it includes even an interview with the guy who set this thing up, peter smith. i should tell you that shane harris also reports that smith died ten days after doing this wall street journal interview. in which he described what he did. in terms of corroborating his account, there's big news on that front. quote, the operation peter smith described is consistent with information that has been examined by u.s. investigators probing russian interference in the elections. according to u.s. officials with knowledge of the intelligence, quote, investigators have examined reports from intelligence agencies that describe russian hackers discussing how to obtain e-mails from mrs. clinton's server and then transmit them to mr. flynn via an intermediary. in advance of this report tonight, ben wittes was tick, tick, ticking like you can't believe, for days. and you know, conservative media and republicans really did start to proactively say that colluding with the russian attack, maybe that's not such a big deal. in the last few days, conservative media, supporters of mr. tr

far away from themselves that at this point they're dangling it from the window, quote, said that peter smith did not work for the campaign and if mike flynn coordinated with mike smith in any way, it it would have been in his capacity as a private individual, even though flynn was a senior adviser to the trump campaign. flynn was senior adviser to the trump campaign at the time this was happening, soon to be designated as trump's pick to be national security adviser. if he was working as part of this effort to contact the russians to get what they had on clinton, that's -- boom. and here's probably the most important part. this piece in "the wall street journal" tonight is multiply source. shane harris also reports that smith died ten days after doing this wall street journal interview. in terms of corroborating his account, quote, the operation peter smith described is consistent with information that has been examined by u.s. investigators probing russian interference in the elections. according to u.s. officials with knowledge of the intelligence, quote, investigators have examined report

>> well, peter smith is a chicago businessman who has a long history in gop politics and particularlyn opposition research. he's most well known as the guy who brought the troopergate to light in the 1990s. so he did harbor a lot of political grievances against hillary clinton and when he set out on this quest to try and find these e-mails that he believed had been hacked, probably by russians from her private server, it was his intention, if he could verify their authenticity, acquire them because he believes they would show corruption by hillary clinton. >> how did he go about finding the e-mails? >> he assembled a team of technologists and lawyers and one private investigator in europe who spoke russian, he told me, who went out and looked essentially in the dark web, if you will, places where you're likely to find hacker who is try to traffic this information and he believed he assembled enough of a network that they might be able to find a claim of this information and ultimately they settled on five groups of hackers, two of whom were russian, and attempted to vet that informati

but they report that peter smith attempted to independently acquire hacked e-mails that he believed might have been stolen from hillary clinton's private server. in doing so, according to the article, mr. smith said he and his colleagues found five groups of hackers who cling to possess mrs. clinton's deleted e-mails including two groups he determined were russians. did not work for trump's campaign, e-mails written by mr. smith and one of his associates show that his small group considered mr. michael flynn in his consulting company, flynn intel group to be allies in their quest. for more, joined by the reporter who wrote the story. shane harris, thank you for this. walk us through this because you've got a couple of things here. i want to try to pin down here the name michael flynn comes up. the idea of a republican political consultant, not formally part of the campaign but interesting in electing trump and the idea of stolen e-mails and contact with the russians. what exactly do you know here? >> smith launched this effort over labor day weekend officially last year before as the

we should, too, it's my understanding from talking to peter smith that he had suspicions about hillarymails, even before donald trump made that comment. but it is very notable that this project that smith was leading begins in earnest about five weeks after president trump made that statement. >> so, all right. so then just lastly, steve, flynn seems to be, obviously, the key -- the key piece here that could lead to some answers. we know he's pleading the fifth. can you think of any other way to get to the true nature of, you know, flynn and the russians. >> oh, sure, i think there's lots of different ways to do that and i think a lot of it is going on behind the scenes, either by the fbi doing a counterintelligence investigation, which they're clearly involved in, have been since last year, really, as well as the mueller investigation. so yeah, there are certain investigative things. you know, the fbi has, you know, strong police powers, they can go out and talk to people. they can interview people and they have other ways of gathering information as well and that's the critical part,

