i'm chris lawrence.e're going to leave you with more pictures of giant panda mei xiang at the national zoo. will there be another cub on the way? we'll have to wait and see. thanks for joining us. have a great week. >>> right now on news4 today, showers and sunshine. a mixed bag on this memorial day. we have your holiday forecast. >> tribute to the fallen, thousands of our nations heroes set to be honored today. >>> and a stunt turns deadly during fleet week. new details about the accident that killed a navy s.e.a.l. >>> do not adjust your tv set. it's monday morning. it's memorial day. i hope you're having a good one. >> we've just extended the weekend. there may be a few showers out there near your home this

instant reaction coming in right now as president trump fires the fbi director, james comey. >> chris lawrence been following this breaking news story this evening for us. chris, what are you hearing now? >> all kinds of reaction coming in from virginia and maryland. let's take a live look building there that we're going to take a look at. here's what we're hearing from some elected lawmakers. virginia senator tim kaine tweeted trump firing comey shows how frightened the administration is over the russia investigation. and chris van hollen tweets, firing comey has the foul stench of trying to stop an ongoing investigation into collusion between the trump campaign and the russians. senator van hollen goes on to say, the you're fired approach doesn't work when you're president and he accuses president trump of creating a crisis of confidence in the justice department. again, it was thatery basis that we're hearing for the reasons why director james comey was fired, with the deputy attorney general outlining in a letter some of the reasons why he said he cannot defend the director's handling of t

. >> i'm chris lawrence. we start with the growing effort to bring better retail stores to prince george's county. it's become one of the county executives top priorities in our bureau chief tracee wilkins looks into why so many venues failed while others are succeeding and what developments are on the horizon. >> we had landsover mall at one point. >> i remember landover mall. i remember going there as a kid. >> reporter: for decades landover mall is the example of thriving retail but in the late '90s that changed when enthusiasm stores in the county were doomed to fail. >> crime started ridesing. we had challenges in the county overall and with not putting investment back into it, watching retail chains but not doing anything about it. >> reporter: residents hoped that the opening would turn things around but years later, stores left and many other stores followed. >> there was some unfortunate criminal events that occurred within the first six months of that place opening. and it got a lot of publicity and

i'm chris lawrence. we'll start with the big day mayday marches across the country and right here in washington this week. the protesters came from all directions, from dupont circle to arlington. all of them wound their way to the trump administration's immigration policies. meagan fitzgerald looks at what they hope to accomplish. >> reporter: from large crowds in dupont circle -- ♪ >> reporter: -- to malcolm x park, mayday protesters made sure their messages were heard. they want the trump administration to stop deporting undocumented immigrants that don't have criminal records. >> to fight for humanity, fight for the injustice that they are going through. especially with the new presidential regime. >> reporter: there were rolling street closures as demonstrators made their way down 16th and on to u street as they marched towards lafayette park. ♪ >> reporter: once the crowd arrived, chants grew louder and they were met by notable speakers like tom perez and members of congress. >> i want to make sure

i'm chris lawrence.re going to leave you with more pictures of giant panda mei xiang at the national zoo. will there be another cub on the way? we'll have to wait and see. thanks for joining us. have a great week. whatwhat made them believeace carthat a two-ton behemothhop? could compete in a track race? or that they could take on the elite in world motor racing, and win? we may never truly understand what drives mercedes-amg. but here's to another 50 years of it. mercedes-amg. half a century of driving performance. >>> and we start with what is a violent start to the holiday weekend. seven people shot in the district as gunfire tears through a northwest neighborhood. >>> special agents shot. the manhunt in virginia has police try to track down the gunman in a bizarre enup counen. >>> and the traffic troubles you should avoid. this has storm team 4 tracking when the rain might move on in. we welcome you in

