The public thinks about this dismissal. Leon harris has the details. This is getting a ton of attention. And will be for days to come. President trump spoke extensively about his decision to fire james comey in an exclusive interview with nbcs lester holt, and the president s reasons appear to contradict previous statements coming from the white house. Now on the topic of comey, were also seeing some new reaction from a brandnew nbc News Survey Monkey poll. More than half, 54 believe that comeys dismissal was not appropriate, and when it comes to why the president let comey go, nearly half think it has to do with the russia investigation. Only about a quarter think its related to the Clinton Emails as stated. In his sitdown, he also had choice words to describe comey. Hes a show boat, hes a grandstander. The fbi has been in turmoil, you know what, i know that, Everybody Knows that. You met attorney general rod rosenstein. Right. Did you ask for a recommendation . What i did is, i was g
Conversation starts now. Good evening, and thank you for joining us. Im lesli foster. Im adam longo. Tonights show is about your questions. Our city, your voice. We will look back at inauguration weekend and the first 100 days of President Trump. We are pent the day getting facts to present to you, and we are on social media asking questions like what issues do you think should be on the top of the list for the Trump Administrations first 100 days . Take the poll on the wusa 9 Facebook Page now, and we will share the results in a bit. Lets start with President Trumps big moves today, first ordering a hiring freeze. The decision will impact many people in the dmv. Our john henry with more on the president s big decision. This freeze does not imply to the hiring of military personnel, but they hope to shrink the size of the federal government. That has some current fede workers concerned. I think we are all pretty hesitant to see what will happen. So many people need jobs, and you know,
Petrae petraeus. He resigned in 2012 after admitting to giving classified information to his mistress. He met with trump when he was being considered for secretary of state. I turn on the tv, open the newspapers and i see stories of chaos. Chaos. Yet it is the exact opposite. This administration is running like a fine tuned machine. Now, coming up in about ten minutes, Edward Lawrence takes an indepth look at the latest News Conference and the challenges facing the administration. New this morning were working to learn how two people are doing after this bad crash on the suitland parkway. You can see how badly damaged this car is. Two people had to be flown to the hospital. Our news partner tells us one person was seriously hurt. U. S. Park police have not said whether more than one car was involved in this crash. Police are urging people to be on high alert. Thats because eight armed robberies have been reported since mid december. Many of those are happening in one specific area. Wer
For all the work they did ahead of time. Feels like were a small family, and everybody is supporting each other. And thats what Small Business is all about. We are a big family. And everybody works together. Reporter in mount pleasant, nellie closed the taqueria that supports her and her family. Even though she has only owned the place for 15 days. If all immigrants are together, well make it strong. We are strong. Reporter now, plenty of immigrants did show up for work today, despite the protests, even in mount pleasant, which is really a center of latino and immigrant culture. There were plenty of restaurants and stores that were open. And at the mcdonalds on wisconsin avenue, there did not seem to be any longer lines than usual. Live at the penn quarter in northeast d. C. , bruce leshan. One police hit particularly hard by a day without immigrants is the pentagon. Burger king, taco bell, sbarro. Tacoall closed because of too few workers. Head to wusa 9 to vote. Well check back in on
Bracing for a blizzard. Heavy snow and whipping wind move into the midwest. Good morning from the cbs news room at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. No comment from the fbi following allegations the white house asked the agency to dispute a report about contacts between the Trump Campaign and russian intelligence agents. Later today, the president speaks to conservative activists and yesterday top aides spoke to the group. Good morning. Good morning. The president s speech comes amid bombshell reports. They asked the fbi to publicly down play reports about contact between the Election Team and russian intelligence officers. This is our time. Reporter Vice President pence the first day at the rallying against obamacare. Obamacare has failed and obamacare must go. Reporter praising President Trump for pushing the republican agenda forward. A strong military, more jobs, less taxes. Reporter the president s two closest advisers, white house ch