for which official time was granted and the impact official time had on agency operations. h.r. 1293 requires agencies to report the amount of compensation employees receive in connection with the time they spent on activities in connection with official time. finally, the bill requires agencies to report a description of rooms and spaces agencies use to conduct official time. h.r. 1293 will provide taxpayers with the transparency they deserve when it comes to official time. mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues to support this bill and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from virginia, mr. connolly, is recognized. mr. connolly: i thank the speaker. i must say, mr. speaker, i originally rose in support of what i thought was a simple reporting bill. listening to my friend from florida, this is part in par sell of the negative narrative that is sent in all too frequently on the other side of the aisle about hardworking civil servants and federal employees. they are not all somehow committing crime on official time. offi

, according to officials.temporaneous evidence of the president seeking that from admiral rogers, the head of the national security agency which he thought was inappropriate which dan coats, the director of national intelligence thought was inappropriate, that would be very damning. >> yes, in a special counsel investigation, that writing would work similarly to whatever we find out from the comey memos, if they're written contemporaneously. i think when you look at what's gone on here, wolf, what you see again is a situation where president trump, like gore lori said, is trying to shut it down but it's generating more suspicion. >> if there's no collusion, at the end of the day, he has succeeded in making this incrementally worse for himself and his administration by all of the things that he's spun up. >> this isn't the trump organization. this is the united states of america. when he was running the trump organization, he could turn to his people and say shut this down, i don't want this, i don't want that.

announce official election results.of the last update, not all votes had been counted. it was a little over 38 million, little over 40 million counted at that point in time. we expect, george, in the next ten minutes or so an official announcement that rouhani has won the presidential election in iran. interesting, looks like a wide margin of error, but not uncommon for iranian elections. they have tendency to reelect the incumbent. also looking like around 60 to 62% he seems to have gotten of votes. not necessarily uncommon for incumbents in iran. keep in mind this was an election that appeared to be very close for a large period of time, especially when you looked at the campaign and the polls the past couple days before the election when the hard liner was catching up. at this point what you're seeing in iran is them congratulating rowhani, saying victory for the moderates, also saying victory for the state of iran as well. one of the thing the supreme leader reports is power in this country and has the final say on

there isn't any sort of official official announcement yet.ntly the state media seeing that rouhani is so far ahead they're already congradi g congradilating him on winning this election. some smaller news agency that have done the same thing. they're also saying rouhani has won this election. which, of course, george, as we have been saying, is a very important one. very important in shaping this country's role in the middle east and shaping this country's role globally, as well. and, of course, internally as far as economic policies are concerned. and from having been at a lot of these polling stations. one major polling station in tehran yesterday could really see that the turnout was very, very high. many people coming out and telling us, look, we had two candidates especially whose economic policies are diametrically opposed and that's why many of them said that they believe this election is so very important. finally, george, one thing we shouldn't underestimate is that in the runp to the election, the donald trump factor. with the presi

officials, but current u.s. officials which seems important. the post says this, president trump revealed highly classified information to the russian foreign minister and ambassador in a white house meeting last week. the information the president relayed has been provided by a u.s. partner through a sharing arrangement that details have been held from allies and tightly restricted within the u.s. government. quote, this is code word information said a u.s. official familiar with the matter using terminology that refers to one of the highest classification used. by american spy agencies. trump, quote, relieved more information to the russian ambassador than we have shared with our own allies. the partner had not given the united states permission, meaning the partner country, partnering nation. that country had not given the united states permission to share the material with russia. and officials say trump's decision to do so endangers cooperation from an ally that has access to the inner workings of the islamic state. after the meeting senio

officials found out about it. and obviously we're waiting to get more details on this sort of discrepancy we're seeing in these statements when h.r. mcmaster starts speaking. >> the washington post reporter that broke the story will be with me in a moment. i want to go to the pentagon for the response. barbara starr is there. do we at this time no what is it that the president revealed? >> well according to the washington post, and i'll leave tight the reporter you have to explain further, some of this had to do with intelligence that perhaps led to the ban on laptops onboard passenger cabins in airplanes. it's quite interesting that that statement referenced aviation. you could talk about that with the russians certainly. nobody wants to see russian passenger liners crash due to some intelligence threat they may not be aware of. but the post article clearly suggesting that the president shared some of the most sensitive intelligence information about this and that that information came from another country. and t

