Forgotten men and women of our country, and thats what im doing. Meanwhile, back in d. C. , congress is trying to figure out precisely how to handle the latest in a series of president ial scandals. The latest that the president may have attempted to obstruct the fbis investigation into his then National Security adviser Michael Flynn. Sources saying back in february the president asked to meet with director comey one on one about flynn who had just been fired. The sources tell us that comey wrote a memo of the discussion for posterity, and that the director characterized President Trumps comments the following way if true, that appears to some, not all of them adversaries to the president mind you, to be obstruction of justice. The wide array of scandals, which include the reported release of classified information to Russian Diplomats have made the drumbeat for an independent inquiry even louder in congress. So theres plenty of oversight that is being done. Of course, speaker ryan ha
We made history and then made history again. Mossel to have been. This is what weve got for a live view of the senate right now. Thats a slate that they are broadcasting basically. The senate stand in recess until 12 01. They are scheduled to gavel back into session right now, basically, at 12 01. They have been recessed for just over an hour because even though the government funding was set to run out at midnight and almost all u. S. Senators were eager to pass a bill to avert a shutdown, despite plenty of senators willing ready to did that they could not pass that bill because the junior senator from kentucky would not let them. He used rules to single handedlition shut down the government. He did that by personally delaying the foft from taking their vote past midnight. He did it by playing around with the senator rules. He did not plan a filibuster. He has not been talking all night. He got to leave. He did tv interviews and did some tweeting. When it became clear to his colleague
Our sources say he knew about these allegations for months. Abby phillip at the white house with these growing questions. Abby . Reporter good morning, john. This story continues to be disturbing and questions are swirling about what exactly john kelly did know about rob porter and these accusations against him. Our sources are telling us that he was aware that the allegations existed for months, but apparently did nothing. The question is did he know the extent of it when the photos of these women his exwives were published in the daily mail became very clear that this was a big problem. Now, meanwhile, we have learned that President Trump learned this week about the accusations against porter and was upset about them. Was he kept in the dark by his own chief of staff . And another white house source tells us that some on the staff now feel misled by rob porter, that perhaps he didnt let everyone know exactly how severe these accusations were. Now, regardless, john, two women, both ex
Defending the defender and chief talking about hae meant about due process for those accused of Domestic Abuse. Plus conway weighs in on whether she feared for hope hickss safety after accusations of abuse by porter. Gives point by point why the republican memo has a lot of false assertions and also in general just leads the reader into a false direction. Whats the hold snup . Why the president wont release the new homy and if the public will ever so see it and if so, when . Today the white house pushing back on President Trumps failure to acknowledge the alleged victims in his tweet yesterday. When the president is saying talking about did you process, hes right in this way, we are a country of laws, theres due process, thats absolutely correct. But we as individuals have a duty to assess everybody on a case by case basis. And in this case you realize that rob porter did the right thing by resigning. When i saw the tweet, i noticed rob porter wasnt mention pd i wondered if the preside
I should do. The president also had a lot to say about the arrest of his long time ally, roger stone, saying he was very disappointed to see the arrest, his words, go down that way. All this while Robert Mueller is hard at work. The special counsel is out with a new filing alleging more russian interference this time, aimed directly at discrediting muellers investigation. A prorussian twitter account allegedly used information from the account from Concord Management and consulting, information that was not publicly available as part of a Disinformation Campaign against a russia investigation. Its complicated, but were going to break it down for you. Were going to start with shimon. Good evening to you. Lets dig into this and help everyone understand. The president is weighing in on his arrest of his long time ally, roger stone. He said the level of force used in the raid was unusual. Is that true . Heres the thing, i think what makes this so unusual is that the president is weighing i