the russia investigations drafted by house intelligence committee democrats as a rebuttal to a republican memo that was released. we ll have much more on that ahead. also tonight, first reported by the washington post and confirmed by nbc news, a second white house staffer has resigned amid allegations of domestic abuse. the post reports, quote, a white house speech writer resigned friday after his former wife claimed that he was violent and emotionally abusive during their turbulent two and a half year marriage, allegations that he vehemently denied, saying she was the one who victimized him. the abrupt departure of david sorenson, who worked under stephen miller, came as the washington post was reporting on a story about abuse claims by his ex-wife, jessica corbett. corbett told the post that she described his behavior to the fbi last fall as the bureau was conducting a background check of sorensen. she said that during her marriage to sorensen, he ran a car over her fo
breaking stories out of the white house. first, the president says at this time he is unable to release the classified memo on the russia investigations drafted by house intelligence committee democrats as a rebuttal to a republican memo that was released. we ll have much more on that ahead. also tonight, first reported by the washington post and confirmed by nbc news, a second white house staffer has resigned amid allegations of domestic abuse. the post reports, quote, a white house speech writer resigned friday after his former wife claimed that he was violent and emotionally abusive during their turbulent two and a half year marriage, allegations that he vehemently denied, saying she was the one who victimized him. the abrupt departure of david sorenson, who worked under stephen miller, came as the washington post was reporting on a story about abuse claims by his ex-wife, jessica corbett. corbett told the post that she described his behavior to the fbi last fall as th
yet we have no minimum security requirements for the federal government purchasing of the iot devices. i have talked to general ashley on this, i don t believe there is even across the ic and d.o.d. prerequisite before we buy the connected refrigerators or consumer goods that there be that patchability. so i think there s a lot of work that we can do, but we don t have the luxury of short time. senator blunt raised some of the questions around election security. and right now on andrea mitchell reports, correcting the record. the head of the fbi directly contradicting the white house today on what they knew about rob porter and when they knew it. we administratively closed the file in january. and then earlier this month, we received some additional information and we passed that on as well. his background investigation was ongoing. he was operating on an interim security clearance. his clearance was never denied. and he resigned. red storm. the nation s top intelli
he came on air, washington post reporting another sudden resignation of another white house official amid allegations of spousal abuse. in case there was any doubt how it happened to begin with that a man accused rob porter of abusing his two ex-wives who reported their stories to the fbi and shared documentation of what they say he did to them was allowed to continue working at the highest levels of the white house. today, the president of the united states made it very clear. he made it clear who he believes, how he views domestic violence and how the culture of this white house said at the very top encouraged rob porter to stay on the job until the press forced his hand. because these were the president s first public comments on porter s departure. well, we wish him well. he worked very hard. i found out about it recently and i was surprised by it. but we certainly wish him well. it s a obviously tough time for him. he did a very good job when he was in the white hous
can t predict how much longer this intense flu season will last. we want to make sure we do everything we can. we begin today with america s top spies gathered on capitol hill to talk about the dangers facing america but there will also be a big focus on russia and the president. after all, trump has never believed u.s. intelligence when it comes to russia and he s been taking shots at those agencies since he was on the campaign trail. i ve got a great team. i want to start with nbc s msnbc s garrett haake on capitol hill. garrett, start with setting the stage for us on capitol hill. what s happening today and why. sure, ali. this hearing today is about worldwide threats. we can expect to hear topics everything from iran to north korea, china and yes of course russia. the nation s top national security and intelligence figures will all be on the hill today. the director of national intelligence, the cia director and the man who i think will be the man of the hour toda