one official with knowledge telling the "post," "i get great intel.e people brief me on great intel every day," before the president relayed the intelligence details. >> the president did not directly reveal the source of the information, but intelligence officials tell cnn the concern is russia will be able to figure out the highly sensitive source. it's highly sensitive in part because the information came from a foreign ally. the white house once again spinning into damage control. cnn's sara murray starts our coverage from the white house. >> reporter: good morning, dave and christine. another day at the white house and another damaging headline. on monday evening, administration officials were sent scrambling, insisting the president did not jeopardize classified information and share it with russian officials. >> there's nothing that the president takes more seriously than the security of the american people. the story that came out tonight as reported is false. the president and the foreign minister reviewed a range of common threats to our two

the "the new yk times" hearing what was on the official account, the official account of his oval officemeeting? trump telling the russians, after firing comey, he, quote, faced great pressure because of russia. that's taken off. where is that official account? what exactly is it, and will we see it? a white house official is now a person of interest in the russia investigation. new york congressman hakeem jeffries is with me now along with ann. let me get your reaction first. the president has denied repeatedly there was any collusion. he denies that he ever did anything wrong. now we have him and nbc news has confirmed the existence of these notes taken from this meeting. he's with the russians. he calls the fbi director a nut job, talks to them about what would be considered a fairly sensitive personnel matter. and then added, i feel great pressure because of russia. that's taken off. your reaction? >> well, it's another shocking development to some degree where donald trump's mind frame has been with regard to this investigation. it allows us to interpret some of these actions are pe

officials repeatedly pointing utto an economy they have here. and i think that's something that's very much on their minds. >> and alley, if you would, tell us about the significance of this being the first place the president would travel to make an overseas trip? what is the significance? >> well, in talking to several senior advisers over the course of several few weeks, there is a lot of stress of being one of the main pieces of the religion faith. to extend a hand to those in the region, a face in the middle east, especially in the fight against terrorism and isis in the region. but it's definitely something the president is focusing on while he's here. of course the significance of coming to this country after all of his anti-muslim rhetoric throughout the campaign, he had a largely -- a lot of them were really energized and mobilized by that rhetoric. and you can see him coming down the stairs right now to with melania. once trump reaches the end of that red carpet, he will see them, one of the first people he sees. >> now we're looking a

two former officials share that president trump shared highly classified information with russian officialsd let's welcome. it's so good to have both of you here. you have seen the washington post reporting that he was boasting, talking about highly classified information. and? >> well, i think that because he's insecure, he boasts and i think what he's finding out now is that when you boast around representatives of a foreign government and what you're bo s boasting about is classified information, you run into trouble. he spent his whole career boasting and pushing the edges of acceptable financial or business behavior and it's now entered into the political realm. so i don't find any of it surprising actually. >> but it may work in business? people may believe when you're sort of exaggerating. >> i think it caused him more problems than successesuccesses. the dirance is now he's being scrutinized in a way he never was during his business career. >> he tweeted last week about james comey. better hope is there are no tapes of their conversations. and here's sean spicer at the press briefin

official tellser? the white house was unsure about the president's power over the fbi which could speak to why he appeared to be trying to quash the investigation including during a private oval office meeting when trump asked comey to drop the matters against his national security adviser michael flynn. trump denies the charge but the top democrat on the committee says if true it's troubling. >> anybody that gets close to this russia investigation loses their job or ends up in a difficult position. this is just not the way an american president should act. >> reporter: and while they still want additional facts, more and more republicans are voicing concern about the constant stream of allegations against the administration. >> it's troubling obviously also, but i can't leap to conclusions. i don't think it's logical to assume that the president of the united states would ask the director of national intelligence not to investigate the russia issue. if you would ask if that's going to happen i would s

