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top of the hour, i m poppy harlow in new york. we begin with breaking news on the benghazi terror attack investigation. a staffer fired from the house select committee looking into that deadly 2012 attack on that u.s. diplomatic compound in benghazi, libya. that attack that took four american lives including ambassador stevens. joining me now, cnn investigative reporter chris frates in washington. what are you learning? a former staffer investigating the benghazi attacks says the panel s probe has become a politically motivated inquiry targeting former secretary of state hillary clinton. it s a politically explosive charge sure to resonate on the campaign trail as clinton runs for president. major bradley poliska, an air force reserve intelligence officer, says that after news broke earlier this year that clinton used a private e-mail server, the republican-controlled committee set its sights almost exclusively on clinton. paliska says he was fired as a committee inve ....
good friend orlando mayor buddy dyer and icon conveyed to him deepest condolences of the american people. this could be any of our communities. i said whatever help he and orlando need, they are going to get it. as a country, we will be there for the people of orlando today, tomorrow, and for all the days to come. we also express our profound gratitude to all the police and first responders who rushed to harm s way. their courage and professionalism saved lives and kept the carnage from being even worse. it s the kind of sacrifice our law enforcement professionals make every day for all of us and we can never thank them enough. this is an especially heartbreaking day for our friends, our fellow americans who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans gender. the shooter targeted a nightclub where people came together to be with friends to dance, sing and to live. the place where they were attacked is more than a nightclub. it is a place of solidarity and empowerment where peop ....
support and endorse our speaker of the house, paul ryan. i hold the highest esteem for senator john mccain. and i fully support and endorse his reelection. very important. i also fully support and endorse senator kelly ayotte of new hampshire. good morning, and welcome to am joy. donald trump last night, reading off the paper. finally endorsed several key members of his own party in the reelection bids. which normally wouldn t be news, except he has been refusing to do it. without question, a terrible week for the trump campaign, with party leaders, even reportedly planning an intervention with the nominee. something that trust confidant rudy giuliani vehemently denied. what a ridiculous word. an intervention is for a drug addict and someone who is an alcoholic. donald trump doesn t drink or moek by the w smoke by the way. what was the meeting about. there wasn t a meeting. at least he wasn t yelling. something intervened with trump. i don t know, could it ....
breaking news. we have a breaking news statement we re going have to read. thanks. breaking news is that the director of national intelligence james clapper says he just spoke with donald trump, and he released this statement. he said this evening i had the opportunity to speak with president-elect trump to discuss the recent media reports about our briefing last friday. he said we also discussed the private security company document which was widely circulated in recent months among the media, members of congress, and congressional staff even before the intelligence community became aware of it. i emphasized that this document is not a u.s. intelligence community product, and that i do not believe the leaks came from within the intelligence community. the intelligence community has not made any judgment on the information that in this document that it reliable, no jump that is reliable, and we did not rely upon it in any way for our conclusions. however, part of our ob ....
pioneer point. a mansion on oyster bay, long island. the two retreats were being used for intelligence purposes, a charge that moscow denies. joined now from the state department with today s developments, what is russia s next move? we do, wait until january can 20th. vladimir putin said they won t kick out our diplomats in retaliation. here is more what he had to say in a statement. he said we regard the steps as provocative. tough talk, but not as tough as this. on twitter he said it is sad that the obama administration an historic ties ended it s terms in anti-russia terms. they say u.s. personnel have been harassed over in russia including being stopped by police and having their personal information graft on russian tv. what happens at these russian come points? they say that the russians have been using these to gather intelligence. from the outside they just look like places that are really fun to go. but because of this alleged intelligence gathering, t ....