according to reuters says that woolsey -- spokesman for woolsey tells reuter that is woolsey has no recollectionf this proposing this $10 million deal and did say that the people that funded mike flynn, they're trying to smear jim woolsey. look at the quote. quote, with growing speculation that indictments could be handed down soon, it is not a surprise others attempt to accomplish in the press what they can't in the grand jury room. so this story about woolsey wanting $10 million to -- from the turks to -- this story's coming out right now because everybody else is about to be indicted and turning on each other? interesting theory. we reached out to the spokesman and gave us this statement which is exclusive us to and nbc news. they have been in communication with the fbi. regarding these september meeting, ambassador woolsey invited to attend by one of general flynn's business partners. they responded to every request from the fbi or recently from the office of the special counsel. it's unfortunate yet predictable that in an effort to defend themselves certain individuals attempted to impugn t

according to reuters says that woolsey -- spokesman for woolsey tells reuter that is woolsey has no recollection of this proposing this $10 million deal and did say that the people that funded mike flynn, they're trying to smear jim woolsey. look at the quote. quote, with growing speculation that indictments could be handed down soon, it is not a surprise others attempt to accomplish in the press what they can't in the grand jury room. so this story about woolsey wanting $10 million to -- from the turks to -- this story's coming out right now because everybody else is about to be indicted and turning on each other? interesting theory. we reached out to the spokesman and gave us this statement which is exclusive us to and nbc news. they have been in communication with the fbi. regarding these september meeting, ambassador woolsey invited to attend by one of general flynn's business partners. they responded to every request from the fbi or recently from the office of the special counsel. it's unfortunate yet predictable that in an effort to defend themselves certain individuals attempted to impugn

director woolsey, thanks so much for joining us. want answered as far as the death of these four u.s. troops? >> well, i think the most important thing is that this is the future face of africa. not only are we going to be seeing lots of immigration from africa up into europe, we're going to be seeing terrorist events and attacks in northern africa and the sahara as basically the islamists struggle with everybody else. >> what does that mean for the u.s.? >> it means the united states is going to see more events like this terrible one we have evidence seeing recently. we're going to have to have forces there that are well equipped, better equipped than this small group was. and we're going to have to rely very heavily on the local military forces and train them and cooperate with them and learn from them. >> but you think that keeping significant numbers of u.s. military personnel in niger and other countries in africa is an important -- is important for the u.s.? or should they get out? >> well, if you get out, you turn africa over

what we now know through woolsey is the fbi took this very seriously, has been investigating it, and that mueller took it over as part of the overall flynn probe. and the important thing to know about this is that mike flynn at the time was on the payroll of a lobbying firm that we now believe or he's filed paperwork to suggest was on behalf of the turkish government. he was paid more than half a million dollars. so mike flynn got paid. mike flynn was talking to turkey about doing something that they badly wanted that james woolsey thought might have been illegal. >> tamara, we can't stop our brothers and sisters in the news media from speculating. i've heard david gergen say, quote, it looks like the dam is starting to break. i've heard speculation that this indictment may be targeted at flynn, maybe at manafort. we've already heard the president distancing himself from manafort, he was only with the campaign a short time. flynn was a stalwart, stayed with him. those two men have different exposures. >> that's correct. flynn was very much a part of president trump's campaign. he was

james woolsey joins us as former director of the cia. ambassador, i was good to see you.i could have your indulgence, here's my theory. cover up in 1963 by the cia and the fbi because they did not want americans to know the extent of surveillance of lee harvey oswald trying to get visas in the russian and cuban embassies in the city a few weeks before the assassination. he had contacted the fbi. he confronted fbi agent james hosie and the fbi office by a threatening letter because he tried to interview marina, oswald's life. do you think these documents will shed any light on any of that? those another's. the best thing to get ready for those with the book by the epa was the head of romanian intelligence at the time, pitch of the reflects the views of all of the eastern bloc had the intelligence of the time. he said they all believe the following, which was that which was that khrushchev did order a kennedy assassinated, that oswald was picked to do it, that he went through all of the training and that it got cold feet and decided to call it the assassination that oswald

i will be talking to ambassador james woolsey. what does it mean for the united states and for president trump's plans? i will be discussing that in an interview coming up. kelly? kelly: president trump's refusal it recertify the nuclear deal sparking a new war of words with iran. the country's president condemning president trump's speech as he also vowed to ramp up iran's military. interpreter: our weapons and missiles are for our defense. we're more determined to defend. we've been making weapons we need and will multiply our efforts. kelly: for more, we turn to john huddy. israel is america's closest ally in the middle east. what is their reaction? >> well, positive on the president's side. prime minister benjamin netanyahu in a recorded statement released after the president's speech is standing by his friend and ally donald trump and said in a statement that president trump "boldly confronted iran's terrorist regime in his speech last night." and the prime minister added that if the iran deal is left unchanged, according to

