officials told reuters. tonight, tonight's reuters report notes, fbi investigators are examining whether russians suggested to kushner or trump aides laxing it would allow russian banks to allow financing to people with ties to trump, said the current law enforcement official who was a source for the article. joining us is jonathan, the reuters reporter who just broke the story. this is a story coming on top of an earlier story. tonight, it's all about jared kushner and how much contact did he have with russian officials and what has reuters learned? >> we learned at least three calls between jared kushner and the russian ambassador. two of them before the election and there were contacts after the election not only between mr. kushner and president trump's former national security adviser, michael flynn. we reported this last week about mr. flynn and his conversations after the election centered on setting up a back channel between president trump and president putin that would have circumvented u.s. nation

we have reuters' lead reporter here.we have now got a named russian contact, an oligarch with close ties to putin who's apparently in direct contact with the trump campaign which is when russia was attacking the u.s. presidential election. we previously knew about a lot of people with people having contacts with the russian ambassador and a few other russian possibilities after the election but in terms of during the election while the attack was happening, who were they talking to in russia? this is a new name. and he's kind of a big deal. the other implication of this new reporting is that apparently the trump folks still have not told us about what their contacts were with russia last year. how is it we are this far into this scandal and all of a sudden there's another 18 previously unclosed contacts that they never thought to mention before now. and we're only finding out from this new reuters reporting. that has been a consistent problem for the president in dealing with this story and this scandal. they keep denyin

and we're only finding out from this new reuters reporting.t has been a consistent problem for the president in dealing with this story and this scandal. they keep denying things. that then turn out to be true. they keep saying we know everything there is to be known and then more comes out. they start off by denying contacts between anybody in the campaign and any russian official. >> i'm asking you a direct question. was there contact in any way between trump and his associates and the kremlin or cutouts they had? >> i joined this campaign in the summer and i can tell you that all the contact by the trump campaign and associates was with the american people. >> sir, i'm just trying to get an answer. >> of course not. >> did any desires or anody in the trump campaign have any contact with the russians who were trying to meddle in the election? >> of course not. >> of course not. that was scoldy faced soon to be vice president mike pence speaking on january 15th denying of course not of course not that there had been any contact whatsoever bet

officials told reuters. tonight's reuters report also notes fbi investigators are examining whether russians suggested to kushner or other trump aides that relaxing economic sanctions would allow russian banks to offer financing to people with ties to trump, said the current u.s. law enforcement official. who was a source for that article. joining us now is jonathan landay, the reuters reporter who has just broken this story. jonathan, this is a story coming on top of an earlier story tonight by "the washington post." but tonight it's all about jared kushner. it's all about how much contact did he have with russian officials, and what has reuters learned? >> so we've learned there were at least three calls between jared kushner and the russian ambassador sergey kislyak. two of them before the election, and there were contacts after the election. not only between mr. kushner and mr. kislyak, but also president trump's former national security adviser general michael flynn. we learned -- and we reported this l

has reached out to kushner's personal lawyer who instead touched on the other breaking news that reuters put out about kushner having at least three previously undisclosed contacts with the russian ambassador sergey kislyak during and after the 2016 presidential campaign. kushner's lawyer is saying in part that mr. kushner participated in thousands of calls in this time period and has no recollection of the calls as described. "the washington post" reporting the senate intelligence committee wants president trump's political organization to gather and produce all russia-related documents, e-mails and phone records going back to his campaign's launch in june of 2015. president trump on the final leg of his overseas trip this morning is defending his first budget plan amid backlash from both sides of the aisle. here's part of his weekly address. >> the big thing for me is economic growth, which is not possible without safety and security. that is why our budget reverses years of cuts to our military that have made us less safe in a more dangerous world. we're going to make sure the men and

officials told reuters. tonight's reuters report also notes fbi investigators are examining whether russians suggested to kushner or other trump aides that relaxing economic sanctions would allow russian banks to offer financing to people with ties to trump, said the current law enforcement official. who was a source for that article. joining us now is jonathan landei, the reuters reporter who has just broken this story. jonathan, this is a story coming on top of an earlier story tonight by "the washington post," but tonight it's all about jared kushner. it's all about how much contact did he have with russian officials, and what has reuters learned? >> so we've learned that there were at least three calls between jared kushner and the russian ambassador sergey kislyak. two of them before the election and there were contacts after the election, not only between mr. kushner and mr. kislyak, but also president trump's former national security adviser, general michael flynn. we learned -- and we reported this l

officials told reuters.

