he s suggested russia could offer asylum to former fbi directorjames comey, who donald trump sacked. welcome to outside source. the scale of the tragedy at grenfell tower is becoming much clearer. 17 people are now confirmed dead, but the police believe the final figure will be higher. the first victim has been named by friends and family as mohammed alhajali, a syrian refugee who came to the country in 2014. theresa may has ordered a full public inquiry into the incident. here s our home editor mark easton‘s report. slowly, inch by painstaking inch, fire officers continue their grim and dangerous work. amid the soot blackened shell of what was once home to hundreds are some who did not make it out. exactly how many, we do not know, but the emergency services are warning the scale of this tragedy is yet to become clear. the agony of a wounded neighbourhood is written on a wall, the desperation of people searching for family and friends. prayers and solace from near and far.
The fbi and federal prosecutors down in little rock are specifically digging into whether foundation donors were improperly promised policy favors or special access to clinton while she was secretary of state in exchange for donations to the charity s coffers. they re coming whether non-profit tax laws were followed. cnn reported back in november of 2016 that the fbi had opened preliminary inquiries into whether there had been impropriety with the foundation s dealings and money and that caused tensions within the bureau and a justice department and the current inquiry, at least in part, as a continuation of that probe, that originated before the presidential election, but what s unclear is precisely what new evidence, if any, ignited the current federal investigation after those initial inquiries were stalled. the clinton camp is pushing back hard against this news as nick, a spokesman, for clinton told me. let s call this what it is, a sham, and a spokesperson for the
i don t think the republicans want to shut down the government. they know and the public knows they are in charge with the white house, the house and the senate. if the government shuts down, it s the republicans that are doing it. let s sit down and let appropriators do our work and we always addressed these serious issues. we have differences of opinion. i would want after school programs, they may not. i may want benefits for veterans, they may not want to invest. we can get our job done if we sit down and do the work. thank you very much for sharing with us. good luck. thank you, thank you. raising new questions about whether the president of the united states ob instructed justice. according to the new york times, president trump ordered his lawyer to try to block attorney general jeff sessions from recusing himself from the russia investigation. that s next. ( ) with 33 individual vertebrae
Sure. okay. i definitely plan to get to that. but this is, obviously, news of day real fast. okay. on the issue of sessions involvement in the russia investigation, that leads us really to the new york times reporting that the president ordered the white house counsel to urge sessions not to recuse himself from the russia investigation. and now some are saying that could be obstruction of justice. is it? that s why you don t want a special prosecutor. here you have a special prosecutor who set in motion to try to find collusion between trump the trump campaign and the russian government, all right, and now, is obstruction of justice about the conversations had about that. this is this is just why you don t want a special prosecutor because it s making this into a felony because there s no restrictions on special prosecutors at all. zero. let me remind you the special counsel is a republican who served under both democrats and
Mueller, being in the position to conduct an investigation. he was like hit on the head with a mallet when he recognized how events had evolved and sure. and was so disoriented and enraged by this that he lashed out about everybody at everybody near him including his white house counsel, don mcgahn, who apparently saluted and dutiful trotted over to the justice department to try to persuade the attorney general not to recuse, which was futile and appropriately so. we know how that ended. chris, this is yet another example, as ben mentions, that the president seems to be treating the justice department in a way we haven t seen before. yeah. richard is right. i think what you see is in donald trump, this is true in this case and true sort of more broadly across how he treats the government and members of the house and senate, he doesn t