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the official position of the u.s.ncluding the trump administration, is that wikileaks -- let's not forget wick i can leaks iski le listen to what the then cia director mike pompeo, now the secretary of state in the trump administration, said about wikileaks. >> it's time to call out wikileaks for what it really is, a non-state hostile intelligence search. in january, our intelligence community determined russians had wikileaks had used russia. the report also found that russia's primary propaganda outlet has collaborated with wikileaks. >> when we look at the charges roger stone is facing and we talk about how there's no conspiracy charge, it's possible one of the elements that's missing is any sort of knowledge or acknowledgement from roger stone or from members of the trump campaign that this was information that was coming from some kind of hostile foreign government. maybe they couldn't prove that any of the people knew that this information was stolen. they didn't know it came from russia. or maybe they couldn't

, campaign officials. who are the officials? >> false. >> reporter: no indication on who those officials were, mr. stone? >> they don't exist. >> reporter: anything you'd like to say to clear the record? >> i think i've been pretty clear on this. tune in to the shows tonight and you'll see. i support the president. >> reporter: you heard him there, brianna. i asked him who these unnamed senior trump officials, senior trump campaign officials were unnamed in the indictment, and he says they don't exist. he seemed to be in incredibly good spirits considering the seriousness surrounding him, it is charges that he's facing. we saw him as he left the courthouse throwing a victory sign and being incredibly defiant as he made a statement to the press. brianna? >> nick, thank you for bringing us that interview in ft. lauderdale. now we have dana bash, gloria borger, and joe marino. first off, he denies everything. it defies belief. you wouldn't have an indictment, you wouldn't have this charging document where sen

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are the officials named in that as official 1 and 2, et cetera?hey also going to be charged later because they didn't come clean about this. finally, if they did come clean. you know what they admitted? they admitted to asking a foreign entity about stolen information to interfere in an american election. we seem to be ignoring that. >> that obviously is at the heart of the whole thing. you have lying and obstructing, and then you have collusion or obviously the crucial legal term, conspiracy. steve, stone knew. roger stone, right, knows he's dealing with julian aassange, te founder of wikileaks. mueller lays that out clearly. the dnc publicly announced the hack into the dnc was done by russia in june of 2016. you know russia was behind it. then, the information stolen from -- by russia from the dnc is then released by wikileaks starting in july. so anybody can put those things together. roger stone then is working with contacts tied to wikileaks and julian assange, all the way through the fall. but today, he says the indictment does not add up to

senior campaign officials? i found interesting the use of passive voice there. i don't want to be overly lawyerly here but lawyers hate writing with passive voice. if you look at mueller's writing, he doesn't use passive voice. this is conspicuous. was directed. it might be a subtle way of making it a bigger deal than necessary. the other thing that jumps out at me about the indictment is there are hints here or indicators of strategic coordination on messaging between stone and the people around stone and wikileaks. there is an example where they say, let's try to suggest hillary clinton is old and her memory is bad. that's page five. there is an example where they are asking for e-mails from a specific date, august 20. there is an e-mail where they are saying hillary's people are doing a full court press to stop this. we are seeing more than just irrelevant or petty coordination. we are seeing coordination on core strategic messaging. >> it is a good point. i will point to another one. one of these exchanges

there are two answers from white house officials named in this document. clearly maul clearly mueller has more than statements. yes. we knowingly encouraged roger stone to contact a foreign entity using stolen data. yes, we did that. it will be stunning if people that went to the white house did that or they lied like everybody else and they said -- and now we know mueller has the data they said no. it has to be one of the two. they either knew it and we are going to lie about it. i suspect they will get indicted too. >> how concerned are officials over there? you heard stone repeatedly say he will never testify against the president. >> right. this is the beating drum they have been dealing with over two years now. i think one of the things we saw her give the answers that she gave which was basically to say roger stone is someone that was part of our campaign, yes but also advised many other people in the past and what he was charged with is not specifically named in these documents. what will be striking is how roger stone's relationship to president tr

