wray? congressman, as i have said repeatedly, i do not believe on ial counsel mueller is any kind of witch-hunt. counsel has l actually been remarkably 22 uctive in its work, people and businesses have been charged with 75 criminal charges. been five guilty leas from michael flynn, rick gates, george -- and rich -- one person has already been sentenced. you can compare that to the ken starr whitewater investigation hich lasted four years and produced nothing or the seven congressional committees that after the ben gazi wholly grail and came back with nothing beloved mr. gowdy that took more than three years nd yet in less than two years we've got 22 people and companies charged. have there been any complaints pleas with ilty those criminal indictments from any members of congress that you're aware of, mr. rosenstein? i could make two corrections. i spent 28 years in federal law years in the 9 service of government. sometimes i round it up to 30. with regard to the starr investigation i woul

wray endorsed mueller's raid and doj's raid on president's lawyer. extraordinary, they are not even done on mob cases, this is what he sees as legitimate law enforcement actions by mr. mueller? mr. wray has a relationship with mr. mueller he admits predates this investigation. he and mr. rod rosenstein have personal and professional relationships with mueller, that make it impossible to manage his investigation or help him manage the investigation. we're not getting any protection from the direct or of the fbi, or mr. rod rosenstein, on the mueller investigation. and you know, nailed it in the beginning, you said conducting foreign policy, the justice department, mueller, doj, russia indictment is the doj deep staters hijacking our foreign policy with respect to russia. they supposely told president trump before the summit with putin, we're going to indict all these guys, what do you think about it? what is she going t she he goin- what is he going to say? don't do it? you have this intervention in foreign policy with these indictments that are reall

i want to show you christopher wray. we have a lot of conversations about the president and his al i say, their ongoing hot war against the fbi. christopher wray maybe ripping a page out of dni coats but this happened first. sounding more like coats than a trump lackey, let's watch. >> the intelligence community's assessment has not changed. my view has not changed, which is that russia attempted to interfere with the last election and that it continues to engage in malign influence operations to this day. it's pretty common for me to meet somebody and have them introduce themselves and then say i just want you to know, we're all praying for you. >> there have also been stories that you threaten to resign. have you ever hit a point on that issue of sources and methods or anything else where you said this is a line? >> i'm say -- as i said, i'm a low key, understated guy, but that should not be mistaken for what my spine is made out of. >> so you have -- >> i'll just leave it at that. >> okay. all right. [ applause ] >> h

his fbi director christopher wray tonight.on, will the president sit with mueller. >> it is. and if it was just a question of asking about potential collusion, then his lawyers would say, okay. i mean, they have said that to us. but it's not. there are other things that robert mueller clearly wants to talk to the president about, like potential obstruction of justice and who knows what else. we don't know what we don't know. it's been very clear in the couple of indictments that robert mueller has put out there that they have so many more details than we even realized, just about the russians, never mind what potentially went on here in the u.s. so they seem to be at a stalemate. i'm not sure this situation in helsinki made that any better. but it certainly has been a very long negotiation with the president's lawyers and team mueller on this very subject. >> we asked the question last night about how much longer would the explanations go on. remember, after charlotteville, it took three, four, five times for him, and he chang

and wray weighing in on the idea of a russian offer allow u.s. prosecutors to travel to moscow to watch questioning of russian agents under u.s. indictment. would you ever invision -- envision a sion a world where you would allow suspects to be interviewed by russia andbserve? >> well, i never want to say never about anything but it certainly is not high on our lisof vestigative techniques. >>here is also the suggestion from putin that he want to come have interview americans. is that something you would support? >> that's probably even lower on our list. >> and now, with those revelations of anti trump texts from top agent peter strzok h whe inspector general said cast a cloud over the fbi, the president intensifng his attack on the russia investigation. >> that was a total witch hunt. >> is there anything that would allowt to called a witch hunt? >> i've been consistent. i get asked this a lot. i do not believe special counsel mueller is on a witch hunt. i think it's a professional d nvestigation conduc a man that ie known to be a straight shoo

