peter o'brien reports. peter: stepping away for a fragile situatioion.z al-sarrrraj announces he will step down. >>>> [speaking foreign language] peter: earlier this month, libya's factions agreed to hold elections and appoint a new government within 18 months. in his televised speech, al-sarraj pointed this as efforts to unify the country. there are protests in cities controlled by both camps. the unrest caused tension within the gna for -- before al-sarraj announced his intentions to leave. both of these developments complicate matters for the u.n., which has been in the latest talks between the two sides in an attempt to free libya from the turmoil it has been going through since the 2011 uprising. team of russian opposition leader of vaccine saidny -- alexeyavalny the nerve agent was detected on a water bottle from his hotel room in a siberian city. germany has said it has proof poison.was it has asked the global chemical agency to assist in an investigation. navalny fell ill on and -- on a domestic flight to support opposition candidates in local el

peter baker and tim o'brien, thank you both for starting us off. and peter, congrats to your paper on this unbelievably informative scoop. when we come back, we'll dive into the counterintelligence threats that trump has possibly opened the country up to by someone who was there, someone who worked on an early counterintelligence investigation into the president. the aforementioned peter strzok. plus, who else could trump have tested for loyalty as he did jim comey at the start of his presidency. this as we learned more about potential compromise he could be under. we'll ask the man who spent months studying jim comey, acclaimed actor jeff daniels is our guest. we'll talk to him about all of the day's headlines and what he says is the struggle to be an apolitical public servant in today's america. all of those stories and more when "deadline: white house" cons continues in just a moment. don't go anywhere. inues in justt don't go anywhere. ners who have turned into their parents. i'm having a big lunch and then just a snack for dinner. so we're usin

expected to continue on a curved pass across south carolina before petering out on friday at the bottom of north carolina alexy o'brien reports. early morning in mobile alabama brought a battering from hurricane sally. trees uprooted splinted by the howling wind city streets piled with daybreak only a few braving the elements to survey the damage and stop what could be. making landfall as a category 2 storm it's not sally size that's the main concern but it's speed moving so slowly it's threatening days of rain with forecasters talking 3 flooding still to come jordan muse fled her home in pensacola florida to shelter in a hotel. as the storm moved in the wind packed a punch leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power the driving rain swamped streets and surges of sea water cools flash floods dozens of people had to be rescued from their homes. for you. sally is the 2nd hurricane to hit the gulf coast in less than 3 weeks and one of the busiest hurricane seasons ever earlier this week sally was just one of 5 storms chanting in the atlantic hurricane tate is developing out at sea with forecasters predicting it

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