gut the next clue came from reuters last week. you may remember a report that the trump campaign had at least 18 undisclosed contacts with russians during the last seven months of the presidential race, six of those previously undisclosed contacts were phone calls between this russian ambassador you keep hearing about, kislyak, and several trump advisers, including mike flynn. reading from that report, "conversations between flynn and kislyak accelerated after the november 8th vote as the two discussed establishing a back channel for communications between trump and russian president vladimir putin that could bypass the u.s. national security bureaucracy which both sides considered hostile to improved relations." so throughout the final months of this campaign and then dung this pivotal presidential transition you have these repeatedtas between trump campaign officials, trump transition officials, and russians with one goal being to arrange some kind of back channel communication with moscow. as if the biggest priority at the time

but the next clue came from reuters last week.ou may remember a report that the trump campaign had at least 18 undisclosed contacts with russians during the last seven months of the presidential race. six of those previously undisclosed contacts were phone calls between this russian ambassador you keep hearing about, kislyak, and several trump advisers, including mike flynn. reading from that report, "conversations between flynn and kislyak accelerated after the november 8th vote as the two discussed establishing a back channel for communications between trump and russian president vladimir putin that could bypass the u.s. national security bureaucracy which both sides considered hostile to improved relations." so throughout the final months of this campaign and then during this pivotal presidential transition, you have these repeated contacts between trump campaign officials, trump transition officials, and russians with one goal being to arrange some kind of back channel communication with moscow. as if the biggest priority at t

officials told reuters.ight, tonight's reuters report notes, fbi investigators are examining whether russians suggested to kushner or trump aides

reuters said, quote, mr. kushner participated in thousands of calls in this time period. has no recollection of the calls as described. we have asked reuters for the dates of such calls, but we have not received such information. so that's being attributed to kushner's lawyer coming to me via a white house official. and they are pushing back against this reuters st s story saying that kushner participated in several calls during that time but does not have any recollection of the calls that reuters has described. there is not a response still to "the washington post." >> the jamie gorelick statement regarding the reuters story but still silence as far as "the washington post" story is concerned. jill, let's talk a little bit. we haven't heard from you yet. does it make sense that a high-ranking official with an incoming u.s. administration would propose using secure equipment at the russian embassy in washington to communicate with the kremlin? >> wolf, i think it's flabbergasting both from the american perspective and from the russian perspective. but in a way, i was try

no details of casualties at the moment, but reuters are talking of a huge explosion nearforeign reutersking of a huge explosion near foreign embassies. reuters are talking of a huge explosion nearforeign embassies. we will try to get the latest from our correspondence in the region in a moment. —— correspondents. a man accused of murdering two men and wounding a third on a train in the us state of oregon has appeared in court in portland shouting "death to the enemies of america". the victims were reportedly trying to protect two young women from anti—muslim harassment when they were attacked on friday. 0ur north america correspondent james cook reports. free speech or die, portland. you've got no safe place. this is america, get out if you don't like free speech. jeremyjoseph christian appeared in court in a city on edge, uneasy about white supremacism. he did not alleviate those fears. you call it terrorism, i call it patriotism. you hear me? die. mr christian is accused of murdering 23—year—old taliesin namkai—meche and 53—year—old ricky best. the only survivor, micah fletcher, was i

reuters is reporting one death and multiple injuries. the last count was about ten people hurt, but as i said, it is still a developing story. we do have a report of one fatality from reuters that we are working to confirm. as you know, our bertha coombs is at the nasdaq every day and that is right around where this accident occurred or this incident occurred, so let's bring bertha in. bertha, you've had a chance to really talk to some people on the ground. what are you hearing and she'll be with us in just a second. we're still working the situation. as we look at these live pictures, we did see police arrest a person. we do not know whether that person was involved in this particular incident or not. as you look at another vantage point of times square. reuters has an interesting vantage point because that is where one of their offices is located. bertha, are you with us now and what are you hearing and seeing? >> yes, i am. i am right now standing -- >> you know what, i think we're getting some interference from the sirens there, but

