the f.b.i. director overseeing the investigations into hillary clinton's e-mail server. he and his team decided that she had not done anything that warranted criminal charges. and he, director comey, knew that republicans would blast him as a coward who was trying to curry favor with the likely future president. so he decided to go public with the explanation for not charging clinton and to criticize her harshly, he doubled down and had an investigation 11 days before the election, even as other justice officials urged him not to. department policy dictates that investigators aren't supposed to talk publicly about why they are not bringing charges, they especially don't do so when it could affect the outcome of the election. that, as people will recall, is one of the primary reasons why rod rosenstein, the current deputy attorney general of the united states, recommended to the president that he dismiss mr. comey for violating department of justice guidelines when it comes to talking about an inv

the f.b.i. and the department of justice in pursuing unfounded and inappropriate warrants to spy on maybe of the trump transition team without due process and without proper protocol. one of the reasons i joined the gentleman from new york in this call is that currently the person making the critical decisions regarding hillary clinton and donald trump and this narrative regarding russia is rod rosenstein. and i believe mr. rosenstein has a series of conflicts of interest. each of which would independently disqualify him from overseeing this review and yet he continues. that's troubling to me. and it's one of the reasons why we need to have a second special counsel. in fact, it was mr. rosenstein who signed a fisa warrant renewal to spy on carter page. he did this even though the f.b.i. and department of justice knew that christopher sfeel, the author of the -- steele, the author that was the principle for the warrant, had said things that were not true to the f.b.i. mr. rosenstein also signed pl

the f.b.i.'s -- the criticisms of the f.b.i. jim comey and the organization was involved in helping decide the election is troubling. and the notion of the f.b.i. as entertainment now on the back end of that a year later is, i think, very concerning to men and women who work so hard to preserve the f.b.i. as an independent organization. >> bill: how well do you think you know james comey? >> i worked for jim comey for eight months. he took over for bob mueller. i worked closely with jim. i liked him. >> bill: back up a little bit and answer your question. why do you think he is approaching it this way? >> you know, good question. if you look at the history here of the july 5th press conference that was extraordinary. and had i done that as a senior executive in a similar way, i would have feared being fired for it and expected to be fired for it. >> bill: the press conference about hillary clinton's email investigation, right? >> that's right. and then you go forward to the leaks later that year again shocking to those of us who

the f.b.i. raid of his personal lawyer last week mr cohen has also sparked a lot of nervousness in the white house and particularly for the president himself he is asking to know what evidence was gathered in those raids of course the implication is they want to prepare themselves for whatever might be coming down the pipeline so you've got a president becoming increasingly nervous and agitated i suppose you could say let's listen to what komi himself had to say when asked if the russians had any compromising information on donald trump i mean these are more words i never thought i utter about a president on stage but it's possible and i wish i wasn't saying it but it's just it's the truth it always struck me and still strikes me as unlikely and i would have been able to say with high confidence about any other president i'd go with but i can't it's possible. former f.b.i. director casting doubt on trump suggesting that the russians might have some incriminating. evidence what do you make of tha

the director of the f.b.i. not feel right. >> it doesn't. he is doing exactly the thing the accusations are thrown at president trump. the phrase that comes to mind all the time when i watch him is the phrase you hear all the time. undermining democratic norms. what is james comey doing if not undermining democratic norms. he should stop it. the damage he is doing is really serious and if he means a single word of what he says, then he should apologize for the way he is conducting himself and stop it straightaway. >> sandra: we'll see. thanks to both of you, steve and jessica. >> bill: 10 minutes before the hour. the island nation of cuba is in territory it hasn't seen in almost 60 years. a live report from havana coming up next and we'll tell you what that's all about. in a small tight-knit hometown community. when the opportunity to own a sears hometown store became available we jumped at it. and ever since, we've been a family owned business. our customers keep coming back because they know they can trust us.

