In our news packaging on Wednesday, Prosecutor General Jeff Session insisted at a hearing in the Senate Judicial Committee that he had never lied about his conversations with the Russian ambassador during the 2016 presidential campaign. In addition, President Trump resumed his criticism of the former director of the FBI James Komi from the electronic mail investigation Hillary Clinton.
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In other news of the day: the Prosecutor General Jeff Session insisted that he never lied to the Senate Judicial Committee on his conversations with the Russian ambassador during the presidential campaign. At today's hearing, he registered in the charges of a Democrat of Al Franken that he – quoted – “moved the gate points” about the nature of his discussions.
Senator Old Frank, D-Minn.:
Firstly, I had no communication with the Russians that I was not true. Then I never met some Russians to discuss any political campaign that can or cannot be true.
Now, I did not discuss the intervention in the campaign.
Jeff Session, Prosecutor General:
Well, let me just without hesitation that I did not conduct incorrect discussions with the Russians at any time in relation to the campaign or any other subject that this country is faced with.
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Sessions refused to investigate the Ministry of Justice about interference in the Russian elections.
President Trump today had a new criticism for the former director of the FBI James Komi due to the investigation of e-mail Hillary Clinton. He complained again that Komi decided to clear Clinton, even before she gave an interview. This has been based on recently published design statements by Comey since May 2016. FBI officials say that it was already clear that no charges were justified.
On the other hand, the president was faced with the consequences of the death of Sergeant La David Johnson in Niger this month. The Congressman Frederick Wilson says she was with Mrs. Johnson when the president called. Democrat of Florida told The Washington Post, that Mr. Trump said – Quote: “He knew what he signed up for, but I think it was still hurt.”
The sergeant’s mother confirmed this, but the president denied this, and the press secretary of the White House Sarah Hakabi Sanders followed Wilson.
Sarah Sanders, Press Secretary of the White House:
This is the president who loves our country very much, which has the greatest level of respect for men and women in shape and wanted to cause and express condolences to the family, and I think that to try to create something from this, which makes the congressman, frankly, terrible.
Hari Srinivasan:
The post also announced another incident today. He quoted the father of a soldier killed in Afghanistan, it is said that the president offered $ 25,000 from his personal account, but never fulfilled.
We will receive more detailed information about this after the news resume.
The number of those who died in the forest fires of Northern California today has grown to 42. Officials in the Sonoma district discovered the remains of the last victim, as they were looking for hundreds of burned houses. Meanwhile, fire brigades achieved new successes during the night with the help of cooler weather and low winds.
A two -time Olympic medalist says that a former team doctor for American female gymnastics for many years subjected her to sexual violence. McCail Maroni is the highest athlete who will perform in the scandal. In today's statement, she said that Dr. Larry Nassar began to pester her when she was only 13 years old. He expects a sentence on charges of child pornography, but denies any sexual violence.
More questions about drug prices tonight. A new study discovers that the costs of injection cancer drugs approved since 1996 increased by an average of 25 percent in eight years. This is much higher than the inflation level. The study was based at the University of Emory and published in the journal of clinical oncology.
And on Wall, the insurers of health and IBM today caused a surge of shares. The Dow Jones Industrial Average industry scored 160 points, more than half a percent to close above 23000 for the first time. NASDAQ rose just to a lot, and S&P 500 increased by two points.