if indeed, flynn was aware of what peter smith, the political had chicago private equity exec was up to. it is very murky like so much else is in this story. it is not clear if smith ever got any e-mails at all. there were some e-mails that he was, any real e-mails. i can till, they were being shopped around. and offered by folks who may have been connected with russian hackers. and this dates back to even before mr. smith began this effort. i've done some reporting on this and people were aware. no one was sure whether they were legitimate or not. even in the story, it says the e-mails that smith's folks did get, they couldn't verify them. they turned them over to wikileaks. so this could have been some sort of hoax. that's one cautionary note on this. >> i want to be clear about what's going on. he was active into funding investigations. quite frankly, wild goose chases. he is a conservative rich guy who is doing freelance and thinks to himself, maybe they have the e-mails off hillary clinton's server because she said they pertained to personal things. goes on this fishing expeditio

shane paris wrote this piece, interviewed a guy named peter w smith. who is he? >> he's a private entity guy who has done research for the republicans against the democrats. he was involved in research related to president bill clinton at the time. in this case, he was doing research on hillary clinton and he was trying to find out if he could get his hands on those 30,000 emails that she deleted from her server that were meant to be personal because he suspected there might be some state department emails and there. >> jon: he put the word out to computer hacker forums, if you've got these emails, we would love to have them. >> that's right. he hired a team of people including russian speakers and experts and they went out to see if they could find any hackers who had found these emails are claimed to have these emails. they identified five groups of which two of those hacker groups were determined to be russian and then they started to see if they could get the emails. >> jon: he also claims that he was working on behalf of or working with michael flynn, right?

blockchain ceo peter smith.de also caught up with one of the largest digital publishing houses in europe. she talked about the relationship with social media platforms and how he sees it he revolving. l: social media are an important driver. we have new leadership. the important thing is that in the long run, we have a sustainable model. paid element subscription has to be the second one. facebook is preparing initiatives in that context, i am confident that in a short media of time on social we will have two revenue streams. with that, i think a great platform. if facebook itself would transform into a publisher, then we would have an issue. i do not think it is going in that direction. areink social media platforms for distribution to connect people. we publishers are generating the content, monetizing, advertising. caroline: the question of fake news, how is it then dealt with? fake news is first of all nothing new. the amplification of fake news through social media shows there is a big difference when you d

caroline: that was block chain ceo peter smith.he growth of crypto currency's have become clear, and one company that is cashing in is a startup that is the leading social trading network for people to trade currencies, commodities, and more recently, dr. currencies. today and announced a new fund accessing investors to the top investment strategies for holding bitcoin and similar currencies. i started by asking the rationale for the company's new venture. guest: we are seeing a huge spike in both volume of users and the prices of the crypto currency's lately. seeing theally today crypto currency market cap as a wholesome passing, for the first time in history, $100 billion, which we believe is an important milestone for this industry. i'm here at the muddy conference in mature it, where we will be launching this week our crypto currency -- money conference in madrid, where we will be launching our crypto currency strategies. fund, launching a copy which automatically invests in bitcoin and is very him -- and etherium, the two larg

his name was peter w. smith.as a long history in opposition research going back to the early clinton days where he was responsible for helping to publicize a number of stories about bill clinton's personal life. and his connection to general flynn is they definitely knew each other. but what we found in our investigation is that over last summer into the fall peter smith was engage income this operation to try and find hacked e-mails and telling many of his associates that he was keeping mike flynn aware of what he was doing. he portrayed mike flynn as somebody who was a part of a small circle of people who were actually working on this and gave the impression that he was an allie in that. so it's our understanding they met at some time before this began. as things got going, that when smith started repeatedly invoking pete's name as somebody usually with him on this project? >> a great story, show it on the front page. i saw it last night. my head exploded. i got to tell you, you say people in the u.s. investiga

peter smith contactth hacking groups about if they could get e-mails delaeted to hillary clinton's private that he was working with flynn. important to note there was nothing nefarious in regards to his death. national security advisor susan rice will testify before a closed session about unmasking names of trump associates in the campaign. and the white house will meet with vladimir putin on the sidelines of the g 20 summit in germany next week. joining us now to break all of that down is matt miller, nbc justice and security analyst, and former justice department spokesman. i'm glad you're here with me to talk about all of this. if the wall street journal report is correct, will it provide evidence between the trump campaign and russian officials? >> i think there was one big piece of news and one potential bomb shell. the just intelligence overheard russian intelligence officials discussing if they could hack into hillary clinton's deleted e-mails and make those available to mike flin. that is what trump asked them to do. >> i was there. >> yes, i remember you there and he told you to b

