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Offer and this request from general flynn. But it was the wall street journal who broke this story tonight. The lead author of their scoop is reporter shane harris who will join us live momentarily. Since the journal published this scoop tonight a lawyer for mr. Flynn has released a slightly mellow dramatic statement explaining general flynns offer in his lawyers own words. It says statement by counsel to Lieutenant General mike flynn. The first line is this. General flynn certainly has a story ...

On russia, hacking and leaks. Bill team fox coverage for you today. Catherine herridge inside the hearing room on the hill. Christ stirewalt standing by and we begin with doug mcelway. What can we report about the president s new nominee . Announcement came by twitter at 7 45 this morning saying i will be nominating Christopher Wray to be the new director of f. B. I. , details to follow. He is a partner in the law firm of king and spalding where he specializes in white collar crime. He graduated...

Kim jongun taunts the world with the second missile firing in a week. The north Korean Leader now claiming he could mass produce weapons capable of striking u. S. Targets. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. The Senate Intelligence committee is considering Holding Michael flynn in contempt now that the fired National Security adviser says hell invoke his fifth amendment rights. Were told two former Trump Campaign...

44 years ago, they ran live during the day, as the hearings were happening and pbs ran them again at night, so you could catch them twice. When it comes to investigating the actions of the administration itself, particularly when it comes to investigating the actions of a president , everybody has rec nitz forever there is recognized there is a basic problem with the president being investigated by his own appointees in the Justice Department and forever there have been special prosecutors to in...

Youve heard all the news. This next hour, watere going t focus on the implications. Kevin corke with more. Hi, kevin. What an interesting last 22 hours. It was about this time yesterday that we learned that the president fired the fbi director. In part because of what he had done and what he hadnt done some would say. One thing we can agree on, he was in part responsible for the investigation into russian ties to the trump campaign. As if on cue, the russians were in fact here in washington toda...

Because we have to begin tonight naturally, the universe has welcomed me back with latebreaking trump russia news. According to tonights Washington Post, yet another senior serving National Security official in the u. S. Government has reportedly now told associates that the president directed him, the president told him to intervene with the fbi to try to stop the trump russia investigation. When james comey, the fbi director, was fired by the white house, we first got a song and dance from the...

Worked so hard to keep everything running in my absence. I want to thank my bosses for their understanding while i was out sick at a quite inopportune time, i guess. I want to say thanks to all of you who said nice things and wished me well and told me you were praying for me while i was out. Im not totally well as you can probably tell, but i am like, i dont know, 90 of the way back. Would you say im 90 . Close to 90. Well see. I am certainly well enough to be here tonight covering the news. An...

Gungroo gunproof. President trump is the only sitting president to visit the holiest site where jews can pray. But it is in east jeer rusalem the heart of the dispute that makes obtaining peace one of the hardest to achieve. Many christians believe jesus was crucified and buried there. All of this after the president arrived in israel this morning on what is believed to be the first direct flight from saudi arabia, which the Prime Minister netanyahu acknowledged in his welcoming remarks. You jus...

Day 2016. Yesterday the leaders of the House Intelligence Committee held a press conference. They see no evidence. Heres the republican chair devin muniz. The people we talked to, i dont think there was an actual tap of trump tower, you have to decide, as i mentioned to you last week, are you going to take the tweets literally . If you are, then clearly the president was wrong. Paul ryan weighed in today, he too said he sees no evidence. This is something i was unaware of, until we saw a few pre...

Then hes bringing home goats. Willie, you say it cant top what happened yesterday and every day this Reality Tv Show president tops what happened yesterday. But in a way that is tragic for the country. Its just insane. We got three stories right off the top. It would be a huge lead story any day. Well pick which one to go with. Today the Senate Intel Committee, dan coates will be there, rod rosen stein. Thats a prelude to whats going to happen tomorrow. Mika has the morning off. Msnbc contributo...