lester asked chris wray about mueller. >> we're big boys and girls.we get criticized by all sorts of people. i come back to the answer i gave lester before, which is my focus is not on what the people affected by our work think. i do not believe special counsel mueller is on a witch hunt. it's a professional investigation conducted by a man i've known to be a straight shooter. >> so mimi, do we think that the mueller probe is safe from, you know, rod rosenstein being fired or mueller being forced out? what is your bottom line? >> well, i don't put anything past this president at this point. although i think that really what they would try to do is undermine it, which they've been doing, not try to do, that's something they've been consistently doing, try to undermine it, sort of their own information warfare on the mueller probe, kind of equivalent to what the russians did in our election. i think that's the tactic that trump and his allies are taking, not actually something as bold as firing mueller or rosenstein, because that would create more of a

and, michael, yesterday lester, who's also at the summit where you are, interviewed christopher wray, director of the fbi, and sort of pressed this point with him, whether it was about christopher wray or others in the fbi, how do you withstand the constant attack. let's listen to this exchange. >> have you ever hit a point on that issue of sources an methods or anywhere elsewhere you've said this is a line? >> as i said, i'm a low key, understated guy, but that should not be mistaken for what my spine is made out of. >> so, michael, i put this to you because the other two guys in this interview are men who have dedicated themselves to the service of this country. so we're talking about them. it may not be fair to ask them. but in a lot of cases, they're low key, understated patriots in america who cannot be mistaken for having a spine. at what point does this president not only compromise our safety and security, but play right into the hands of vladimir putin on two fronts. one is he undermines nato. that's fantastic for vladimir putin. and two is, as malcolm said, 42% of americans

wray made iowa a better place to grow. looking back at his lifetime of service, seems nearly impossible that one person could wear so many hats and reach the highest rungs of distinguished service in public life and the private sector. after graduating from high school, bob enlisted in the u.s. army to serve his country that way. he returned from service and earned undergraduate and law degrees from drake university, des moines, iowa. he married the love of his life, billy, and together they raised three daughters. in addition to serving 14 years as our state's chief executive from 1969 to 1983, governor wray also served as our state party chairman at the age of 35, chairman of the national governors association, interim mayor of des moines, 11th president of drake university, u.s. delegate to the united nations conference on refugees, c.e.o. and board member to a number of nonprofits and for-profit corporations, reading such an outstanding resume one might come to the conclusion that this iowan must have an outside ego to

the fbi director christopher wray reinforcing his belief that the russia probe is, in fact, not a hoax. how to contrast between his claims and the president's could affect members of our intelligence community who put their lives on the line every single day. and facebook under fire. the social media giant responding to growing pressure to remove posts that incite violence. but it's the content the company says it will not remove from your news feed that's raising some new questions today. >>> but we start with president trump saying a new meeting with vladimir putin could soon be on the books, even as he tries to pivot to jobs and the economy. the president's new comments put questions about his own allegiances back on the front burner. it is a fourth day of one of the worst weeks this white house has had. one that has produced plenty of fodder for potential commercials this campaign season. >> my people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others. they said they think it's russia. i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this, i don't see any reason why i

. >>> fbi director christopher wray says russia is still trying to interfere in u.s. politicians. >> -- politics. >> the u.s. assessment has not changed. my view has not changed. russia attempted to interfere with the last election and it continues to engage and malign operations to this day. >> wray was speaking at the security forum on wednesday. he defended the mueller investigation and challenging the characterization of it as a witch hunt. >> i think it is a professional investigation conducted by a man i have known to be a straight shooter in all my interactions with him in my past life in government and certainly since then. so i don't think it is a witch hunt. >> the fbi director refused to say if he ever considered resigning. he said people should not interpret his low-key manner for being spineless. >>> breaking news. british police identified two suspects in the poisoning of the former russian spy. police have been combing through footage at the airport in salisbu salisbury. two individuals not previously known as spies by using facial recognition technolog

