Assaulted while in the captivity of isis, the Islamic Terror Group whose atrocities include the beheading of three americans. Mueller, a humanitarian aid worker from prescott, arizona, was captured two years ago in syria. Isis claims that she was killed last february in an allied air strike. Now, u. S. Officials say women once held with mueller claim that she was sexually assaulted by the leader of isis himself. Heres Major Garrett. Reporter Kayla Muellers parents learned of the grim details in june from the f. B. I. U. S. Officials said the self proclaimed isis leader Abu Bakr Albaghdadi repeatedly raped mueller, an American Humanitarian worker, while she was held captive by isis with at least two other sex slaves in a syrian compound. Albaghdadi visited the compound frequently and assaulted mueller during those visits, according to Senior Administration officials. Isis claims a Coalition Air strike on this compound killed mueller in february. The u. S. Government said it was unlikely
Are the Real National security concern. They say the flynn matter is already resolved, nothing to see here, folks. Move on. Getting to the bottom of those leaks also a priority shared by the president who this morning tweeted the spotlight has finally been put on the lowliech leakers. They will be caught. Lets begin this morning at the white house with our joe johns. Good morning. Reporter good morning, poppy. The chairman of the House Oversight and judiciary committees writing a letter requesting an investigation citing numerous news reports that refer to things that are supposed to be secret like, among other things, the foreign Intelligence Surveillance court, the monitoring of Michael Flynns telephone conversations with the russian ambassador. So they write a letter to the Inspector General of the Justice Department. We have some quotes. We have serious concerns about the potential inadequate protection of classified information, federal laws and the constitution, distinguish Law E
From back on monday. This is going to stall and indeed, what its doing here and its looping around. Now, weve seen dozens and dozens of storms that have looped around, dozens and dozens of storms that have exploded, intensified rapidly in a 24 hour period. Theres nothing magical about this. What is unusual is where its stalling. Its stalling over coastal, the coastal bend of texas and its going to be looping around and as a matter of fact, i think this is back out over the water monday evening and then the second part of the the second leg of the journey starts. If it just goes back inland tuesday into wednesday, it wont reintensify. If he stays over the water and goes north to galveston and houston, its a bigger problem and adds to the problem. Right now, let me point out to folks, as bad as this is, im not down playing how bad it is, it could have been worse. If this storm had gone into Corpus Christi which has 300,000 people and a major naval base for the United States right there.
Well look at all the angles and implications tonight starting with cnns phil mattingly. Reporter nine oneonone interactions with President Trump. Three in person and six on the phone details former fbi director james comey, describing one meeting with the president and other counterterrorism officials in the oval office where all but comey were asked to leave the room. I want to talk about mike flynn, comey quotes the president as saying. Referring to his recently fired National Security adviser. I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go, comey says trump told him. Hes a good guy. I hope you can let this go. Comey goes on to say he prepared an unclassified memo of that conversation, understanding that the president was requesting he drop any probe into flynn. He shared that assessment with his fbi Leadership Team but declined to share it with attorney general Jeff Sessions on the assumption sessions would soon be recused. While those details were kept cl
Chairman on june 12th i think its probably going to be a very successful ultimately a successful process. Well see. Remember what i say. We will see what we will see. And thats not the only headline in flux. 24 hours after launching the country into a trade war with its closest trading partners the president broke decades of protocol tweet being a confidential jobs report hours before it was released. Looking forward to seeing unemployment numbers at 8 30 this morning. The u. S. Added 223,000 jobs in may. The unemployment rate, 3. 8 , beating expectations. Whats the problem then . Well, the government keeps this monthly report closed off from the public until its official release because the reports can have major effects on the markets. Well, the markets have been up all day long. Right now take a look. You see where the dow is up 220 points. Lets start at the white house now, with nbc newscally odonnell. Kim yong chol was at the white house. Meeting goes over an hour. We were waiting