senior administration officials tell "the times" several times over the course of 2018 president trump suggested a move tantamount to destroying nato. he suggested the withdrawal of the united states from nato. an under-secretary of defense during the obama administration, a widely respected national security official, she would be a top tier candidate to be secretary of defense during any democratic administration and even some republican ones. she is then quoted in this piece by "the times." saying that a move to withdraw the u.s. from nato, quote, would be one of the most damaging things that any president could do to u.s. interests. she continues, quote, it would destroy 70-plus years of painstaking work across multiple administrations, republican and democratic, to create perhaps the most powerful and advantageous alliance in u.s. history. quote, and it would be the wildest success that vladimir putin could dream of. "the times" continues, quote, after russia annexed crimea in 2014, american national security officials believe that russia has largely focused on undermining solidar

you do have a lot of officials as far as being border patrol. we have seen the military and legislature here spending upwards of $800 million on border security to up the ranks and address different technological advances down there as well. it's heavily patrolled. there is law and order like they tell you the same in el paso. >> we are expecting the president to head down to texas for this trip. if you want to join us in this last half hour of our program today before the house comes in, we are talking with alana, multi-media reporter, about the issue of border security and immigration in texas and about the president's trip today. you can join us by calling in 202-748-2003. as folks are calling in, you mentioned john cornyn and ted cruz will meet with local may erz domayors down there. what are you hearing they will hear from the mayors and the reaction to the president's visit? >> there was several reactions to the president's speech the other night. it was a nine-minute speech. i came downstairs thinking i would catch the tail end and it was

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>> wolf, these officials told congressional lawmakers that fbi officials, senior fbi officials, consideredhe possibility that president trump was working at the behest of vladimir putin and russia. now, these transcripts also say that they were considering a spectrum of possibilities. so that being one end. the other end being that president trump was working within the constraints of the presidency by firing james comey, that he was simply doing his executive duty. but on the other end of the spectrum, this really incredible suggestion that the president of the united states the could havd and discussed by senior officials at the fbi. >> you heard, phil mudd, the critici criticism from the fbi, the president and his supporters were all politically motivated to launch this kind of probe. you at one point in your career worked at the fbi. when you hear that kind of talk, for example, by the president, a bunch of bad cops who are responsible for this over at the fbi, what's your reaction? >> i'm afraid they might give him some ammo here. look, i think the right question was raised here earli

even people who he has dismissed from his orbit officially.y're not ever -- it's like the hotel california. you can check out but you can't ever leave. and that is true particularly for people who don't want to be checking out of the trump orbit. and roger stone was that person. and so that is why that particular graph in this indictment is so important, and i'm glad that you showed our viewers once again what it said. >> raja, what's your take on that graph, if you will? when you read it, you think what? when you see the word "directed" used in that graph, what do you take from it? >> yeah, i think dana got it exactly right. there is the passive voice which we like to avoid in writing, definitely in legal writing, so i think that was deliberate and it suggests there was someone higher than the senior official. i just want to entertain kind of what the alternative would be, right? i mean, the white house is continuing to ask us to believe that candidate trump was so disconnected from what his -- the members of his own campaign were doing that

and campaign official, quote, trump looks pathetic.e just seeded his presidency to nancy pelosi. trump -- so this all came together very quickly this morning, nick mulvaney had a smaller, senior staff meeting in his office. equipment emwere sort of running around afterwards still in a bit of state of confusion how this was coming together but it did seem to be trump was going to reopen for a short period of time. >> what was it? do you know what it was? the airport scene this morning? >> it came out of a conversation between schumer and mcconnell. this is actually what schumer basically proposed. but really it was being humiliated on the senate floor. the republican bim got more votes than the democratic bill. trump spent six weeks -- is it six weeks in shutdown, something like that, squandered economic growth to the point his economic adviser said we may have zero growth if this continues through the first quarter. obviously anxiety and financial stress among 800,000 federal workers and he got nothing, nothing. >> but he got this -- h

