i'm brooke baldwin. why andrew mccabe says he was fired and why president trump's own words led him to launch counter intelligence and obstruction investigations into the president of the united states. before the president fired fbi director james comey, mccabe details a private conversation he had with deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. >> rod was concerned by his interactions with the president who seemed to be very focussed on firing the director and saying things like make sure you put russia in your memo. that concerned rod in the same way that it concerned me and the fbi investigators on the russia case. >> he didn't want to put russia in his memo. >> he did not. he explained to the president that he did not need russia in his memo, and the president responded, i understand that. i'm asking you to put russia in the memo anyway. >> so let's start there with our cnn crime and justice reporter, shimon prokupecz. i mean, there had been reporting on this alleged conversation in the past so what mo

brooks. mr. brooks: thank you, madam chairman. dr. kopp, i'm looking at your written testimony as opposed to your orel testimony. on page 3 you state, quote, climate change is real. it is here now. and humans are responsible for it, end quote. is that an accurate statement of your quote? dr. kopp: yes, it is. mr. brooks: on page five of your written testimony you said, quote global average sea level has wrizzen by about eight inches since 1900, end quote, citing the climate science special report earth national climate assessment. is that an accurate reading of that quote? dr. kopp: yes, it is. mr. brook: are you familiar with thert's last glacial maximum roughly 21,000 years ago? dr. kopp: i am. mr. brooks: is it fair to say the last seave levels during the glags maximum were 100 feet lower than they are today? dr. kopp: yes, it is. mr. brooks: would it also be fair to say that sea levels over the last 21,000 years, 400 divided by 21,000 or 210 centuries, sea levels have wrizzen on average over that 21,000-year period of time at roug

brooke? >> jessica, thank you. let's listen in to the press conference. >> -- the safety of our community, particularly given the position of trust that mr. hasson held with the united states government. i am very thankful for the diligent and skilled investigation of the fbi and the coast guard investigative service who worked with prosecutors in my office to conduct a thorough investigation and thankfully we were able to avoid and prevent any loss of life in this case. i should also comment that at this point none of the charges that mr. hasson is facing have been proven beyond a reasonable doubt. in our system of justice, of course, that means that mr. hasson is innocent right now of the charges that he is facing. right now i'll turn it over to mr. johnson. >> all right. so there you have it. that's what jessica was just reporting on there. i want to move on because in just a couple of minutes, "empire" star jussie smollett will appear in court for the first time since making what police are now saying were comp

"newsroom" with brooke baldwin starts right now. >>> i'm brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn. thanks for being with me. it looks like we can put those fears of another government shutdown to rest and if you don't believe me, just listen to the president. >> i don't think you're going to see a shutdown. i would never accept if it happens but i don't think it's going to happen. >> that was trump just a bit ago reacting to a deal struck by bipartisan group of lawmakers just days before the deadline to keep the government open. here's what's in this thing. a little over $1.3 billion for a new border barriers, funding for i.c.e. to house more than 45,000 in detention centers and $1.7 billion increase in homeland security. the deal was just the first hurdle. up next you have the vote and key voices on the right, both in the media and on capitol hill say, this isn't good enough. house freedom caucus chairman mark meadows a close trump ally tweeting that the deal isn't serious and that, quote, congress is not doing its job. and while the president says another shutdown isn't likely th

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being here. here you see the president of the united states there addressing troops in alaska during a fuel stop on his way home from vietnam where nuclear talks with north korea collapsed. we'll get into all of that in just a moment, but first for the past few days, michael cohen has been a fixture in washington shuttling between the house and senate while giving congress an up close look at his decade working at the top of the trump empire and today that all comes to an end after cohen finishes testifying before the house intelligence committee and while he may be sitting there behind closed doors today, cohen is clearly still top of mind for his former boss who weighed in at his summit in vietnam with kim jong-un. >> he lied a lot, but it was very interesting because he didn't lie about one thing. he said no collusion with the russian hoax and i said, i wonder he didn't just lie about that too like he did about everything else. he lied about so many different things and i was actually impresse

