The future isnt silver suits anits right now. S, think about it. We can push buttons and make cars appear out of thin air. Find love anywhere. Hes cute. And buy things from, well, everywhere. How . Because our phones have evolved. So isnt it time our networks did too . Introducing americas largest, most reliable 4g lte combined with the most wifi hotspots. Its a new kind of network. Xfinity mobile. Tonights breaking news, new details how far russia went to not just flood the election with disinformation but lack into the process. New details of russias attempt to hack Voting Software days before the election. The alleged leaker is facing charges. Jim sciutto has more. The substance of the nsa document, lets talk about that. This is something that we knew some hints about before the election, that russia had had probing attacks or attacks traced back to russia of voting registration systems, Electoral Systems in arizona and illinois, in florida as well, a contractor there hacked tied to
President tells lester holt. I had a dinner with him. He wanted to have dinner because he wanted to stay on. We had a very nice dinner at the white house. He asked . At dinner it was ranged. I think he asked for the dinner. He wanted to stay on as the fbi head. And i said, you know, ill consider. Well see what happens. But we had a very nice dinner. And at that time he told me, you are not under investigation, which i knew anyway. But thats not exactly how comey remembers it. Sources say the president tried to get the now fired fbi director to pledge loyalty to him. And comey wouldnt do it. Thats according to a report tonight in the New York Times, and it comes as the president insists the russia investigation is, in his words, a madeup story and an excuse by democrats for losing the election. So here we go, lets get right to it. Gloria borger is here. Jim sciutto is here as well. Carl bernstein and White House Correspondent athena jones. Good evening to all of you. Gloria, well start
If the chairman of the appropriations, the third most important job in the house, if hes voting against his speaker on this, then the whole world is, if you record this vote. Im not sure they would have gotten 50 of the vote if they recorded it. People are talking about how bad paul ryan looks now. The one good thing paul ryan might have done as a politician and leader today is not make his members commit themselves one way or the other because they would all be paying for it one way or the other with nobody winning. Tom cotton, other republican senators kept using the phrase, walk the plank. Ryan didnt let his people walk the plank, take a vote they would pay for in the next election and never get it through the Senate Anyway or have it fail in the house today. Thats right. Incredibly dramatic day, but really, your point is so important, it all started with those people. Without those town halls, the video you showed last night, without those people in those town halls telling real st
Insinuation and short on evidence. These tweets on saturday, quote, wow, foxnews just reporting big news, source, official behind unmasking is high up, known intel officer is responsible. Trump team spied on before he was nominated. 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, finally this morning, foxnews, from multiple sources, there was electronic surveillance of trump and trump associates. All of that sounds ominous but there appears to be less here than the president of the United States would have us believe. Jim sciutto joins us for the report. 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, and this is the first comments by someone close to rice. Ill read it in quotes, the add that ambassador rice
And that came before he linked up with trump in 2016. Manaforts winter secret payments surfaced right before he split with the Trump Campaign. The a. P. Saying that he will review that review of manafort. Thats not great news for the white house but it does not automatically undercut their argument that trump has eliminated his ties to manafort and it might have little to do with the core of the campaign for president. The other part of parx report does namechec current new Trump Officials including the man who just picked mueller for this job. Take a look at this tonight. The parx reporting that the special counsel, mueller, may expand his inquiry to include the top two doj officials, Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein. They said that now discredited letter recommending that trump fire james comey for one reason. That comey was allegedly unfair to Hillary Clinton. Which President Trump later said was not the real or only reason he fired comey. Rosenstein wrote a medical over and both he