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fromwas a five alarm fire early on, one former obama administration official said.otentialviewed as a national security problem. vicky is calling from houston, texas on our democratic line. caller: i'm calling to let you know -- i don't believe a lot of the colors -- i believe a lot of the callers on the republican line are delusional. this investigation is going forward. as americans, we need to set up a different party. this is a fearful time. america is in such a worse case -- that isn't true. so many kids are graduating from high school, going to college. there's a lot of good things in america. for everyone saying leave it alone -- no, don't leave it alone. continue to investigate. at the end of the day, what's going on in that white house is fearful. ns will comeamerica together and realize it's not about republican or democrat, this is our life that's at stake. if we have a president in office giving out information that can harm our children, we should think about that. the russia probe should and will continue to reach the top white house advisers because e

other statement as well from white house officials.na powell, deputy national security adviser saying the story in "the washington post" is false. saying the president only discussed the common threats that both countries faced. manu raju is getting a lot of reaction up there to these two reports now. what are you learning, manu is. >> wolf, members of congress want answers. they don't know anything what they've read in these reports saying they are alarmed, both republicans and democrats, and they are concerned. people like senator bob corker saying this is problem at ache endick dushin, senate whip saying this is reckless if this were true. a lot of members have not heard about this. even members who sit on the senate intelligence committee. richard burr said he hasn't even read anything about this other than what's in the report. he said he has not fully read in detail bp we just got a statement from paul ryan, house speaker, who said this, we have no way to know what was said but protecting our nation's secrets is paramount. the sp

officials are making this point and i'm sure they have made it to you. when you disclose information that potentially could reveal how that information was obtained, sensitive information, lives are on the line and that's why news organizations like cnn and like "the washington post" in this case have declined to report certain information after the intelligence community says you know what, if you report that, lives could be lost. that's a sensitive issue. you can't just willy-nilly go ahead and release that kind of information. >> well, of course not, and if president trump had stood up and revealed just to the public just what he did in a classified setting with those foreign leaders that he wanted to discuss those things with, we could have this argument about whether it was appropriate to disclose publicly. that's not what he did. look, again, i come back to here there's a weasel here, and the weasel is not the.of the united states. it's the traitor who disclosed these facts "the washington post." i wish you'd go out and interview "the washington po

official says the fbi is looking into kushner's contact with russian officials during the transition as well as various explanations given for those meetings. on december 1st, kushner met with russian ambassador sergey kislyak at trump tower. later that month at kislyak's urging he met with sergei gorkov, the chairman of a russian bank, a close putin associate and a former spy. in march the white house insisted it was part of kushner's official transition role. but the bank said it was only about business, a key contradiction the fbi is now focusing on. the meeting with kislyak was initially left off of kushner's security clearance disclosure forms but added the next day. this month sources told cnn kushner discussed setting up a secret communications channel with russia using their facilities as a way to bypass detection by u.s. intelligence. but as an explanation said it was so he and then nsa nominee flynn could discuss military strategy in syria among other topics. the white house is pushing back, calling the reports false and unverified claims. >> i think secretary kelly and gen

the new york times says that there facing these on an official read—out fixing the basic these on a officials a document produced by the government or the white house itself, then circulated internally. they have seen presumably this document which is authentic from a reliable source. the white house itself isn't specifically denying these were words that donald trump said, that he talked about relieving pressure, they are fraying it as being part of the tramp negotiations with russia, inventing them to cooperate on the policy goals. as far as the serious goes, this points towards intent, forfiring the fbi director, in soon another data point. he was pressured by donald trump it is alleged, to stop the investigation, and early reports suggested it was because of russia. we will see. it is serious though, andi we will see. it is serious though, and i think donald trump's critics will point it to an example of where possible obstruction ofjustice. you mentioned intent, what do you think donald trump means by great pressure onjames donald trump means by great pressure on james comey? that is th

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house, white t house official who went out to get a response national security advisor h. r. mcmaster. >> there's nothing that the president takes more seriously than the security of the american people. the store they came out tonight as reported is false. if the president and the foreign minister reviewed a range of common threats to our two countries, including threats to civil aviation. at no time, at no time were intelligence sources or methods discussed. and the president did not disclose any military operations that were not already publicly known. two other senior officials were present, including the secretary of state, remember the meeting the same way and i said so.s int i was in the room. it didn't happen. >> host: h. r. mcmaster there noting no sources or methods discussed, but as several news organizations have pointed out including the "new york times," the intelligence, not the sources and methods used to collect it, is what concern those officials if the concern is that the notes of information about the islamic state plot could allow the russians to dig o

