The sixth explosion. The initial reporting from the a. P. Is that it happened at a Goodwill Store. A man in his 30s has been injured in this latest blast. Hes been taken to the hospital with potentially serious but reportedly nonlife tlhreatenin injuries. Well talk live to a reporter on the scene in austin, texas in a minute as you watch this news unfold. You can tell this story is developing and were just starting to get first information, first credible information from First Responders and Law Enforcement on the scene. Well be getting a live report on that in just a few moments with a reporter on the scene. Now i should also tell you that weve got virginia senator mark warner here tonight for the interview. This is, i think, an important time to have senator warner here i. It appears to be a moment of crisis. Senator warner will join us live for an extended interview coming up later on this hour. On november 9th, 2016, the day after the trump clinton president ial election, the ceo of the data firm that the Trump Campaign used during the election, they put out a proud statement about what had just happened. They put out a statement that said quote, we are thrilled that our revolutionary approach to datadriven communications played such a big part in president elect Donald Trumps win. That statement in response to the news that donald trump had just won the president ial election from the ceo of the firm Cambridge Analytica. Today Alexander Nicks was removed from the firm. The board of directors announcing they are removing him pending an immediate investigation into recent statements about the companys practices in recent election campaigns. This follows a third day of reporting from britains channel four including tape where Alexander Nix explains what his companys role was in getting donald trump elected. Have you met mr. Trump . Many times. You have . All the data, all the analytics, all the digital campaign, Television Campaign and form a strategy. All the research, all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting, we ran all the digital campaign, the Television Campaign and our data informed all the strategy. We did it basically. That ceo of trumps Campaign Data firm is out of that company as of tonight. British investigators are seeking search warrants. Here in the United States the federal trade commission announced an investigation into facebook because of its dealings with this company and in the context of the on Going Special counsels investigation by Robert Mueller and his team of prosecutors, questions are now being raised about several aspects of this firm and its work for the Trump Campaign. Including this new revelation from a whistle blower from the former Research Director that says the core data that the firm was built around, the spine of the company was data obtained from facebook illicitly by a russianspeaking Cambridge University professor Getting Research grants from the russian government. This same whistle blower from cambridge is reporting that a Russian Oil Company close to the putin government also took meetings with Cambridge Analytica focused on techniques to influence american voters. Why would a Russian Oil Company care about that . So thats all sort of royal the background in todays news. The president reportedly approaching yet good republican super lawyer to try to add some talent to his russia legal team. The Washington Post reporting that the president s request to former solicitor came as the president is feeling more vulnerable to the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller. The president said he wants to recruit Top Tier Talent for his legal team, which is probably not a very nice thing for his existing, not necessarily top tier legal team to read in the Washington Post. But at least, ted olson turned down the president , turned down the president that requested he join his russia team. This comes after at least one other blue chip lawyer in recent days as also reportedly turned down the president. But the mere fact the president is trying to get lawyers on as of this late date, how newly serious the white house perceives to be. Our closest overseas ally in the world is great britain. I think i mean, they still i mean, at least thats what we thought for the past several generations. Lets assume they are still the most important overseas ally. As such, its important to us as a country that britain right now is dealing with an incredibly serious situation of their own. The attempted assassination of two people on british soil for which there is no alternative conclusion other than that the russian state was culpable. It is russia that is inflagrant breach of International Law and chemical weapons convention. We will never tolerate a threat to the life of british citizens and others on british soil from the russian government. Our quarrel is with Putins Kremlin and with his decision and we think it overwhelmingly would be likely it was his decision to direct the use of a nerve agent on the streets of the u. K. , on the streets of europe for the First Time Since the second world war. That is why were at odds with russia. The United Kingdom will expel 23 Russian Diplomats who have been identified as undeclared intelligence officers. They have just one week to leave. Those Russian Diplomats, undeclared intelligence officers, they got kicked out of the u. K. Today. Weve actually got