at the live desk, i'm chris lawrence.k you, chris. >>> his name i he's 31 years old and he's a rising opera star. ♪ ♪ >> quite imposing, but this virginia native had a long and winding road to stardom. he struggled with anger issues, growing up in a trailer park across from a crackhouse. by age 12 he was locked up for months, most of the time in solitary confinement after he plotted to kill his family. but that experience changed his life and he began to focus on music. at age 15, he heard d.c.'s own denise graves sing at the metropolitan opera in new york and anyhow that was hknew that . he spends a lot of time telling his story to at-risk teens. >> didn't want to end up back there, so i changed my friends i hung out with, changed talked, changed the things i did, how i approached school and all of these things, because i wanted to find a way out. and luckily, with a lot of luck and people seeing things in me that i didn't see in myself, people opened doors for me and i was able to walk through them and change my life. >

at the live desk, i'm chris lawrence. >> thanks, chris. >>> right now, metro is planning another round of changes, beginning saturday, june 25th, metro rail tickets will cost 10 to 25 cents more, and metro bus tickets will increase to $2. metro rail hours are also changing. monday thr a.m. until 11:30 p.m. on fridays, metro will stay open until 1:00 a.m., an extra hour there. train service will stay open until 1:00 a.m. on saturday. but on sundays, metro will close at 11:00 p.m. >>> he posed as a maintenance worker to gain access to a luxury building. tonight new clues as police zero in on a suspect and his motives before that attack. >>> plus, an army veteran died after a violent confrontation, but no one ever faced charges. now, years later, the new evidence from a key witness that has officials taking a second look at the case as the family fights to clear his name. >>> and more political bombshells following the president's interview with nbc news yesterday. chuck todd joins us next to break down some ofhe big tge narrator:to do time is what is right. ralph northam. army doctor dur

i'm chris lawrence at the live desk. news is reporting that investigators think kushner has what's called significant information relevant to their inquiry. but multiple officials say that does not mean they suspect him of a crime or intend to charge him. now, we know last year, mr. kushner did meet with the russian ambassador, as well as a prominent russian banker, and this major development places the criminal investigation right at the doorstep of the white house and involves the trump family circle. obviously mr. kushner is married to the president's daughter ivanka. officials are telling nbc news that they think kushner is in a different category than former trump aides paul manafort and michael flynn, considered subjects of the investigation. you're going to want to keep it here for "nbc nightly news." lester holt will have a lot more on this breaking news. i'm chris lawrence, news4. >> thank you for that, chris. >>> this memorial day, we will honor our military dead. one montgomery county high school has four stud

at the live desk, i'm chris lawrence. >>> thank you, chris.ew tonight a warning for parents in montgomery county. be on the lookout for signs of whooping cough. a student at walt whitman high school has it. it's highly contagious. the school is concerned it could spread. symptoms, runny nose, deep rapid high pitched coughing, worse at night often. symptoms can occur within five days to three weeks after somebody has been exposed to an have it, you should keep them home from school. >>> a middle school security guard says he only stopped having sex with a teenage student when her mother caught them. tonight, he's in jail. montgomery county police tell us he turned himself in today. court documents show he started working security at brook lee middle school in february. the girl says she gave him her phone number and met him multiple times. students told "news4 today" they noticed that the young girl and he seemed close. >> if students see something inappropriate in their schools, they need to report it immediately. >> he's charged tonight with

i'm chris lawrence. we're going to start with the major mistakes from the d.c. government on its zika testing last summer. a d.c. lab told some patients they tested negative for the virus when they actually tested positive. this week we got the final results of the retesting and problems with the lab revealed a bigger problems with testing nationwide. >> hundreds of zika tests had to be retested after it was discovered that the lab had made results. the final results show for the hundreds of patients who were told they were negative, three were actually positive, including one pregnant woman. 26 patients' test results were unconclusive and 3494 were actually negative. dr. jennifer smith, director of the department says while the problems at the d.c. lab have been corrected, they revealed a bigger problems for labs akrocr the country. an independent agency found the instructions from the centers for disease control to more than 75 labs across the country on how to conduct zika tests were wrong. >> we've notified the cda immediately and then they took about a week

