Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Washington post also reports tonight the white house is preparing an Executive Order that authorizes the president to punish foreign interference in u. S. Elections. The post writes, quote, the eightpage draft order appears to be an effort to stave off aggressive legislation, including a bill introduced in congress this month and to quell criticism that trump seems to give more credence to russian president Vladimir Putins denials of interference than to u. S. Intelligence agencies conclusion to the kremlin sought to undermine the 2016 election. That comes to us as Florida Democratic senator bill nelson, whose running in a tough reelection fight, tells the tampa bay times, quote, russian operatives have penetrated some of floridas Election Systems ahead of the 2018 mid terms. He said any further information is classified. Today the white house actually did impose new sanctions on
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Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Represents what trumps lawyers expect to be their last word on muellers request for a sitdown interview. The letter from trumps lawyers leaves open the possibility of having trump answer some questions in writing. According to the two people familiar with the negotiations. Earlier today during a live radio callin show, conveniently hosted by his cocounsel jay sekulow, Rudy Giuliani called on mueller to end his investigation, but declined to get into details about these negotiations about the interview. We dont have an internal deadline. We are moving i use the phrase expeditiously through this, and understand the significant constitutional issues that are raised. But mayor, i know youve said and ive said, we want the see this come to closure soon here. Mayor . Yeah, we do. Its about time that it ends. I also think and i hope the Special Counsel is sensitive to it as we are. We do not want to run
Thompson has been covering the story live at jfks new york airport. Anne, what are you hearing . Reporter hi, richard. Take a look behind me. Youll see the protests behind the extreme vetting order irked by president donald trump. Its grown to a couple hundred people in the just the last two hour. Dozens of people have been detained here at jfk because of extreme vetting order. One of them has been released, ham immediate darweesh walked out to meet this family. He was detained at jfk for 18 hours. We understand from the white house he was released and allowed to come into this country because a waiver was issued to that executive order the president signed yesterday afternoon. There is also another iraqi man who is being detained here at jfk. He is married to an iraqi woman who is in this country. Although worked for the u. S. Government, he, too, apparently is in the process of getting one of those waivers. As to what will happen to the other ten people who are being held here in the
We are all out of time here. Ill look forward to e seeing you next weekend, but lets send you to d. C. Hey, alex. I look forward to seeing you in new york, but what a critical week ahead right here in washington, which is why were here. It is the impeeachment inquiry going into the public light. And just a few days, capitol hill will be the focus of some closed doors will open an the public will be able to watch the hearings in real time. Carl to testify first, state department official, george kent and the current and form rer ambassadors to ukraine. But today, its more about who will not be appearing. The republicans list, witness list, House Intelligence Committee chairman, adam schiff sent a letter to nunes saying no to their request. Kelly odonnell is at the white house with more on the impeachment and adam schiff said certain members of the republican list would be redundant. Well this is one of the new battle lines as we go into what will be this public phase. Couldnt be a more
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