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Based on the sophisticated tools the hackers used. Chief washington correspondent joins us live from the white house with more on this one. Wow, theres a lot there to unpack. Give it a shot. Good afternoon from the White House Briefing room where i can tell you in 20 years of coming to report here i dont think ive ever seen it this packed. We have not only the regular white house press, but foreign media. Very busy scene in here. President obama will face tough questions today on particularly th...

Eric deadly soup vere weather across the southern plains, where the storms are he8 hours, it is all happening now. The 3 we begin with a fox news alert from capitol hill where battles are brewing over the investigation into russian meddling into our president ial election. And over president Trumps Supreme Court nominee, judge neil gorsuch. Welcome to the second hour of happening now, i am Melissa Francis in today for jenna lee. Eric hello, melissa. Good to see you again, i am eric shawn in for ...

How his outside council is trying to strategize around the comey testimony. Outside council, Marc Kasowitz theyre preparing to file a kplaicomplaint against j comey. Youre going to delve into this with pete. Does it hold water or merit. Was there a wrongdoing here . Theres no indication that comey leaked anything that was classified. Theres a question around that. To your point this is a point of a larger strategy. Were seeing the administration and president go back into campaign trail. His sur...

Unquote, insider attack as you mengted an afghan soldier, taliban claiming responsibility, this afghan soldier insurgent and operative for the taliban opening fire on u. S. Troops inside this base. Now take a look at the map. It happened in eastern afghanistan. East of kabul. Very close to the pakistan border and thats where the afghan official started spraying the u. S. Soldiers with machine gunfire, kill two and wounding two others before that afghan soldier was killed by returned fire. This i...

In february, he asked comey to drop the investigation of Michael Flynn, directly contradicting what the president had said. Comey also confirmed, like the president has said, that donald trump was not personally under investigation by the fbi even as comey made clear to the country that Trumps Campaign and individuals associated with it were under investigation. Were going to go point by point tonight through comeys testimony. Joining me are ken dilanian, michael schmidt, joy reid, and dan rathe...

Confirmation process and gives him an attorney general in a day. Yeah, and theyre admitting at the White House White house sources are admitting to the Washington Post now that the reason they want to do that is basically so it could start the process of getting rid of bob mueller. I mean recess appointment isnt the only way to do it. Its definitely the easiest way to do it. Boy does that put a spotlight on whether or not the senate is going into recess. Yeah, and of course the president has bee...

To hold the senate so that it never technically went into recess the whole time president obama so he couldnt have a recess appointment. He totally has the ability to do that now in order to stop donald trump from doing Something Like this. We will see if Mitch Mcconnell has any appetite for doing that same thing. Jeff sessions will find out who his friends are sooner rather than later. Thank you, rachel. Thanks, lawrence. Well, Jared Kushner spoke today. Big news. We heard his voice, that littl...

They can get too close to 50, he could help get to 50 to pass this vote. His return to the senate is lifted the spirits of a lot of his colleagues. We all know senator mccain is a fighter. That is by his remarkable life, public service. Just as again it is evident of his quick return to the senate this afternoon. I know he is eager to get back to work, and we are all very pleased to have him back with us today. Republican sources say one idea being floated to rankandfile senators is passing what...

President s mindset. With us to share reporting and insights, laura meckler, wall street journal, Michael Bender of the wall street journal and cnns m. J. Lee. To capitol hill in a moment and todays important questioning of president ial soninlaw Jared Kushner. Also keep our eyes out for that Public Statement were told hell make after finishes his interview with the Senate Intelligence committee. First, though, the president s own attack of his attorney general and what this tells us. In an angr...

Put it charitableably. Hurricane irma barrels to the u. S. Coastline with destruction behind it, as the 11th hour gets under way. Good evening, once again, from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 231 much the Trump Administration and it leaves much of the american southeast prepare for a devastating blow of a very big, very dangerous storm, hurricane irma. Right now the fear is its obliterating many of the structures in the turks and Caicos Island chain before moving on to the south...