i'm chris lawrence. >>> i took his word for it again although i had a bad feeling about the whole thingwas not given blood thinners the first time around. >> military veterans sounding off about problems at d.c.'s v.a. hospital responding to a report that detailedas unsanitary storage. the new hospital director says changes have been made. jackie bensen is live with the details tonight. >> reporter: the acting medical director says he wants to make this facility the crown jewel of the v.a. system but tonight's comments indicate he has a long way to go. >> so i don't have very many good things to say about the facility. the problem here is systemic and the problem is the facility you have a culture that has to be changed. >> i brought this because i want to show what kind of bandage was put on the port of theive port of my husband's arm. >> military veterans passed the auditorium in northwest washington a few weeks after a scathing inspector general's report that included finng unsanitary storage rooms. the vets gave v.a. officials an ear full. the town hall was organized by american leg

chris chris lawrence is at our live desk with more details. >> right now james comey is on a flight to d.c. he wasn't in town to get the letter from president trump which takes all of five sentences to say you are fired. comey left los angeles and we learned he was speaking to agents when he saw the news on tv. initially comey thought it was a joke until a couple of aides said you're done. he had to cancel a key note speech at an fbi recruiting event and got on back to d.c. >> it's pretty outrageous. >> virginia senator had no idea this was coming. some republicans are pointing out comey's mistakes and reminding us the fbi director serves at the pleasure of the president. democrats are comparing trump administration to president richard nixon. maryland senator says it has a foul stinch. tim cane tweeted firing comey shows how threatened they are over russian investigation and multiple have accused president trump creating a crisis of confidence at doj. >> i have lost a lot of faith in the justice department to be able to carry out a law. i believe we need a special prosecutor. i'm goin

." >> hi, everyone, i'm chris lawrence.a story that dominated headlines this week, the terror attack at the ariana grande concert in manchester, england. grande's drummer is from

chris lawrence, news 4. >>> a three hour standoff is over tonight. police say they have arrested a man who pointed a gun at an officer inside the orlando airport. police say no one is hurt, no shots were fired. a temporary lockdown was just lifted but state highway officials have shut down all roads to the airport. >>> police in prince georges county are asking for help in solving a murder. they got a call to check on someone this afternoon at a complex on newton street. officers found a an apartment there. they say he had signs of trauma to his body but not clear yet how he died. >>> now to the district where a driver ran into an elderly woman earlier this evening here at the intersection of 12th street. fire officials tell us the woman has critical injuries. no word yet if she was in a cross walk. you can see they are clearly marked there at the scene. >>> montgomery county detectives are trying to figure out if a crime was committed. someone dropped off a little girl at the hospital. there were no sign of her parents. no one at the hospital even k

let's go to chris lawrence at our live desk. >> reporter: it's 4:00 in the morning and officials have been briefed by their u.s. counterparts. investigators have tentatively identified the suicide bomber. we believe that off in the outside the manchester arena. it went off just after she left the stage and the concert ended. investigators say the blast caught families as they were le leaving. witnesses say it rocked the building and set off a panic inside. about 21,000 people were there and cell phone video posted to social media show some of them screaming, crying, scrambling to get out. investigators say they have discovered forensic evidence indicating a suicide attack. witnesses report seeing nuts, bolts and other pieces of shrapnel. >> we're treating this as a terrorist incident until we have further information. we're working closely with national counterterrorism police network and uk intelligence partners. >> reporter: mns ago fans heain he i'm so, so sorry. i don't have words. doctors are treating nearly 60 victims wounded or injured at the arena. we have seen so many other p

. >>> i'm chris lawrence following breaking news in new jersey where the newark airport just reopenedfter a jet caught fire on the tarmac. the tower saw flames and radioed the united airlines flight crew before they took off for san francisco. they deployed emergency chutes and passengers had to slide out of the plane. more than 120 passengers were on board. the airport says there were a few minor injuries. >>> all new i team finds fare evaders on local buses turning to violence. tonight the shocking video on how it is effecting your commute. >>> who knew olympic medals could rot? the new problem athletes are running into after rio. to take on the "tom insurance companies and the credit card companies and the wall street banks... that's what tom perriello is about." progressive causes have been my life's work. i'm tom perriello... and before and after congress i led non-profits to battle climate change, poverty and president bush's attacks on civil rights. now i'm running for governor to reduce economic inequality. because together, we really can build a virginia

