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Hearings like this. back in 2007 he described this hospital incident where he intervening to stop the authorization and reauthorization of this surveillance program. i dont expect him to reveal any nitty gritty details of the criminal investigation, which that would be huge news. i do expect he will reveal more details about his conversations with the president, including more details about this occasion when president trump apparently asked him -- this is by james comeys account -- apparently a...

Turkey. flynn registered as a representative working on behalf of the turkish government, but he did it after he got paid $500,000 for work that he did last fall during the campaign. reuters is reporting and were working to confirm that the russia special counsel robert mueller is wrapping in the virginia grand jury proceedings to the special counsel investigation of russia meddling and if theres links to associat associates. >> shepard: thanks, catherine. >> youre welcome. >> shepard: ahead, ho...

Try to block former director comey from temperaturing before the senate intelligence committee on thursday. he could do that. theres a question as to how strong his legal case is since hes to a certain degree waived executive privilege by making comments, sending out tweets. even in his dismissal letter characterizing the conversation where he claimed comey said hes not part of the investigation. so its not to say its protected but you have this dramatic testimony by james comey thursday. he was...

>> shepard: bottom of the hour, the top of the news. president trumps administration asking the highest court in the country to reinstate his travel ban immediately. the presidents executive order blocks travelers from six majority muslim countries from entering the united states. the white house is looking to block lower rulings that stopped the ban from taking effect. mike pence says he confident the court will rule in the administrations favor. >> were going to continue to drive this pause fo...

The paris accord under new terms and new conditions. >> there are dozens of mayors from u.s. cities across the country trying to band together to let international partners know that they will still comply with paris agreement as best they can. their federal government does not the way its written right now, shep. >> shepard: peter doocy live at the white house. lets turn to the "fox news sunday" host, chris wallace. chris, theyre dodging the question of whether the president believes that clima...

Form. >> youre raising another question. even if they move these questions to a separate office and the goal is to free up the rest of the white house to do the business of governoring, donald trump is his own chief spokesman. he thinks he spokes for himself best. we heard earlier that he was going to calm down the twitter postings, that his twitter messages would be vetted. he came back from europe and tweeting as assertively as before. so the goal is to disassociate the president, make him les...

His day. arguably worked well for him. >> it did. ronald reagan did the same thing during a iran contra. the idea is to take these questions about the investigation of the day, in this case, its russian meddling and potential evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russian operatives and move those to the side. the white house needs to make a case for its healthcare bill, needs to make a case for the tax overhaul. the efforts are stalled and the russia investigation is eating up ban...

Than he is. we dont know precisely why investigators are interested in him. we know theyre interested in the meetings that he had with russians in december, particularly with a russian banker that some of my colleagues reported on on the front page this morning. that is particularly curious because of what his happened there and the russian bankers explanation dont add up. theres a lot of questions that the fbi is curious about. what we dont know, if theres any sort of wrong doing here. the whit...

Online edition this morning. what is your sense of this executive privilege? has he said so much that he cant do that anymore? is that a gray area? >> its a gray area. sean spicer in the last hour said it was still something that they had to review. if i had to guess, i would say that he doesnt invoke executive privilege here. president trump has referenced his conversations with james comey in the letting firing james comey that would complicate an effort to invoke executive privilege and it wo...

Fix the horrible carnage going on. police in chicago blame gang violence and drug wars. heres a look at how chicago compared to other big cities. chicago reported 240 murders, more than l.a. and new york city combined. matt? >> shepard, eight less people killed here in comparison to last year. some good news but not the most re-assuring. dont be fooled by this beautiful view. the numbers show one if not two people will be murdered in the city before the day is over. one of the most recent victim...