what will say, will she echo what christopher wray said last night? listen. >> russia attempted to interfere with the last election. and then it continues to engage in blind in you operations to this day. >> joining me is nia-malika henderson and mark preston and also bob beyer. thanks for coming in. bob, you had dan coats speaking out. and then you have christopher wray saying in no uncertain terms it is russia and ongoing. but depending on when you catch him, the president either agrees or disagrees. does it bring ycomfort or what does this? >> i've never seen it where the intelligence agencies and fbi director come out against the president. almost a revolt in the ranks. because they know he is absolutely wrong. he is saying it could be somebody else that hacked, but everybody -- they have a smoking gun on the gru. they caught them on tape talking about it, they have names, ranks, addresses. they have everything. i mean, you could take this to court and get a sure conviction in a day. so for the president to throw doubt on this, throw cold water on

director christopher wray showing his support for special counsel bob mueller.ny and judith miller. you were at the world cup, weren't you? >> i was. this is a big event. >> sandra: wow. >> bill: welcome back. >> thank you. >> bill: witch hunt, no witch hunt. democrats want blood. are they ever going to get it? >> they'll never get it. the president is right when they call it a witch hunt. the witch hunt began long before robert mueller began, when peter strzok the bias f.b.i. agent signed the opening document into the russia investigation based on no evidence, a phony dossier falsely liking the trump administration to russia. mueller was rebuked by a district court in virginia who said hey, you are not interested in going after people, you are interesting in finding people and finding facts pursuant to them to go after trump. when you're rebuked by a judge a good indicator you're overreaching. >> i disagree again. judy can go first. >> you have the indictment a guilty pleas of four people in the trump campaign. you have 12 russians indicted for meddling in the

keep in mind chris wray's agents are the ones that are doing this investigation, so he has his agentsloyees who he has to defend at this point. >> i mean, that's pretty incredible, right, to say that there is no witch-hunt when the president obviously says there is one every single time he gets a chance, including tonight. and evan, you're there. you're in aspen where the fbi director is speaking, and i know speaking as you and i are talking. this is going to be crucial, right? we haven't heard from him since the disastrous press conference in helsinki, you know. what are we hearing already as this discussion with him gets started where you are? >> some extraordinary words, erin. look, this is an fbi director who is a little more low-key than, say, james comey. he doesn't want to really make a big fuss about things, but today he is confronted with the president's words which came even as chris wray was meeting with intelligence chiefs from other countries, other allied countries are here in aspen, and he was talking to them. so he had some choice words for what the president has to sa

wray -- wray was a bit strong yesterday as well in terms of the steely nature of his spine. imagine trump seeing all of that and really being unnerved, because his ego is so fragile. so i don't know if they will keep their jobs. i don't know if it's the right setting for them to lose their jobs is i think a different question. >> axios always has a good nose on what is going on behind the scenes. what is going on behind the scenes? >> it will come as no surprise that morale is at an all-time low. if you keep your job, how happy are you even in the job you're doing when everything you're saying, though based in facts and evidence, is upsetting the president because he just fundamentally disagrees with the story line because it is against the story line that he prefers. i think that is a culture that we've seen from the beginning, but especially now. it's not just morale is low, it is infuriating and confusing. but we had a poll this week that showed 79% of republicans are happy with the way trump handled his press conference with put anyone helsinki. even if you're close to t

most people don't know who wray is.not follow his comments at aspen compared to the president's twitter feed witch hunt. >> 2018. julian, thank you. >>> we're following breaking news this morning. british police identified two suspects in the poisoning of the former russian spy. source says that investigators have been combing through months of surveillance footage from the uk airport and salisbury where the poisoning happening. authorities discovered two individuals to the previously known as spies by using facial recognition technology. names have not been revealed. sergei skripal and his daughter were poisoned in march. they are home and doing well. >>> the founder of papa john's pizza resigned after admitting to using the "n" word on a conference call. he now says why leaving was a mistake. we'll have that next. f da that water could do. we called usaa. and they greeted me as they always do. sergeant baker, how are you? they were on it. it was unbelievable. having insurance is something everyone needs, but having us