the individual himself, peter smith, is now dead. he did interview with the "wall street journal" before his passing. he said that never actually occurred. he never said that occurred. michael flynn never returned call for comment from the "wall street journal." again, cnn hasn't corroborated these details yet. it's an interesting story, certainly something you look at the entire russia investigation. it comes as investigations on capitol hill are clearly ramping up. senate intelligence committee, we've seen a lot of their work. the house intelligence committee also ramping up and inviting somebody that republicans have a keen interest in. susan rice, former national security adviser to president obama has, according to sources, told the committee she will testify behind or at least meet with the panel behind closed doors next month. this is obviously important for republicans who care about the unmasking issue. this is something they allege obama officials took away redacted names from intelligence reports. susan rice has vehemently

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operative peter smith complied he was working with retired flynn, t general mike at the time a senior advisor to then-candidate donald trump. in an interview with "the wall street journal," mr. smith, the g.o.p. operative, said he knew mr. flynn but never said mr. flynn was involved and mr. flynn didn't respond for request for comment. mr. smith died at age 81 on may 14, about 10 days after the journal interviewed him. the operation he described is consistent with information examined by u.s. investigators probing russian interference. they've seen reports from intelligence agencies that describe russian hackers obtaining how to obtain emails from mrs. clinton's server and transmit them to mr. flynn via and intermediary. according to u.s. officials with knowledge of the intelligence. tom in clinton, maryland, a democrat, hi, there, tom. good morning to you. what's on your mind? caller: can you hear me ok? host: yeah. caller: a reasonable diagnosis of donald trump's administration and what he's trying to do. i believe that this guy, michael flynn, and paul manafort and all those guys w

>> reporter: the operative's name is peter w. smith. figure who has a long history with the clintons and opposition research on hillary and bill clinton. he embarked in the home stretch of the campaign on this effort to find e-mails he believes that russian hackers stole from hillary clinton's server and he portrayed mike flynn, then a senior adviser to donald trump in an ali to this quest. saying that mike flynn was aware of what he was doing and appeared to be supportive of that. so we're seeing some connection and we're trying to understand the full depth of it between a campaign adviser to donald trump and this operative who believe head was in touch with russian hackers trying to find damaging e-mails about hillary clinton. >> peter smith has passed away and he never has told you that flynn was involved. >> he said he knew michael flynn and others said that he had been talking to flynn about this project and there are e-mails that portray flynn as among a small number of people working on this. but we should be clear that the agree

>> we found this operative, a man named peter w. smithgaged in this effort to try and find hackers including hackers he made contact with that he believed were russian, to obtain the e-mails from hillary clinton's personal server, the ones she had claimed she had deleted. smith believed those had been hacked and were available and wanted to expose them. notably in this effort, he in multiple times, e-mails and communications with the people he was working with, portrayed mike flynn, then senior national security adviser to president trump's campaign, as being aware of this effort and being an ally in it. mike flynn did not comment for the story that we ran, and it's still unclear to what degree he was involved, if at all. but this really is the first instance i think of a trump campaign official having a connection to someone who was by his own account engaged in an effort to collaborate with russian hackers in order to try and politically damage the democratic candidate. >> to be clear, the gentleman you talked to in the article had not

we spoke with ceo peter smith from madrid about what he sees as the driving force behind crypto currenciesnk we are seeing strong demand across a couple of key markets. we are also seeing levels of macro instability across the world. i think that is driving a lot of growth. i think it would be a mistake on focusing too much on that instead of the huge innovation in the space, particularly across the creation of assets. >> when you say a huge surge of innovation, we going to see some instability? we have seen plenty of volatility when looking at the prices. is that volatility here to stay? >> i think it is here to stay, in the sense that the price is going to move a lot. bitcoin is pretty established, and trades at a pretty low volatility, relative. the other assets like some of the ico's you are seeing from the newer assets, i think those are going to remain very volatile until they mature and build market depth. >> talk to us about the trend of ico's? many of these companies are launching their own crypto currencies. their own token and financing themselves. what is the trend there that y

