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I should tell you also that moments ago, there was a statement put out from the spokesperson for the office of the director of national intelligence pushing back on this story. do we actually have the -- do we have the written statement? we have the -- oh, we have the written statement in my teleprompter. i do not have it written down. this is the statement from the director of national intelligence spokesperson. quote, director coats does not discuss his private conversations with the president...

What "the washington post" reported in may. this interaction with coats indicates that trump aimed to enlist top officials to try to get the fbi to curtail their probe. and because, of course, the trump/russia story allows for no rest, this story breaks tonight, the night before dan coats is scheduled to testify tomorrow before the senate intelligence committee in open session. its good to be back. i was kind of expecting a slower roll back into the news, but i can take it. i should tell you als...

You. all right, republican greg gianforte winning a special election last night in montana. this after the race for the states only congressional seat took a bizarre turn when gianforte attacked a news reporter. well he has since apologized. alishia is live in bozeman, montana with the latest. alishia? >> hi, sandra. representative-elect greg gianforte apologized to ben jacobs the reporter for "the guardian" as well as the fox news crew, we were in the room. after the incident at his campaign of...

The need to have it behind closed doors. that is a technique that chuck scmer is using here here we have senator -- >> go get him. >> hes gone. hes gone past the line of demarcation here where we cant chase him. into the tunnel has the trolley that carries senators to the senate. >> drop the mike. i know you cant take the cameras with you. go after him. hes troubled, a high ranking democrat. you can run away from the camera. i promise you well take you off of the boxes. bur obviously one of the ...

>> the level of specificity in terms of the pay-fors and the cost, well have to see how comfortable the president is. jennifer? >> can you tell us if the president is aware of the american pastor jailed in turkey, and did he raise that with president erdogan? >> im not going to get into the specifics of the presidents conversation. were obviously aware of that action and were going to continue to work with the state department on that. jordan? >> thanks, sean. can you explain why president trump...

Settlements, right? but, you know, at a certain point, enough allegations make it look like the entire culture of a place is fundamentally poisonous and corrupt. >> you saw in a statement put out by rupert murdoch who stepped in to personally oversee fox after they paid ailes $40 million to go away last summer. he had a statement today to the staff that said we want to make sure this is a workplace founded on trust and respect. there are a lot of people within fox who have had great skepticism a...

White house. we have an less from jeremy bash. john feider and charlie sykes are here. chris, let me start with you there at the white house. we heard sean spicer defending the separation. break it down for us if you can. >> reporter: its still not clear how this misinformation got out there. its clear that it was misinformation, although we might not have ever learned it if that picture hadnt come out. lets go pack to the beginning, because sean spicer referred repeatedly to a statement put out...

69 threats in 27 states in the past six weeks. most falling on four dates. fortunately, no becames have been found so far. also on monday, more than 100 headstones were found vandalized in a jewish see him after. the white house is now condemning the bomb threats. this after president trump last week danced around questions about anti-semitism. hate and violence have no place in a country founded on the promise of individual freedom. the president has made it clear that these actions are unacc...

7:00 a.m. bagdad time. the u.s. has a lot involved in this fight. there are more than 5,000 u.s. military personnel in the country supporting iraqi forces in the battle for western mosul and u.s.-led coalition aircraft are also hitting isis targets according to a statement put out yesterday, since the beginning of the u.s. involvement in the war against isis, the u.s. has launched more than 10,000 combat sorties against isis targets. so definitely he wants to come here -- territory hes quite fam...

Hitting isis targets in the country. 10,000 until now according to a statement put out by the coalition and also in baghdad beforehand he sent a message of reassurance that contrary to what we heard from president trump during the campaign and after the inauguration, the united states has no nothing on iraqs oil. >> paid gas and oil all along and were not in iraq to seize anybodys oil. >> of course what were also hearing from northern iraq is that iraqi forces launched these operations less than...