brooks. >> california's for energy choice, mr. brooks again. i would urge you as i have in the past to be as jealous of your funds as possible and careful as possible. make sure you name down what is said so we get all of your funds. in light of the importance of the world war ii mobilization we have to get going. i would like to see you dedicate full funding to yourself instead of kicking it back to the board of supervisors right now. this is a key time the lafco needs to be strong, including things like the public bank work we need to get on as well. thanks. >> thank you very ever. public comment be is now closed. please call item 6. on. >> no action on item 5. the executive officer's report. >> mr. goebel. >> this is bee be brief. march 15th is the date of our regular lafco meeting. the clerk at the p.u.c. is poling -- polling the commissioners to make sure that is okay. i want to make sure it works for you on that day. i will work with the staff to develop the agenda for that meeting and put in a request to use room 250. >> thank you very m

brooke, you know how this plays out. we know his body language has seemed to seem like he's closing his eyes, shaking his head. these text messages are being read out loud. all this is happening right there in the court. that's the embarrassing part. you know they talked about, not only was there some phone communication after the attack. so a day later, he called -- the phone call lasted five seconds. then the phone call lasted about a minute. brad, what was the last part? so it was a "d" bond, "d," $100,000 bail. >> okay. >> reporter: this is happening right now so i'm just getting the information. brooke, you know how this happens. >> it's cool. it's live tv. >> reporter: he will get that bond. as soon as he gets that bond, he will probably have to walk through the doors at some point. this has lasted longer than we thought it would. some of the information is coming out. his "d" bond happened, $100,000, i'm sure he'll be able to post that. >> i see people walking out. >> reporter: it will probably happen in the next

i'm brook. let's go to washington.rts right now. >>> trump is spending his president's day accusing top officials of trying to end his presidency. the lead starts right now. >> president trump claiming officials involved in the russia probe committed illegal acts right after one said his own words and a actions prompted a count counter intelligence investigation. >>> may have to worry about the courts but also congress. some republicans voicing opposition and now one top adviser says this just made from trump to cast the first veto of his presidency. >>> a crowded field of democrats looking to stand out. is that pushing the

mike vickers has lived in brooks county for more than 30 years. vickers: we're sick and tired of the bodies showing up, where these ruthless coyotes walk off and leave these people to die. they don't call 911. o'brien: in 2006, he started the texas border volunteers to help report undocumented immigrants on private land. he says migrants destroyed several of his fences, so he installed an electric one. vickers: it's not gonna kill anybody, but, uh, it will roll your eyes back puts because those fences would be totally destroyed, which leaves me liable for some h a fatal wrghway if they hit some of my livestock or one of my horses, so that's what i have to h to survive here and be a rancher is electricity on the fence. o'brien: vickers says he's sympathetic to the women and children trying to escape violence in their home country but says they should find a way to come legally. vickers: our country cannot sustain the amount of traffic that's coming in here. i mean, it just can't. o'brien: at the checkpoint, it's about catching as many undocumented

today, hundreds gathered to see the ope of brooke's house. >> brooke prayed for that house. god answered her prayer. >> reporter: if you'd like to help, we have a link at nbc4.com, search brooke's house. mark segraves, >>news4. now in addition to addiction services, women living at brooke's house will get job training. >> and that will include learning to make chocola bs that wi sold to help fund the halfway house. >>> coming up, sunscreen ban. a look at what sparked the extreme measure at a popular florida beach. >>> and an update on when the morning sun will be replaced by rain clouds. stay with . >>> a consumer alertor you this morning. there's growing concern about a new lawea that's actually to help protect kids from identity theft. >> some parents sty in rea it is putting their kids' information at risk. susan hogan is f working you with what you can do to help keep your family safe. >> this new law allows us to freeze our child's credit, but a local mom's concern that the process to do this may actually be putting both her and her children's information at risk. >> we

> katie: no, brooke.ou know what the most important meal of the day is. donna? >> donna: the next one. >> katie: the next one. yes. >> brooke: [ laughs ] >> donna: yeah, and besides, uh, uh, croissants have eggs, uh, flour... >> katie: mm-hmm. >> donna: practically cereal. >> katie: yep. >> brooke: you know, none of us liked card games when we were growing up, so this is what we did. >> donna: yeah. did we ever actually finish on

