Have been perceived is that i wouldnt be objective in participating in an investigation that might involve the campaign. I do not confirm or deny any investigation. I just felt like i should clear the air. Shannon john roberts is live on the north hall. How is this story affecting the white house this morning . The white house was worried this was becoming the big story, the big narrative feeding into this idea there was more to this russia story than the white house was leading people to believe. And yesterday it even really kind of blew the president s big signature speech aboard the uss ford out of the headlines. Jeff sessions moved quickly to take the story out of the headlines announcing he had had a previously planned meeting with his staff yesterday to decide whether or not he should be in charge of investigations regarding russian interference in the election. During that press conference he said he would recuse himself from future investigations regarding the campaign. What tr
Im dave briggs. Nice to see you bright and early. 4 00 a. M. In the east. Im christine romans. This is thursday, march 16th. Lets begin with the president vowing to appeal the federal court order that blocked the travel plan. Blocked again. A tennessee rally, the president declaring he will go to the Supreme Court to overturn the hawaii order by judge watson. That issued hours before the travel ban was to take effect. The Justice Department slamming the order. And strongly disagrees with the Federal District court ruling which is flawed and reasoning and scope. Senior White House Correspondent jeff zeleny has the latest. Reporter christine and dave, the white house is crafting the legal strategy in the wake of another federal judge putting a restraining order on the travel ban. President trump minced no words wednesday night. He went after that judge. He expressed regret about making changes of the first ban to the second ban. He called it a watering down. A judge has just blocked our
But first, what to expect with the president s revised travel ban, again, expected this hour. Let me bring in cnn justice reporter laura jared. What are we going to hear this hour, laura . Reporter the most significant changes we expect to see, kate, are that green card holders and those with existing visas will be excluded from the travel ban. White house councilor Kellyanne Conway announced this morning that iraq is no longer on the list of banned countries. Thats right, a new executive order today, ainsley, thats correct. It has an Effective Date of march 16th. And there are the legal permanent residents who were always excluded from it, thats made much more clear now. If you have travel docs, if you are a legal permanent resident, you are not covered under this particular executive action. Also iraq is no longer on the list based on their enhanced screening and reporting measures. And so, you know, i think people will see six or seven major points about this executive order that do
The mayor. That he was just simply trying to stand up for securing the kocountry and the world. There was another back and forth over this subject of the travel ban for months the administration has been telling us that the president was not trying to impose the travel ban in that order that seeks to block travel from six muslim countries. Rerp they were calling travel restrictions. E he did so from a briefing on jan 31st. Then the president starts tweeting in the aftermath of london we need a travel ban. I dont care what anybody call it is. I call it a travel ban. Today basically started to adopt that language in the briefing return and turned on a dime. Heres more of what happened. I dont think the president care what is you call it. He cares that we call it National Security and that we take steps to protect the poem of this country. Its real simple. Everybody wants to get into the labels and the semantics of it, but the bottom line is hes trying to protect the citizens of this coun
Situation according to a cnn source is fluid. Jim acosta joins me with the latest. What do you know, jim . Reporter there has been some whiplash today at the white house. Earlier the white house counselor Kellyanne Conway said he had the full confidence of the president and sean spicer said its being evaluated. The best way to put it is that flynn is in a gray area. A Senior Administration official said the knifes are out at the white house where there are fears washington is hunting for flynns scalp. Flynn was it at the president s side as top officials huddled over how to handle north koreas weekend launch of a Ballistic Missile held on an outdoors patio at maralago resort. Cell phone flashlights raised security questions. The white house was vague about flynns future when asked dir t directly on the sunday talk shows. Does the president still have confidence in his National Security adviser . Thats a question that i think you should ask the president. General flynn has said up to th