the way it is written, senior trump campaign official one contacted senior trump campaign official two and directed them to get in touch with roger stone. the fact that it's not written this way, it doesn't tell you it was conclusively the president or candidate one and giveaway who it is they're talking about, which they're trying not to do. it gives you a pretty good educated guess that's likely who it is. >> the follow-up question, are you aware whether your son or other people close to you directed such an action. >> that's right. by the way, there has been reporting the president was having nightly -- not nightly, but late night phone calls frequently with roger stone in the closing stages of the campaign in the fall of october and november. i'd love to know if those reports are true. were you talking to roger stone during the entire time where he was communicating with jerome corsi? if so, what were those conversation about? if they were having conversations, that might give you some clue why roger stone tried allegedly to obstruct this investigation. >> why did you say in july o

national security official told fox news. the "wall street journal" first reported this development. the parent companies of the journal and fox news share common ownership. pentagon officials pushed back on the president's people's request and expressed concern that a military strike could lead to an all-out war with iran. they did provide military options as requested to the national security counsel. jennifer griffin reporting live from her post at the pentagon. >> shep, according to a former u.s. national security official that i spoke to today, national security adviser john bolton and his deputy told the pentagon to come up with military options to strike i ran after shiia malitias fired three mortars near the embassy. the malitias fired on the u.s. consulate in basra forcing the u.s. consulate there to close temporarily, shep. >> shepard: what else have we heard from the pentagon on this? >> according to a senior former u.s. defense initial with knowledge of the preparations, the pentagon was asked to prepare to strike

officially just about over with.le flakes of snow are just still falling here north of ocean city. now all of the snow totals are in. highest totals were in missouri. one spot reported 20 inches of snow. st. louis had 11 inches. cincinnati 8. indianapolis 7. d.c. officially 10. many areas of northern virginia were in that eight to 12 inch range. today it looks perfect. the roads will clear up. 37 and sunny in d.c. this afternoon. that's good. worst of it will be this afternoon, icy and then gets much better. our next storm is on thursday. california has a horrible week of weather. saturday the snow is in the ohio valley and starting in the northeast saturday night and this looks like an ice and snowstorm for areas of northeast as we go throughout sunday. we'll pinpoint those details as we go through the week. >> i was hoping for some snow. we got nothing. >> there was a dusting. >> i was in billion. >> you come to billion and you don't tell us. >> up live in billion? >> we both live in billion. we talking to your col

the key phrase is senior trump campaign officials. note the senior, note the plural, officials. and we have that mysterious passage where one of the officials was directed by an unnamed person. i think the biggest question i have here, we know stone was in contact with senior campaign officials. who were they? how senior were they? and how much did they know? they knew wikileaks was involved in dumping these, and they were coordinated strategically about what types of e-mails, what types of messages, which i think it is a big step against the whole no collusion theme. >> so stone was indicted, and there are all these other names that come up throughout the indictment. not names, but people who are referenced, senior campaign officials, person one, person two. why not name names? >> well, usually the prosecutors are kind of caution about wanting to name people unless they're actually the targets. they don't want their names necessarily put forth into the public. sometimes it can be quite a puzzle, as we all know, to figure out who they are. here i don't think it is a mystery. her

a senior cam pan official gets us to high level. underlings doesn't direct senior feg fe officials.r, every word in thissin diethis indictment was carefully thought out. they use no more words than are absolutely necessary in an indictment. that's why this is characterized as a speaking indictment. this is telling us about what senior trump officials were directed to do, even if they're not indicted in this particular instrument. so this is very telling about the future of this investigation, beyond just indicting roger stone for false statements and witness tampering. >> hey, guys -- >> i'm sorry, go ahead. >> i was just going to say let's don't forget roger stone and paul manafort have a decades-long relationship. they were business partners in the lobbying firm in washington. black, manafort and stone. so can you -- you can assume there was a ready path of communication with those. the one other thing i wanted to say related to that, you were talking about michael cohen's father-in-law and the witness tampering. the suggestion that rudy giuliani made on television the other day w

nietoer that official or the official that gave the direction have yet been revealed. prosecutors cite as evidence, text messages and e-mails with senior campaign officials about his contact with wikileaks' founder, judgmentian assange. >> i actually have communicated with assange. >> reporter: one of those texts dated october 7th, 2016, after wiki leaks released the first stolen e-mails from the chairman john podesta. an associate of the campaign official sent a text message to stone that read, well done. cnn identifyed that campaign official as then campaign ceo steve bannon. the coordination is of concern with the special counsel because of the organization's ties to russia. in 2016 the u.s. intelligence community said wikileaks released the hacked e-mails in a manner quote consistent with the methods and motivations of russian-directed efforts. the special counsel also indicted stone for witness tampering. this for allegedly attempting to sway radio host randy creditco, allegedly, a go-between before he testified to congress. the indictment alleges that stone said