. >> at the live decembesk, chris lawrence. >> young men and women and children sold in the dark cornersf the internet. it happens right here in our communities. new tonight, news 4's darcy spencer reports on a push to educate people about the warning signs and to stop human trafficking. >> you could talking to a trafficker now. >> she knows that firsthand as a teen she was a victim of sex trafficking and now fights to help victims through her nonprofit courtney's house in the district. >> my situation, the sad part is it happens every day to ki we think just left home. sometimes they're running to someone we don't know. >> she was on a panel of experts at the kennedy rec center in northwest d.c. talking about the growing problem of child sex trafficking. >> you have some really awful people who prey on young people. >> d.c.'s attorney general says a child becomes a victim of sex trafficking every three minutes and more and more boys are becoming victims as well. according to d.c. police, will 818 juveniles have been reported missing in d.c. so far this year. larnlg number were traffic.

more on the first fami's decisilyon >>> i'm chris lawrence at the live desk where we are tracking new reaction to a report accusing president trump of leaking highly classified information to russian officials. now "the washington post" reports this happened last week when the president met with russia's foreign minister and ambassador at the white house. u.s. officials say it's jeopardized a critical source of intelligence in the fight against isis. we posted all the details on your nbc washington facebook page. a lot of you already sharing to post. the story also exploding on twitter. mark warner tweeted, if true, this is a slap in the face to the intel community. risking sources and methods is inexcusable, particularly with the russians. jo people in rockville, frederick and gaithersburg. he tweeted, if true, it's one of the more shocking and distressing news stories we've seen. but several people are supporting mr. trump, tweeting that as principal, the president has the power to classify information. we should note, nbc news has not confirmed the details in "the post's" report, b

i'm chris lawrence, news 4. >>> football is almost here.he third and final phase of nfl workouts schedul organized team activity or otas start tomorrow. all the attention is still on quarterback kirk cousins if he is any closer for signing a long term deal, the deadline is july 15. today bruce are allen gives us the latest status update on contract talks. >> it's ongoing. there have been constant dialogue, i don't want to say it's every day. i do believe the league deadline really will be the driving point. but it's ongoing. >> i'm always an optimist. he's having a good season so far. looking forward to it. i'm still optimistic. ♪ >> redskins hit the links today for a good cause. third annual red sk tournament, some swings a little better than others. proceeds from the event will be used to support the red are skins charitable foundation literacy effort. jay gruden in faend danattendan. a lot of new faces, so he says patience will be a injury are chew. markelle fultz is one of the most talked about prospects. the 18-year-old is said to be t

. >> imt chris lawrence. >> we're told both of them drove themselves to the hospital in frederick. and that's where we find tracee wilkins. >> reporter: well, it appears that the hospital has given the all-clear. the emergency room is operating again, but not the area where these two men were treated, because they want to make sure that what's happened here is what they think has happened. this powder is a common household product and that it was not a danger to anyone. the hospital has been given the all-clear. let me take you back to what it looked like just a little while ago. this all started at noon and then for three hours, the hospital was in situation after two men, who live in military, came to the hospital, drove themselves here, saying they had received a package with white powder inside of it. they were afraid it could have been anthrax or some other kind of powder. they were complaining about burning skin and respiratory issues. they were treated here at frederick memorial hospital, but the problem is, they brought the package along with them. because of that, the hosp

i'm leon harris in for chris lawrence and i'm here in the weather center with tom kierein. >> good toe you with us. >> great to be here. >> good to have you in the weather center too. and we are tracking some strong storms moving in here by later in the evening hours. the afternoon commute will be fine if you're expecting anybody home from work over the next hour or so. everything's going to be fine. just maybe a bit of rain in the metro area. but the main line of strong storms is in west virginia and farther south and west. right now, getting a few sprinkles. northern prince william just about to loudoun county. another area of rain coming out of rapa han uk county moving into southern prince william and west of the 95 corridor. but this is the line of strong storms we're watching carefully here in western north carolina. there had been a warning there, but it looks like now that has sdip ated, but this is coming our way later. very low chance for tornadoes, but high wind risk for damages wind and a low-risk of any hail. maybe some brief, heavy downpours. doug is back with the hour b