he did respond to the reuters, his attorney saying they are not exactly sure of what reuters are speaking about. we are not getting a lot of answers and a lot of these questions are going to be waiting for them as they arrive here in washington tonight. >> no doubt about it. i want to stay with me and bring in clare sebastian who is in moscow for us. what is the kremlin saying? >> as of yet, what we got was a text message of the foreign ministry today saying essentially calling that story by the washington post was intern internally political squabbles. she would not be drawn on that. we assume that they were aware of this from an intercept of kislyak. she would not comment on that, we have no comment as we say from the kremlin. in recent weeks there are various stories coming out of this from the trump administration. >> they paint them as a sign of political chaos in washington and this was no different. the spokesperson warning to not spread lies. >> thank you to both of you. take a listen to high michael hayden reacting to jared kushner of this secret line to mouscow. >> general hayde

officials told reuters.also notes fbi investigators are examining whether russians suggested to kushner or other trump aides that relaxing

yesterday reuters named him. yesterday reuters reported that ctor medvedchuk is one of the russians who turns up in these undisclosed calls between trump associates and kremlin associates. these 18 previously undisclosed contacts that are now in the hands of federal investigators. victor medvedchuk denies such contacts, but reuters names him as one of the two russian names that have been seen in those intercepts between the russians and the campaign. the two russian names that have been seen according to reuters that apparently are not disclosed or being kept from investigators, at least the ones who are able to get this information to reuters. the two names, kislyak and medvedchuk. as the collusion problem is reported to reach into the white house, that's one new, one very high-ranking, one very close to putin russian connection to the trump campaign that we just learned about yesterday. the other one we just learned about this week relates to this bank, v.e.b. v.e.b. is a russian state-controlled bank, meaning

white house correspondent from reuter's ayesha rascoe is with us. hugh hewitt, host of the hugh hewitt show, and rick stengel remains with us. ayesha first tell us about the reuter's story that takes a slice of this tonight on the same general topic of jared kushner. and then something that may call for a judgment from you, how do you think the white house, which is tonight the traveling white house is going to react to tonight's wave? >> reuter's reported -- had a great scoop that there were contacts between the russians and jared kushner that have not been or that had not been disclosed. that there had been these contacts and that the fbi is looking into whether there was any sort of quid pro quo where you would have the russians saying look if you ease these sanctions maybe we could help out on some business transactions. but, that said, our story did report that there is at this point no evidence that these conversations were -- that there was anything inappropriate going on. but they are being looked at. so that's what we reported. as far as wh

so far the e-mails leaked to reuters.em said they don't appear to have any problem, any actual collusion in them. the communications about things that a candidate or incoming president would have. that's not the headline that reuters is going to run. reuters leans left and they're going to say there were 18 undisclosed communications. if donald trump isn't more careful in communication, it's going to continuously come back to bite him. >> the timing took place between april and november 2016. how significant would that be, if true? >> it would be more significant, slightly more significant than if you are already the president-elect. but if he's the nominee, of course he's talking with foreign powers. russia is a hostile power, communication is typically rare, and donald trump is significantly in the spotlight because russia has been trying to undermine the united states domestically and abroad, still donald trump is getting in trouble for things like senator jeff sessions talking with the ambassador to russia. normal com

reuters reports that the white house did not respond to requests for comment on that story.ng us now, ned price, former senior director and spokesperson for the national security council. he resigned from the cia when president trump took over. also joining us is steve clemens, an editor at large at the atlantic and msnbc contributor. ned, when you look at a story like this, i'm wondering about the sourcing. who could know this? who could know aut these 18 contacts? >> well, lawrence, i have the utmost response for john lande, the reuters report were his by-line attached to this. and he has sources, as i know all throughout the federal bureaucracy. i certainly wouldn't put it past him to have this quite well sourced. but lawrence, i think what struck me about this report more was the objective. and what jonathan lande reports is they were trying to establish a back channel. and the thing about a back channel is you only establish a back channel when you're trying to do something that you shouldn't do through standard operating procedures. you shouldn't do through more open c

we have asked reuters for the dates of calls, but we have not received such information.hat's being attributed to kushner emphasis lawyer coming to meet official, and they have pushed back on this story, that he doesn't have any recollection of the calls that reuters has described. >> reuters talking about these two previously undisclosed phone calls in april and november of last year. >> it's important to note there's still not a "the washington post" response to this. >> still silence as far as "the washington post" story is concerned. jil, we haven't heard from you yet. does it make sense to you that a high ranking official with incoming administration would propose using secure equipment at the russian embassy in washington to communicate with the kremlin? >> well, i think it's flabbergasting both from the american perspective and from the russian perspective. but in a way i was trying to get my head around this, in a way it does make some sense. i mean i think you could argue we all know that the president disdaped, really disliked and distrusted the intelligence com

