Facebook questions. Watch indepth with author Michael Lewis sunday live from noon to 3 pm eastern on book tv on cspan2. Next, social Media Company executives from facebook, twitter and google testified before a Senate Hearing about russianbased accounts that tried to influence the november election and what their companies are doing to protect users from malicious and misleading content. Before a coherent order. Good morning, i like to welcome our witnesses today. Before i introduce them, ill say on behalf of the full committee our hearts and prayers go out to the individuals in new york, the families and the trillions of those affected by this senseless terror. Most on this committee have come to expect this. We spent countless hours working through the threats that exist to this country and around the world and its sad that weve come to the point where really nothing can happen that surprises us, but its the responsibility of this committee to work handinhand with our Intelligence Co
Speaking out about challenges headon. The menace and reality of global terrorism threatens all our nations. Under President Trump, well continue to support increasing information sharing and security efforts to protect our people and our way of life. Across this region and across the wider world. Bill we have team fox coverage from around the world. Benjamin hall reporting in london today. Chris stirewalt in washington we begin at the white house with john roberts. What is the white house saying about the array of International Matters they face as of this morning . Its something that is keeping them busy. In an ironic way it is putting wind in the president s sails after being siem stymied so many times. The Vice President has been talking tough against north korea. Today paul ryan in london on a tour of nato countries saying its not to be tolerated for north korea to get a longrange Nuclear Missile that could hit the United States. And again, this idea north korea rattling the saber
American news. Listen, im going to cut to the bottom line right now and tell you that i do not know why secretary of state Rex Tillerson was abruptly fired today and neither do you and anybody who says they do know, well, were going to get as close as we can to that tonight. Right now, it is still a mystery. Nevertheless, he is out and so im going to do that awkward camera turn right now. So we can add the name of the secretary of state to the list of departures of senior officials from the Trump White House and the senior ranks of the trump administration. Just in the past couple weeks we have had to move my Camera Position so that we can show you this bigger wall so we could make room to add a third column here on this wall. We were two columns before. We had to add hope hicks as she resigned and josh raphael as he resigned from deputies communications director, the one that worked for jared and ivanka and jared and ivankas other friend, the guy trump put in charge as the office of i
Tonight he joins us to answer them. First, our breaking news. Cnn has learned President Trump has begun taking some preliminary steps preparing for a possible interview with the special counsel. Our senior White House Correspondent pamela brown joins us with that. Explain what youve learned. Well, we have learned that the preparations between the president and his legal team have been short and informal and included going over potential topics with the president that Robert Mueller would likely raise in an interview, according to two people familiar with the situation that i have spoken with along with my colleague, gloria borger. While the president has not formally agreed to a sitdown interview with mueller, these preparations under way are a sign that the president s legal team is intensifying deliberations over whether to allow him to come under Robert Muellers questioning, and its the clearest sign yet that trump and his team remain open to the possibility of an interview with mue
Pardon for his former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort. The president startling remark comes as manafort plea deal with Robert Mueller is unraveling. Mr. Trump rails against the russia investigation accusing the mueller team of quote, viciously telling witnesses to lie in exchange for leniency and comparing the probe to the mccarthy era. Ill talk about the breaking news with senator richard blumenthal. Lets go to our senior white house correspondent. Just yesterday the white house said there havent been any conversations about a pardon for Paul Manafort but that has clearly changed. Reporter thats right. Despite what the white house said thats been on the president s mind in this new interview. He said that pardon Paul Manafort is not out of question and he took his criticism of the Mueller Probe a step further now comparing it to mccarthyism. Tonight President Trump saying in a stunning new interview his former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort could receive a president ial pardon. The p