and so did the contradiction that we see of the f.b.i. tweeting that out in two thousand and seven does not think it highlights the pock sea but also having a life there a way in which the american public discourse and the american empire will lie about the issue really so where. that's right well in parts i just want to reinforce that right all all employers in this kind of hypocrisy they all engage in this attempt to co-opt and distort the memories of some of their greatest i've also made to make a really good point because fifty years later how do people remember something to me ask you it's me he has a holiday he asked people volunteering for his day he has a statue it's very difficult even even when it's not something his controversial to remember them accurately i know it's important that today social movements are important to you to discuss let me just show you a little clip of dr king several clips of dr king looking at the social justice movements he was very close to have that. this. received be the way he really. and when white

if you're the f.b.i. lanting in a clever way where your family leaned and voted it is inappropriate for the former f.b.i. director to act that way. >> sandra: tough to get an idea where the media stands when it comes to james comey. they've done flip-flopping. initially he was a guy who ruined the election for hillary clinton. >> i have vertigo. he was the upright figure who declined to prosecute hillary clinton and then the ego maniac and now the moralizing g man standing up to trump and hold the president -- even journalists are acknowledging the book is out and first interview is out that comey has tarnished the halo they've given him a little bit. the petty stuff about the president's orange face and size of his hands and shape of his tie and all that. the over the top language about a mob boss. the president is giving it back calling a slimeball pretty hard. the default position right now is that jim comey is the truth teller as the media thinks. >> sandra: "the new york times" wrote the i.g. report p

just as much i'm just really curious thing and desperate to us what you made about this this is the f.b.i. conspired against. the spending he was tractates phones when they made his life very very difficult and then this tweet here today on the anniversary of his assassination the f.b.i. on this the life of a commitment of dr martin luther king jr to justice and then there's a quote here and what is this what is this in states are we finally seen the way it's been some law it's not keeping me all of a rebranding of dr king the f.b.i. just saying we honor you you are a great man now that you've passed away for many yes what was going on that. it's amnesia. and what in the united states lives in a state of perpetual amnesia and the only way that they can get away with that. it's because of our hips to risk the that we don't you know we are so we are divorced from an understanding of our own history and that's the only way they could think they could get away with something as outrageous as i want and i do think is historical it is this kind of idea that they are trying to also sanitize thei

let's start with the f.b.i. n the home, the hotel, and the offices of president trump's personal lawyer michael cohen which raises obvious questions about possible violation of attorney/client privilege. as a former federal prosecutor, are you convinced that this raid was appropriate or at least on its face not inappropriate? >> here is what we know. we know a neutral detached federal magistrate had to sign off on the search warrant. we know that it requires the highest levels of d.o.j. permission to seize attorney/client records. by that i mean the attorney general or deputy attorney general. we also know it must have nothing to do with bob mueller's probe either directly or indirectly or he would not have referred it. what we don't know what the basis of the probable cause was, what was searched and what was seized. so we know a little -- we don't know a little bit. the most important thing we know is that a neutral detached federal judge has nothing to do with politics signed off on this warrant. >> chris: i w

>> well, the f.b.i. t inating whether there were americans who had confired with or aided and abetted the russians. collusion is not a legal term that i'm aware of there was a basis for investigating meaning there were facts to support an investigate. the what the conclusions will be, i don't know, but to say there was not evidence is the case. >> woodruff: the house college coittee is faulting the f.b.i. for failing to properly notify victims rusan hacking. did the f.b.i. drop the ball sthrveghts i don't think so. we had a massive nosk totify hundreds and hundreds, so i can't sit here and say we did it perfectly every time, but especially with the prominent victims like the democratic national committee, we did our level best to make sewer they knew they were beinattacked. >> woodruff: do you think the ibama administration dropped the ball in not ng more to get the russians to back off? t hard to say because a l was not involved in. very tough decision for president obama. what do you say before an elect

if members of the f.b.i. are leaking classified information, the president should absolutely call that to question. you guys spend hours upon hours every single day praising jim comey, propping him up, giving him the biggest platform. we shouldn't be praising him. we should be putting him down. we should be taking him off of air instead of giving him minute after minute. this country has real problems. we should be talking about the economy. we should talk about syria. we should talk about the drug crisis. instead we're going to talk about jim comey. you guys will cover it endlessly all day today, all day tomorrow and my guess is every day next week with very little time given to the issues people care about. so the president has every right to call out that individual that you guys are propping up and say there are problems and that we should be concerned about. charlie. reporter: thank you, sarah. this morning james comey admitted that he didn't tell the president about the political -- sarah: sorry. can you