that is the assessment of a high-ranking tsa official. it's all laid out in an internal e-mail dated monday. the tsa official in charge of security operations at palm springs international airport wrote, and i'm quoting, due to excessive unscheduled absences recently experienced at this airport, psp, palm springs international, that has adversely impacted security operations. if you have an unscheduled absence, you will not be placed in an intermittent furlough status. plainly speaking, concerns about the number of callouts at the airport have reached the point that tsa management is now warning in this e-mail that there may be disciplinary action if employees call out. now, the e-mail was directed to all tsa personnel at the airport. and it's significant, because it exposes for the first time an acknowledgement that this partial government shutdown now stretching into a third week is impacting some aviation security at least one airport. now, we received a statement from tsa, it says in part that palm springs airport is a small airport t

it was the first inside account from a former administration official. comey didn't hold back calling the president unethical and untethered to the truth. another insider, a former trump aide, released a book in august of 2018. her book portrayed the president as a racist claiming a tape of him using the "n" word existed, though such tape never existed. trump pointed out she signed a nondisclosure agreement. >> what is he afraid of? >> the trump campaign later failed arbitration for breaching that contract. >> again, the author joins me now. >> thanks for having me. >> i have a lot of questions for you. in the book you write about how you sometimes drafted possible tweets for the president. did you ever expect that you would be on the receiving end of one of his tweets? >> definitely not when i was, but when you approach doing a book like this, especially if you want to do an honest book, which i tried to do, it certainly crosses your mind. you think there's a chance because of the history. you've seen he's done this to others in the past. i definitely t

other sources are referred to as former officials. and t in the article, the current senior officials seemed united in their fear at any moment, donald trump could announce the withdrawal of the united states from nato and we will discuss with helen cooper that may be the reason these trump officials are talking. they may be the only way to destroy nato is to go public and create enough outrage and opposition in washington in the senate and the house even republicans hope that probably that republicans will raise their voices in opposition to stop the president from doing what he wants to don't the senior administration officials told the new york tyimes mr. trump said he wanted to withdraw from the north atlantic treaty organization. he told the top national security officials he did not see the point of the military alliance. now the president repeatedly stated desire to withdraw is raising worries among national security officials about the concern for efforts to keep his meetings with mr. putin secret from his own aids and an fbi

official.> yes. it's important whether it suz manaforth telling gates to do it or whether somebody else was telling him to do it. the trump campaign is all over this. the president is not referenced but the trump campaign is all over it. is this conspiracy? is this collusion? >> well, collusion is a nonlegal term. conspiracy is a legal term. i think the point was made that charging does not include that. it requires a meeting of the minds in a step towards some kind of crime. we do have references to trump and the campaign and mr. stone being the intermediary, communicating in a brazen way about these leaks of damaging information from the clinton campaign. i think what people need to keep in mind here is why it matters. it matters because it could have effected the actual outcome of the election. it could have been distorted by virtue of these leaks and the stolen e-mail. >> of course president trump mentioned wikileaks all the time. you used to spoke from the podium. take a listen between joh

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when you have high-ranking officials and senior officials being directed, that means the food chain has to go higher and higher and i'm just reading of course bob costa from "the washington post" -- >> is he tweeting? >> and rudy giuliani tells him the president is save here and there's no evidence of anything other than famous statements. we know just reading this indictment that's simply not true. there's evidence here, if bob mueller's correct, there's evidence here that a presidential campaign was hoping and in contact with what is essentially a foreign adversary or organization working with a foreign adversary to try to get hacked information, illegal information. so rudy giuliani here is not correct in what he's telling costa at the "washington post." >> bob of course an msnbc contributor. who was on the phone with giuliani, essentially live tweeting parts of that conversation. as you heard phil rucker mention. interestingly, when bob costa asked the president's attorney about the section we've been discussing, giuliani declined to discuss that. he wanted to go back and read that

