Whether anyone from the Trump Campaign colluded with the rugs in the 2016 president ial election. George, we believe that this is tied to whether his financial dealings were somehow tied to russians, not directly related to the collusion issue but we are waiting to find out what the specific charges are. We know he had business relations with russians for many years before he and rick gates joined the campaign. Want to bring in jon karl. Jon, this may explain some of the tweet storms from President Trump over the last few days. This is big. This was a man who was President Trumps Campaign Manager back in 2016 and rick gates was an instrumental deputy in the campaign as well. Reporter this is a big deal. He was the chairman of the campaign, george, somebody instrumental in trump clinching the republican nomination, ran the Republican Convention for then nominee donald trump, candidate donald trump, rick gates is somebody who stayed on the Trump Campaign even after manafort was fired ove
Designer donna karan is also apologizing breaking her silence after her comments caused widespread outrage. Youll see it only on gma. And the astros blast the dodgers. Hit after hit. Monster homer. Exploded in air. Now houston one win away from their first world series title ever. Can the dodgers make a comeback . Im on the edge of glory we do say good morning, america. Hope everybody had a great weekend. Another great game in the series. Unbelievable. 25 runs last night. Seven home runs, 5 17. Justin verlander, look at his tweet. He sent out before and after. What a crazy game. Took 40ish years off my life. One win away. One win away. All eyes on washington. Special Counsel Robert Mueller expected to bring down his first indictments this morning. Well have more, much more on that ahead. First that dangerous storm lashing the east coast this morning. Bringing hurricaneforce wind gust, knocking out power across seven states. Rob is in long beach, new york, where theyre seeing flooding.
In asia this morning. Officials say a 747 jet crashed down into a neighborhood in kyrgyzstan overngight. It happened near the countrys main airport. Officials say the turkish cargo plane was attempting to land when it crashed right on top of several homes. The impact created a huge fireball setting the neighborhood ablaze. Right now Officials Say at least 37 people are dead incuding more than a dozen people on the ground. We continue to follow this story and will bring you more details as they become available. And more breaking news overnight. Nearly a dozen prisoners were transfe government officials in oman say the country has accepted 10 inmates from the facility at the request of president obama. Last week us authorities announced that 19 of the remaining 55 prisoners at the u. S. Military base in cuba were cleared for release, as president obama prepares to leave office. President elect trump says he will keep the facility open. Four days left until the president ial inauguration
For the speech from donald trump. Hes expected to address the crowd there. And for the celebration on the eve of the inauguration. So were going to throw things back to you and get on our way as we head down toward the Lincoln Memorial. Back to you. Were going to take it from here. Security has been increasing in washington. Something now doubt lauren can see. 28,000 officers are securing the National Mall, the parade route and other sites as well. More than 7,000 National Guard soldiers and airmen are in washington. To support security efforts for the president ial inauguration. Today, officers from across the country were sworn in as d. C. Metropolitan special police during a ceremony at fedex field. Soldiers and airmen from the delaware National Guard are among the troops in the nations capital. Task force delawares mission is to secure the outside perimeter of the event with personnel and vehicles. Despite calls for rain, weve heard hurricane schwartz talk about this, umbrellas are
Testified on capitol hill recently regarding budgets for 2017 and 2018. Modernization and cybersecurity efforts from the Top Priorities for all these agencies. This House Administration Committee Hearing is about an hour and a half. I now call to order the committee on House Administration for the purpose of starting todays hearing on the operations and priorities of the house officers and legislative branch entities. Aquorum is present so we may proceed. I would like to start off by thanking my colleagues and our witnesses for your attendance today. I know how busy everyone is and we appreciate your flexibility and willingness to appear this afternoon. I would also like to thank our witnesses for hard work and assistance during new member and a smooth transition for staff into the 115th congress and especially for the incredible amount of work that went into securing and hosting the president ial inauguration. We know many months of preparation went into insuring our government carrie