this tweet here today on the anniversary of his assassination the f.b.i. honors the life work and commitment of dr martin luther king jr to justice and then there's a quote here and what is this what is this guilt is this are we finally seen the way it's bizarre is this not the point me of a rebranding of dr king the f.b.i. has saying we honor you you're a great man now that you've passed away for many years what was going on there. is the amnesia so that. everybody the united states lives in a state of perpetual amnesia and the only way that they can get away with that is because of our a hipster a city that we don't you know we are we are divorced from an understanding of our own history not the only way they could think they could get away with something as outrageous as a reference to had also. how did the raf reffing into itself . jen you confess i didn't come out to say i'm going to add i want to add i do think is historical it is this kind of idea that they are trying to also sanitize their own history because there are articles right now about the f

the f.b.i. gathered that evidence as well. yet under robert mueller who came in immediately before 9/11, you would have thought that this man would have enough wisdom fter seeing the tragedy befall thousands of americans. what does he do? he crawls in bed with cair, one in he named co-conspirators the holy land foundation trial, wants to others, and placate them at all costs. they wanted his training materials that helped f.b.i. agents understand what to look for in trying to find the radical islamist terrorist. they wanted those materials purged, cleaned out of anything that might help educate our f.b.i. agents as to what to look for in radical islamists and f.b.i. director robert mueller obliged. and there was nothing that, i think, draws the distinction bout how wrongheaded he was as f.b.i. director than his responses when i was asking him about the heads up that they had gotten over the tsarnaev, the older brother, who was the main boston bomber, killed and maimed so many people, totally preventable if robert mueller had al

so for the f.b.i.'s role comey kept saying to him that we were protecting the president against all of these allegations. and clearly in these memos the president was going and saying things even about mike flynn about getting to the bottom of some of these things that had happened and saying if wrongdoing happened, the f.b.i. certainly should be investigating it. >> bill: that's in the memos also. just to continue that thought on the investigation put this on screen i responded that we were not investigating him and the stuff may be totally made up but it was being sent out of russia. our job is to protect the president from efforts to coerce him. the president was trying to get him to go public and let people know he wasn't under investigation. he believed it was hurting him with members of congress and with foreign leaders from overseas. that is in the memo, too, katie. >> now we're making the distinction between the russian collusion investigation that came later and this cloud the president refers

because, again, the norm of the standard was that the f.b.i. cuss anything having to do with a political campaign 60 days out from the election. >> that's not true, though. >> stephen: it's not. >> the 60-day thing, i don't know where that comes from. but there's a really important norm they believe entirely-- you take no action-- if you can avoid it-- that might have an impact on any election, dog catcher or president of the united states. >> stephen: you had to imagine this would have an effect. >> absolutely, absolutely. which why when the team told me there were hundreds of thousands of hillary clinton emails on anthony weiner's lap top which i couldn't explain at the time -- >> stephen: i can explain it. >> which many missed, there were thousands of emails from the black berry.net domain, which is what she used her first three months as secretary of state. there was no evidence of wrongful intent. she may have been slope -- >> stephen: unlike petraeus, say-- >> right. >> stephen: who gave up classified notebooks to his lover and allowed her

the members of the f.b.i. that perhaps you you know will react to the the level of intensity shall we say in the allegations that james komi is making in his book i've spoken to a number of active and retired f.b.i. agents for quite some time over the past year they feel that the f.b.i. director compromised and politicized and weaponized the f.b.i. joining the election between donald trump and hillary clinton in an effort to damage president donald trump look you're got to remember that when director komi was testifying before congress he conducted an investigation and point by point he led us to believe that there was enough evidence to indict hillary clinton what does he do he decides to recommend to the department of justice no indictment that was not his job his job was to collect evidence give it to attorney general lynch at that time and then she would make the decision whether a clinton would be indicted or not what james komi did was exceed his authority and actually fell on the sword for the obama admi

let me say this, the men and women of the f.b.i. ren't prone to hyperbole but when i sit here today and tell you that the alarm needs to be sounded, it's for that very reason that this institution of justice that's under attack right now with no end in sight, you know, these attacks have negative consequences and they have long-lasting impacts. when you attack the organization, when you attack bob mueller and his team, it may give you a short-term benefit. it may allow someone to discredit an investigation and discredit those doing the investigation so when the conclusion is reached, they've already caused this corrosive doubt within their constituencies. but the long-term damage to our institution of justice are so, so stark. it's so dire. i am glad we have panels like this. >> thank you very much. i think we should give our panelists a round of applause. [applause] now i'd like to open it up to the students because that's why i do this. i'd like to hear from you all. what you'd like to ask any of our panelists. please take a crack

