Page 16 - Congress Warned News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Justice correspondent, pamela, good evening, thank you for joining us. Former acting attorney general sally yates said she warned the white house that the former National Security adviser, Michael Flynn, could be blackmailed by the russians. Listen to this. The russians also knew about what general flynn had done, and the russians also knew that general flynn had misled the Vice President and others. Not only did we believe that the russians knew this, but that they likely had proof of this information. And created a compromise situation, a situation where the National Security adviser essenti...

Quickly firefighters can simply not get out in front of them. 1,000 homes, hotels, businesses reduced to ashes as wildfires devour californias wine country. Welcome to the lead. Im jim sciutto in for jake tapper today. We begin with the politics lead. A prominent republican senator sounding the alarm about the president s very fitness for the office. Senator bob corker, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he fears that President Trump is setting the country, quote, on the path to world war iii and treats the office of the president like a reality show. Pointedly, he sa...

Glor and this is our western edition. Good evening. We are going to begin here developing story at a military base in northern virginia. A number of people became ill after someone at the base opened a letter. We are at the base and following the story tonight. Chris. Jeff, this is being treated as a hazmat situation. The arlington county, Virginia Fire Department count eleven people feeling ill after a letter was opened here on base with an unknown substance late this afternoon. The building was evacuated. A investigation is under way. Its next to Arlington National cemetery where several top...

Escalating these new attacks on mueller and here tonight, we also are hearing from republican senators publicly warning that firing mueller could lead to impeachment. I will be joined by this special by a federal prosecutor who worked directly with comey, plus a law School Classmate and top obama doj official whos criticized comeys term at the fbi but says he remains a credible witness against trump. All of that is tonight as we devote most of this hour to what we think is this important special. Our first story is building on some very unusual breaking news. Tonight a new woman is suing to sp...

The attorney general has that power. But this may be even more important. Sarah sanders says the white house has been advised that the president has the power to fire mueller. So its not just something hes threatening to do, hes looking for guidance on whether he can actually do it. And a source tells cnn, the president and his aides have discussed firing mueller for months and discussed with members of congress who warned him it would be a disaster in the midterms. Listen to Chuck Grassley. I think it would be suicide for the president to fire him. So one thing is clear President Trump is at ...