour with day two of the president s first foreign trip. Joining us now, chief foreign Affairs Correspondent andrea mitchell. She is in england near the site of the g7
New day continues right now. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Its friday, june 11th. Were beginning with breaking news. Extraordinary new evidence of how the Trump Administration Weapon niced the Justice Department, pushing prosecutors to go after trumps perceived enemies. They actually subpoenaed apple through personal communications. They investigated Chairman Adam Schiff and congressman eric swalwell. They werent the only ones targeted. So were their staff andFamily Members including staff and a child, a minor. Thats right. They were hunting for data on more than 100 accounts, trying to figure out who was leaking information to the media about contacts between trump and russia. They issued a Gag Order so apple was prevented from saying anything about it until now. Adam schiff is demanding an investigation, calling out the trump White House for what they call a terrible abuse of power. Speaker Nancy Pelosi is saying trumps actions, quote, appear
The man who knows a thing or two about that joins me as well. Welcome to thursday. It is meet the Press Daily and im chuck todd. The president is expected to speak from the uk this hour about sending vaccines to the international community to try to stop this pandemic. Well bring you those remarks when they begin. Well begin with the Fbi Director Christopher Wray, testifying before congress for the first time today since a bipartisan Senate Report faulted the Justice Department for a series of procedure failures. Weve seen lawmakers knock wray on the issues leading up to the attack. Its hard to tell whether Fbi Headquarters merely missed the evidence, which had been flagged by your Field Offices and was available online for all the world to see, or whether the Bureau Saw the intelligence, underestimated the threat and failed to attack. Neither is acceptable. In the weeks leading up to January 6th is simply baffling. Did the fbi have information about the violent threat that occurred on
She dropped the cash all right but who picked it up? that s where everything went wrong? that s where everything went wrong. A kidnapping case about to go way off script. Her story did not make sense. What was really going on? i ve been a cup for 11 years and i blush when i listen to the tape. A story with more twists and turns in the florida roads, trying to find this missing mom. This case was not going to turn out like a lot of people assumed. Thanks for joining us. I m lester holt. Whenever someone is kidnapped it triggers a race against time as police often joined by the victims family begin a frantic search. That s what happened in the story, which begins with a young mom abducted at gunpoint. As you are about to, see her family and veteran investigators spent desperate days trying to find out where she was, they never could ve guest who had her and why. Here is josh mankiewicz. This is the sheriff s office. My wife made a phone call to me a minute ago. To say that she is held by