♪ >> brooke: honey [sighs] talk to me. >> hope: i'm okay, mom. >> ridge: maybe i should have waited toell her, you know? >> hope: no. no, it's fine. steffy has adopted a little girl, and now kelly has a new little sister. phoebe. i'm happy for them. liam is, too. >> brooke: that was very sweet of you, to insist that he go over there and be there with his daughter and her new sister. >> hope: mom, liam had a family with steffy even before i got pregnant with beth, so... [ inhales sharply ] liam should be there. to welcome phoebe to her new home and her new family. >> liam: hi. >> steit

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i'm brooke baldwin. president trump here at the white house big day for him as he has just nominated who he would like to be the head of the world bank, david malpass. he's now nominated as president of the world bank, but the key piece is that he's been a strong critic of the world bank and this is the man who could lead the world bank. rana foroohar is with me now. officially he has been nominated. this is a guy that's been so critical of the world bank so why would he want to lead it? >> exactly. the rest of the world holds 84% of the voting shares in the world bank and there's a lot of complaints. you're hearing a lot of poor nations say, hey, this is a guy that doesn't believe in multi-lateralism that's going to run an institution that's nothing if not multi-lateralism. there's a lot of concerns about what he's going to do around the bank's work around climate change, which is a big, big deal in the rest of the world. the trump administration has been extremely critical of that. >> thank you very mu

i'm brooke baldwin. we will break into our news, president trump may have tried to interfere in the michael cohen investigation. they are reporting the president spoke to his acting attorney general matt whitaker about this notion of getting the u.s. attorney of the southern district of new york to unrecuse himself from that cohen investigation. so, mark mazetti is one of the reporters over at the "time's" who broke this story opened. let's start at the beginning. how did this conversation play out between the acting ag and the president of the united states? >> reporter: right. so not long after whitaker was installed as the acting attorney general, trump calls him and asks whether a new person could be put in charge of the michael cohen investigation that's being taking place up in new york. he asks whether the u.s. attorney who had to recuse himself out of a conflict of interest could be put in charge. trump thought that this individual, jeffrey berman, might actually be more of an ally and clearly it

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i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. michael cohen spent more than a decade defending, supporting, cheering on donald trump. but now for the very first time according to a source the president's ex-attorney is expected to publicly discuss trump's role in some of the crimes cohen pleaded guilty to this past year. >> should the president be worried? what happens if you have criminal conduct? why before? >> there he is. cohen on capitol hill arriving there this morning to kick off three days of testimony. right now as we speak michael cohen is sitting behind closed doors being questioned and grilled by the is that the intelligence committee. thursday he'll do the same, again, behind closed doors with house intel. but tomorrow is the big day. it is this time tomorrow before the house oversight committee that will be in full public view. that is when the convicted felon is expected to talk about how the president was involved in hush money payments during the 2016 campaign, two women alle alleging

brooke baldwin starts right now. >>> brianna, thank you, i e.j. brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn. thank you for being with me in washington. it appears avoiding shutdown is a done deal. we have a proposal that has the blessing of top republicans and top democrats. we have a vote on that proposal set for tomorrow night in the house, one that speaker pelosi seems confident will get her chamber's approval. >> as with all compromises i say to people support the bill for what is in it, don't judge it for what it is not in it. we can't pass it until it's ready and when it's ready we'll be ready to pass it. >> and we have a president who says he doesn't want the government to close its door farce second time. i don't want to see a shultdown, shutdown won a terrible thing. >> so why did trump's press secretary say this earlier today? >> we want to see what the final piece of legislation looks like. it's hard to say whether or not the president will sign it until we know what's in it. >> lisa lehrer is a national reporter for the "new york times." welcome back. two sou

i'm brooke baldwin. the top u.s. who oversees military operations in the middle east is revealing that he was not consulted on president trump's decision to pull troops out of syria. testifying before the senate armed services committee ahead of the u.s. central command, he said he was as surprised as anyone else by the president's decision. >> general, were you aware of the president's intention to order the withdraw of our troops from syria before that was publicly announced? >> i was not aware of the specific announcement. certainly we are aware that he expressed a desire and intent in the past to depart iraq -- syria. >> you weren't consulted before that decision was announced? >> we were not. i was not consulted. >> president trump has received a lot of pushback from lawmakers including republicans about his plans to pull u.s. troops out of syria. a new pentagon report states that isis will likely move to regain territory if the u.s. withdraws. the general also testifying today that the fight against isis is not

