A weekly two hour dose of nature does wonders for our health and wellbeing. I am katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. The shipping lanes between the arabian peninsular and iran are some of the busiest in the world today they are also some of the most tense. Every day 180 vessels pass through the gulf of oman, most of them carrying oil. Two of those tankers are on fire today, seriously damaged in an attack. Us officials reportedly believe iran is behind the attack and say the crew abandoned one of the vessels after discovering a naval mine on the hull of their ship. These are the pictures from the aftermath of the explosions. The 23 sailors aboard the norwegian owned front altair were taken to iran 21 others on the japanese owned kokuka courageous were rescued by the us navy. A fifth of the worlds oil is transported through these straights and the price of brent crude jumped sharply today. Just a month ago iran was accused of using naval mines to blow holes in two oil
The president said today he was going to fire him regardless, but we digress. This was an eventful day. We learned that the administrations fullcourt press this week from sean spicer briefing in the dark between two bushes on the white house lawn to the Vice President on capitol hill, their fullcourt press to say that comey was fired because of mishandling those clinton emails, that was all wasted effort, reversed today by the president , who said hed already decided comey was a goner. The president made the admission in an interview today with lester holt, and it certainly drove the news cycle today. It continues to tonight. Here now, the salient portions of that conversation. Monday, you met with the Deputy Attorney general, Rod Rosenstein. Right. Did you ask for a recommendation . What i did is i was going to fire comey. My decision. You had made the decision before they came in the room . I was going to fire comey. Hed made a recommendation, but regardless of recommendation, i was
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