good afternoon, i'm chris lawrence. >> i'm pat lawson muse. right now, a town hall meeting and just wrapping up there, and just about a half hour from now, the student government will hold a news conference. kristin wright is watching that. >>> but first, wendy rieger has more on the town hall. >> good afternoon, the goal of this meeting was to come up with a plan to respond to future incidents -- hate incidents that might arise on campus. the student government president taylor dumpson organized today's town hall. she may have been a target of that recent hate crime. on monday, someone hung bananas dumpson's sorority. but she said now is not the time to place blame. >> the purpose of this town hall is to focus on what brought us together, the fact that we've had enough fon being attacked fr who we are. >> right now, dumpson is getting ready to hold a news conference and kristin wright is there, working to learn more about what they want to see from the university. we'll be hearing from her coming up on news4 at 5:00. >> thank you, wendy. >>>

>> and i'm chris lawrence. because all of this is developing by the minute, scott macfarlane joining me here on how this is going to impact train service. >> dramatically so. penn line the one that's paralyzed right now. we know the person hit by the train is dead. it happened just north of the new carolton station about a mile north in what is buoy in prince george's county. the silver star which goes from new york to miami after a stop in new carolton. we're told by amtrak the person was trespassing on the tracks when this happened. right now because of it all amtrak, all service suspended north of new carolton. metro is now taking marked passengers free of charge to help them get closer to their destination. right now it's far from clear when service is going to resume. >> we're heading right into the evening rush. >> pat. >> all right. police are person caught on camera the night someone strung bananas as american university. a meeting to address the hate crime has been cancelled. students walked out of yes

we begin the afternoon with storm team4, i'm chris lawrence. >> i'm pat lawson muse. amelia and doug, walk us through the night and the impact for the weekend. >> if you are walking through it, have the umbrella, because that will be needed tonight and early tomorrow. but the entire weekend not a wash-out. >> the sunshine finally going to return. i know you're doing a facebook live. people are saying, when's the sun coming back? mother's day looking good. but we could have another inch or more tonight and tomorrow. >> that rain really just about everywhere. it's all in our southern zones and steadier rain back towards portions of northern virginia. frederick and montgomery just now getting in on the rain. you look at the wider view, really what's happening, we have a couple little systems around a er you can see a bit of a spin. another round to the west, bringing heavy rain and another round early tomorrow morning. we'll take you hour by hour for your saturday. if you have plans tonight or your saturday, as well as mother's day, we'll be back here in about 15 minutes

. >> i'm chris lawrence with some breaking news. we just learned that someone left a noose at the national museum of african-american history and culture. we got our hands on an e-mail that the director of the smithsonian sent out to everyone at all of the museums and institutions which basically says, this act -- it's an act of hatred and intolerance and it will not be tolerated. from what we have been able to determine, sometime this afternoon, tourists were visiting an exhibit on segregation. they saw the noose. they alerted the park police who came to investigate. they took it down t closed the exhibit for several hours while they investigated. now t e coming at only four days after a noose was also found at the her shore museum as well as several other incidents in the area. the secretary of the smithsonian says we will not be intimidated. he called it a cowardly act and it will not stop them from doing the work that they do. as we get more information on this we'll bring it to you on air and the nbc washington app. back to you

. >>> i'm chris lawrence here at the live desk, where we're working to learn more about a homicide investigation happening right now in hyattsville, on newton street, not far from landover road in the bw parkway. officers found a man dead inside a home. they say he does have signs of trauma. we'll bring you any details as soon as we get them. >> thank you, chris. >>> a new controversy surrounding d.c. schools, what the mayor has to say about a report that hundreds of teachers have quit. >>> and the concerns right now in virginia about a proposal to tapand the s republican leaders are to affordable health care. i'm tom perriello and in congress i voted for obamacare because it was wrong that a million virginians weren't covered while insurance companies held all the power. now i'm running for governor because it's wrong that most virginia incomes haven't gone up in 20 years. raise wages and build an economy that works for everyone. and we'll make sure this never happens in virginia. >>> and right now, we have two storms we're looking at. they're not severe yet. one is the bigger one here now comi