that says it's the russians that reached tout to jared kushner and not the other way around so the reuters report being wrong and what about today's "new york times" report saying kushner reached tout a banker named gorkav who is on a u.s. back list. >> i cannot comment on any of that because there is no reason to, frankly. we know that there are been many news reports very recently that had the facts wrong. if you go back to a couple weeks ago, you will notice that one paper in particular three times in a row relied upon information that was immediately batted down as false. this entire thing is just a rush to judgment. we have been talking about this for about 8 months. brian: i know. >> yet, have you senator feinstein saying she has not changed her position that there is evidence of collusion. you have senator graham saying as much. you have former cia director mr. brennan in testimony last week refusing to make that leap that conclusion. so i know people want -- i know, look, it's a lot easier to scream russia, russia, russia every day and add hillary clinton talking about the election

this is a big reuters story.y are reporting that jared kushner had at least three previously undisclosed contacts with russian ambassador skislya. his attorney responded in a statement saying that mr. kushner participated in thousands of calls in this time period. he has no recollection of these calls as described. you know, to me that is not a denial. what do you make of all of this? >> it's clearly not a denial nor have they denied the report that you just made reference to. so i think again the forms that mr. kushner filled out for his security clearance are very serious. if you lie on that form, it's a felony punishable up to five years in prison. this is serious, when someone gets a national security clearance, they are -- they receive very confidential, sensitive information that's important to the national security of the united states. it should be taken seriously. the idea that there have been a number of contacts that he has simply not reported raises a question, what are you hiding? if in fact all you

one president at a time is usually our premise here in the united states. >> paul, reuters has another report out saying that the trump administration is assembling a so-called war room to respond to the russian inquiry. what are are you hearing about this so-called war room? and will we be seeing a different strategy coming out of the white house once we see it taking shape? >> yeah. i think part of the problem is tlvshl answers sort of all over the map. who knew what when and who was talking to who when. we call it a war room. i think honestly the administration has to get on one page and they can't have the white house spokesman coming out and making a statement that the president of the united states later changes in a tweet. they are talking now about having lawyers starting to vet some of the president's tweets. you have to control the story better than this white house has been doing. and i think that's what that's really about. >> the report says jared kushner, steve bannon and reince priebus are all involved in plans in the room. does that mean the latest revelations haven't c

david shepardson covered tech and telecom issues for reuters. he is talking about the fcc's attempt to roll back net neutrality protections. first, what is net neutrality exactly? way, it is simple requiring internet providers to treat all websites and all traffic equally. they're not allowed to block or offer paid prioritization to specific websites. that principle was required by the fcc in early 2015 at the andng of president obama, this is the culmination of about 15 years of debate about whether the government should expressly require and oppose legal restrictions on internet providers to basically favor some websites over others. host: has there been evidence of broadband providers doing that, intentionally flowing traffic? ago,: roughly 10 years there were two incidents. at&t initially was not allowing facetime -- if you have an iphone, you can make a call, a video connection with another iphone. comcast also admitted to slowing peer sharing networks. in terms of regular practices, knows a they's don't do it, are not going to do it, as pa

—— reuters say that police are continuing that investigation. most of us today. the skies are still gloomy in one or two areas, but they are also clearing in other places. today, we have had a bit of rain, a bit of sunshine and some cloud. this evening it looks like across the north of the uk, skies will be clearing. it is behind this weather front that you see here, this is where clear skies pushed through across the second half of the day in northern ireland and western scotland where we had rain earlier. clear skies faltering in and to the south, it may stay cloudy overnight. temperatures not dipping away. 13 or 14 degrees, across northern areas we have clear skies and temperatures down to around 9 degrees. during the rush hour tomorrow morning, we have a pretty cloudy start across cornwall and devon, much of the west country, southern wales, the south coast and into london. it won't be terribly stubborn but will break up in the morning. northwards, you have a glorious start to the day here. lovely weather! sunshine across northern england, n

clearly reporters at reuters and others are talking to those involved with the case. and if they are to believed, you know, i understand the concerns with leaks, if they are to believed, one of the animated theories of the case is that this had less to do with the campaign and collusion, all those that's still out there because remember jared ran that data mining office within the campaign, but more to do with whether or not changing the sanctions, sort of quid pro quo would have benefitted kushner and trump organizations. it's why people like me, nonpartisan in this regard yeah we should that have transparency on the finances because what we don't know is sort of the private side of kushner and trump in need of finances that could be paid for by banks that are understand sanctions right now? so that to period is, you know, already it's illegal or not, it's not in america's best interest and that's why all of these theories of the case, what is it that the investigation is looking at are expanding. in other words there's multiple theories of the case and there's more

