michael schmidt of "the new york times" and what is he doing now?connection who, by the way, the times, "the washington post" and other newspapers, mike, were trying to do that during the campaign as well, perhaps michael flynn is the thread that starts the unwinding of the russian connection. >> joe, i'm going to show you something. first, i want to ask you like your candidate running for president how would you characterist chark characterize vladimir putin and what is the correct answer? >> the correct answer is the answer that republican senators and congressmen gave for years until it became politically expedient to become cowards. my view is tom cotton's view of vladimir putin one who is courageous. he kills journalists who write stories that are inconvenient to him. he murders. he assassinates political rivals. john mccain and were i talking about this in his office yesterday. he murders and naeassassinates political rivals in the creme l kremlin. he is one of the subsidy stabilizing forces on the planet. >> so here is donald trump on bill o'

michael schmidt is joining us on the phone. good morning. guest: thank you for having me.'m sorry about the noise in the background. contextn you give us on how this story developed for you? been a lot of tension around the russia investigation and with the u.s. government knows about russian efforts to hack organizations in the u.s. leading up to the election. we've learned that there has been expensive contact -- extensive contact between trump officials and russian intelligence officials. as a very alarming thing for american law enforcement. why is this going on from especially at a time that trump is saying the russians should release it clinton's emails? -- hillary clinton's emails? these were people that work for the campaign and associates of trump as well. some of the communications , someonepaul manafort helping him before with republican delegate counting for the convention. ,e also know that michael flynn the national security adviser ,ho resigned just two days ago was one of these people who had extensive contact with russians and was talking to them. as the f

in fact the reporter who broke the story of hillary clinton's private e-mail server and michael schmidt of "the new york times" was also one who broke to story the other day about questions that intelligence officials have about campaign advisors to president trump and contacts with russians familiar to u.s. intelligence. what does it say to you david chalian about his different standard is it just a question of now he's president and he understands how serious this is? or if leaks help me, good if they're bad for me, bad? >> probably the latter, a little bit jake, and remember part of the leaks he was sort of encouraging when he was saying hey russia go get the 30,000 e-mails we don't have from hillary clinton, there was a lot of presumption that some of those could have been classified or later classified in the process so it's not quite as clean of a line that he only advocated for leaks completely about unclassified material. there was a lot of suggestion from the oversight congress that she did have classified e-mails on her server, but what he's doing here, let's be clear, he's tr

meyer beat fellow council members eleanor schmidt and michael demarco. it was called after richard silverthorne was resigned last month. he was charged in drugs for the city council appointed stieve stomach brace as interim mare. he will stay in the job until meyer is sworn in. a federal appeals court is expected to rule in days on whether president trump's ban on immigrants is constitutional. they heard arguments from the justice department and from lawyers with washington state who challenged the order. the appeals court will decide whether to up hold or up hold the ban. in an unusual's move tonight's' hearing was conducted by phone. it took an historic move by vice-president mike pence to break a tie to confirm betsy devos as the next secretary of education. the vote came down to 54 and 50 against. pence cast his vote in favor of devos and tabled the motion to reconsider the vote. democrats spent 24 hours urging republicans to vote against devos. only gop senators voted vice-president pence swore devos into office a few hours after that receipt. devel

the race is between council members michael demarco, david meyer and eleanor schmidt.ls open in about 15 minutes at six a-m. they close at seven o'clock tonight. students at savoy elementary school are staying home for a second straight day. this-- as cleaning crews get to work inside their school building. the school is closed indefinitely as the building is being cleaned because of bedbug and rat infestations. all rugs and blankets have to be thrown out and replaced. students will attend classes at ferebee hope elementary school starting tomorrow. the wizards 17 game home winning streak is over.. it was snapped by the defending champion cleveland cavaliers in an overtime thriller! here we go..with the wizards down three in the fourth quarter bradley beal ties it with a three. he poured in a game high 41 points. now just a few possessions later with the wizards up by three. kevin love with the full court pass to lebron james..and he nails the three to tie the game and send it to overtime! and in the overtime after james fouled out, it was all kyrie irving..he scored 1

city of fairfax voted to elect david meyer as new mayor he was 42% of vote and beat eleanor schmidt and michael demarco. meanwhile scott silverthorne is due in court today facing felony drug channels after prosecutors said he agreed to give officer two grams of chris it will meth in skaing for sexual favors. his case was delayed until today. >> more that be 1,000 new words added to the dictionary you have time too give more than 1,000 guesses. >> we'll break it down and make it easier. we'll head to break wednesday morning. great start to the day today. today actually should be pretty good. "weather and traffic on the 5s fios is not cable. we're wired differently. which means we can deliver equal uploads and downloads. lcome to 8 and a half maple reet. it'half a house. and even though it only has half a kitchen, half the closet space and a half bath, it's a full house to the wilsons. because they have fios, their half house has full internet, with uploads as fast as downl