the f.b.i. cleared the book.s a false statement. >> rick: juan williams is co-host of the five. matt schlapp. thank you for being here. the squirm moment was bret challenged the memos that he wrote after meeting with the president as f.b.i. director in the white house and he called it his personal diary, juan, how do you defend that? >> i think that's what it is according to mr. comey. he was the f.b.i. director and said it was not classified. never was classified and in fact he argued that the f.b.i. had to approve his book and the memos are in the book. >> rick: but it is government business, is it not, matt? >> i worked at the white house for four years. when i left they told me i can take no emails, i can take no memos or paper with me. i was a lower staffer. the idea that he concocted memos for the sole purpose of prosecuting a case against donald trump in the press is a violation of the oath he took, the pledge with taxpayers, and this charade has to stop. this is a disgusting display of explaining what his

if the f.b.i. and rod rosenstein, if they want to continue to obstruct congress conducting oversight, nunes needs to issue more subpoenas and hold these people in contempt. the deep state is scared to death because they know the truth is being uncovered and what they did is now being exposed. and also we know it to be illegal. also tonight a house judiciary committee aide is telling fox news again the d.o.j. has failed to meet in this case chairman's deadline to turn over 1.2 million documents. this is now obstruction on their part. congress has a constitutional role. it's called "oversight." it's called "checks and balances." it's called "coequal branches of government." remember? this is why it's critical that congress keeps pressing for answers. one of the biggest liberals trying to block this from happening, oh, our friend democratic congressman wannabe msnbc conspiracy host adam schiff. he is by far the biggest liar in the united states congress. so we have the evidence. here is why. for over a

presenter is now caught up in the legal battle over the f.b.i. raid on the office of donald trump's personal lawyer michael cohen has admitted he gave secret legal advice to fox news host sean hannity he's been a prominent critic of the f.b.i.'s investigation into the u.s. president's russian ties but did not reveal his link to trump's lawyer. canada is withdrawing the families of diplomats posted in cuba after new information on the stevia is illnesses which have affected stuff it's how vanna embassy diplomats from canada and the u.s. first reported symptoms of headaches dizziness and no set last year cuban officials say they don't know what's behind the incidents seven inmates have been killed in a prison riot in the u.s. state of south carolina seventeen others were injured in the maximum security leak correctional institution prison guards regained control after several hours those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story but for now. it happens all too often in india the gang rape and murder of a younger.

president donald trump has called the f.b.i. raid on his office the office of his personal attorney disgraceful the f.b.i. acted in part on a referral from special counsel robert muller muller's of course conducting the investigation into russia's alleged meddling in the u.s. presidential election in two thousand and sixteen. president trump was blindsided by news of the raid on his longtime attorney's office and he didn't hesitate in publicly venting his anger because he accused the f.b.i. of unlawfully entering michael cohen's office despite having a warrant. so i just heard that they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys a good man. it's a disgraceful situation it's a total witch hunt it's an attack on our country in the true sense of the attacker and what we all stand for trump says the so-called witch hunt is distracting him from more urgent matters as president and he has made no secret of his disdain for robert muller who is heading the f.b.i. inquiry and was involved in the raid miller is investigating tru

mr trump's personal attorney michael cohen cohens office and hotel room were raided this week by the f.b.i. as authorities reportedly are looking into details about that payment for his part president trump has denied the encounter with ms daniels it's also called the raid on his attorney's office a disgrace what's the impact of this raid on the dangles versus strong case and where will her attorney take this fight from here let's find out as michael levin out he joins us now he's the attorney representing strongly dangles in her legal battle with president tom piece in new york city for this interview my dad invented the great lawyer was a dear friend of mine and he told me once. that when he represented a client usually in criminal cases his instructions where the client never speaks only the lawyers speaks. you have a client who speaks out is that good for this case. well you know larry i would agree with that opinion quite honestly in most cases i think that this is a very unique case for a variety of reasons and quite frankly no one will ever be able to muzzle stormy daniels again cer