there is evidence of 18 different trump campaign officials meeting with russian officials. michael flynn is but one example. >> meeting with russian officials -- by the way, the hillary clinton campaign met with russian officials. >> you're mccabe and your boss just gets his head lobbed off for pushing the russians too strongly. do you think that might be intimidating? i just fired your boss to be too aggressive. >> this is my feeling of the fbi, and i admit to you this is serious, and i admit to you that the white house better get ready for a very long process. but the fact is this. the fbi is going to do their job. if you try to go after them politically and if they take this as a threat, they're going to double down and investigate even more -- >> that's exactly what happened. >> this is "hardball," congressman. should the president move our embassy to jerusalem? should he? >> no, he shouldn't. what he just described -- >> yes, he should. because he promised to do. >> that's the answer i expected. go ahead, congressman. >> what i was going to say is what he just said is

officials briefed on intelligence reports.hner made the proposal to russian ambassador sergey kislyak during an early december meeting at trump tower to use russian diplomatic facilities to

officials. it was also attended by michael flynn. there's a lot there. let's just pause on one staggering fact because we can tell you a lot of intelligence experts are cause pausing on it tonight. kushner wanted a secret channel to this one particular country, russia. he wanted to rely on the russians to provide the building and the mechanism for that secret plan. for a businessman he ought to know that would give the russians a lot of lef raj. they control the communications and any recordings made. but with great rewards come great risks, which is truly the kicker of this bizarre story out tonight. quote, kislyak reportedly was taken aback by the suggestion of allowing an american to use russian communications gear at its embassy or consulate. a proposal that would have carried security risks for moscow as well as the trump team. there is thinking outside the box and then there's thinking outside planet earth. which may explain the next piece of this story which, if you want a spoiler, is als

officials. we've been told that interviews of people, not necessarily white house officials. there have been interviews done with americans and various people related to this broad category of the russian influence investigation. but that's not really a thing that has been observable to the outside world. the people who are describing this to us are saying we need to start talking to people who may talk themselves to the public or may freld be seen talking to us. there's a whole issue involved in this process where you can only learn so much through intelligence gathering and record gathering before you have to start talking to people face to face. >> yeah, and seeing stuff happen before your own eyes. >> that's right. >> devin barrett, national security reporter for the "washington post." very impressive historic reporting. lots of kids in this country who are looking at you realizing they want to be you when they grow up. i hope you can joy it? >> thank, rachel. >> there is more new in this st

officials say the activities of a current white house officials are now under investigation in the fbi's russia collusion probe. in neither "the washington post" reporting on this nor nbc's reporting do we actually have the name of who the person of interest is. we are told the person is a senior white hsedviserho is close to the president, but put that list up again. this is at least a partial list of who's going on the big foreign trip today. that's a very large chunk of all the people who are known to be senior advisers in this white house. we don't have a name. we don't know if it's one of these senior white house officials who is on the trip who is also the person of interest in the trump russia collusion law enforcement investigation, but somebody apparently is. earlier this week, nbc news was first to report that mike flynn and paul manafort, the former national security adviser, former campaign chairman, were officially subjects of criminal investigations in which federal grand jury subpoenas have been issued. and "the washington post" tonight reaffirmed they were keenly interest

officials. our sister network sky news is reporting that british investigators will be keeping a lid on their findings until the united states assures them the leaks will stop. we just showed you the british prime minister theresa may said she would make clear to president trump that intelligence must remain secure. the white house this morning issuing a statement from the president that reads in part -- >> the two leaders meeting at the nato summit in brussels. no word yet on what came out of the conversation. at the same summit, president trump saying the manchester bombing was a barbaric and vicious attack on our civilization. the president calling on our allies in the efforts to track down the losers, as he puts it. >> all people that cherish life must unite in finding, exposing and removing these killers and extremists. yes, losers. they are losers. >> shepard: more on the nato summit later on. on the issue of the leaks, the new york times is defending crime seen photos and one that appears

officials in india reported isolated disruptions.n indonesia, the malware forced hospitals to cancel appointments, leaving patients waiting. in britain, the national health service was still trying to fix some of the i.t. problems after the virus crippled the system friday, but officials are hopeful. >> we have not seen a second wave of attacks, so i think that is encouraging. >> reporter: the malware program is called wannacry, and it exposed a vulnerability to microsoft operating systems. the virus encrypts files and hackers demand $300 to decode the files or destroy them. more than 200,000 users in over 150 countries have been affected. carmaker re-naud kept one of its french plants closed monday as a security step. u.s. security experts say the u.s. did not get hit as hard as other countries because the u.s. uses up-to-date versions of microsoft. but experts warn new versions of the virus could be on their way. meg oliver, cbs news, new york. >>> federal investigators are trying to figure out why a private jet crashed as it was t