footage of them leaving. These are the Russian Diplomats and their families. All together the Russian Embassy says it was 80 people in total bundled into vans and taken to the airport outside london where they boarded a russian stateowned plane which flew them to moscow. These diplomats were undeclared intelligence agents. They were expelled by britain today as punishment for the nerve agent poisoning sergey and his daughter in the british city of sales barry. An attack the u. S. Government agree was carried out by the russian government. Now, one of the reasons everybody is so certain this poisoning was carried out by the russians is the nerve agent used was invented by the russians. Its a class of nerve agents dealing with a weapon one country has its particularly scary to think about that being brought into a town in britain and used in an attempted assassination but even beyond the fear factor, just as a practical matter, we as the general public cant imagine what this particular agent might physically do to people when its used on them. Since the skripals were attacked, its striking how little we found out about the condition of the two people attacked. We know they have been in the hospital in Critical Condition since they were both found slumped on a bench. Were told they are both still alive but thats it. Today a russian publication called the bell ran an interview with a man that helped create this class of nerve agents for the Russian Military and if what this scientists says is true, its a lot more information but it not the kind of information im im not sure im happy to know this i o informati information. Its unsettling. Is there even a minimal chance the victims of this poisoning might recover. He replies quote, most likely they will suffer the same fate as earlier victims, there is no cure to the agents. If they are taken off life support, they will die but now they are technically alive. This man says hes one of the creators. We posted a link to the bells fair warning it will keep you up. That scientist says there are batches as large as several kilos, several kilograms. He has no idea what happened to the stockpiles. Large doses were stored in a warehouse. I dont know what else happened beyond where they were stored. Thats the situation in the closest overseas ally. Two people remain in Critical Condition after an attack with a nerve agent. Its appearance on a british park bench. 23 diplomats and their families expelled as of today. The u. K. s leaders condemning russia in the strongest possible terms. Oh, and another death of another russian kremlin critic on british soil being investigated by British Counterterrorism Police in a murder inquiry. His death eight days after the attack. Its very serious stuff in britain right now. Meanwhile, here in the United States it was five days ago they finally enacted sanctions on russia in our election in 2016. After slow walking four months the sanctions that the Trump Administration was legally required to impose on russia. Finally, five days ago the u. S. Government under donald trump finally admitted the russians did mess with our election and yes, we will okay agree to do something about it and so they finally for the first time put these sanctions on. That was five days ago. Also, five days ago the very same day the u. S. Finally issued these sanctions on russia for actions in the 2016 election, at the same time, that same day we also got this very serious technical announcement from the fbi and the department of Homeland Security about russian government attackers going after american infrastructure, specifically after u. S. Power plants. This technical alert from the department of Homeland Security and fbi announcing that russian Government Entities have hacked into u. S. Power plants, not just to mess with them or steal data but so they would have the ability to turn the American Electric grid on and off at will. Sort of intense couple weeks poisoning people with a previously unknown nerve agent. Freaking serious, right . Hacking into the American Electric grid so as to have the power to turn it on and off at will also freaking serious. Not to mention the election stuff. Russias behavior is a little off the hook right now. And this morning, this is what the president of the United States had to say about it. I had a call with president putin and congratulated him on the victory, his electoral victory. The call had to do also with the fact that we will probably get together in the not too distant future. We had a very good call and i suspect well probably be meeting in the not too distant future so i think probably well be seeing president putin in the not too distant future. President trump called moscow to congratulate Vladimir Putin on his big election win this weekend, which was easier to win because he wouldnt let opponents run but just in case you missed the important part, such a good call, such a good guy, did i mention were getting together in the not too distant future . I think well be seeing him in the not too distant future. The reason we knew there was a call, once again the kremlin announced it. Quote, in whole the conversation was business like with a focus on overcoming the accumulated problems in russia American Relations said the kremlin this morning and then a reporter asked trump about it because we had gotten word from the kremlin and that allowed him to deliver the