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james comey and expecting new developments the brand new acting fbi director andrew mccabe, set to testify on capitol hill one hour from now. we ve got a great panel to help us break it down. let me start with nbc s peter alexander who is live at the white house for us. peter, on wednesday, the white house was pinning this decision on deputy attorney general rod rosenstein saying it was his recommendation that comey be fired and that trump just basically followed that recommendation. what are they saying now? well, now the story is shifted which is to say that initially we were told the impetus was that memo that the president received, it was concurred by the attorney general jeff sessions, but now it appears the president has been thinking this for a much longer period of time, well before that memo was received. here very simply is the timeline that we know. dating back to day one, the white house we are told says the president was considering firing its fbi direct ....
new fall out after laura england mocking the 17-year-old calling for boycott. some of them heeding hid call. nbc s jeff bennet at the warehouse. jeff, if you want to call it a bringmanship between the united states and russia. what is next? good morning steve. u.s. officials has hinted at a foreign explanations possibly at russia abroad. you have an ambassador to russia who says yesterday such a move would be possible. his intentions prompted russia to say any steps would be what they wall the gravest consequences for global stability. russia has been on defensive since u.s. government openfully blamed moscow for the poisoning of a runner spy and his daughter on british soil. russia says it s going to so, of course you ve got this one for one reaction between the u.s. j russia. the u.s. closing a consul lat and kicking out 60 diplomats who the u.s. officials say were russian intelligent agents and russia if response kicking out 60 american diplomats. so that has r ....
conspiracy. plus the greatest danger to our free system. how donald trump s attorney general is trying to gaslight america. is that the incumbent government use the apparatus of the state to spy on political opponents. and debating the merits of working with the president on a new nafta. there have some people who have said why make it look like he has a victory. we are declaring victory for the american worker. when all in starts right now. we now know the charges house democrats plan to bring against the president of the united states. this morning speaker nancy pelosi and hicks house committee chairs presented two articles of impeachment to the american people. today in service to our duty to the constitution and to our country the house committee on the judiciary is introducing two articles of impeachment charging the president of the united states donald j. trump with committing high crimes and misdemeanors. the first article is for abuse of power ....
the secretary of state is now refusing to push back on the debunked notion that ukraine and not russia interfered in the 2016 election. and while trump was talking tonight in florida, the person in his administration known as anonymous was answering questions on reddit. anonymous had plenty of things to say tonight that the president will not like, and we will be joined by a reporter who will bring us those biggest moments from the q&a a little bit later. but first tonight, he knew. new reporting from the new york times shows that president trump knew about the whistle-blower complaint weeks before news of the complaint was made public. quote, trump had already been briefed on a whistle-blower s complaint about his dealings with ukraine when he unfroze military aid for the country in september, according to two people familiar with the matter. lawyers from the white house counsel s office told mr. trump in late august about the complaint explaining they were trying to ....
Confusing. he gave a press conference later this evening. i attended it and what he said is actually this was discussed, election interference did come up in his white house meeting with trump, but the person who raised the election interference was him, sergei lavrov. he was noting that pike pompeo, trump s top diplomat complained to him about russian election interference and that s when sergey brought it up to trump. those are communications that happened with the obama administration and russia and, you know, the trump administration has shown no interest in disclosing this. and it s not clear with anyone i talked to if that would clarify the matter. it might actually muddy it even more. but of course the key thing is lavrov was not confirming that trump warned him in this white ....