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kislyak and other russian officials. when they made the decision to fire director comey, was the white house aware that director comey had reportedly just asked the justice department for more resources for an adequate investigation? and perhaps the most important question of all: when will republicans in congress agree to support a special prosecutor and an independent commission to get to the bottom of this russian collusion in our last presidential election? mr. president, december 8, 2016, is a day that will live in cyber infamy. it was that election that the russians set out to change the results. it is the first time we have seen an overt effort by a foreign party do this. and many on the other side of the aisle havetain taken a ho-hum attitude. oh, it is just another example of kids being kids. i don't think so. when one of our major adversaries in the world decides to try to impact the choice of leader of the free world, the united states should stand up, take notice, and fight back. let's not forget that this is

what is weird about this, you have transition officials that are not in officially u.s. government role and to try to depend on the russians to do this for you does seem add a minimum naive. it seems reminiscent of folks in past errors like having a transistor short wave radio to keep in touch with people in another country. >> shepard: okay. if these things did happen and the white house is denying them, what does that mean in the main? is that a crime? >> no, i don't think on it's back it's a crime. you can see why the intelligence agencies and the people that do this countser intelligence work for a living would be immediately alarmed by this kind of behavior on the part of anybody whose activities they're looking into. if you have concerns that somebody might be up to something improper and you find out they're trying to set up a secure communications channel, whether it be online or through an embassy or radio or other means, that's a huge warning flag. there may be an innocent or semi innocent or naive explanation about this but you'd want to turn to the person doi

as well, police officials. all of that information will be fed into the that meeting and decisions will be made in terms of national response on the back of that. we heard from amber saying in her words, a bar bearing attack. similar words from the prime minister as well. >> max, why is it that we're hearing from u.s. authorities here about this being a -- most likely this being a suicide bomber carrying out the attack, they could have identified the man who in fact was the suicide bomber, and all of this information seems be coming from sources outside the u.k. is it just they're reluctant to release this information, or is it just a procedure when it comes to the investigation? >> well, obviously very close intelligence sharing between the u.s. and u.k., and the usa can literally look at a lot of information going into the u.k. system. and they effectively leak more information much more readily than they do in the u.k. and in terms of criminal, contempt of cort, effectively if you public anything in this cou

and his further reporting confirms that because top official officials moved to contain the damage. here is greg miller giving his response in realtime tonight. >> the white house is playing word games here. this was also aboveboard and not problematic in any way, why did the national security council coming out of this meeting feel it was necessary to contact the cia director and the director of the national security agency to give them a heads-up on what trump had just told the russians. >> the cia and dni were put on alert because according to the post reporting, trump exposed information that could lead the russians to disrupt a key american source. quoting again, "the washington post" is withholding most plot details, including the name of the city at the urging of officials who warned that revealing them would jeopardize important intel capabilities. the identification of the location was seen as particularly problematic officials said because russia could use that detail to help identify the u.s. ally or intelligence capability involved. officials said that capability could b

officials.his meeting also attended by michael flynn, trump's first national security adviser. there's a lot there. let's just pause on one staggering fact because we can tell you a lot of intelligence experts are pausing on it tonight. kushner wanted a secret channel to this one particular country, russia, and he wanted to rely on the russians to provide the building and the mechanism for that secret plan. for a businessman, he ought to know that would give the russians a lot of leverage. they'd control the communications and any recordings made. but with great rewards come great risks which is truly the kicker of this bizarre story out tonight. "kislyak reportedly was taken aback by the suggestion of allowing an american to use russian communications gear at its embassy or consulate, a proposal that would have carried security risks for moscow as well as the trump team." there is thinking outside the box, and then there's thinking outside planet earth, which may explain the next piece of this

officials last week. the president reportedly told them, i just fired the head of the fbi. he was crazy, a real nut job. i face the great pressure because of russia. that's taken off. the president has said he was thinking of the russia investigation when he made the decision to fire comey. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein supported president trump's decision to fire comey. he was on capitol hillified to answer lawmakers' questions about that decision. rosenstein told lawmakers he knew the president was going to fire comey and he agreed with him. so he wrote a memo outlining the reasons why. he said, i wrote it, i believe it, i stand by it. white house press secretary spicer says comey's firing obviously wouldn't stop the investigation. he added, by grandstanding and politicizing the investigation into russia's actions, james created unnecessary pressure on our ability to engage and negotiate with russia. and indeed, the investigation does continue. the "washington post" is reporting law enforcement

