Page 23 - Wash Post News Today

>> when you have five people who go -- i think four went on the record and one of the people went on background. when you have those five people willing to talk about what happened and they individually talked about this story. not like they all got together in a room and told him this story. they individually have memories of what happened. and, what happened as you described at the opening of the segment was an emotionally and physically violent act that was led by mitt romney on this poor kid...

Nuclear experts tell wash post that the islamic republic has mastered it with the help of a former soviet scientist. iran is dismissing the report. the iaea is due out later this week. two formal officials at penn state will be in court today on charges of lying to investigators about an alleged child abuse carried out by a colleague. the schools former defensive coordinator is accused of sexually abusing eight boys over a 15 year period. prosecutors say the two other administrators were told ...

Cnns boris sanchez has more from the white house. >> reporter: the white house not really saying anything new when it comes to these detailed allegations from christine blas erks y ford in the washington post in which she alleges judge brett kavanagh inappropriately sexually assaulted her when they were both in high school. kavanagh has denied those accusations. last week through the white house, he put out a statement essentially saying that it never took place. today when i asked white house s...

Around the world. im live from atlanta, ga, and this is cnn newsroom. our top story is from waesh wash. disturbing new revelations could throw a wrench in the confirmation of donald trumps supreme court nominee. republican lisa murkowski is the latest senator to suggest delaying thursdays vote on brett kavanaghs nomination. this after a woman publicly accused kavanagh of sexual assault dating back to the 1980s. her name, christine blasey ford and she shared her story with the waesh wash post n...

Latest updates on this topic.

Good day, everyone. it is 1:00 in the east. a secret memo. why president trump warrants it released. the justice department does not. and how it figures into the russia investigation. >> theyve found something else. ive gone down and read it. >> the firing line. did he or didnt he try to find robert mueller? it is dominating the sunday talks. >> im not aware of the president ever intimating that he tried to fire robert mueller. >> i think the president would be best served by every discussing th...

Russia probe and the elected republicans who appear to be helping him do it and frankly in some cases you would think know better. mr. trump fired the fbi director last year after allegedly asking him to pledge his loyalty. and as the wash post now reports, that he then quickly summoned the fbi acting director andrew mccabe to ask him who he voted for in the 2016 election and expressing his wifes political affiliation and to make k -- mccake and then he smeared mccabe who is a 20 year respected ...

Throws things robert mueller and his team will be looking at if and when they can question the president. those trerms still being worked out. and sarah sanders, the white house press secretary addressed this today during the press briefing. >> as weve said, probably just about every day this year since weve been here that we will be fully cooperative with the special counsel, and were going to continue to do that throughout the process. were also not going to comment on who may or may not or co...

Heinz. and our specialists are all standing by with full coverage. lets begin with pamela brown. what are you learning? >> weve learned that the wash post robert mueller, special counsel, is seeking to interview president trump in the coming weeks about two specific topics. the firing of former fbi director jim comey and the firing of former national security viladviser michael fly. and this indicates that theyre really intensifying on obstruction of justice. what the presidents mindset was. his...

Certainly doesnt show an intent to try on withhold anything. we just have to wait until we find out. >> the department of justice has already handed over hundreds of pages of these text messages. while some republicans rs seizing on the five months of missing texts as more evidence of wrongdoing, they continue to say the focus on the texts are just an effort to undermine the special counsels investigation which despite that, wolf, it seems to be going full steam ahead with attorney general jeff ...