officials and take a listen.is all in the months leading up to the election right there and through to the inauguration. michael cohen, 17. george papadopoulos there, you can see 12, paul manafort had several, roger stone, 18 and what do all those people have in common. they either pled guilty or indicted. take a look at this. donald trump had six. donald trump jr. had 17 and jared kushner had six contacts. what does that say about where this mueller investigation might be going >> well, clearly the people around donald trump had an enormous amount of contact with russians. it is bizarre why -- why was this, but you can look to trump's business deals, the interest in a trump tower/moscow that makes up a good number of this -- of these, but michael flynn as well has ties to russia. it's a very complex picture and we're getting closer, so we are waiting for more information to come out from mueller and to get more specific to the campaign and russians. we haven't seen any indictments -- we haven't seen very many in

who were the officials? >> false. >> no indication who those officials were? don't exist. >> roger stone sticking with one of his rules, admit nothing, deny everything. preet, how solid do you think the government's case is? >> it's incredibly solid. i would say it's a slam dunk. with respect to the five counts that relate to false statements, lying to congress, they are incredibly strong. my favorite, if i could use that phrase, not to make light of it, is the allegation where the special counsel claims that roger stone on one day claimed that he never texted the intermediary who is person two in the indictment on the same day he texted 30 times. you have the statement. it's clear. it's not ambiguous. then you have presumably they have the actual texts. that's a lie that's provable. >> you hear from a lot of the supporters is that these are procedural crimes. >> they are serious crimes that go to the heart of what the justice system is about. from time to time, people come before a grand jury or before a special counsel or before congress. as jeff knows, the

internet technology officials say that threatens u.s. national security as americans we should all be concerned about the potential for any company beholden to a foreign government especially one that doesn't share our values to burrow into the american telecommunications market and the charges come against the backdrop of the damaging u.s. china trade war which has stretched on for months trade talks between the two countries will resume on wednesday robert oulds al-jazeera. well the chinese government says the indictments against huawei are unfair and immoral. just as the foreign ministry said with no evidence they using their state power to discredit and attack designated companies this sort of behavior is unfair and immoral as the department responsible for the sea mystery we consistently encourage chinese companies to act in accordance with international rules and market principles and develop foreign economic cooperation on the basis of abiding by local laws some for a short break here not just europe when we come back as it has to

prosecutors are met turkish officials in ankara to discuss the possible extradition of the man turkey accuses of plotting to overthrow the government for tula glenn is regarded by followers as a spiritual leader he is believed to have millions of supporters in turkey and his movement operates a network of schools around the world he was once an ally of the turkish president wretch up type heard one but now he's considered an enemy of the states with his movement branded a terrorist organization or one says glenn's followers infiltrated turkey's institutions effectively operating a parallel state he used this to justify a purge of the army and the civil service and also says dylan orchestrated the failed coup in twenty sixteen he denies any involvement glenn has lived in the u.s. since one nine hundred ninety nine and supporters say he's there for health reasons but others say it's to avoid prosecution in turkey matthew bryza is a senior fellow at the atlantic council and formerly a white house official he says u.s. president donald trump has become more open to the idea of the extradi

a senior campaign official, don, can only be directed by someone more senior than that official, andhat leaves us really only with donald trump and, you know, perhaps, you know, paul manafort. but we know from other evidence from michael cohen and others that donald trump was involved in poll-rigging. donald trump was involved in paying and silencing witnesses who would testify, you know, or talk to the press about his character. so he's a shadowy operator. so we at least have good reason to look and see if donald trump was the one with this intense interest in finding out what roger stone was obtaining. >> shadowy operator. that is an interesting way to put it. what else stands out to you from the indictment, congressman? >> you know, here we see powerful, powerful evidence of a consciousness of guilt. we see not only the great length that roger stone went to obtain the russian-hacked e-mails, but the length that he went to bury the evidence. and, you know, the president and his defenders are saying, well, there's no charge of collusion. fortunately in america when you bury the evid

