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Happening on capitol hill over the next two days. President trump this morning announcing his fbi director pick and of course doing it only in the way that President Trump does, on twitter. President trump tweeting this just a few minutes ago, saying i will be naming christopher a. Wray to be director of the fbi. Details to follow. So the president there teasing ahead to what will be his announcement. Christopher wray did serve in the Justice Department, to serve as assistant attorney general in...

In youve always colleague, while i was out, you were extra kind and i really ae appreciate it and youve been doing bang up work and im glad you and i are going to be the last planes off the island and i look forward to being colleagues with you forever, my friend. I cant thank you enough for coming back and keeping this running what weve been doing for the last couple of months here. It is a joy every night to say hello to you when we begin this show and i wish we could keep it going, but get ho...

Special counsel, terminating Robert Mueller. The president has the power to do so. The question, what would happen to the president and his presidency if he did so . Especially having already fired one prominent investigator, the head of the fbi. The notion of a mueller firing started to get floated out this past weekend. Most recently, it was trump friend and news max publisher chris rudy in an interview with Judy Woodruff over on the pbs news hour. Is President Trump prepare to let the special...

For this report is that u. S. Intelligence agencies somehow have access or had access to a source of intelligence that was very, very very close to Vladimir Putin. And that is intriguing just on the surface. Right, just for the pure spy novel pure lurid thrill of it. We have somebody close to putin or something close to putin. The post, to its credit, makes clear how extraordinary that is beyond just the wow factor. How unexpected it is to learn that. Ultimately, how important it is to u. S. Int...

We talked with President Trump and Vice President pence on moving forward on the agenda and thats what we campaigned on and we have to deliver. Nsa worker charged with leaking top secrets and now parents speaking out. We want her to be treated fairly and to be safe. If she did this as allegations say and shes convicted, she should go to jail. Pintsize patriot and his secret salute. One nation, under god, with liberty and justice for all. Steve you are upstairs, we started the show and even thoug...

The Washington Post saying the president s brandnew director of National Intelligence, former longtime Indiana Republican senator dan coats, was approached by the president to try to make comeys russia investigation go away. The intelligence director, coats, is due to testify tomorrow before the Senate Intelligence committee. Its not known if, as a sitting cabinet member and the keeper of our National Secrets easy going to be willing to comment on any of this. He was reluctant to say anything da...

Somehow have access or had access to a source of intelligence that was very, very, very close to Vladimir Putin. That is intriguing just on the surface, just for the pure spy novel lurid thrill of it. We have somebody close to putinen or something close to putin. The post to its credit makes clear how extraordinary that is beyond just the wow factor. He rarely kmuks by phone or computer. He always runs sensitive state business from deep within the confines of the kremlin, but nevertheless, the u...

Sick. Im never rushing back here. But you, i worry. I here by reserve the right to take a day or two in the next couple of weeks before im back to full strength. Thank you, rachel, appreciate it. Well, we already knew this was going to be the worst week of the Trump Presidency so far because james comey is scheduled to testify on thursday about President Trumps attempts to get him to stop his fbi investigation of Trump Campaign connections to russia. It was scheduled. It was scheduled to be the ...

Source of intelligence that was very, very, very close to Vladimir Putin. And that is intriguing just on the surface, right, just for the pure spy novel lurid thrill of it. Weve got somebody close to putin or something close to putin. The post to its credit makes clear how extraordinary that is beyond just the wow factor. How unexpected it is to learn that. Ultimately how important it is to u. S. Interests. The post today notes that putin is, quote, a former kgb officer who takes extreme precaut...

A heavy price. Setting up a showdown with the syrian dictator and his chief ally, russia. I believe that the goal is at this point not just to send assad a message, but to send russia and iran a message that if this happens again, we are putting you on notice. And my hope is that the president s warning will certainly get russia and iran to take a second look. I hope it will caution assad from the fact we dont want to see innocent men, women and children hurt again. Critical care, has the republ...