this came to light from an interview "the wall street journal" did with peter smith.ican, operative research guy. he's conducted his own research into hillary clinton and in a story in the interview to "the wall street journal," he claims that he had reason to believe russian hackers had access to her e-mails from her private server, which, obviously, was the focus of a huge fbi investigation. the other sbrinteresting thing t came to light according to the opposition researcher who since died, he was in touch with michael flynn and gave indications that maybe michael flynn was working with him. obviously, the trump campaign denied it. michael flynn has not comments. the fbi, during their investigation did not find information that they got into the servers. >> the argument is it was vulnerable, but no proof they accessed it. >> the notion refers to this researcher talking to hackers, russian hackers about these e-mails existing. it's sort of not really backed up by the fbi or any other investigators that certainly we have talked to. >> another interesting development

it's peter smith who has since died. he is an opposition researcher, was working -- on his own behalf, according to the trump campaign at the time that he was working, he was not working for them. the "wall street journal" interviewed him in may, where he admitted or sort of gave up information that he was trying to obtain her e-mails from her server. he believed that the russians may have hacked her server and had actually obtained them. the over 30,000 e-mails. and smith even hired attorneys and computer experts who were communicating, claim to have been communicating with hackers who had access to information. but i think, poppy, it's important to note here that the fbi, when they were doing their investigation, and when they were looking through her server, they found no evidence that it had been hacked and also didn't have any intelligence to indicate that someone was sitting on this batch of hacked e-mails. >> also not someone with a direct tie to the trump administration or campaign. >> correct. at least what the

one of those according to the wall street journal may have been a republican operative named peter smith working relationship with michael flinn's consulting company. the special council has been leading the investigation into whether any of trump's associates worked with russia to undermine clinton during the election. >>> just hours after bart said that security cameras have now been installed on all bart trains there was a report of an attack on a train. at about 11:00 wednesday night bart police say a group of teenagers punched a passenger on a train headed to dublin and then stole the cell phone getting video could take days because the new cameras on the trains aren't accessible instantly. former bart police chief said that even though the footage can't be seen in realtime the video can still help solve crimes. >> the fact that the train cars are nowe equipped with cameras that are operational but can also record and store footage that did be retrieved used as evidence. it's a vast improvement over having no video at all. >> in the past two thirds of the cameras on bart trains were

. >> his name is peter smith. a longtime chicago peter w. sm.ginning on labor day of last year during the campaign to obtain from hackers e-mails that he believed had been on hillary clinton's private server and stolen by hackers. he went out and made contact with a number of groups and in e-mails and kmpgconversations w associates mr. smith portrayed michael flynn as someone aware of the effort and implied he was an ally in that. he told them he had been talking to general flynn about this. important remember at that time mike flynn was the senior national security advisor to donald trump on the campaign. this effort began on the part of mr. smith after mr. trump said russia if you're listening go find the 30,000 e-mails that hillary clinton claimed she deleted from her server. that's what smith was looking for. >> did he find the e-mails? >> we can't say for sure. he said he found some e-mails and unable to guarantee they were 100% authentic. he was worried they might have been manipulated and falsified. because he could not guarantee with 100

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hack iing i doesn't necessarily fit the pattern and it also raises the question why they this guy peter smiths now deceased so he can't answer this question except to the extent he already did in the wall street journal story why he was taking this approach. that said just the fact he's clumsy and doesn't necessarily absolve him or michael flynn from trying to try to access these e-mails even if they weren't going about it in a sophisticated manner. >> all of that that ken pointed out, clumsy, bad, unethical is very different from collusion with the russians. >> right. there's one part of the journal story that says that the intelligence agencies had some information presumably from some intercepts that the russians were seeking a way to get information to flynn. that kind of caught my attention but like so much of the reporting on this story, it's vague, unsourced. you don't know at what level, who these hackers were. there's lots of unanswered questions. >> we're still in early innings on this conversation. michael, ken, good to see both of you. thanks for joining me. >>> why did secretary

claims a former republican operative peter smith was trying to find e-mails that may have been stolener software. suggesting it was connected somehow to the fired national security adviser michael flynn. flynn hasn't responded to the wmp "wall street journal" story. smith has passed away since that interview with the "wall street journal." is this something your committee is looking into now? >> it certainly must be a part of our investigation, wolf, for a couple of reasons. one, everyone remembers president trump as a candidate inviting russia to sbhook hilla clinton's e-mails and we all know now that michael flynn did have a relationship with the russians traveling there, paid by r.t., connected to their intelligence services and then served and played a role in the campaign. so what mr. smith alleged does not -- it's not something that seems unbelievable. it's snag shouomething that sho probed further and i hope gets foug folded into what we're doing. >> congressman, thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure. >>> up next, take you to ta key iraqi city. the city of mosul. used to be the

