Transitional council that will lead to elections. We think that is urgent that he moves forward in that direction, and start the process of bringing normalcy back to the people of haiti. Meanwhile, the violence in haiti is worsening. The un High Commissioner For Human Rights volker turk is calling for International Action and says the situation is beyond untenable. Since the beginning of the year, 1,193 people have been killed and 692 others wounded by the gang violence. The uns humanitarian coordinator in haiti told the bbc that gang members are killing and raping indiscriminately, and that bodies can be seen on the streets of the capital. The un says that gangs have stepped up their campaign of violence since the Prime Minister travelled to kenya a week ago. For more on the situation, i spoke to our Central American and cuba correspondent, will grant. Will, good to see you. Clearly an extremely tense situation for haiti with the Prime Minister stranded abroad, and then the leader of
Russian officials during the campaign season, and at that time jeff sessions said, i don t know. so he was informed of this meeting by carter page. now page told me that he mentioned this in passing. it happened at a dinner with the capitol hill club near the capitol with members of the national security team the trump national security team. and mike conway, the top republican who s investigating the russia issue, said he didn t see anything nefarious in jeff sessions actions here. he says it s understandable why he may not remember it. but still a lot of questions today, anderson, about why jeff sessions had not disclosed this and other contacts with russian officials given questions that persisted. it comes on the heels of the questions regarding sessions meetings with george papadopoulos, of course. reporter: yeah, that s right. and as jim mentioned, jeff sessions was at the meeting when papadopoulos floated the idea of a putin/trump meeting and we re told by a person in the
A very damning fact pattern when you have all of the meetings, the kushner meetings, the flynn phone calls, the sessions meetings, all of which were conveniently or inconveniently not reported to the u.s. government. then the firing of comey and then some of the actions that the president has taken that buttress things that vladimir putin wants, this is this is something that s a big, big problem for this administration and will get worse on thursday. heidi, what do you think the chances are the president will try to block his testimony? let s keep in mind it s perfectly legal to do so. richard nixon did it a lot into the congressional inquiries into watergate. president obama did it one time when there was congressional inquiries into how weapons got into the hands of mexican drug cartels but that s the only time he used it. is it going to happen? the reporting is suggesting no. the new york times had a good piece out this morning based on administration officials that made it
Administration couldn t make it go away. it s like something out of a spy novel. it s incredible. and these two stories may be related in a sense because we still don t know yet how these meetings between sessions and the russian ambassador, how that information emerged but we do know that the fbi is monitoring the activities of the russian ambassador, monitoring his communications, so did he communicate about that sessions meetings back to moscow? was that overheard on communications intercepts, we don t know yet but these are questions being asked today. let me ask you about the implications of this. all of these revelations that are coming out, implications for this investigation going forward. a lot of this is the coverup is worse than the crime. we have sessions saying these meetings never happened. seven days after his testimony and answer to senator franken then sessions answered a questionnaire asking have you been in kacontact with anyone i