you see the others from reuters and "new york times."the post, the president's son-in-law, jared kushner, also a senior adviser, proposed a secret communication channel with the kremlin at a meeting last december. this morning, "new york times" says it was to discuss strategy in syria and policy issues. the meeting was attended by former national security adviser michael flynn and russian ambassador sergei kislyak. listen to what cnn national security analyst juliette kayyem told us this could mean last hour. >> this is not a back channel as people in law enforcement and national security came to sort of understand back channel. back channel is actually a president or president-elect uses the resources of government to sort of secretly start a communication with a country, let's say cuba or burma to begin to lay ground work for more public diplomacy. this is jared going rogue. but the idea the russians were going to open up their own apparatus, intelligence apparatus to a 30 something son-in-law of a president-elect is just -- it so defi

another one from reuters that noted there were previously undisclosed contacts between jared kushner and the russian ambassador. to that we got a entertainment from kushner's attorney who said mr. kushner participated in thousands of calls. he has no recollection of the calls described. they asked for dates. we have not received such information. so far photo really any push back, just really not much at all coming to explain or sort of defend why these contacts might have happened. if they did. why jared kushner might be setting up this back channel. this is all happening against the backdrop of the president being here in sicily. he's wrapping up his meeting at the g7 today. after that we'll hear from the president. he'll visit a naval airbase here and speaking to the troops. they expect this to be a high point of the trip, a way for a foreign crowd to give him a send off before he returns to the united states. but, of course, we'll be looking for more information today about what exactly jared kushner's role was during the transition and now even in the white house and what kind o

he told reuters news agency that thejob is much harder than anticipated.oyed it, maybe he is suffocating? maybe we should have a whip round and give him his old life back? exactly, the cocoon, he finds it quite airless, and he misses being able to drive. he ran his business empire by decree. by bullying. it just doesn't work. when you run a business the way he does, it is all about money. it is all about profit. everybody sits on the table going, how can we make more money? congress doesn't work that way. you have so many competing interests. you have so many people with regional interests, political interests, ideologies, power bases. has that been a shock to him, because he didn't come up with the political experience? we saw massive failures, trying to kill 0bamaca re, it didn't work. two efforts to ban muslims from seven, then six countries, overruled by the courts. the courts have overruled his attempts to be an emperor. the question really now is how much he is learning on thejob and can he... he almost as four years to go, 100 days is not much. it h

so absolute certainty is simply not possible here. >> sreenivasan: all right, eric auchard of reuters joining us live via skype from berlin. thank you very much. >> certainly. >> sreenivasan: the associated press and "washington post" reported today the trump transition team had warned michael flynn about his contacts with the russian ambassador to the u.s. before flynn became president trump's national security adviser. the reports say transition officials told flynn last november that his meetings and calls with ambassador sergey kislyak were monitored by u.s. intelligence agencies. in december, flynn talked with kislyak about the sanctions against russia imposed by the obama administration for hacking hillary clinton's emails and meddling in the election. flynn resigned in february after his misleading statements about those communications were exposed. a white, suburban dallas police officer charged with murder in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager last saturday night has been released on $300,000 bail. 37-year-old roy oliver, who was also fired this week by the polic

reuters is reporting of at least three previously undisclosed contacts at that time between kushner and russian ambassador, sergey kislyak. the "washington post" claims kushner was interested in establishing a back channel of communications with the kremlin. the f.b.i. is already scrutinizing kushner's russian contacts but has not accused him of any wrongdoing. among the communications is a december meeting with the russian ambassador and a follow-up with sergey gorkov, the chairman of russian state-owned bank v.e.b. that bank is currently sanctioned by the united states. democrats like california's ted lieu now want the president's trustedded adviser punished. >> he's now in a compromisable position. he needs to have his security clearance suspended. >> reporter: in a statement responding to the reuters' report, kushner's attorney said, "mr. kushner participated in thousands of calls in this time period. he has no recollection of the calls described." trump associates already facing f.b.i. scrutiny include former campaign chairman paul manafort, former national security adviser michael

