Myself. And new details from those close to james comey. The phone call he received from trump and how he tried desperately to avoid this moment with the president. The hug is entirely onesided and comey was just completely disgusted. Plus, go for joe, the president could announce a new fbi director this morning. Former democratic senator Joe Lieberman, now leading the pack. I think he would be a good choice. I think its a mistake to nominate anyone who has ever run for office. We begin today with the president just hours away from embarking on his first foreign trip. It is the president s major opportunity to put some distance between himself and the relentless wave of rough headlines here at home. We got a great team this morning to break all of this news down and i want to take you first to nbcs Peter Alexander live at the white house. Peter, we know that the president met with his lawyers about this new special counsel and hes also talking about it. What can you tell us . Yeah, ste
Extends his hand and comeys arms are really long. He extends his hand kind of preemptively and trump grabs the hand and kind of pulls him into a hug. But the hug is entirely one sided. So one guy in the hug is shaking hands. Comey was just completely disgusted by it. Disgusted . Disgusted by the episode. He thought it was an intentional attempt to compromise him in public. Youre going to hear a lot more on that fascinating interview in a moment. Lets get straight to joe johns at the white house with more. Good morning. Reporter good morning. The president setting out in just a few hours on that nineday foreign trip. First off saudi arabia, then israel and then the vatican. Thats just the start of it. The president leaving the white house, but not getting away very much from the controversy. The president telling reporters just yesterday that he believes hes a victim of a witch hunt and suggesting the appointment of special counsel to investigate interference in the election is more or
Conservative debuted. A long time member of jesus christ for the latter day saints. He ran the Goldwater Institute in arizona before beginning his political career. He spent most of 2016 on the sunday shows as a handsful of designated critics of donald trump. Now as he rounds into his own election here in arizona, she ramping up that trump criticism in his new book, she a friend of mine. I may have campaigned for him. I have been in so Many Campaign trips to arizona, i cant recall. I have certainly endorsed him, including his first senate race in which he replaced my favorite senator john kyle who retired. Welcome, senator, good to see you. Thanks, for having me on. Lets start we are election rates. Are you under water, your poll rates say 20 , are you in this for the duration . Are you going to run into this headwind . Okay, i am. Polls in the off years dont mean that much. I think two years ago, john mccain had very similar numbers. Its going to be a tough race, no doubt, both in the
Common. Most of the missiles, according to reports, landed at an Iraqi Military base in western iraq, that houses u. S. Troops. Some missiles, also targeting a base where there are American Forces station. Tonight, these were missiles fired from iranian territory into iraq. The ayatollah himself was actually the one ordering the strikes. Moving forward, the big question is how will the administration respond . According to the white house, we are hearing that he is meeting with his National Security team. There are still Damage Assessments going on in western iraq to determine whether or not there any american casualties. Reports indicate that there are iraqi casualties. They are more than 5,000 american troops here. Just a little bit on how we got to where we are at today, we saw just last month the death of an American Contractor and four u. S. Service members who were injured. In response, President Trump struck the group has th hezboll. In response, we saw the militia just off to m
Unilaterally rejected a year ago i wash into iran also issued an ultimatum to the remaining parties to the agreement giving them 60 days to find a way to keep trading with iran despite the u. S. Sanctions could u. S. Pressure put it produce a new and better deal as washington claims or will it result in war thats the question we pose in this edition of quadriga and here are our guests who will answer it its a pleasure to welcome tori tausig shes a political analyst for the Brookings Institution currently on a robert bosch fellowship in berlin and she says tensions between the u. S. And iran are escalating signals coming out of washington and tehran indicate things wont to cool down anytime soon. And were very glad to have shine arche on on the program he is a political analyst and on iranian and shia affairs and hes editor in chief of iran under is a german language magazine specialized. In reporting on iran he says europe shouldnt see iran only as a threat rather it county when tehran