at the live desk, chris lawrence, >> more breaking news now. thousands of gallons of water pouring in the streets of northwest d.c. after a water main break buckling streets, just one of the problems from this. the commute is also quite messy out there as drivers try to find another way through this area. news4 mark segraves live in northwest d.c. to tell us how all this is happening. >> reporter: good evening. macarthur boulevard is part of your evening commute, make other arrangements tonight. probably tomorrow morning as well. take a look at this sinkhole here. we're in the 4,500 block of mac arthur boulevard. this is the palisades section which started out as a trickle, a water main break has ended up with this sinkhole here which you see continues to grow. the water main break shut off water to hundreds of people, homes, businesses and schools all in the palisades area along the 4500 block of macarthur boulevard west. thousands of gallons spilled pavement and sidewalks trapping some cars. >> i saw that there was a tor rent of water about t

. >> chris lawrence is in the newsroom with a closer look at this and how it all unfolded. >> you'reng to see the exact moment that this intercepter takes out a mock ballistic missile. it's unique in that it's the first time the pentagon has targeted an intercontinental range missile like the kind that north korea is developing. on tuesday the u.s. launched one of those missiles from the marshall islands in the pacific aiming it at san diego. the missile defense agency vehicle from california which succeeded in blowing it up before it reached the west coast. the u.s. released this video of the test which cost nearly $250 million to pull off. the test went off days after the north korea performed its own test with kim jong-un looking on. the ground bags defense system does have its risk and at best some critics say it is a mixed record, hitting nine out of the past 167 attempts. this was the first time it was shot down an actual intercontinental ballistic missile traveling 3 to 4 times the speed of sound. pentagon officials say north korea already has the capability to threaten hawaii

joining me, lawrence jones, and chris hahn. good evening to you both. you just heard the president. ing to start with you, lawrence. the president saying from saudi arabia to israel, nato, g7, advances in security. does this seem to you like an almost perfect trip? there wasn't one flaw in the whole trip. >> i'm excited about it. first it started off with saudi arabia. we are giving you have weapons to defeat terrorism, to go after isis. it's about time you guys started assisting us with it. then nato. you have to stop being leeches and start paying your fair share. the american people sent donald trump to there to get them order. we shouldn't have to pay for all this stuff. you will see america take its place back in the world. judge jeanine: chris? >> first he goes to saudi arabia and he doesn't say radical islamic terrorism. i thought that was all you had to do was just say that and it would disappear. >> he already said it. >> he didn't say the to the islamist people in that room, did he. it's very easy to say sit in a rally in alabama, very different to say it among the leaders

your thoughts are not facts, so when you say msnbc's rachel or chris hayes or lawrence o'donald go onculate, and they make up conspiracy theories without any facts, but they make that that's journalism; right? they make that that's truth, that's facts when it's thin air out of their heads. they just make it up on live karmas you're watching. what would a good therapist say for those people who call themselves journalists? >> that's a great question. that's not a question that is asked at the dinner like they all celebrated. but here's the point. you would want to sit every one of them down or as a group and say, listen, is something about finding the truth has become an aversion for you. you would rather put opinion as fact. what are the roots of this? now, number one, it's harder work, frankly, in order to go and dig deep for objective reality. secondly, you would want to challenge every one of these people. hey, listen, you've got to not just think about the way you're doing your work, but how are you living your life? because if you're doing this at work, are you in other aspects o

lawrence. >>> coming up, democrats now hope that they can kill this bill in the senate. democratic senator chrisolland will join me and tell me what's going to happen in the senate. >>> and president trump's inability to think or speak clearly was the subject of george will's extraordinary column today. it was the column everyone was talking about today. it was trending on twitter. george will will join us. >>> it's not a political outcome, it's a human outcome. this isn't the america that i love. the america that i love cares about my right to life. prestige creams not living up to the hype? one jar shatters the competition. olay regenerist hydrates skin better than creams costing over $100, $200, and even $400. fact check this ad in good housekeeping. olay. ageless. ykeep you sidelined.ng that's why you drink ensure. with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. for the strength and energy to get back to doing... ...what you love. ensure. always be you. >>> we're going get this passed through the senate. i feel so confident. >> i know that our friends over in the senate are eager to ge