they knew christopher wray was there. they chose to announce this on twitter and not tell these guys. there is no question here. someone made a choice. >> absolutely. look, i have covered this aspen security forum over the years. you know these top officials before they come out here, before they go on the air they know these things are going to be streamed on the internet and broadcast. they make sure they have their talking points all lined up. they are briefed beforehand. and we say this often but it bears saying it again that these are not normal times. so this administration doesn't behave like administrations past. so this was very much on display here in aspen today. >> max, coats made it clear today vladimir putin is in charge. he is in charge of everything that russia is doing and vladimir putin is a spy. coats made it clear. here he is. >> the former director of the kgb is the one leading their nation. and those people usually don't have the kind of training that our presidents have. i think anybody who thinks t

where is chris wray? what is he doing?en sakes. >> brian: went missing but not taking an active role. it will be a day in which we at least get to watch peter strzok tomorrow. inevitably he comes off smug and self-assured and looks of his lawyer along with the tough questions get tough. >> sounds like rosenstein. >> brian: all right, here we go. there are one of the men that will be questioning tomorrow, congressman john ratcliffe. i always like safe. people with oversight have a chance to question peter strzok. so lisa page congressman thomas doesn't show up today. zig made her an offer, show up tomorrow or show up by friday. tell me about this. >> we had a lot of discussion about how to handle her failure to comply with a congressional subpoena. ultimately she will get three bites of the apple. she had one bite today, we invited her to appear with peter strzok tomorrow. if she doesn't do that, she can appear friday morning for a transcribed interview or deposition and, if she doesn't appear before our committee by 10:00

meddling, is at risk of impeachment and the president's hand picked director of the fbi christopher wray describes his new job as, quote, staring down the barrel of a contempt citation. and brand-new reporting from "the new york times" out in the last 30 minutes sheds new light on rosenstein's private anger over being used to rationalize the firing of fbi director james comey. the times reporting that in public mr. rosenstein has shown no hint that he had second thoughts about that role, but privately, quote, he expressed remorse at the tumult it unleash the. he said the full story would vindicate him. according to one person with whom he spoke shortly after comey's firing, rosenstein was shaken, unsteady and overwhelmed. another person in touch with rosenstein around that time said he sounded frantic, nervous, upset and emotionally disregulated. in one of these conversations with the acting fbi director at the time, andrew mccabe, rosenstein became visibly upset. joining us now from "the new york times" mike schmidt who just broke this story, nbc news intelligence national security repo

>> that's clearly not going to fly, and i'm here at aspen, director wray was asked about it last night by lester holt. i think you ran some clips. he made it clear there's no way the fbi would go along with an arrangement like this. can i point out obviously the mixed messages we hear from the white house confusing, one story one day another, another day. is creating quite a public relations mess, but it's more important than that. go back to that indictment just last friday. which, by the way, remember, the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein had briefed the president on earlier in the week. so if he had any question about the strength of the evidence that the fbi and justice department working for robert mueller had, he could have asked it and raised it then with rosenstein. obviously he didn't. but, let's just say, those were a dozen gru guys, it's likely we'll never get our haptsdnds o them. let's say they come to the united states for trial. if you're the defense lawyer for that guy, what are you gsh gsh who are you going to call as your first witness or what tape are you going

that is fbi director christopher wray talking to lester holt. on monday donald trump took the side of an adversary over his own, our own, really, intelligence committee. walked it back. today he again under cut. requiring another tortured explanation that the president meant no more questions. not no to whether he believes that russia is interfering. some republicans are saying these explanations suffice. joining me now. you are a popular guy in a safely republican state. why do you think that was a sufficient explanation. it is not going to hurt you say what you thought. you heard the president say it and most people didn't believe it. >> i think he made a mistake when he was speaking the first time and he corrected that. and i am happy with his explanation. >> you don't really believe that he made a mistake, right congressman? i got to know, because it is not really plausible the way he said it. there was a whole press conference where he reiterated the same sentence over and over again. >> where i come from, a man's word is his bond. consiste