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both say brooks told them not to tell anyone. did you all feel it would take your parents away from god's work? >> yes, that's what e told. >> if their work was impeded, p that meanteople wouldn't be saved? >> and that would be our fault. >> reporter: when carrie did s tell she sw tribes mission tried to cover it up. >> the mission leadership told d on the phone, you are going to ruin this man's ministry if you keep talking about this. >> so he con dorm dad?erve as a >> uh-huh. yes. >>eporter: after more complaints the mission let david brooks return to the u.s. >> nobody knew why he'd come back, and therefore, nobody is on notice that this man is a a al offender. >> reporter: baz iwyer who happens to be the reverend billy graham's grandson. his company, grace, was hired by new tribes mission to do a es thorough invgation of the allegations surrounding the fossion in senegal. their 2010 repord more than 20 children were sexually abused over two decades and named david brooks as the biggest offender. >> we found a culture of syste

brooke, what we also know is clearly this move has enraged president trump because as you saw from his tweets this morning not only talking about what you noted that recently launched investigation from adam schiff that is much broader than people originally imagined but also this interesting quote from the president on twitter this morning. he said, quote, i hear other committee heads will do the same thing, even stealing people who work at the white house. now we asked the white house what did the president mean when he said, even stealing people that work at the white house and essentially the white house is implying that right now adam schiff has either recently hired or is currently interviewing people who have worked in the trump administration. we asked about that line of the president's tweet and an administration official says, ask adam schiff what that means. so we did and a committee aide got back to us with this statement. we'll put it up on the screen. this is from a committee aide on the house intelligence committee. we have hired staff for a variety of positions, includi

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i'm brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn. a stunning ultimatum dropped on the eve of highly congressional testimony. this standoff is happening now between matt whitaker and the congressional panel he's scheduled to face tomorrow afternoon. whitaker drew this line in the sand saying he will not show up unless he's assured he will not be subpoena should he avoid answering certain questions. not only that, but whitaker has put the committee chairman there nadler on the clock saying he wants that assurance in writing tonight no later than 6:00 p.m. all of this is happening as the president's permanent pick william barr just cleared a big hurdle of his own. so we start with laura jared, our justice reporter who's all over this breaking news. take us inside this standoff and what is going on? >> we're really in a limbo mode at this point with a will he or won't he will show up tomorrow. that 6:00 p.m. deadline now ticking away that whitaker has imposed for the house judiciary committee, the chairman jerry nadl

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being here. a furious president trump responding moments ago to democrats expanding investigations into his finances. house intelligence chairman adam schiff announcing today that his committee would investigate the president's finances beyond russia is how they put it. here's the president? >> he's just a political hack who's trying to build a name for himself and i think that's fine because that's what they do. there would be no reason to do that. no other politician has to go through that. it's called presidential harassment and it's unfortunate and it really does hurt our country. >> chairman schiff saying today the house intel committee is not only prepared to investigate russia's actions during the 2016 election but also whether president trump's financial interests are driving his actions. it is also our most detailed look yet at how far democrats plan to go even after special counsel robert mueller's investigation has concluded. sarah murray is on this today. this is significant. adam sch

the people i want you to pay close attention to is chaz and brooks. they already have three daughters and this is where they get the news. >> they set that up nice. >> it was the event organizer who did it for them in two days. you see they found out they're having girl number four. surprise number two comes when brook goes up in the sky wheel with one with of her daughters and notices there's something going on, there's lights on the ground because while brook's in the sky wheel, her boyfriend, chad is down there putting lights and bags and as you can see there's a message they're turning that into. and she's like what is that down there? there is the message and now -- >> oh, my goodness. i'm not going to have a heart attack. >> now come as big question. >> i want to spend the rest of my life with you. will you marry me? >> yes. >> and then he dropped on the knee and gave her a ring. brook's parents were there. they just thought they were coming for somebody's birthday party. the gender reveal, the proposal, it was all a surprise for them. it's time

