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If this is true, president went on to say, it does not get much bigger, would be sad for u. S. Then yesterday, more tweets, including this, the real story turns out to be surveillance and leaking, find leakers. Finally this morning, at foxnews, from multiple sources, there was electronic surveillance of trump and trump associates. There appears to be less here than the president of the United States would have us believe. Lets start with the unmasking that the president mentioned. Whats the latest on that . Reporter just a short time ago i spoke to ambassador rice, ill read it in quotes, the add that ambassador rice improperly sought the identities of americans is false. There is nothing unusual about making these questions of a senior official whether democrat or republican. I spoke today with former senior u. S. Intelligence officials, the senior most who served both republican and democratic administrations, and this is what they have told me about this story. They said, one, this i
Climate accord. Today, a dramatic response from around the globe. We all share the same responsibility. Make our planet great again. Good friday, everyone. Craig melvin here in new york. We start with that breaking news. Russian president putin speaking out in the last hour. His most candid comments yet over the meddling in the u. S. Election, sanctions, Hillary Clinton and President Trump. Pressed at a forum in st. Petersburg by nbcs megyn kelly. Keir simmons is in st. Petersburg and Kristen Welker is at the white house. Keir, what did president putin have to say when megyn pressed him about the meddling in the 2016 election, specifically . Look, he said that even a child could have carried out the kind of hacking of the dnc that caused such controversy. He accused the United States of interfering in russian do metme affairs, while also saying russia never interferes in the u. S. Election. At times, craig, you know, he appeared to seem to attempt to belittle nbcs megyn kelly, try to p
Strike. Did you authorize the bomb very, very proud of the people. Really, another successful job. Were very, very proud of our military. Just like were proud of the folks in this room, we are so proud of our military. And it was another successful event. Did you authorize it . Everybody knows exactly what happened. So, and what i do is i authorize my military. We have the greatest military in the world and theyve done a job as usual. So, we have given them total authorization, and thats what theyre doing. Frankly, thats why theyve been so successful lately. Now, todays strike in afghanistan comes one day after President Trump announced National Security advisor h. R. Mcmaster will travel to afghanistan. Hell be the first sitting National Security advisor to visit there since 2009. Weve got a full panel to discuss this. With me nbc chief Foreign Correspondent richard engel, bob scales, the atlantics washington editor at large steve clemens, and Huffington Post global editorial director
In 2014, a man named Michael Flynn was starting his new life. As one of the highest profile firings of the Obama Administration. Mike flynn, of course, is now famous for having served very, very briefly as Trumps National security adviser and also for being in the bullseye of the ongoing trumprussia investigation ever since. Being Trumps National security adviser was not the first highprofile washington job that mike flynn had. He had been hired by the Obama Administration to run the Defense Intelligence agency. Now, it didnt work out, it didnt go well. In the end, he was perceived to have been a failure at that job. And by this week, in the summer of 2014, three years ago, he was gone. This is actually his first day after being fired three years ago today. Forced out well in advance of how long he had been expected to stay. In that brief period, though, when Michael Flynn was running the Defense Intelligence agency during the Obama Administration, that agency did make really big news.