we're told by administration officials that they are preparing a statement. they are go having to a statement at some point. we thought it might be here by now but the sun is just about to arise. it is arising in jerusalem and the president is waking up to what is the first major terrorist attack of his presidency. the biggest one no question. he's been talking about extremism, combatting extremism. well, this rests exactly that heart of that to. he'll be giving a speech in a couple hours' time. and he's heading to europe tomorrow. this is something he's been talking about a lot and is indeed the biggest challenge facing him but we're awaiting a specifics on the attack. >>> and back to our breaking news. cnn has learned that president trump persuade two of the top intelligence officials to issue public statements knocking down the probe into possible cuflugz to the trump campaign and russia. joining me we have representative, a democrat on the judiciary committee and a republican on the armed services committee from indiana. if i could begin with you, congres

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officials now say at least 22 people are dead. some 60 others hurt after a man set off a bomb at an ariana grande concert. the bomber is 22-year-old salman abedi. british media report he was born in england to a libyan family. police say they also arrested another man in connection with the attack. one of the victims, 8-year-old sassy russo, a teacher, told the guardian newspaper that she was a beautiful girl in every aspect of the world. the islamic state claiming responsibility for the blasts. though u.s. intelligence officials say they have not verified that isis was either behind the attack or even that the terror group had influence upon it. we reported for hours last night on the chaos and confusion inside that arena after the blast. >> what's going on, they said? it wasn't clear in the early going. more video showing people climbing over railings as they rushed to get outside. fans running down stairs, scrambling for exits. witnesses describing bolts and med tall. hospitals reporting people had shrapnel-like injuries. it's

from russian officials. all this coming just days after "the new york times" reported that president trump personally asked james comey to drop the russia related investigation into his former national security adviser michael flynn. late today we learned at comey has agreed to testify in an open session before the senate intelligence committee some time after memorial day. joining me now, democratic congressman ted lieu of california. there's so much to get to here, congressman. let me start with your reaction to the times report about the president's calling comey a nut jo saying he fired him, seeming to explicitly state it was to get away from the investigation that essentially the white house confirming it today. what is your reaction to that? >> thank you, chris, for that question. let me say that we no longer just have smoke. we have a raging e inine ining at the white house. president the president did in firing james comey and then saying he did it to relieve pressure on himself because of the fbi in

an official says the fbi is looking into kushner's contacts with russian officials during the transition as well as various explanations given for the meetings. on december 1st kushner met with ambassador sergey kislyak at trump tower and late they are month he met with sergey gorkov, the chairman of a u.s.-sanctioned russian bank, a close putin associate and former spy. in march the white house insisted it was part of kushner's official transition role but the bank said it was only about business. the meeting with kislyak was initially left off kushner's security clearance disclosure forms but added the next day. this month sources told cnn kushner discussed setting up a secret communications channel with russia using their facilities as a way to bypass detection by u.s. intelligence. but as an explanation said it was so he and then nsa nominee flynn could discuss military strategy in syria among other topics. reuters is reporting kushner had several additional undisclosed contacts with kislyak but kushner's attorney says that he, quote, participated in thousands of calls in the time pe

is this a pattern of the president trying to pressure top officials like this? >> it's a pattern of him trying to get it out of the news and that's the question. this is the question of obstruction of justice. >> what's the motive behind that? >> correct, and it depends what's his goal and then does it actually obstruct the investigation. those are the high legal bars. at the very least it's an astonishing political mistake on his part by doing these things, and if he does it again in any way, shape or form it's just going to add fuel to the fire and make russia an even better story. >> emily, got to ask you, you got a scoop today. he is hiring an attorney, a longtime adviser, right? but you're hearing that he -- someone asked advice from chris christie about who the president -- what the president should do and tell me about this. >> sure. two people familiar with the conversation said that chris christie, governor of new jersey and an ally of donald trump with him on the campaign once he dropped out of the presidential race and led into the transition before h