do you still trust fbi director wray? >> implicitly. >> jeff sessions made contributions to the republican party. i still trust if there's a democrat or a republican or an independent that attorney general jeff sessions could look at the facts and the law and apply it in a fair and unbiassed manner. do you still trust him to do that even though he made political contributions to the alabama republican party? >> i don't know him but he's taken an oath as the attorney general and i trust him to discharge that. >> thank you. let me conclude by saying this. we're going to know at some point what the robert mueller investigation found. we already know about the hillary clinton e-mails, because there's been an exhaustive investigation into that, plus this i.g. report. and what we're seeing now is an attack on law enforcement. when i was prosecuting cases, i know when defendants don't have the facts and evidence on their side, they resort to attacking law enforcement. that's what we see happening now. i just thought i'd end on a

>> fbi director chris wray telling me -- >> the intelligence community's assessment has not changed. my view has not changed. which is that russia atted to interfere with the last election and that it continues to engage and malign, influence operations to this day. >> aimed at our political considered quitting. >> i'm a low key guy, but that shouldn't be mistaken for what my spine is made out of. >> so you have -- >> i'll leave it at that. >> okay. >>> and wray weighing in on the idea of a russian offer to allow u.s. prosecutors to travel to moscow to watch questioning of russian agents under u.s. indictment. >> would you ever envision a world in which you would allow suspects to be interviewed by russia and observe? re: well, i never want to say never about anything, but it's certainly not high on our list of investigative techniques. [ laughter ] >> there has also been the suggestion from putin that he would want to come -- have interview americans. is that something that you would support? >> that's probably even lower on our list of investigative ing at the techniques. >> now wi

i want to finish. >> that is what direct ler wray was talking about when he testified that revealing those sources or information will make america less safe. is that right. >> i don't know why director wray said that but i agree with his statement. >> yin your experience, how dangerous could it be to reveal the identity of a confidential human source? >> extraordinarily dangerous. >> will the gentleman yield. >> of course. >> since the gentlemen from maryland is my friend is going along a line of argument that could suggest a question asked by me. i want to make it perfectly clear. i asked if you talked with confidential human sources. i never asked for a name. nor would i ever ask for a name of a confidential human source. i appreciate it. >> i don't think i said that. but anyway. thank you, gentleman. disclosing identity of a confidential human source could create a risk to that person or our national security. is that correct? >> yes. >> what effect could revealing a confidential human source have on the fbi's ability to recruit or retain human sources in the future? >> i think i

and i have to say he replicated what chris wray did last night here in an interview with lester. and these are two law enforcement and intelligence officials who really feel they have to stand up for their agencies. >> andrea, this may call for an opinion on your part but it was lost on none of us who could see you on live television that the white house communication shop, sarah huckabee sanders, tweeted out the invitation to putin while you're sitting there with the director of national intelligence whose word the president seemed to go against last we saw in helsinki. accident, quirk of history or not? >> i'm not in a position especially at this distance to know. i don't have the sourcing to know exactly what was going through their minds. was it deliberate? was it an accident? was it incompetence? there's a lot of lack of communication in that shop or has been. so i don't really know that, but i do know that a senior intelligence official tonight is pushing back very strongly against "the washington post" reporting. perhaps robert costa can shed some clarity on this. "the was

christopher wray is the trump appointee to replace james comey at the fbi. the president can, if you want and if you're a trump voter, maybe i under this, question jim clapper and john brennan, the obama guys. again we're hitting the 18 month mark of the trump presidency. his team has been in place for 14, 15rks in some cases 16 of those months. >> as of monday. >> they were there monday. and, again, he's said this yesterday he was as sotough as he's been in the cbs interview. we go back and look at his tweets and speeches he's been soft. >> he has. the reality here is that he walked into the meeting unprepared. no question. there's now a big debate inside the west wing with john bolton. he's a relatively new figure. he's a hard-liner on russia in every respect. so he and others tried to brief fortunate and tried to get him in the right direction. it's clear the president doesn't want to go in that direction. this constant cleanup, it's just -- you know, we should keep in mind the majority of republicans, polls say they support and believe the president on t