the paper reports on an alleged effort by a man of peter smith and some of his associated to obtain e-mails believes were stolen from hillary clinton's private server and e-mails show that smith and one of his associates considered michael flynn an ally in this effort. the journal writes this, the operation mr. smith described as consistent with information that has been examined by u.s. investigators. they continue. investigators have examined reports from intelligence agencies that describe russian hackers discussing how to obtain e-mails from mrs. clinton's server and then transmit them to mr. flynn via an intermediary, according to u.s. officials with knowledge of the intelligence. when "wall street journal" spoke to smith he never stated that flynn was involved. reportedly denied any wrongdoing. want to get your sense of that. at first glance, not our reporting, but this appears to have the potential of the closest thing of some idea of some form of collusion to anything we've seen to this point. no? >> pretty surprising report that, as you said, we have not confirmed at this point. bu

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operative peter smith implied he was working with retired lieutenant general mike flynn at a time theenior advisor to then candidate donald trump. emails written by mr. smith and associate show a small group considered mr. flynn and his consulting company to be allies in their quest. what role if any mr. flynn may have played is unclear. in an interview with "the wall street journal," mr. smith said he knew mr. flynn but never said mr. indian was involved and mr. flynn didn't respond to request for comment. mr. smith, the operative, died at age 81 may 14 so days after the journal interviewed him. the operation he described is consistent with information examined by u.s. investigators probing russian interference. they've seen reports from intelligence agencies that describe russian hackers discussing how to obtain emails from mrs. clinton's server and transmit them to mr. flynn via an intermediary according to a official with knowledge of the intelligence. it isn't clear who that intermediary may have been or if mr. smith's operation was the one allegedly under discussion by the russi

yvonne: peter smith also joins us from berlin at half past 3:00 hong kong time.in new york. betty: on bloomberg "surveillance," we will hear from robert schiller. 6:00 p.m. hong kong time, it :00 in sydney. this is bloomberg. ♪ yvonne: a quick check of the latest business flash headlines. merkel is jumping as a push into the cloud picks up momentum and sparks a fourth consecutive quarter of revenue game -- gain. the cloud business grew in the fourth quarter as sales topped estimates. the ceo says the cloud hypergrowth in expanding oracles profit margins and the company expects earnings per share growth to accelerate i. atty: toyota has tumbled in rating of quality. buyers reported 98 problems per 100 vehicles in the first three months of ownership. south korea's kia motors took top-quality honors for a second straight year. this is bloomberg. ♪ yvonne: 8:30 and singapore, looks a lot nicer there than in hong kong. we are seeing more sunshine here in the morning. half an hour from the open of trading in the lion city. i'm yvonne man. betty: and i am betty liu. you

caroline hyde asked the ceo peter smith how the company was able to cash in, despite the tough politicalst is that we have had an incredible year on a growth perspective. investors are willing to back companies that are doing really well. the other thing is that we're pretty diversified. so, our market is in europe it. we have a huge european user. a majority outside of europe it i think investors are more comfortable. caroline: you talk about growth. can you give us an idea of what growth you are seeing and we talked about the driver before? a a fewnk there are things. one is consistently improving your products. the other one is certainly the extreme geopolitical risk we have seen. when you see that, people want to sort of diversified. they want to find new assets. when that happens, bitcoin does really well. caroline: tell me about additional currencies that i can build from? what are you seeing in terms of the dynamics there? just yesterday we saw some volatility and this area. it stressing? huge run-up. a i think it is probably overheated and probably a bubble. that said, i am very

the general reports the veteran gop opposition researcher, peter w. smithold associates and people he tried to help recruit him that he was "talking to lieutenant general mike flynn about the project." emails written by smith and one of his associates back up the story. flynn's actual role if he had any is still unclear. >> flynn was then a senior adviser to candidate trump in an interview with the "journal," smith said he knew flynn but never said flynn was involved. the 81-year-old smith died ten days after the interview. a trump campaign official says smith did not work for the campaign, and they had no knowledge of any involvement by flynn. falcon has offered no comment -- flynn has offered no comment. cnn has not independently confirmed the reporting. >>> senate republicans plan to keep at it through the holiday weekend as they fine-tune a health care reform bill they hope will pass muster with their skeptical colleagues. the latest government analysis may not help efforts. the congressional budget office predicting a 35% drop in medicaid spending in 2

