Whether he thought he was used inappropriately by the president and by this white house. I mean, after all, he is new to his job and theres clearly got to be an awful lot of friction there and well see if they if they get that, if they get him to discuss that. I doubt he wants to discuss that publicly. By the way, get used to this scene right now and get used to these characters because the Senate Intelligence committee will be Holding Hearings for james comey tomorrow, as well. Jeffrey toobin, along those lines, if this were a legal case, its not, its a congressional hearing, what would they be trying to get from the witnesses if they were trying to prove obstruction of justice which is what a lot of democrats are after here. The real question about obstruction of justice is intent, its the question of intent. Is the subject of the investigation here, its obviously the president of the United States, was he trying to shut down the fbi investigation of russia because he thought it was
Qualified for this. Its also worth noting that shes an internal hire. Shes somebody who is getting promoted and internally, she has the support of those she would be leading. Thats very critical and i dont think we make enough of that and what i think is important, too, is every question we hear from democrats today will be through the prism of politics, whether that the proxy question against the Trump Administration or whether that has to do with the 2018 midterms or the 2020 president ial. Everybody has a stake in this. This all has Different Reasons for it. When they ask about russia, that may be the case here, but i do think, mark, that there are questions dating back more than a decade that in a way transcend current partisan politics and its a debate that weve seen for a long, long time that many senators including Dianne Feinstein have been on different sides or have evolved over time. Admiral kirby, to your point, you said you want to hear exactly what she says about certain t
The president s nominee to replace secretary pompeo at the cia. Were these the right thing to do . Are they consistent with American Values fundamentally . What do you believe . Senator, i believe very strongly in American Values and america being an example to the rest of the world. That is why i support the fact that we have chosen to hold ourselves to a stricter moral standard. Thats about congress and all of us. I want to know what you think. I think we should hold ourselves to a stricter moral standard and i would never allow cia to be involved in coercive interrogations. Where was that moral compass at the time . Lets break it all down with nbc intelligence reporter and nbc White House Correspondent kristen welker. The former director of National Counter terrorism center. Welcome all. First to you, over at the hearing, i just came from over there. Weve been watching it tolgt. They will fou go into closed sessions. She had some tough questioning. I wanted to play a bit of senator
President trump announcing that the secretary of state is in the air and on his way back from north korean with the three wonderful gentlemen. Kim dongchul has been held in the country while tony kim and haksong were both arrested last year. They were tweeting just in the last couple moments i had productive meetings with kim jongun and made progress. He says he is delighted to bring home these three americans. We want to go right now to nbc news correspondent live in beijing. Janice, this is a moment that many of the world had been waiting to see. Its now here. We know that overnight tonight around 2 00 a. M. President trump will greet those detainees on the tarmac of Andrews Air Force base here in d. C. Reporter this is seen as a necessary step before there was any announcement made about the date and location of the summit between kim jongun and president tres trump. The release of the last three americans came after secretary of state mike pompeo metaphor 90 minutes with kim jongun
Julie the highly anticipated meeting between President Trump and kim jongun. We have this exciting news. Good morning. Call it a confidence Building Measure or goodwill gesture, the bottom line three americans who have been detained for some time in north korea are on their way home right now and the president very happy about it tweeting a few minutes ago im pleased to inform you that secretary of state mike pompeo is in the air and on his way back from north korea with the three wonderful gentlemen that everyone is looking so forward to meeting. They seem to be in good health. Also good meeting with kim jongun. Date and place of the summit with President Trump set. The president also suggesting he is going to be up late tonight. Secretary pompeo and his guests will be landing at 2 00 a. M. In the morning. The president tweeted i will be there to greet them. Very exciting. You see the three detainees on the screen. Kim dong khul, kim haksong and tony kim. The last two at the foreign f