overwhelming amount of evidence of wrongdoing. with all this new information, the big question tonight is who knew what and when? with a uranium one the fbi had mountains of evidence of russian bribery. did president obama know about this? was it in president obama s daily presidential briefings? that might have been told to the lawyer of the fbi informant. what it hillary clinton know and when did she know? did she know her husband, bill clinton, was being paid double his speaking fees for a speech in moscow? did she know bill asked for permission while in moscow to meet with russian nuclear officials? did she know eventually bill met with putin during the trip and advocated? he advocated that the uranium one deal be done and also was paid by a bank that had a financial interest in uranium one. how could both of them, obama and clinton, everything ever it s a good idea to give 20% of america s uranium to
tonight. but here s the big question tonight. which i think we actually might be able to figure out with the right reporting in just a moment. why was steve bannon there in the first place? what was he there to do? and at whom s behest was they? and whatever he was sent to do, did he leave now because he accomplished it? there were a lot of other inexplicable people in the trump campaign and now in the trump administration and they fit another pattern entirely. russia, russia, russia. that s to how they got their place and why they re there. but bannon really is different. bannon came on a year ago out of the blue to run the trump campaign despite the fact that with his personal background he probably couldn t get a commercial driver s license let alone control of a major presidential campaign. he got that gig specifically because the people who funded bannon at breitbart and who funded all his other ventures
secretary kerry very quickly getting in touch with his counterpart and getting assurances that they were safe, that they were well and that they would be released. but still, the big question tonight, the iranian naval personnel that have them, they are a very aggressive bunch, and i don t think anyone at the pentagon tonight is resting easy until these ten sailors are back with the u.s. navy. tonight the chief of naval operations maintaining his schedule, admiral john richardson on his way to capitol hill to attend the state of the union, but the chief of naval operations, the defense secretary, the secretary of state watching this minute by minute. wolf? i m looking at the navy s description of these riverine command boats, and i want to show a picture of one of these small vessels looks like, as i describe what the navy says. they re assigned to the commander task group that transits the iranian or persian gulf during patrol operations. they say they re used in shallow
there in effect as an isis sex slave, helping the leader of isis, mr. baghdadi, to come there, they are treating her as knowledgeable and therefore treating that testimony as credible. so disturbing. jim sciutto, thank you so much, we appreciate it. we have more now on isis and the breaking news tonight. new confirmation that the terror group recently launched a chemical attack. our pentagon correspondent barbara starr has been digging on that. if isis indeed has a chemical weapon, the big question tonight, where did they get it? the patients came to this northern are iraqi hospital with blistered skin and respiratory distress. the kurds say isis fired mortars at them containing a chemical agent. 38 rounds exploded, seven did not. reporter: the u.s. is investigating and will test samples to find out if it was mustard agent, a chemical weapon u.s. officials now tell cnn isis
only were concerns not addressed, but they often times were punished. they were transferred to administrative duties. my paper last week had a story about a woman who raised issues about a veteran who was shackled because she had some mental issues and she was shackled for longer than she needed to be. when a nse raised this issue, she was first of all ignored and transferred to a desk job and all of her fellow nurse colleagues seeing this were, like, wow, we won t raise these issues again. whistle-blowers are key to getting past that culture in the va but the culture is to punish them rather than to deal with the problems and we learn more and more of those allegations. the big question tonight will be when we hear these whistle-blowers come forward at this hearing, if they re going to detail retribution they apparently faced, the big question is will anything be done for them? will they get their jobs back? that and is the culture