of h chris wray and rod rosenstn are careerists.rel and the department of justice people even under barack obama could do no wrong. if they did dodo wrong, it's woh saving them and not having them pilloried in public because these institutions are too important. nonsense. these institutions are too important not to have the truth come out. we have to know all of these facts. where is chris wray, what is he doing, he's on a milk carton. >> brian: missing but he's certainly not taking an active role. thanks so much is going to be a day in which we watch peter petr strzok, he looks to his lawyer a lot when his questions get toug tough. here's one of the men who's going to be questioning him tomorrow, congressman john radcliffe. representative from texas and serves in the house judiciary committee. he will have a chance to question peter strzok. lisa page doesn't show up today so you made her an offer. show up tomorrow or show up by friday, tell me about this. >> we had a lot of discussion about how to handle her failure to comply with

do you still trust fbi director christopher wray? >> implicimplicitly. >> and if there's a case involving a democrat or republican or independent on somebody that voted for jill stein, jeff sessions could look at the facts and apply it and do it in an unbiassed manner. do you trust jeff sessions? >> i don't know him and nearly the same capacity that i know the director. he's taken an oath as an attorney general and i trust him to discharge that. >> thank you. let me conclude by saying this. we're going to know at some point what the robert mueller investigation. we already know about the hillary clinton e-mails because there's been an investigation and the i.g. report. what we're seeing now is an attack on law enforcement. when i was prosecuting cases, i know when defendants don't have the facts on their side, they resort to attacking law enforcement. that's what we see happening now. i just thought i end on a quote from sarah huckabee sanders. she said basically when you're attacking the fbi, you're losing. >> the chair recognizes t

>> i don't know why director wray said that, but i agree with the statement. >> in your experience, how dangerous could it be to reveal the identity of a confidential human source? >> extraordinarily dangerous. >> will the gentleman yield to his friend? >> of course. >> i thank the gentleman. i want to be clear. since the gentleman from maryland, who is my friend, is going along a line of argument that would suggest a question asked by me. i want to make it perfectly clear, i asked if you talked with confidential human sources. i never asked for a name, nor would i ever ask for a name of a confidential human source. i appreciate it. i yield back. >> i don't think i said that. but anyway. thank you, gentleman. disclose the identity of a confidential human source could create a risk to that person or our national security, is that correct? >> yes. >> what effect could revealing a confidential human source have on the fbi's ability to recruit or retain human sources in the future? >> i think it could and is having an extraordinary impact, in that people who come to the fbi with information

congressman adam smith washington state, followed by deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and fbi director wray, testifying before congress about fbi's handling of the hillary clinton email investigation during the election. later, president trump and members of congress react to the news of supreme court justice anthony kennedy retiring. >> "newsmakers" this week is pleased to have congressman adam smith of washington. it is home to the air force base and he is the ranking democrat on the armed services committee. were talking to him when the house is talking about big big decisions on defense. let me introduce the two reporters asking questions. joe covers capital hill and connor o'brien senior defense reporter for politico. we have just gotten some confirmation this morning as we start here, that president trump and russian leader putin will be meeting on july 16, not to very o very far in the future, in helsinki, finland. what are your hopes and concerns about these two leaders sitting at the table together? broadly speaking, it would be a better world if the united states and russia got al

i have confidence that dan coats and christopher wray and the justice department are doing the best they can. i certainly applaud the policy that rod rosenstein have announced of the cyber task force, that the justice department will inform the public, inform the tech companies when they see evidence of russian malign activity trying to influence our elections. but no, i don't have confidence in the president. and i think if anything, vladimir putin walked away from the meeting in helsinki with a conviction that as long as russia interferes on the side of donald trump, as long as he helps the gop in the midterms, donald trump will never confront him. that unfortunately was the message donald trump delivered in helsinki. >> congressman be adam schiff, thank you very much. thanks for being with us today in aspen. >>> and in that interview, director of intelligence dan coats issued a stern warning about vladimir putin himself. just as sarah sanders was tweeting that the president has invited the russian president to come to the white house. >> so, again, we should be very wary around the fo

