5 00 a. M. Here on the u. S. East coast. It is the memo in a everyothat talking about. And does it discredit the Russia Investigation . Congressional supporters of the u. S. President are being accused of trying to do just that. They allege that the fbi improperly targeted for surveillance a former Trump Campaign adviser. The contents of the controversial memo are highly disputed. Critics say it only on shows part of the picture. And misrepresents the testimony of former fbi Deputy Director andrew mccabe. Here is more now from jim sciutto In Washington. I think it is terrible. Reporter the president and republicans leveling a new broad side at the fbi. With a four page memo alleging the bureau abused its Surveillance Authority in seeking a warrant to monitor carter page during the 2016
election. Its been a tough fight. Reporter the disputed memo authorized by the staff of devin nunes Claims Mccabe says the page warrant would not have been sought without a dossier on trumps possible con
A weekly report on economic developments features interviews with business leaders, information on Investment Opportunities and financial advice. A hothead of a special election this upcoming tuesday. The president hitting on a wide range of topics last night while endorsing gop congressional candidate, troy balderson. The president fired up his supporters on the topic of Border Security among other things. Were building that wall, were building the wall, dont worry. I am better and everything and they have. Including this. I became president and they didnt meaning and it is driving them crazy. There talking about this blue wave. I dont think so. I think it could be a red wave. I will tell you what i think it should be a red one. We are getting these gangs like ms13 and others. We are getting them the hell out of the country one by one. We Just Announced yesterday, a record of enforcement at the
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Coverage today blake burman on how responding to the today meeting and ashley when it comes to irans oil the u. S. May already be winning. We begin with blake. Hi there, maria. As you know the Trump Administration is trying to carve out a deal as it relates to denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula with north korea. As that is happening, iran is warning north korea that the United States, in their words, cannot be trusted. The iranian leader Hasan Rouhani meeting earlier this week with a top diplomat from north korea and this was how that meeting was relayed as it comes from Iranian State media. One quote quoting Hasan Rouhani, quote the u. S. Administration performance in these years has led the country to be considered untrust one way or the other Anuntrustworthy Andunreliable ad which does not meet any of its obligations it comes as the Trump Administration has level idea new Sanctions Against Iran and says more sanctions will be coming in 90 days from now on
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over its application process to survey a former trump campaign advisor. jackie ibanez joins us on the court s new demand and how the president is responding to that. reporter: the secretive federal court is giving the bureau until january 10th to come up with solutions, donald trump reacting tweeting if comey and the top people in the fbi were tweet dirty cops who cheated on fisa court with the phony cases have to be overturned or dismissed? it stems from michael horwitz s report which found no evidence of bias with russian meddling. it did find 17 inaccuracies and applications for a fisa warrant used to wiretap carter page. in a scathing letter the chief judge said the frequency with which representations made by fbi personnel turned out
recounting how the fbi used confidential secret sources undercover agents to get information out of the of trump campaign figures bolt line the dossier complete garbage and the fbi had reason to know that pretty early in the process. and as far as the undercover sources were these were sources sent to get information from people like george papadopoulos, and carter page. they recorded all of their conversations secretly and the transcripts were very exculpatory. when papadopoulos would say things like no, we would never do anything like that with the russians. they had it on tape. they had it written down and somehow it just got all lost in the fbi process. ainsley: this has gone on for so long people want to see what john durham finds in his finding. he says he doesn t agree with this. this is his quote. while the investigation is ongoing last month we advised the inspector general that we do not agree