lawrence. >>> coming up, democrats now hope that they can kill this bill in the senate. democratic senator chrisolland will join me and tell me what's going to happen in the senate. >>> and president trump's inability to think or speak clearly was the subject of george will's extraordinary column today. it was the column everyone was talking about today. it was trending on twitter. george will will join us. you might not ever just stand there, looking at it. you may never even sit in the back seat. yeah, but maybe you should. ♪ (laughter) ♪ >>> it's not a political outcome, it's a human outcome. this isn't the america that i love. the america that i love cares about my right to life. find ping-pong. okay, let's go. find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. that's amazing! allure best of beauty and marie claire's most wanted. eyes show emotion, not your age. olay eyes. ageless. aleve with direct therapy- tens device- a relief from lower back pain. i put it on my back. i feelhis elecical pulse grabbing at my muscles. it was more powerful than i was expecting it to be. it worked. i believ

senator chris murphy, thank you for joining me. >> i'm joined by colonel lawrence wilkerson. there's been a lot of discussion about the u.s.'s posture towards regimes that have bad human rights records and whether this is a break with previous administrations or continuity. what's your position on that? >> i don't see this administration thus far anyway as having a strong portfolio on human rights either rhetorically or in actuality what it does in the world to support those rights. so far it's been rather vacant. it's not there. >> you know, the senator said something i thought is very important. you worked at the state department and know what a kind of complicated bureaucracy that is. and the fact that there's just no one at the key leadership level below the secretary of state, that can sound abstract or bureaucratic to people. what does that mean for how the united states conducts itself in the world? >> well, it's serious stuff because we're talking everything from consular affairs and issue of visas, for example, for people wishing to come to this country, and we're ta

chris's coverage as well and we'll have more on it. so i wish you a very good evening. thanks, appreciate it. >> i'm ari melber in for lawrence o'donnell tonight. we have the results on what we might get, new information from the press conference. but first, our top story tonight. what american intelligence caught russians saying about michael flynn and paul manafort during the heat of the campaign. >> tonight, "the new york times" reporting that months before the election, top russians had discussed ways to use donald trump's advisers to influence him. >> paul manafort, michael flynn, people who already had ties to russia. >> russian politicians and spies were bragging about their ability to get to president trump. >> they tried to suborn individuals to act on their behalf either wittingly or unwittingly. >> today the house followed senate's lead saying they're going to issue subpoenas for mike flynn and his businesses. >> hopefully general flynn will comply and it won't be necessary to force the issue. >> would you describe manafort and stone right now as being cooperate weave your investigation? >> well, they have been mor

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chris cornell of sound garden passed away last night as well. but let's move on with this. radar online has obtained exclusive video footage of jennifer lawrencey we're showing you this is because she has responded. j law gone wild see poll romp caught on tape. the article goes on to say she was cutting loose like a low rent go-go dancer. so jennifer lawrence decided to take two facebook to try and, you know, clear this up. shears her post right here. she says "look, nobody wants to be remained they tried to dance on stripper pole bite internet. one of my best friends birthdays and i dropped my paranoia gored for one second to have fun. i'm not going to apologize. i had blast that night. ps, it's not a brawl it's an alexandria wang top. i'm not going to line. i think my dancing is pretty good even with no core strength jenn "oddly enough she's playing a dancer in the movie that she was over there filming called red sparrow based on a book. so the question -- we can't show the footage on the air because it's morning television. >> method acting. >> video is basically her on stage. she's dancing around. you know, it's not tv friendly but i beyon

right now we're waiting on a special report from nbc news, but first let's get the latest from chris lawrence at the live desk. >> this is an nbc news scial report. he's lester hol >>e learned a short time ago, president trp has fired fbi director james comey. comey's roughly three and a half years into aten-year term. over the lastyear, he has become a rod, first over his instigation into hillary clton's e-mail server. and more recently concerning his acknledgement of an investigation into possible the trump campaign andheus government. justice correspdent pete williams is standing by with more now. pete? >> reporter: well, this is a big shock, ster. they did not see this coming at the fbi spoke to a senior official a short time ago who said the had no idea this was happening. but according t