you heard chris wray defending bob mueller. and you heard dan coats saying there is no doubt that vladimir putin is responsible for everything that happens in terms of policy and covert action in russia. and russia is the worst perpetrator is done by putin himself. that was the assessment back in january of 2017 and they have reassessed it constantly and still true today. whatever the president's wavering opinions and switching back and forth. he has landed in a better place. and that is why you heard sort of ambivalence statements from dan coats. hoping the president stays in that place. >> i am laughing because you said he has been in the right place in the last couple of interviews. who knows what has happened in our conversation. >>> coming up. president trump considered handing over to russia. in 2017, california had the worst wildfire season on record. scientists say, our weather is becoming more extreme and we all have to be better prepared. that's why pg&e is adopting new and additional safety precautions to help us mon

lou: will i hear you cheer for christopher wray, he looks every bit as uncooperative as james comey. >> i would say christopher wray has an opportunity to to the right thing, i would hope he would seize it to date there are things he has done that i have been in agreement with, regarding in standing up for rank-and-file at fbi. but there is no defense for actions of strzok, and paimg, ankeep --comey and page and mcc. your criticism is fair, i am trying to encourage him to do the right thing. lou: turn if we may to all of criticism that now focused on president of united states he did not meet the particulars of the dems, the left, the left wing national media, rinos, and conservatives. i'm trying to figure out how he will be able to withstand such calamity as not meeting expectations of those fine americans? >> well president trump has a unique style, sometimes the game you are watching is not always the game played. you will remember in north korea, he called kim jong-un little rocket man, at same time he was establishing a platform for diplomacy and negotiation. so here, you may ha

wray says that the fbi has investigations open in all 50 states.says china isn't just targeting our tech. they're going after everything from corn seeds in iowa, to wind turbines in massachusetts. china has always been the number one leader in cyber attacks against the u.s. but they aren't keeping those attacks within our borders. you saw what happened in helsinki. also when president trump was -- a lot of cyber attacks coming from china as well. neil? neil: hillary, thank you very be very. the read on all this, if we've been under assumption it is russia, all of that, no, we find china puts them to shame, what do we do? defense one technology editor patrick tucker with us right now. patrick, are they as big as this as that report seemed to intimate? >> yes, a new report from f5 came out on their website actually within the hour. it does show that chinese hackers were specifically targeting internet of things devices in helsinki in lead-up to the trump-putin summit that traffic jumping more than 2000 percent and it does come in line what we underst

just leave it at that. >> okay. >> wray also said he does not believe special couel robert mueller'ss interview this evening onni "nb tly news." >>> a fast moving wildfire in oregon has now left at least one person dead and forced others from their homes. officials say the victim was apparently trying to u a tractor to build a fire line. the so-called substation fire east of pedtland sta tuesday. it's burned more than 50,000o acres far. it's the largest of some 160 fires burning right now in oregon. the smoke is so thick that people were advised to keep their pets indoors. meanwhile in california fires have led to a mandatory evacuation order near yosemite national park. >>> baltimore has become the first american city to ban sodas from childr's menus in restaura ms. kid'sus can only offer mosquito, 0% fruit juice and water. the goal is to help families make healthier choices.of 1/altimore schoolchildren are obese, but there is a loophole. youngsters can still have sugary drinks if an adult who is with them orders it. >> that was odd. >>> there are always some great surprises on the

. >> steve, tell me about chris wray. his conversation today it seemed to be he talked about resigning. he was so concerned about trump's behavior. >> i think you see the remarkable video from the aspen security counsel. at the end of the day, when you look at donald trump's putin fetish, when you look at the things that he has done over the last ten-days. attacks on the nato allies. destabilizing that alliance. lastly, the weakest performance by an american president, the head of state of the united states standing next to a foreign leader in the history of electronic recordings of this type of events. we have never seen a weaker performance by a president of the united states standing next to any leader let alone one that has attacked the country, attacked the elections process. that is responsible for war crimes across the middle east. the annexation of his neighboring states and his attempts to weaken liberal democracy all across the world. not a single line of opposition to them. it was gutless, it was weak, it was s

