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>> the breaking news tonight, the white house now admits president trump did play a role in the crafting of a controversial statement by his son about a meeting with a russian lawyer. the presidents personal attorney had repeatedly denied any involvement by mr. trump in the misleading statement. but press secretary sarah huckabee sanders today said the president, quote, weighed in as any father would. meanwhile, the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee now says confirmation of the...

Get it approved and many, many, many, many pages of environmental impact studies. this is what we will bring it down to. this is less than two years. this is going to happen quickly. thats what i am signing today. this will be less than two years for a highway. so its going to be quick. its going to be a very streamlined process. by the way, if it doesnt meet environmental safeguards, were not going to approve it. very simple. were not going to approve it. this is -- maybe this one will say, let...

The years worth of stories about this russia collusion and a phony scandal based on anonymous sources. if were going to talk about misleading, thats only the misleading thing in this entire process. >> in terms of dictating, no way to know for sure whether the president dictated that word for word. i can only telling you for covering this president now, doesnt read like the way that he would say something. another little piece of news out of the white house, the president is going to sign the ru...

Thats completed, that will be released. hopefully in short order. >> is there a reason the deadline passed? >> its a self-imposed deadline and theyre working to get it through the final review process as quickly as possible. >> in the conversation that you had with the president, did he give an indication to you that these stories that we see come out day after day in the "new york times," in any way self-inflicted and after all its the meeting that don jr. had with this russian lawyer that has ...

Nonsense but does look like there could be changes in the messaging apparatus very soon. bret? bret: john roberts live in the north lawn, john, thank you. we now know of more than a dozen people believed to be in the mix to replace james comey as the head of the fbi. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge takes a look at the list tonight. >> reporter: attorney general jeff sessions and his deputy rod rosenstein have interviewed eight candidates to be the next fbi director, less th...

Nonsense but does look like there could be changes in the messaging apparatus very soon. bret? bret: john roberts live in the north lawn, john, thank you. we now know of more than a dozen people believed to be in the mix to replace james comey as the head of the fbi. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge takes a look at the list tonight. >> reporter: attorney general jeff sessions and his deputy rod rosenstein have interviewed eight candidates to be the next fbi director, less th...

Cia, the fbi, the nsa or dni that reviewed, edited or was part of the staffing process? >> not to my knowledge. but i wasnt overseeing the production process and the review process. >> the dni was overseeing the production process? >> yes. it was a dni processed assessment. >> so its unclear what the white house was part of the review or approval process from the knowledge you have? >> they naturally would not have been part of any type of review or editing process, no. >> what happened between ...

To get those. th reviewed them and he was asked to resign shortly thereafter. but i think that there is a difference. there wasnt a review process. that was the review process. in this case, as the president noted yesterday during his interview, he had been thinking about this for a long time. the justice department had done a review. but, again, in both cases -- zrz what im saying is you asked if it was an emergency. he took time to do due process. someone comes to you with an allegation, i thi...

I want to dig in on what it entail entailed. the first half is buy american. federal agencies are being told to find and flag waivers and exceptions that agencies use to get around current buy american mandates. the second half is hire american which calls on executive agencies to aggressively vet the way that guest worker visas are being used and make sure they are awarded only those determined to be highly qualified. this is calling for a 220-day review on those two things. what changes, do we...

Our posture in that country and one that raises a number of difficult questions about the path ahead. >> the mission for army rangers is to act as a buffer between competing forces who recently re-took the city from isis. the marines will support kurdish forces fighting to drive isis from the strong hold of raqqa. >> a team of rangers have recently been positioned in . the commander to expedite the destruction of isis in raqqa in particular. >> its not part of the official white house strategy t...