patient, that was the word of the day as fed officials said they would ta ke day as fed officials saidait and see approach to policy. by unanimous decision officials decided to leave key interest rate unchanged. to 2.5%. they also indicated their balance sheets, which grew considerably in the wake of the financial crisis, would remain sizeable. after the decision was announced, jerome powell said the us economy remains strong but he also learned of crosscu rre nts, strong but he also learned of crosscurrents, citing slow in growth in china and the eu as well as brexit and trade talks and he seemed to have a warning for politicians in washington about the damage should there be a second us government shutdown. if there was going to be a permanent or lasting effect it would be from a longer shut down or perhaps a second shutdown and that would be through the channels of lack of confidence and the ability of making policy in the us. the reaction was instant. part of the reason is that it caught many people by surprise. after all, for the past two years, the federal reserve had in raising

democratic officials are against it ...s stalemate led to the partial government shutdown, causing hundreds of thousands of federal employees to go without pay for more than two weeks. <"we have an absolute crisis and of criminals and gang members coming through. it is national security, it's a national emergency.""we want the symbol of america to stay as the statue of liberty, not a big concrete wall.">( james ) the president said he might bypass congress by declaring a national emergency over the border issue.but that's likely going to be an uphill battle. ( james ) we will carry the president's address in its entirety here on kron-4 it is happening at 6 o'clock tonight.you can also watch it live at kron4-dot-com. as the government shutdown causes financial difficulties for some bay area families... a business in the east bay is stepping up to help. "the local" is a coffee shop that is collecting donations to help bay area coast guard families who are not getting the coffe shop is located on park street in alameda ... and

brokered talks between yemeni government officials and you see leaders have ended without an agreement the meeting was aimed at finding a way forward on the withdrawal of rival forces from the port city of who data but who sees are reportedly refusing to begin withdrawing until other parts of the peace deal implemented the u.n. special envoy to yemen martin griffiths will begin a new round of talks with both sides starting on saturday. tropical storm public has made landfall insult in thailand bringing heavy rain and winds to over twelve provinces airports and schools have closed as forecasters are predicting waves of up to five meters high hundreds of people have been taken to shelters set up by the government florence louie has been following developments from the island of coasts and louis for us florence how well prepared are they for the full arrival of the storm system. well the official start of preparation several days ago and they they were ready evacuation centers that can take in tens of thousands of people we hear that people living in the lying coastal areas have already b

officials say they don't know what caused it.ws carried out controlled explosions to try to prevent avalanches before skiers hit the slopes. weekend is almost here. have plans in maybe get some sleep, catch a movie. if you're like a lot of people, probably spend time checking your work phone or work e-mails. some lawmakers say you have a right to disconnect and trying to pass a new law to give people a break when they're off the clock. jacqui heinrich reporting live in new york. hi, jacqui. >> a lot of people love this plan. but there's some big questions about how to put it into motion. for instance, how would it impact global companies doing business in different time zones and what is considered an emergency call? the biggest one of all, when does this become nanny state legislation? the bill to protect employees from being fired if they choose not to answer after work. there would be an exception for workers that agree to be on call. if it passes, employees that feel like they're abused can file a complaint. if it's confirmed

we'll see when the president officially announces that. as you have been saying this has been going on -- today is day 34 -- >> day 35. we can see our halie jackson is there, she's poised to ask questions. we got two big breaking news story. we got this shutdown story which could be coming to a temporary end in just a moment and we have roger stone. is it

pg&e has officially filed for bankruptcy... this comes after the california public utilities commission voted to allow the company to borrow up to $10- billion to pay for operations. during monday's meeting... the commission passed the waiver saying it was the only way to ensure safe and reliable gas and eletric service will continue to flow to california homes and busineses. protesters spoke out both inside and outside of the state building.