the problem is if he does not have directives, if christopher wray does not have directives we are only as safe as the congress is willing to be by standing up to the president. today on the house floor nice tweets i saw, republicans voted to completely zero out the election security grants that just last year were funded at $300 million. >> if the director of national intelligence is out of the loop on some of these so sensitive national security related issues where does that leave u.s. national security? >> we are not helpless so what we can do is start to require that the president turn over any conversations he has had with people like putin to the national security -- >> you need the republican majority in the house to get along with you on that. >> i hope they see that this is a five alarm fire right now. we need every hand on the hose to put it out. we are so vulnerable if the president is striking side deals and inviting the president to our country and everyone who is responsible for protecting us is out of the loop. >> let me get your reaction to a truly shocking tweet earlie

christopher wray, no fear.what he believes, goes after it, says the russians are meddling. secretary mattis, secretary mattis, when donald trump was attacking nato, secretary mattis, what did he say? he said nato is so important that if it didn't exist we would have had to invent it. what do these five people have in common? they have many thing in common. one thing they have in common is donald trump appointed all of them. and they are all tough on russia and they are all speaking out with donald trump being obsequ everyone obsequitous. he could be appointing people who aren't conservatives who will do whatever donald trump tells him to do. sean hannity could be secretary of state. i mean you need to go down the list. there are a lot of craven people trying to undermine robert mueller's investigation. he could appoint them as attorney general. it is almost like he knows he can't. it's a tale of two cities. a tale of two administrations. >> what you're suggesting, it's a fascinating point. okay if we go on the

director wray also brushed off the president's criticism of some fbi officials.ses on doing his job. >> there have been stories that you threatened to resign. have you ever hit a point on that issue of sources and methods or anywhere elsewhere you said this is a line? >> i'm a low key, understated guy, but that should not be mistmi mistaken for what my spine is made out of. >> so you have -- >> i'll just leave it at that. >> okay. >> wray also said he does not believe special counsel robert mueller's russia investigation is a witch-hunt. lester will have more of his exclusive interview this evening on nbc nightly news. >>> meanwhile, out west a fast-moving fire in oregon left one dead and forced others from their homes. officials say the victim was apparently trying to use a tractor to build a fire line. the so-called substation fire east of portland started tuesday. it has burned more than 50,000 acres so far. it is the largest of some 160 fires returning right now in oregon. the smoke is so thick that people were advised to keep their pets indoors. meanwhile, i

. >>> the fbi director, christopher wray, says russia is still trying to sew discord in the u.s.t mueller's investigation is not a witch hunt, he says and he dismissed vladimir putin's offer to aid in the russia investigation. >>> and alex ovechkin was named best male athlete at last night's espy awards. chloe kim won three espys, including best female athlete, and we'll have a lot more from the espys coming up. >>> tomorrow's megamillion jackpot is the seventh time it has topped $400 million. no one had the ticket with all the winning numbers, but there were a few people who won million dollar prizes because they had a few similar numbers. >> i'll take those two. >>> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> wouldn't you like to have a . so we know like, it's possibly dangerous to go to some of the beaches off the coast of florida, in california, places like that. >> australia. >> yes, yes. so, you know, it's a good time to go to long island, right? >> apparently not. >> no. apparently, there were a couple of shark attacks of children no less. >> so the 13 year old boy, 12 yea

according to "the new york times," it the white house we buffed the concerns of christopher wray and dan coats about widening the circle of access to details about an informant the fbi used in 2016 to investigate possible ties between the trump campaign and russia. citing two american officials with knowledge of the decision, both coats and wray tried to keep the documents tightly reooh striktded fearing broader dits semination of reports and other sensitive material could lead to more leaks. some american officials believe the white house made the decision to provide political ammunitioning to president trump's republican ally who have argued without evidence that the fbi investigation was opened in july of 2016 as an effort to keep mr. trump from becoming president. the fbi files about the informant will now be available to all members of the house and senate intel committees instead of just to a group of leaders known as the gang of eight. it is unclear whether trump or lower level white house official authorized this move. >>> still ahead, an inside look what paul manafort may ex