now, let's turn toome of our other top stories tonight starting with new psidential bs and our yeppian allies. >> president trump taking a at prime minister theresa may who hosted mr. trump and the first lady for a black tie dinner tonight. in an interew with the sun newspaper, president trump criticized may's handling of the brex deal. he also said britain's former foreign secretary who just resigned over brexit negotiations would make a great prime minister. the president and may have meetings set for tomorrow. >>> and a marathon hearing finally overn capitol hill here for a grueling nine hours and 41 minutes. ouse lawmakers questioned a senior fbi agent about bias. peter strzokegentive text messages about then candidate trump on government issued phone. tomorrow they'll question lisa page the attorney she sent the messages to. >> tonight we bring you an update to a story that appeared 13 years ago. hurricane katrina caused human sufring not seen in this country in many years. almost 2,000 people died. >> and more than a million people were displaced from new orleans and surrounding

have a press release he from omar alexander saying there's no doubt russia interfered in our 2016 psidential election, and that's about it. no specific criticism of the president. i get the sense that jeff flake, john mccain, mitt romney issued a statement, ben sasse, these are the outlers in the republican party, and i think you're going to find republicans continue to support the g president,ss we'll see. >> you say mccain and romney from thehe outliers, they're last two presidential nominees to have the republican party, but it is erno lo thain republican party. it is now donald trump republican party and it's proved to be very difficult to shake the hold that trump has had in a party that's been ready find in its own image. most notably in attitudes against russia, if there's one thing that characterized republican politics in the pa, it's been a pretty hard line on russia. we certainly did not hear that ustoday. >>to add, terrific points, just to add, i was looking at a pew research center series of surveys from 2015 to 2018, and the attitudes toward vladimir putin have changed signific

2014 and 2015 show her with rick santelli tore um, bobby jindal and scott walker, all future 2016 psidentials. both jindal and walker sayingju they wer ordinary photo ops. the faeb said bbi said she work establish a relationship with an organization, later known as national rifle association. >> the basic for any freedom, of course, is gunrights. >> in a tweet one day after the 2016 election, torshin boasted he and butina were the only lifetime members of the nra from russia. the nra, a major supporter of president trump during the campaign, has not responded to our request for comment. a this is area where we have deep concern. not only in terms of the nra as a potential back channel butnv also to iestigate and ensure the russians weren't funneling money through the nra. >> in 2016a butin bragged about being partru of the t campaign's communions with russia. a year before she pressed then candidate trump about russian sanctions. >> do you want tcontinue the politics of sanctions that are damaging both economy, or you have any other ideas? >> i don't think you'd need the sanctions. i think t