apparently it took the european union officials in washington a while to figure things out according to sources of our studio in washington the diplomats in washington noticed that they weren't invited to the same events or at least not as much as they were in the past and the last straw was the funeral of george bush sr the former us president who died in november and the state funeral took place at the beginning of december and that's when the the ambassador of the e.u. invested to the us of a notice that he wasn't called upon. normal position where used to be called upon but he was last to be called upon and that's when they got official confirmation that yes they had been downgraded so how is this gone down in brussels. well to tell you the truth a lot of people are not aware of this happening actually we try to talk to a lot of people in the most say they don't know even the u.s. mission to the e.u. says officially they are looking into this and you know what that is code for that's code for we just don't know but of course there were talks between the e.u. and the u.s. followin

officials traveled to beijing for to go. this week on wednesday chinese official who be here in washington for the latest on that we turn to our friend and to the c.e.o. of us dr mark hillary for which hillary oh what do we expect will happen at this point at least you never know with this crew if these negotiations don't reap in the real rewards well i do think there are going to be some rewards and that is regardless of any deal we know that robert lighthouse of the u.s. trade representative has already said that he wants to maintain those ten percent at least as they exist today and that is because he says that we need to have some kind of enforcement we need a verification of enforcement so as reagan used to say trust but verify we need to verify that they're actually do that they actually do what they promise i'll do so they'll be that reward they'll be some towels that slowing down of the chinese economy so they've come here we know with this huge vast delegation coming they've come for a reason and that is because wit

the german parliament means regional state parliaments and local officials of cornell in mind that. politicians from every german political party were targeted except the right wing populist a f d the leakers use twitter to publish personal data such as phone numbers identification documents charts invoices and even photos of their children justice minister cancer going to said the leak was a deliberate attempt to damage faith in the country's democracy the left parties called for a full investigation. is this. an attack on the social cohesion of our country i've read and heard that many artists journalists and politicians are affected. the aim is obviously to create a climate of fear a climate of insecurity in our country. the leak was first discovered thursday evening but it seems the first documents started appearing in december with a twitter account releasing information daily in the style of an advent calendar none of the internal documents that were released a thought to be highly sensitive at the moment there's no known suspects or any clear motives. it's not stock let's not

that's from one official and we'll wait for the official word from the number one official here which is the president and he'll be out there in a few minutes. >> that's for sure michelle caruso-cabrera is here with me on set we're talking about a three week extension. is that really going buy enough time to come up with a longer term solution. could you have said this same deal, you could easily have had back in december and avoid a shutdown >> facts have changed since then workers have been out of work for a long time. hasn't gotten paychecks. maybe workers are happy to be happy at home christmas time thinking this would be a short term thing things are different this time for sure if they can't come to a deal in the next three weeks i wouldn't be surprised about this whole playbook about declaring a emergency comes back than legally contentious way to do it. but that would keep the government open in the meantime. >> john harwood why haven't we heard much about that option lately >> reporter: the administration fears two thing. one, criticized from the right for surrendering becaus

and even credit card details he's the latest high profile hacker to expose the holes and german official cyber security. when two year old german has shaken the german political world over the last few days now the suspect has clinched. asked to police saying he was behind the massive data breach so as i am with you but soon concerning his motive i hope you understand that at this point we cannot provide you with a final picture of the underside but the suspect said he searched for and published data the reason was that he was angry about specific statements the injured parties made publicly the twenty year old suspect is believed to have acted alone he published personal information on twitter such as phone numbers home and e-mail addresses and in some cases private messages and photos as well an estimated one thousand celebrities journalists and politicians were affected including from all german political party eggs except from the far right. thirty's acted very quickly very efficiently and around the clock. i can say with full conviction that our security agencies are guaranteeing th

who directed trump campaign officials? it sounds to me, and again i only want to say it just sounds to me like it could be donald trump himself. who else would direct campaign officials to be in touch with stone? it is highly suggestive that candidate trump himself told his officials to get in touch with stone and find out what's going on. remember, of course, this is while he was campaigning saying, i love wikileaks. it's not like he thought wikileaks is the outlaw organization that his cia director later described it to be. >> right. >> this, i think, the use of the passive voice in that sentence is extremely interesting and potentially important. >> go ahead, david gregory. >> what does it add up to is a critical question. i obviously agree with jeffrey if the president is directing this contact, you know, we know a few things at this point as the indictment spells out. the dnc gets hacked. the russians are behind it. mueller has already indicted russian security personnel for hacking. now you have someone close to trum