the american making that claim, peter w. smith, has died. he was 81 years old. to be clear, the e-mails in question here are not clinton's e-mails from when she was secretary of state. when people say but what about her e-mails, it's not those e-mails, not from the private server. instead "the journal" is talking about e-mails stolen from computers at the democratic national committee we think by the russians and then given to wikileaks. the travel ban is getting some tweaks. fiances are considered close family but grandparents don't count. challenging the concept of who is and who is not a close family member. you may recall a couple weeks ago the president signed a piece of paper announcing he wants to privatize the nation's air traffic control system. now this wasn't a law or even executive order. it was really a letter of init tent. a senate committee just said no. the nation's air traffic control system will continue to be run by the faa. we examine the president's tweets, executive orders and speeches each morning on "today in the bay." we'd love to hear f

complicating the issue the american who made that claim, peter w. smith, has died.s 81 years old. now to be clear e-mails this in question here are not clinton's e-mails from when she was secretary of state. they are not the e-mails when people say, but what about her e-mails? it's not the those. instead it's what the journal is talking about are the e-mails stolen from the computers of the democratic national committee. we think by the russians given to wikileaks. we're always interested in what you think about what's going on in washington. contact me on twitte twitter @scottmcgrew. >>> that's what's going on in washington. here is what's going on in sacramento right now. governor jerry brown's massive delta tunnel project slapped with two lawsuits. that approval came on monday. the lawsuits, though, are different. they say it will endanger fish populations. governor brown wants to build the tunnel to central and southern california. >>> happening today that time of year again. marin county takes its turn. >> the fair season. let the deep fried oreos go on forever

this article by shaken centers around a political operative named peter w smith who had ties to trumpd general michael flynn. harris says smith told him he assembled a team of security experts and a russian-speaking is investigators to search for hacker forums for evidence that someone might have the hillary clinton private server e-mails and then the article, the u.s. investigators confirmed to the wsj that the thread that today we're seeing well russian hackers discussing quote how to obtain e-mails from the clinton server and the to flynn via an intermediary and then the article quotes an independent cyber security analyst named eric york who was hired by smith, he told the journal that smith said to him, i'm talking to michael flynn about this, if you can find anything on the hillary e-mails, let me know. what do you make of this? >> well, first of all, shane harris i know a bit is a brilliant reporter. it's diligent and sound. but what i make of it, it seems sometimes in this administration that all roads lead to moscow and a lot of them take a detour on the way by mike flynn. an

the journal also reports that republican operative peter w. smith00 emails missing from clinton's server were in the hands of russian hackers. smith had told multiple friends he was working with flynn on the e-mail project. the journal notes it's unclear whether flynn played any role in smith's kwets who died within days of speaking to the paper. we'll have more on this developing story as a reporter of this piece. sha shane harris joins "morning joe" next hour. zblierngs wall street is recovering after tech stocks fell sharply on thursday. we are joined live from london. the s&p and the dow suffer the worst -- their worst day in weeks. it's all also the second to last trading day of the quarter yesterday. it has a big impact. >> yeah, it does. it means the trade is looking to essentially whether or not to -- or whether they're going to take profits outs. we look at the numbers. we saw the s&p 500 fell .9%. that fell below its 50-day moving average for the first time since mid-may. the industrial average down 168 points. that was largely due to appl

>> i have a problem with cox, smith is okay. and jason peters is put together with tape and string.e doesn't have throb. he knows the lay of the land. cox is the highest paid player on the team. therefore he is a leader. you sign the check, there is a certain responsibility that comes with that check. and you have to show up and set the tone and tell your teammates you're all in to win something. and when you don't, when a vacation is more important than that, you're not invested. but he did come back to otas. he took a family vacation. >> why taking a family vacation when otas are starting? why pick that time. i don't care about his family. everything revolves around fletcher cox. it's on his time. when it says otas begin this particular week, that's not the time to book a vacation. >> if you had a family vacation, would you show up to a voluntary thing. >> i wouldn't book the vacation. i would put on the calendar, otas, i can't book that week. >> all right. >> you can't take off on sweeps. if it's sweeps, can you take off? >> no. >> voluntary work or going to aruba or puerto rico.