>> it's hard to say, brook. lot of current and former fbi and doj officials are watching these interviews and wondering why that last answer you just played hasn't been the answer he has given for more questions relating to the ongoing investigation. i'm surprised. >> i was talking to sunlen about how these -- the gang of eight members of congress, they don't want to talk about this. mccabe saying they including the mitch mcconnells and the nuness and the paul ryans of the world knew for months about this investigation into the president but it didn't raise any concerns at the time. and yes it was classified but that knowing that, is it interesting to you that no one object objected at the time? >> i'm not sure it's that interesting. i've been in many gang of eight briefings, there are sober affairs. questions are asked sometimes but the senators and house members for a change are for listen mode than anything else. and i think, though, that based upon my experience with such briefings and the general understand

i can brooke baldwin. the breaking news is this, the president possibly tried to reign in the investigation into his personal attorney michael cohen. the "new york times" is reporting president trump asked his acting attorney general whether or not the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york could, in fact, unrecuse himself from the investigation into michael cohen. i just talked to one of the lead reporters who broke this story opened for the "new york times." he talked to me about how this conversation with trump and matt whitaker actually went down. >> not long after whitaker was installed as the acting attorney general, trump calls him and asks whether a new person could be put in charge of the investigation taking place up in new york. he "asks" whether the u.s. attorney, who had to recuse himself out of a conflict of interest could be put in charge. trump thought that this individual, jeffrey berman, might actually be more of an ally and clearly it indicates that the president saw this in

>> reporter: that's right, brooke.dministration considering softening one of the key demands. my colleagues, colleen atwood, jeremy diamond and i, told by multiple officials that the trump administration weighing backing off an earlier demand that north korea at this second summit between trump and kim commit to make a full accounting of its nuclear capabilities, its nuclear weapons program, and its missile program, as a prerequisite for any u.s. concessions. as recently as november, the vice president mike pence called such a nuclear accounting an imperative. at this second summit, the u.s. negotiationvators have been pressing -- negotiators have been pressing north korea to do this. it's parent because you need that -- it's important because you need if you're moving to the next demand of denuclearizing so the u.s. knows what you would be giving up. this would be a significant change to not require that at the summit here, does not mean that the administration will not require it longer term. and an administration of

i'm brooke bolduan. with jake tapper" starts right now. >>> after talks with kim jong-un collapse, the president is on his way back home. and after he shocks us by accepting a dictator's word on the death of an american. >> and michael cohen back on capitol hill after alleging ruthless tactics and schemes that made the man who won the white house. >> another democratic star on the verge of joining the race to face trump, beto o'rourke says he has made up his mind about a 2020 bid. cnn caught up with him. >> welcome to "the lead." i'

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gayer, and brookings for having me. my belief in the responsibility to fight voter suppression started when i was growing up. my parents were both civil rights activists in mississippi. my dad was arrested signing people up to vote when he was 16. my mom used to take us with her when she would pick us on up on election day she would take us with her to vote. we were raised to understand that voting is directly tied to the services and policies that yowpts to see. voter suppression acts as a means of denying those policy's reality, and it is baked into the dna of america. it has been perfected in recent years in the last two decades in a way that lets us forget that it's real because it has so many pieces, because that's the architecture. voter suppression isn't saying you can't vote. voter suppression is a physical activity but it's also a psychic effect. telling people their votes won't count, telling people the system is rigged has the act of having people to stop trying to use it. to make sure it works is the apparat