force one i think that was a critical mistake i think his recent comments tack in the good members the f.b.i. and as well as the u.s. attorneys in connection with this warrant these warrants that were issued in the raids i think that was a critical mistake you know generally this guy can't get out of his own way and that's a very dangerous thing when you're a litigant a party in litigation is a. lawyers office if you're looking for information between a lawyer and a client the supposed to be confidential. well it's a very high bar in order to get those warrants issued and i can assure you that due to the high profile nature of this that every t. was crossed and every i dotted this had to go through multiple layers of review. before these warrants were even presented to the judge i'm sure that the judge the magistrate judge scrutinize them in great detail before authorizing the searches there is little doubt in my mind that there was more than adequate probable cause for these searches under the circumstances it's a high bar to search a lawyers office and home in general let alone the persona

news this hour an american photojournalist who was once held by syria says he was betrayed by the f.b.i. he claims the intelligence service used him to track the terrorists and didn't try to help. this wednesday countries around the world looking into the international chemical weapon was struck today for answers in the scribal poisoning case the o.p.c. meeting right now to discuss the attack on the former spy and his daughter in southern england a month ago before the talks the head of a british military partly debunked the core assertion of moscow's to blame he said they couldn't tell where the nerve agent used was produced. we have not verified the press a source but we've provided the scientific information to the government but you have not been able to establish at porton down that this was made in russia as i said it's our job to provide eight you know the scientific evidence that identifies for the particular nayar of each and is that it's not our job to see where that actually was manufactured so to be clear you're not able at cotton down to say where it is from we haven't yet

and also coming up the former head of the f.b.i. people believe the person is about to be president of united states on moral grounds. more later in the program but first we begin with syria where the red line of chemical weapons use has allegedly been crossed by the assad regime and countered with western airstrikes and yet has anything really changed the war for syria's future continues with assad's advantage in tact at the diplomatic war of words between the world's powers it bridges on with the rhetoric a sea of contradiction on monday u.k. prime minister to resign made defended the air strikes in syria conducted with her allies france and the united states saying that she had seen evidence assad was behind it russia says it's all a bunch of lies who's to be believed and is there any way to get diplomacy back on track expert analysis is just ahead but first this report. statements of the prime minister. after the strikes the questions and there are many first british prime minister to resign may was forced to explain why the u.k.

f.b.i. agents have done? >> no. i mean, i think thepeople in law enforcement, prosecutors, f.b.i. agents, is unwarranted, it's inconsistent with the facts. i mean, i work with these folks almost all of my professional career. they're hard working, dedicated. you know, you don't talk about partisan things when you are in the justice department. that's considered something that is -- that's inappropriate. and what i think -- so we hold these elections in 2018 and in 2020 and if the republicans try to portray themselves as the law enforcement party, i hope people will remember the things donald trump has said about people in law enforcement. >> trevor: yeah, things -- people will remember and they will vote for him again. his people don't care. i genuinely think they don't care. >> don't do it. don't do it. >> trevor: i don't think they're watching you. ( laughter ) you're wasting your time. >> that's a good point. somebody could have switched off from hannity tonight. >> trevor: you never know. >> they might be out there. >> trevor: yeah

i kind of paid off my discover card caraway that's what it takes to fool the f.b.i. and the immediately started to look at me as an enemy of the state the lead case agent was you prudy she admitted this to me but i'm sure if there are some time went by they realized that it wasn't me and by that point they were buying so many laptops tablets which created an intelligence gathering dream come true for the f.b.i. if they entered into if they intercepted these laptops and tablets which i know that they did and then delivered them into the hands of al qaeda it did not really matter if i was with them or not well i mean miller was gone by the time i discovered all this change told me he's basically he's a coward he ignored me ignored my e-mails he ignored my message on facebook matt schrier was attempting to cross the syrian border into turkey when he was captured by all news which was at that time affiliated with al qaeda he spent months and different rebel held prisons in aleppo then in two thousand and thirteen he managed to escape becoming the first westerner to do so

president says they raid was intended to undermine his presidency the f.b.i. says it was linked to the investigation into russia's alleged meddling in the u.s. presidential election. facebook boss mark zuckerberg appears before u.s. lawmakers and later to face a grilling over revelations that the personal data of eighty seven million users was improperly accessed and used during the twenty sixteen u.s. election. the poisonous daughter of a former russian spy has left hospital in britain you'd be a script powerhouse being taken to a secure location. i'm full go welcome to the program the chief executive of the world's biggest carmaker volkswagen could be on his way out the company says it is considering trades at the top and that could mean a new chief executive to replace mathias mother reports suggest his successor will be the current head of the v.w. brand but this the group board will to meet on friday. it's the most important job in the german car industry but he has miller took over the helm of fox dog back in twenty fifteen his mission dragging the compan