i now deceased republican , peter wn researcher smith, with ties to oust the national security adviser michael flynn, contacted hackers in the midst of the 2016 election campaign hoping they had emails hacked from hillary clinton's personal server. that is according to a wall street journal expose that was published on thursday. according to "the journal,"'s explicitly outlined his connection with flynn and his recruiting you must. he said michael g flynn was helping with the effort. trenton is a administration have long maintained there's the evidence of collusion between russian operatives and trump campaign associates. the united nations warns humanity has just three years to dramatically lower greenhouse gas emissions or risk facing a world that's uninhabitable to many of its residents. the warning by six climate experts was published in the journal "nature." it finds without immediate action by 2020 the earth's average temperature will rise more than the two degree celsius upper limit set by the paris climate accord. the warning came as german chancellor angela merkel has said thi

we should see jason peters johnny jones and marcus smith. they all missed voluntary workouts.nt the getr carson wentz. they signed chris long traded for tim jernigan and drafted derek barnett. >> want to be a defense that's always on the way up. we don't want to be up and down just want to be consistent, hard nosed and most important have fun doing it. >> we have potential. i mean, that's the bottom line. every defense i've been on had potential. you know, what we do with it is up to us and, you know, the urgency that we approach every day with is just going to dictate how far we go. >> final leg of the triple crown belmont stakes 11 horses in the field and the winners of the kentucky derby and the preakness did not run. irish war cry was the favorite. the two are half a length apart. they are clear of gormley and patch. it is irish war cry and on the outside tapwrit. it is tapwrit and josÉ ortiz in the belmont stakes. >> tapwrit finished sixth in the derby beat the favorite irish war cry by two lengths followed by patch and gusty thunderstorm low. trainer todd fletcher won hi

sarah smith, bbc news, edinburgh. the actor, peter sallis, has died — at the age of 96.is roles in last of the summer wine and as the voice of wallace in the animation series, wallace and gromit. nick higham looks back at his life. music: theme from last of the summer wine. for more than 30 years, peter sallis played clegg, the mild—mannered, flat—capped philosopher in last of the summer wine. stay. steady. go! much of the series' innocent charm came from peter sallis. yes! this is it! this is the tree! you can see tollgate church! it happens sometimes in an actor's life, if you're very, very lucky, that something special turns up. when i read last of the summer wine, i thought, this is it. long before the summer wine, peter sallis was a familiar face. great, good and just. on television, he played samuel pepys. and casanova in the heyday of studio drama. and he appeared in classic serials like the palaces. i'm sorry, gromit. then, in his 70s, those nasal yorkshire tones became world famous thanks to the animator nick park. it's my turn for breakfast this morning, gromit

marcus smith back in the building and jason peters showed up for the first time.s missed voluntary work outs to stay healthy he's 35 he doesn't need this. this is june. partially because he doesn't like his contract he refused to take a pay cut in the off season and wants longer deal. he said this about his future. >> i want to retire here. i don't wanting to nowhere. plus i want to rest little bit. i show up every year. i don't miss day. i just wanted to rest a little bit this year. i don't wanting to nowhere. i want to be an eagle, retire here. make this home. i haven't thought nowhere past this year. >> u.s. open kicks off this week the second major of the year and despite not having a polarizing figure actually playing well the game is really as deep as it's ever been. we caught up with fox sports golf analyst shane bacon and he picked his favorite to win this tournament. >> i think right now dustin johnson is the player to beat any golf course any tournament any champion she tease it up at. i think that's how good he is and how polish his golf game. any time

started under megan smith in the obama white house megan, i think, is much more altruistic than perhaps this white house which is clearly said it's more capitalistic, and you've got petercourse, jared kushner pushing that agenda. first and foremost these companies are looking for business at the white house. on the other hand, you know, i happen to think trump is looking for a villain. he needs somebody to -- to go after, and what's a better target than -- than billionaire tech ceos from silicon valley. you talk with hatfields and mccoys this is more like rockefellers and mccoys >> this meeting is going to kick off shortly, ross. you think the president is the actually going to be antagonistic towards this group. >> well, look, pure and simple what he stated around jobs and immigration are directly opposed to what these companies do think about these ceos have to go back to their companies and their rank and file employees who are not happy about what's going on with immigration, and workers rr around the globe, so i think it's tough on the ceos on the other hand, it's important for the ceos to be working hand in hand with the government, get these krcontrac, hopefully