Philbor on the ramification of this latest bombshell leak. But we start with catherine herridge. Reporter a short time ago the Senate Intelligence committee sent a new request on a bipartisan basis to the former and acting fbi directors. The first letter was sent to james comey asking him to testify twice in open or Public Session as well as a classified setting. The second letter was sent to the acting fbi director andrew mccabe, seeking any notes or memos prepared by the former director regarding communications he may have had with senior white house and department of justice officials. What stands out at this hour is the request from the republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, chuck grassley. Hes asking for additional memos the former fbi director may have crafted during the Obama Administration as well as any audio recordings that may exist. Melissa what are your colleagues saying . Reporter we have confirmation that the meeting was documented as first reported by th
remember, the naacp in north carolina, we beat these laws, number one. we just won. it took us six years to overturn racialized redistricting. so next year we ll have new districts that have been drawn by a special monitor. we also overturned the voting rights voter suppression law, monster voter suppression law. it took us four years, but we won. the supreme court called it surgical racism. but here s the thing, if the voting rights act had been in place and we had had free clearance, the law would have never gone on the book. it went on the book because tom tillerson and others passed it after the voting rights act had been gutted, so we had to go to the courts. it took years to fight through the courts. we fought tom farr for six years and beat him. we should have never had to go to the courts. now that we have new districts, we can begin to change the state, but this is happening all over the country. that s what is so ugly about these appointments that trumpism is trying to put
through all of that in front of the cameras, but that s the way this administration rolls. i wanted to see the thought bubbles of john kelly and tillerson. if you were a republican with a pet agenda and need the president s help, like all good cooks know, add more butter. there s no doubt about it. all these republicans have mastered the art of playing the president and manipulating him, and the way to his heart is through lavish praise. we hear a lot of it. you heard a lot of it at that session. have great holidays, you guys. you, too, david. thank you for being here. okay, the good stuff, that s next. appearing next to me in plain sight.
put out a march deadline and it has to be dealt with legislatively, and we re not there yet. we have to work through the senate and the house is trying to work through a process to figure out how to deal with it. when you deal with daca, we put out a bill called the succeed act because three different times the d.r.e.a.m. act has come up, and even when it was a democratic house and senate and white house, the d.r.e.a.m. act did not pass. we need to resolve daca for those kids and we believe we have a good solution, tom tillerson and i do, and you have to deal with border security because if you deal with daca now, you will have another group of dhaaca coming through. you have to deal with the child
let s turn to the deepening conflict in the korean peninsula and tensions set to dominate the day of high stakes forums in in ma n manila late this afternoon. secretary of state rex tillerson will be attending along with representatives from china, russia and north korea. it will be the first time secretary tillerson and his north korean counterpart are in the same room together. in a news conference overnight he said the best signal north korea can send to show it s serious is to stop testing missiles. the meetings come just days after the united nations security council unanimously voted to impose new sanctions on north korea over their continued icbm tests. the 15-0 vote included russia and china, two nations that normally hesitant to go along with the council regarding north korea. the new sanctions include a ban on exports including coal, which accounts for over just over $1