it in a way that is really irresponsible for example what they do is in the case of of all barry the f.b.i. agent in minneapolis they took the documents that he allegedly sent and then wrote a freedom of information act request asking for exactly those same documents and actually and actually listing the titles of those documents so all the f.b.i. had to do was to go through its databases to see who had printed all of those documents they identified him and maybe two other people then they went back to their own internal surveillance video and they saw him taking a photograph of his computer screen and they got him and he immediately confessed and apparently has already taken a deal let me say something before i move on to the next example say something about his case the information that he is alleged to have given to the intercept just a few years ago was not classified or interest rate this was unclassified information that just recently the f.b.i. has decided to retroactively classify so i would say that had he been willing to fight this thing he may have had a case where about a caree

of the f.b.i. james komi in the white house where komi said that trump asked him to stop the russia investigation or at least insinuated that he should pledge loyalty to donald trump insinuating that he should stop the russian vest a geisha and that we've no and i mean that's come out previously but in this interview what's new is the direct. really accusation by james komi that that could lead to obstruction of justice for donald trump that was one of the many headlines that came out of this interview it's called he's promoting his new book a higher loyalty is the name of it that's coming out on tuesday host of other things as well one of questioned by the interviewee if if he thought that russia has any compromising information on donald trump james komi said he could not rule that out that russia might have some compromising information news leading to this unconfirmed reports that have been circulating around for a while now that russia might have video or photographs of donald trump book of bo

the f.b.i. refusing to hand over these documents, senator? >> we have our own deadlines for my committee in terms of request for information as well. i sent a letter to attorney general sessions, to rod rosenstein and inspector general horowitz about the redacted text messages that shouldn't have been redacted. i'm starting to do an investigation in terms of who is doing these redactions? who in the f.b.i. is making these decisions? i think it's a real problem there as well. i don't know whether the attorney general has attorney over his own f.b.i. or whether the f.b.i. director does as well. this is a huge problem and it is a problem for a number of committees both the house and senate and we'll get to the bottom of this. it may take time but we're going to be very diligent in our efforts to get to the bottom of this. >> sandra: it has been stressful for digging into. there was a piece in the "wall street journal" this morning titled what is the f.b.i. hiding? she concludes her piece by saying

and american photo journalist who was once held by al qaeda in syria says he was betrayed by the f.b.i. he claims the intelligence service used him to track the terrorists and didn't try to help him. a very warm welcome you are watching r.t. international with me and good to have you with us this hour now countries around the world are looking to the international chemical weapons watchdog today for answers in this group power poisoning case the o.p.c. w. is meeting as we speak to discuss the attack on the former spy and his daughter in southern england a month ago ahead of the talks the chief of a british military laboratory may have partly debunked the u.k.'s core assertion that moscow was to blame he said that they couldn't tell where the nerve agent used was produced. we have not verified the for say source but we provided the scientific information to the government but you have not been able to establish porton down that this was made in russia as i said it's our job to provide eight you know the scientific evidence that identifies for the particular in their view is that it's no

the former heads of the f.b.i. has accused trump of being morally unfit to be u.s. president in an exclusive interview with a.b.c. james called me also said there may be evidence that obstructed justice the president's fired back accusing me of committing any crimes aid agencies in yemen a warning they may not be able to contain the spread of diseases as more people become resistant to lifesaving antibiotics yemen's health system has been devastated by years of civil war and the country is battling major i breaks of color diptheria dot to say the overuse of antibiotics coupled with poor hygiene and a lack of access to clean water could help the c.z. spread beyond its borders stay with us up next the street. seven.