ambassador woolsey. back to connell mcshane at the scene for an update. connell? reporter: charles, just had a conversation with a witness, and you and i when we spoke last about a half hour ago, talking about stuyvesant high school. well-known high school in manhattan, the witness we spoke with, a 17-year-old senior at stuyvesant was telling us she witnessed the worst possible scenario she could describe. she was leaving school, this took place just after 3:00 in the afternoon in new york, and on her way to swim practice at a different location not very far from the school, and she happened upon what she described as a number of bicycles already on the ground and mangled beyond belief. they were twisted in ways as she described it like she never would have imagined a bicycle would be twisted. that's what this lady 17 years old saw on her way out of school today. as we know it in new york city, not far from the world trade center, as we look up from camera location, you see the freedom tower that is lit up as the investigation continues. 8 people are dead, several

themselves certain individuals attempted to impugn the woolseys' integrity. this is the first we know of requests of james woolsey saying he was at the crazy meeting with turkish officials and mike flynn while mike flynn was a trump campaign adviser and secretly on the payroll and went public about the meeting in march. since then, he's been in chungs with the fbi and with the mueller investigation. and now, according to him, the people who had mike flynn on their payroll shopping this story to make james woolsey look bad. and we don't know why. these are very intriguing allegations from people we understand very little about. why is this happening? why now? and is there any connection to this reporting tonight from cnn that mueller has actually filed the first charges in his investigation? we don't know but it's fun weekend figuring this stuff out, right? it's now "the last word." >> once again, we can't go in with the plans we had. it is always getting blown up by trump himself. >> if you would like to borrow my intact show -- >> i think i'll be -- >> which

can look deep into the picture beneath a visible layer of paint and expose the artist sketch and woolsey. we're now taking a close up of this section of the painting so we can examine it more closely and to tighten. the altarpiece is one of many from connaught of the elders workshop that was executed according to his instructions but not by the master himself. not the elders unprecedented career had begun thirty years earlier by now he was painting familiar motifs in a new way his saints wore fashionable jewelry and were surrounded by realistic natural scenes it was a new view of the world and the people in it. around fifteen hundred between bag on the river alabama was dominated by the spires of all saints castle church and st mary's town church one of the mightiest rulers of the holy roman empire the elector of saxony had a residence here. frederick the third known as frederick the wise was a patron of the arts who dreamed of an intellectual awakening in his realm. a renaissance with a saxon touch. elector frederick the wise had several residences dad was one of them but he also lived

his knowledge of former national security adviser michael flynn, a spokesperson for james woolsey ,isaccording to abc news spokesperson said he had been in touch with the fbi, before and after robert mueller took over the law enforcement probe into potential collusion between the .rump campaign and russia michael flynn is a focal point in the investigation of reported interest to mueller is a meeting in september of 2016 and which james woolsey said he had heard a discussion about sending a u.s. based turkey clerk -- cleric back to turkey. the statement says there is some question as to whether that action would have been legal. judy is calling in on our republican line from the louisiana. good morning. i think we lost judy. we will go to ed from seattle on our democratic line. caller: good morning. whys thinking out loud, doesn't the president pardon this individual? how will the country and the republicans react? it will be telling to note how they react. outragea lot of this over the sexual harassment with anthony weiner, almost a reaction to the way the president behaved. there

and it's worth noting that in the last few days, jim woolsey, former head of cia, who was in the transitiond abruptly left, abruptly left, with no explanation, is a very honest man, he was there to observe a lot of this, and he got the hell out. now, he went in to -- he talked to the fbi in the last few days. he's gone public with that. there's that possibility. i would think if it were someone like flynn, that would also be a very, very big deal. i want to make one other point. because i do think this is like a chess game. both sides are playing chess. and the question arises among some democrats, on this pardon question, of whether the president a few weeks ago intentionally pardoned arpaio, the sheriff, in order to send a signal to the people who are being questioned, hang in there, hang tough, i'll help you out at the end of the day. >> which is entirely under his purview to do. >> absolutely. >> michael, go ahead. >> on the federal charges. >> only as the federal charges. we know for example, that the attorney general of new york, schneiderman, has an up and running investigation with

we have ambassador james woolsey joining us former ci aft director, so many other titles. what is ad stake here? do you agree with what the president is going to outline? >> from what i can tell it sounds like he is going to outline a wise, overall approach that undercuts this terrible agreement. what is really important for people to realize is, that this is important enough to be a treaty. under any other circumstances it would be a treaty. then under article ii of the constitution, it takes 2/3 of the senate to approve it. that's not what the obama administration and senator corker and some others did. they fiddled around with the cloture rule, the length of debate rule for the senate, and said they could use that in order to make it only 1/3 of the senate that was required to approve this agreement, which, i think should be called a treaty because virtually everything else in american history that is anywhere nearly as important as this in international relations would be a treaty, not an executive agreement. they can not, however, as far as i think, most cost constitu