eastern. >>> i'm brook baldwin. thank you for being with me.lead with jake tapper starts right now. >>> president trump saying he is not happy with the agreement to avoid another government shutdown after some of his pals in conservative media slammed the deal. will the president sign it or will 800,000 federal workers suffer again? >>> the president's former white house lawyer says the russia investigation is a waste of time and we may never get to see a final report. the grand finale found guilty in new york city on all charges, how a tale of

tom brook is that the dolby theatre. what has been happening so far?that the dolby theatre. what has been happening so far7m far we have had eight awards. you just mentioned black panther. it has wa nt two just mentioned black panther. it has want two awards, best production design best costume design. that is quite impressive for a film, as you mentioned, the first superhero film, comic book film nominated for best picture. it goes well for what might happen late in the evening. we have had an acting prize given out, best supporting actress, that went to regina king, best known for her work on television, she appeared in the film if beale street could talk, and plays a very emotional part. she had a lot of supporting academy. people really wa nted a lot of supporting academy. people really wanted to see her win. bohemian rhapsody has want two awards, sound editing and sound mixing. that is good news for that film. you mentioned what might be coming up. what can we look forward to, any possible surprises? well, i don't know about surprises, but the mai

>> brookings is nonpartisan. i don't have that problem. i am partisan, and i will say this advice is offering with who is not a democrat. [laughing] number one you have to start early. when we had the conversation it was after i had been in a leadership position in the house for seven years. over that seven years i had been laying the groundwork for this transformation in our electric grid number one, you have to hire people who can go into these communities come to understand these communities. and it is true that anyone can act, but people tend to listen to those who remind them of themselves. what we've been doing since i became leader, i've been building a team of young people by large because i couldn't pay that much, they were young, train them to do this work. and also training them to be hired by campaigns is often campaigns tend to relegate communities of color in particular to certain jobs and that's it. so we had been working for seven years to build a cohort that was multiracial, multiethnic, reflected religious differences, se

>>> welcome back, you're watching cnn, i'm brooke baldwin. president trump called mueller's russia investigation everything from witch-hunt to a democrat-led hoax to a disgrace. next week he may be able to give alt new name -- over. bill barr may get robert mueller's report as early as next week, nearly two years after the special counsel was appointed, an appointment sparked by a move president trump thought would make any questions about this very going going away, that be his firing of james comey. instead that made things worse. much worse. as of today, seven former members of trump's inner circle from his campaign to his white house have pleaded guilty in this. michael cohen fix er, michael flynn, his national security adviser set to be sentenced next month, and paul manafort his former campaign chairman, mueller is recommending he get up to 24 1/2 years in prison for financial crimes. so in all 37 people and entities including dozens from russia have been charged. for his part, the president said this moments ago about the report's pote

garth brooks in the big leagues. jillian: "fox and friends first" continues right now. ♪ ain't going down to listen comes down ♪ till you get enough ♪ in a pickup truck ♪ things don't go down till the sun comes up ♪ ♪ jillian: i love this song, i could listen to it all the time. it takes me back. rob: baseball apparently. jillian: we will have more later. you are watching "fox and friends first" tuesday morning. rob: let's get to a fox news alert. an agreement reached in principle to avoid a second government shutdown as donald trump faces national security message, the strength on the southern border. >> walls save lives. my administration put forward a compromise. it is compassionate and it will solve our problem. jillian: the clock is ticking for lawmakers to hammer out the details before friday's deadline. what is in it and does it match the president's vision? griff jenkins has breaking developments. >> reporter: in principle is not terribly reassuring but the devil is in the details and there are areas to focus

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eric brooks again. this time i'm speaking on behalf of the local grass root's organization, our city, san francisco. anand the san franciscogreen pa. i want to direct this to all but especially the commissioner, we recent -- a coalition of my group and green action and some others working on the bayview hunter's point and treasure island crises have met with your aide and it's important what we do on treasure island, the same contractor did almost all of the clean-up work since the mid90s and probably falsified a lot of that work, where there's radio active contamination right now that people are exposed to, where there's chemical contamination like dioxins that people are being exposed to, we need to halt the development program on treasure island, the same way the program in bayview hunters' point has been halted. part of the process is that, frankly, chida, treasure island development authority is bought and paid for by the developers and has been, basically, lying to the board of supervisors, preten