presenter caught up in the legal battle over the f.b.i. raid on the office of donald trump's personal lawyer michael cohen has admitted he gave secret legal advice to fox news host sean hannity who has been a prominent critic of the f.b.i.'s investigation into the u.s. president's russia's highs. britain's prime minister has been defending her decision to join the u.s. and france airstrikes over syria the opposition says tourism a should have asked for parliament's approval first it's called for a debate on tuesday to make that a requirement for future attacks john how reports. haven't faced a barrage of criticism over the weekend to use it made her case to parliament that bombing syria had been both morally and legally justifiable it was not she said about intervening in a civil war nor about regime change but about humanitarian necessity saving in syria's civilians from future chemical weapons attack as a legal basis for military intervention we cannot allow the use of chemical weapons to become normalized either within syria on the stree

we await a federal hearing on the search warrants on the f.b.i. raiding the home and business of trump's personal attorney. what is the white house angle or spin on the latest comey book excerpts? >> what they're basically saying is he is not under oath. he is out there trying to sell a book. take what he has written with a grain of salt. that said, the president to be fair has been decidedly less measured in his critique of the excerpts we've seen so far from the book. his favorite platform, twitter, and buckle up, folks, here we go. the president of the united states says this. james comey is a proven leaker and liar. virtually everyone in washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did until he was in fact fired. he leaked classified information for which he should be prosecuted. he lied to congress under oath. he is a weak and untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven, a terrible director of the f.b.i. his handling of the crooked hillary clinton case and the events surrounding it will go down as one of the worst botch

hour an american photojournalist who was once held by al qaida in syria says he was betrayed by the f.b.i. claiming he was used by agents to track the terrorists instead of trying to rescue . the fourth of april want to call him brian this is your news from r.t. international the international chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w. has just wound up its meeting on the scribal poisoning case the u.k. delegation says a russian proposal for a joint investigation is perverse they also claim that the idea is part of a russian diversionary tactic we're going to go to the hague in a few minutes time and speak to our correspondent who's been following what three to four hours of talks will catch up with him a little bit later meanwhile we spoke to a former u.n. chemical weapons inspector in iraq a couple of hours ago he believes that it's almost impossible to determine the origin of the nerve agent. there is no one hundred percent assurance that you can determine the region so for chemical everything that we know about a chemical comes from its composition so the chemical is never a hundred perc

the former f.b.i. itting president trump yet again calling his twitter critique not normal. plus this. >> i do believe the president is right when he argues the attorney/client privilege is under assault. on the other hand we learned they have been surveilling, watching and investigating michael cohen since before donald trump was elected president. >> sandra: first the raid, now the fallout, michael cohen's day in court. assistant attorney general tom dupree what it could mean. >> bill: why police say a student may have been targeted in the latest murder on campus. >> many leads were developed and have to be followed up on. that's always part of any investigation. canvassing areas, doing different searches, speaking to witnesses. all those things were done. just another day on the farm. or is it? this farmer's morning starts in outer space. where satellites feed infrared images of his land into a system built with ai. he uses watson to analyze his data with millions of weather forecasts from the cloud,

presenters now course open the legal battle over the f.b.i. raid on the office of donald trump's post a lawyer michael cohen has admitted he gave secretly legal advice to fox news host sean. hannity who's been a prominent critic of the f.b.i.'s investigation into u.s. presidents russia ties. the u.n. says ongoing fighting in the democratic republic of congo has forced more than seventy thousand people to flee to neighboring uganda al jazeera as malcolm webb is retracing the journey of the refugees from uganda's capital kampala to the. refugee camp. and towards the sub i go to a landing that's where many of the refugees arrive by boat he sends us this report near the town of bunia where he accompanied the governor on a visits the areas affected by a snake violence. homes made of plastic sheets don't help much in the rain it's all people have in this camp for displaced people in the town of poignant in the democratic republic of congo they were attacked by militia who cut and killed people with machetes and burned houses the government says the s

instead, the story dominating the headlines is ex-f.b.i. rector james comey's new book "a higher loyalty" the most hotly anticipated book since the sequel to everyone poops, everyone poops 2. turns out some people don't poop. to promote the book. comey sat down with george stephanopoulos in a primetime interview and comey said trump is a liar, immoral, mistreats women, all the things that got him elected, but what raised an eyebrow is when comey revealed he told trump about the pee-pee tape. >> i'm about to meet with a person who doesn't know me who has been elected as president of the united states and i'm about to talk to him about allegations he was involved with prostitutes in moscow. i did not going into the business about people peeing on each other and he interrupted and started talking like do i look like a guy who needs hookers? i didn't answer that. i just moved on. >> trevor: no, no, president trump you don't look like a who needs hookers, you look like a guy who chooses hookers. totally different. ( laughter ) the reason comey wr