both officials happen to be scheduled to testify today. the nsa's admiral mike rogers testifies in a few hours. director of national intelligence dan coats testified a short time ago. asked about the story, coats would neither confirm nor deny the report. >> i have always believed that given the nature of my position and the information in which we share it's not appropriate for me to comment publicly on any of that, so on this topic as well as other topics, i don't feel it's appropriate to characterize discussions and conversations with the president. >> over in the house, formeria director james brennan was repeatedly quizzed by republicans about whether there was specific evidence of collusion. >> did evidence exist of collusion, coordination, conspiracy, between the trump campaign and russian state actors at the time you learned of 2016 efforts? >> i encountered and am aware of information and intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions between russian officials and u.s. persons involved in the trump campaign. i don't know whe

in march cnn's evan perez had learned from numerous officials that intelligence deemed credible said that isis was developing laptop computer bombs to be used on international flights. before reporting this on cnn, perez talked to trump administration officials who cautioned perez and subsequently cnn executives to not report certain details about the threat, including the city from which some of the intelligence was collected. by reporting are the city's name, trump administration officials insisted, that would tip off american adversaries about sources and methods used to gather the intelligence. tlt would, th-- it would, they get people killed. cnn did not report the details or the name of the city and last night the "washington post" reported and government officials say that president trump in a meeting with the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and the u.s. ambassador sergey kislyak revealed highly classified information about this specific isis laptop threat. "the post" reported that the president, quote, described how the islamic state was pursuing elements of a specific

now, when you talk to the leading officials and the people who work for those leading officials who are preparing for this trip, like the secretary of state, the national security adviser, they have meticulously laid out a very, very busy schedule for this president, and, you know, it's not something that we've seen from donald trump in the past when he was a candidate. you know, pretty much the most he did during that campaign was travel out to his golf courses in scotland, so this is going to be a huge challenge for the president. there's a lot riding on this trip, and we'll see on the other end how all of it pans out. but no question about it. what is happening right now, what is breaking right now in washington is going to be following this president every step of the way. >> indeed. jim acosta in riyadh, saudi arabia. thanks very much. the former national security adviser to president george w. bush will be here to weigh in on the breaking news next. stay with us. when it comes to technology, i need someone that understands my unique needs. my dell small business advisor has gotten

officials. those officials telling nbc news tonight that jared kushner is a person of interest, which is a term that has no legal meaning, but people use it in the news all the time. and to be clear about what that means, mr. kushner is under scrutiny. but that doesn't mean that he is a suspect. from nbc news reports, nbc news' report tonight, quote, investigators believe jared kushner has significant information relevant to their inquiry. that does not mean they suspect him of a crime or intend to charge him. the officials said kushner is in a different category from former trump aides paul manafort and michael flynn who are formally considered subjects of the investigation. jared kushner, they believe, has useful information. now, nbc reports tonight that it remains unclear, quote, what precisely about kushner's activities has drawn the fbi's interest. that said, nbc news had this story tonight. "the washington post" also had this story tonight, they also broke this story at basically the same

according to the post, officials to "the washington post," officials believe the information he provided was a reliable characterization. the white house has declined the comment tonight. >> jared kushner's attorney has declined to comment as well. very, very thunderous silence, i should say. i understand the obama administration had concerns about ambassador kislyak's interactions with people on the trump transition team. what can you tell us about that? >> that's right. i'm told by former obama administration officials that they were alarmed by the interactions kislyak was having with members of the trump campaign in transition. and they took note of these i t interactions. when kislyak came to the white house, it was normally to be reprimanded. in contrant, members of the trump campaign and transition appeared to be meeting with him on a regular basis, mory e y tsn with other foreign officials. it was puzzling, i'm told, that -- because it was not clear to those in the obama administration what the trump transition folks were trying to avoid, trying to do by avoiding regular channels.

trump campaign officials and associates had repeated contact with senior russian intelligence officials and other russian officials while russia is attacking the united states. then, to try to sway the election in trump's favor, bombshell comes out february 14th, comes out one day after the mike flynn resignation, which was over his serupticious contacts with russian officials but steps on the tail of that story. it's huge, sort of oh clouds the impact of the mike flynn story because this story the next day is even bigger than that. but then something happened to that story, remember? february 13th, flynn resign, feb 14th, "new york times" posts this bombshell story. what's the headline? trump campaign aides had repeated contacts with russian intelligence, february 14th. february 15th, the next day, the deputy director of the fbi went to the white house for a 7:30 a.m. white house meeting on what was reportedly an related intelligence matter. at the end of that 7:30 a.m. meeting, the deputy director of the fbi had a private pull-aside, a private pull-aside one-on-one meeting with the wh