>> what a pleasure, thank you for having me, brooke. >> cohen, third time. not showing up even though he is going to prison next month. how would you characterize his strategy on this. >> i don't know if it's a strategy, i think it speaks more to his character or lack thereof. we're hoping to get him before the house intel committee before he starts his prison term so we can ask him questions that he didn't seem like he was willing to answer the last time we talked to him. we're hoping he'll be more forthright going forward. >> do you feel confident he will? it's hard to say. he's proven himself to be inconsistent so we'll see. >> we saw senator burr. let me fifth to. this i want to focus on senator burr who suggested, chair of senate intel suggesting there is no evidence of trump/russia collusion. is that the view on the house side as well? >> well, before i publicly state

duwayne brooks, thank you. can ijust say a safe. duwayne brooks, thank you.fficers who i asked worked with, 80% are doing a fantasticjob, none worked with, 80% are doing a fantastic job, none of worked with, 80% are doing a fantasticjob, none of those are racist, but i would like to say that i. racist, but i would like to say that i, as somebody who has experienced racism internet, could never sit down and say there are no racist offices in the metropolitan police. we still have some of the issues we had 20 years ago. duwayne brooks, thank you forjoining us this morning. here's chris with a look at this morning's weather. it is unusual at this time of the year, to have such mild, warm weather. yes, it is like we have skipped a whole season. these haemorrhages are more like late may. this morning —— temperatures. this morning, the sun illuminating this cloud. this weather front has brought a bit of damp weather into northern ireland already, and there is the low cloud and fog that has been affecting southern and eastern areas of england. here, visibility is st

bringing us to the analysis of shields and brooks.t's syndicated columnist mark shields, and "new york times" columnist david brooks welcome to you both. happy frid i. let's stavirginia. i want to bring up a couple ofui tweets qck because we have had late-breaking news on this. there has been a second allegation of assault against lieutenant governor justin fairfax leading to former governor terry mccul mccull lufo ll forhis resignation. he says he doesn't believe fairfax can effectivy serve the people. fairfax has also issued a statement response calling the allegations an obvious -- vicious an scoordinatedmear campaign orchestrated against him, and he says he will not resign, so, mark, start us off here. there's a lot happening rg ia, still. it's still evolving, what do you make of how it's handed by leader there so far? >> terribly. it's been wisely said when the mocrats organize a firing squad, they first form a circle, atand i would say s gone on. i think each of the cases has ho be treated separately. do think thaovernor northam

or the talk about that i'm joined now by brooks analyst and political blogger john wirth john it's good to see you again this is becoming a regular thing now here with his friends and story indeed indeed so we've got the labor party really surprising people here with this this u. turn but do we know what this vote will be on and he will it be to rescind may's plan or will it be on remaining in the e.u. we're going to get the things in the right order. jeremy corbyn and the labor policy first and foremost want their own version of bricks it a soft bricks it's a job. to the economy that's the first priority they finally realize what has been clear for a long time to anyone who's been observing this the chief of all the fullback position is that finally coming to today is essentially say ok we realize that and now we've got to move to holding a referendum the challenge is going to come when this is going to be voted on wednesday is there a majority for that in the house of commons at the moment i think actually the olds are just a bit against it because there are some labor members of parl

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tom brook at the dolby theatre.te in the coming hours with the following winners will still waiting for. thank you much. —— thank you very much. let's get some of the day's other news. at least five people have been killed in indian—administered kashmir as a gunfight erupted between indian soldiers and rebels in kulgam district. india intensified its security crackdown over the weekend, including detaining more than 160 separatists. tensions between india and pakistan have escalated since a suicide car bomb killed a0 indian security personnel on february 14. pakistan—based militant group jaish—e—mohammed claimed responsibility for the attack. security forces in bangladesh say they have shot and killed a gunman who hijacked an airliner during a flight from dhaka to dubai. the plane made an emergency landing in the city of chittagong. all passengers left the plane safely. the nigerian electoral commission says only it has the power to declare the result of the parliamentary and presidential polls after supporters of b