great news about scoring a meeting with putin. Well now tonight, the Washington Post has one of these scoops that sounds like it was made up for a movie about this kind of situation at the top of american political leadership. It is reported that when the president decided to make this call to president putin today, he sort of went rogue against his own advisors. Here is the lead of the story. Again, this is almost unbelievable. Listen to this. President trump did not follow specific warnings from his National Security adversaries when he congratulated russian president Vladimir Putin today on his reelection. Including a section in his briefing materials in all capital letters stating quote, do not congratulate. Ill just leave that up on the screen for a minute so you can let that wash over you. The National Security advisors wrote him a note in all capital letters saying do not congratulate putin for his sham election victory. Do not legitimize that fake election. Do not say congratulations all capital letters and the president gets on the phone with him and says hey, congratulations. There is more. Quote, President Trump also chose not to heed talking points from aids instructing him to condemn putin about the recent poisoning of a former russian sky in the United Kingdom with a powerful nerve agent. Make sure you dont congratulate him and condemn him for the nerve agent thing. Earlier in the day we did have heads up somehow that difficult subject didnt come up. And you said election ma meddling didnt come up. Did the recent poisoning in the United Kingdom come up in the call . I dont think that came up in the call. Uhuh. I dont think that came up. Well, now, thanks to this new reporting from the Washington Post we know that subject didnt come up even after National Security aids at the white house specifically advised the president that if he was going to call putin, he really needed to condemn putin for that. Remember, the u. S. Government has joined the u. K. In concluding that that nerve agent attack was committed by the russian government and condemning that attack. So the president aids say if you call the person who we as a u. S. Government have said is responsible for the attack, you have to bring up the attack. Why would the president disregard that kind of advice . Why would the president blow off and there by legitimize a nerve agent attack that the u. S. Government said was committed by russia . Why would he neglect to mention that . Why would the president ignore the all capital letters warning do not congratulate. When he never thele lneverthel t congratulates putin, what is driving his behavior that is so different than what his National Security staff believe is the right thing for the country . Explains the distance between when the president is doing and his own National Security staff say the president of the United States needs to do . Joining us now is carol. Thanks for joining us. Thank you. These were warnings from the National Security advisors. Do you know what kind of advisors these were. So whenever the president has a call with a foreign leader, there is usually a lot of effort put into briefing him about the important hot topics in the region and what hes likely to be asked by the foreign leader and what issues that are really like the hot list that he should address with that person and there is a panel plea often putting together with this information and important call, each one of these calls is considered part of our foreign diplomacy. And index cards are provided to kind of guide this president and others in the past through the call and apparently these staffers felt that it was important to make clear that they were key topics that should come up and key things that shouldnt be said and the president seemed to basically chose for himself what he should do, which is his right. Is it clear that the president do accept some of the other advice of the National Security aids and these were on this putin call in particular that this warning not to cong t congratwacongra congratulate putin and condemn the nerve attack in the u. K. , were those the only things he shouldnt advised about. Thats all we know other than what the president and Sarah Sanders and some sources said were topics that came up in the meeting for example syria and north korea but these are the two places where we know things kind of went off the script and the reason that it is concerning is not because the president has the right to make these decisions all on his own but there was a perception that it would not be very good given the current state of affairs. Were under investigation in the white house for potential campaign ties to russians, out reach for russians to the trump advisor team. It wouldnt look too good because really our ally, the United Kingdom is now facing the attack on its own soil on not a citizen but a person who was in their country and thats considered very serious. One of our allies is struggling with that issue and believes the russians are culpable. It was not viewed as a good idea to congratulate putin on this moment but the president chose to do it. You seen and we mentioned this in the piece and i thought this was an important reference, weve seen the president hold handwritten notes giving cues to people before. This one famously with a fifth point, i hear you. This was for a meeting with shooting survivors after the p