great decisions is produced by the foreign policy association in association with thomson reuters, funding for great decisions is provided by price waterhouse coopers llp. (dramatic music) - [radio host] a short time ago, an american airplane dropped one bomb on hiroshima. that bomb has more power than 20,000 tons of tnt. - [narrator] the seeds of nuclear proliferation were sown when the us attacked hiroshima and nagasaki at the end of world war ii. it was mankind's first exposure to a weapon that would forever alter the calculus of war. - the introduction of then called atomic weapons in 1945 had a very significant impact on geopolitics. at the time, i think all leaders were aware that this was something qualitatively different, they weren't sure what it meant. when one plane can inflict the same level of damage that it previously took thousands of planes and maybe multiple raids by thousands of planes to inflict, i think everyone realized things would be different. - the ending of world war ii brought victory but it also brought a whole set of complicated issues, that is, what would war

before the father was arrested he gave an interview to reuters and some of the details are starting to come through. let me update you, he said he condemns terrorist attacks on civilians and innocence people, he went on to say his son did not have extremist beliefs or belong to islamic state and that he had not travelled to syria. i said earlier that police have expressed suspicions he may have been to syria. he said he was going on a pilgrimage. reuters speaking to the father of the man who carried out the attack, saying the last time he spoke to his son was five days ago and everything was normal. tragically everything clearly was not normal and the details of the man who died but also the involvement or possible involvement of his family continues to be a key area of this investigation. let's bring in christian fraser who is live from manchester, we are getting lots of questions from viewers in the uk and around the world, one watching on the bbc news channel would like to ask what information we have on those who are wounded. would like to ask what information we have on those who

that exchange at friday's white house briefing with jeff mason, who covers the president for reuters, and press secretary shot spicer. it is sunday morning, may 14. the future of those briefings now under? president trump.are they useful ? what are your thoughts? on capitol hill, the house returns this week.among the agenda items, a new round of sanctions on syria and those who do business with the country. this development overnight in north korea. the country has tested yet another missile just a few days after south korea's new president took office. in france today, macron was sworn in as that country's new president. on the issue of white house briefings, join in on the conversation. the phone lines are open. 202-748-8000 for democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. if you are an independent, 202-748-8002. us a tweet. post your comment on our facebook page. good sunday morning to you. thomas and grandmothers and andothers -- to moms grandmothers and godmothers, happy mother's day. in north korea, yet another missile test. here are the details from seoul, south korea, from the "ne

reuters is reporting one person has died.d a phone interview with a little time ago said that he saw this vehicle traveling at about 50 miles per hour through city streets and then before it crashed a couple of blocks later in times square. again, this is happening near broadway and west 45th street. the driver, according to reuters is in custody. witnesses say they saw the driver being taken into custody. no word on the cause of the accident if it was a medical emergency or terror related. we will follow the story and bring you developments. >>> for more on the other headlines we are working on, let's go to dave clark in the news room. >> here are some of the other top stories we're following. hours ago a police standoff with a suspect in el sobrante came to an end. here is video of the suspect being escorted by sheriff's deputies from the house near san pablo dam road. there are reports that the man was firing a gun in that neighborhood and ai shelter in place was ordered. the standoff with police went on for hours before t

reuters saying that in the last hour that north korea fired on sunday an unidentified projectile fromof the southeast coast, and according to reuters to korea's military, and the nature of the projectile is not immediately clear. south korean military official told reuters by telephone if this is, milissa, "the case that another missile has been launched by north korea, it is the fourth time this year that, that country has done it, and every month, february, march,rif this is turning out the be a missile test. and clearly, also a test of the new president of the united states. people have been waiting, milissa, for the see whether north korea would conduct a n e nuclear test. that it has not done. and it is conducting the fifth nuclear test last year, and it has not done that since then. a and so that is september last year, and president trump has not faced that kind of a challenge yet. but this is looking as if it is another are provocation by north korea. >> and in washington, what are u u -- what are you hearing? >> no detail yet, but that it is looking like north korea launched

our jennifer griffin confirmed the reporting of the reuters news agency just seconds ago.ding to a senior defense official, coalition air strikes targeted probe regime units operating in the vicinity of an airbase in the south of syria after a show of force to try to stop that probe regina forces was ignored, a coalition commander took the decision to hit regina -- probe regina sources and a "well-established conviction zone" peered the coalition commander assessed the threat then afterward shows of force did not stop the regime forces and those forces refused to move out of this "deconfliction zone." the commander on the ground called for an air strike as a matter of force protection. the senior u.s. official has now told fox news, quoting "there is no change in policy." the official said, this is the first time other than the tomahawk strike on the airbase that gave u.s. warplanes a targeted pro assad forces. we expect a statement from the pentagon any moment. in short, please hear what is happening. there are a syrian regina forces that have been murdering their own peo

