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shop for people who wanted access to things that they shouldn't have. no one should be in those conditions, wnba star brittney griner speaking out about those ten months she spent in a russian prison. it's her first press conference since returning to professional basketball. hear what she says about the other americans still wrongfully detained. plus, after four hours on the stand, the woman accusing donald trump of rape now in cross examination. what we expect to hear from the former president's attorneys. we're following these major developing stories and many more all coming ...

tornadoes struck across oklahoma, kansas, and iowa, causing widespread damage and climbi claiming the lives three people. right now, more than 16,000 customers are without power across oklahoma as strong winds brought down trees and power lines. joining us now from oklahoma is scott gibbons. deputy sheriff, thank you for being with us. what are the conditions on the ground there this morning? >> much better than last night we got some visibility we got crews working to clear debris and power lines off the roadway, giving us access that we didn't have last night to some of the more ru...

Washington. you have an accuser in professor ford who said come on in to the fbi, investigate these claims, i remember what i remember. i have records of my own trauma from my notes from therapy. come in and try to verify my account. judge kavanaugh seems to be saying the same thing. he believes in his own innocence. why not try to bolster judge kavanaugh's innocence if you believe that's. wh what it is with a full non-rushed, deep investigation by the fbi? >> and, you know, even the idea of a non-rushed investigation is not something that would go on for an extended period of time. >> right. ...

I spoke to former senior intelligence officials who served both republican and democratic administrations. they said it is very unusual for someone at this level of a position to be acting on an interim security clearance for so long, and precisely because of the nature of the position he had, staff secretary. in effect, someone controlling the information flow to the president. and that information flow includes an enormous amount of highly sensitive, highly classified information. we heard raj shaw during the white house press briefing say this would not be an issue unless there was an issue...

Files. a lot of the sf-86 files that you use for background clearances. they have mine, i was informed by the government. very sensitive information, as you know, that they can use against intelligence operatives and military members. and senator inhofe asked the question, did we retaliate, what did we do. the answer that i heard from all of you was, well, we tried to protect people like me and i'm sure others whose sensitive intel information and background information was compromised. but i didn't hear any claim of a retaliation on a huge hack, huge, 22 million american, federal, military, i...