reuters also said the u.s.irm jacobs engineering group is the front runner to become the joint venture partner in the infrastructure project in the kingdom. 's president of the ante with his biggest campaign writing desk campaign rall, speaking to tens of thousands of his supporters, he said voters must choose between peace or tension. becomeill not let iran isolated once again. [applause] we would like to have constructive and effective interaction with the world. >> meanwhile he also launched a on his mainack conservative rival, accusing him of unethical management of the ron's holiest right. the goal state is the largest arab oil producer outside of opec, s&p lowered the sovereign debt rating. tosohanged the outlook negative. has theand old prices --ssure on its finances, the russian energy minister has reportedly said that opec production curve could be extended by more than six months. he said the size of the output cut is likely to remain the same if the -- if it is prolonged. he said that all markets may

senate majority leader mitch mcconnell tells reuters today "i don't know how we get to 50 votes at the moment." fox news pull out tonight shows a 13% jump in voters who think obamacare is good for the country since october 2014 but insurance companies don't share the sentiment. today blue cross blue shield of kansas city said so they won't sell or renew any more plans on the obamacare exchanges with unofficial saying "the uncertain direction of the market as a barrier to our participation. today's budget office score will be used to pressure lawmakers who backed the bill but some republicans today weren't too concerned, reminding us that the cbo score is just an educated guess. >> it's hard to predict the future. the cbo tried to do that but they've historically been off on a number of items. stick we've democrats attacking the report. by all indications, when the senate takes it up, they are going to rewrite it. they are will likely have to be another price tag and that means it could be the summer of the cbo. >> bret: peter, thank you. on the market survey, dow gained 74.5. nasdaq fi

official tells reuters it coast of russia. a string of recent failures. the regime continues to test banned ballistic missiles, despite worldwide condemnation. but the u.s. military says the flight pattern of today's launch was not consistent with an intercontinental ballistic missile or icbm, the type that could reach the u.s. mainland. in january, north korean dictator kim jong un said an icbm test was imminent, but it hasn't happened yet. this shorter-range test comes days after south korea elected a new president, who wants to engage pyongyang, not isolate it. but today his spokesman said dialog is only possible if north korea changes course. in a statement, the white house called for stronger sanctions. and pointed out that the missile landed near russian territory, adding that president trump quote, cannot imagine that russia is plead. concern over the launch in beijing. today china called for restraint and calm. china's north korea's only major ally and has been pushing for negotiation. theoretically, there could be a p

this is from reuters quoting the washington post. —— concerning president trump.se of possible collusion between donald trump's campaign and russia. they are describing that as a person of significant interest, someone close to the president. the washington post also say that they have not been able to get any more detail about who that person may be. so certainly no name being released, officials refusing to say who the person of significant interest is. who is of cueing under investigation under possible collusion with russia. just on that. this is coming from reuters, but the new york times are running a story about resident trump and russian officials, who he met in the oval office earlier this month. he is quoted as having told russian officials that firing the head of the fbi, james coney, had believed great pressure on him, apparently. and he said ijust fired the head of the fbi, he was crazy. they real notjob. those are being attributed to president trump by a story of the new york times. a lot of minds out of the united states, we will try to get more fro

because in the middle of discussing chinese american relations with the reuters reporters stopped to hand out copies of what he said were the latest figures of the 2016 electoral map saying pretty good, right, the red is obviously us. the blue, obviously democrats, except when it's water, hard to tell. aqua man, personal friend, great guy. probably. probably. (applause) there is even a picture. >> i colored these myself. these are all-- these are all placemats. i had them-- i had them-- can you put that photo back up. this is my impression of a t-rex, little hands, like this, like-- (applause) like >> stephen: everything is in here. i'm proud to say that the official defining hundred days interview took place right here on cbs with the nation face himself john dickerson yesterday. and he started off with north korea. >> mr. president, you and the administration said to north korea, don't test a missile. they have tested a missile. is the pressure not working? >> well, i didn't say don't test a missile. he is going to have to do what he has to do. >> stephen: so you are official polic