House this afternoon to share what i know with the president and his team. Reporter but before nunes had a chance to brief he president , White House Press secretary, sean spicer, was peppered with questions about the curious timing of it all. The president said he had Additional Information he believed the white house or he or his representatives would present related to this investigation, what congressman nunes has is not related to that . Youre asking me questions he has not briefed us. He has not briefed the president. Reporter nunes was back in front of the cameras wednesday afternoon after talking to the president. When asked about those claims by donald trump that he was wiretapped, nunes response was, you could say a bit complicated. This seemed to describe what the president was talking about, talking about quote wiretapping which they then said was broader surveillance . You when you what ive read seems to me to be some level of surveillance activity, perhaps legal, buttian
Revised plan to replace and repeal obamacare before trumps 100th day on saturday because of course that is the priority. Good afternoon, everyone. Shocking developments into the investigation of former National Security advisor Michael Flynn and some astounding atemps as well as buck passing by the trump white house. Today the House Oversight committee released a letter from the Defense Intelligence agency spelling out ethics guidelines that the di, provided to flynn back in 2014 right after president obama had fired flynn as director of the cia. Prohibits receipt of consulting fees, travel expenses, or salary by all retired military personnel from a Foreign Government unless permission from the secretary of the army and secretary of state is first obtained. Now, that was one year before flynn accepted money from russia for among other things a visit to moscow for a gala celebrating rt. The kremlin owned and operated propaganda channel. The former director of the cia sat near vladimir
I referred to is economic nationalism. The third, broadly, line of work is what is deconstruction of the administrative state, and if you [ cheers and applause ] and crossing a line, the president taking on the fbi again, as reports surface about conversations between the president s chief of staff and the bureau concerning the investigation into Campaign Contacts with russia. The latest pushback from the white house is just ahead. Good friday and thank goodness its friday. Im Peter Alexander in today for Andrea Mitchell in washington. Tale two of speeches. President trump at cpac with a lengthy address touting his policy priorities but not before a tenminute riff on his favorite president ial punching bag, the media. The media didnt think we would win. We are fighting the fake news. Its fake. Phony. Fake. Few days ago, i called the fake news the enemy of the people, and they are. They are the enemy of the people. They make up sources. Theyre very dishonest people. I called the fake ne
Cnns Sunlen Serfaty is on capitol hill with much more. So, sunlen, theyre confident. So, where do things stand . Reporter well, there certainly is a real sense of urgency up here on capitol hill, kate, coming not only from the white house pushing for them to hold a vote, but house republicans, frankly, want this off their plate, they want this to go over to the senate. So, there is this sense that they will push and drive towards having a vote this week. Of course, they are set to head out on recess on thursday, so very short window of time, but there is some confidence that in this window of time, they will be able to have a vote. They are not there yet with the vote. They do not have 216 votes necessary to pass this bill through, and thats why we saw really a flurry of activity behind the scenes over the weekend where house leadership was trying to educate members of whats in this bill, trying to flip those votes from either undecided or no to the yes column. There is certainly a cle
Comey to shut down the fbis investigation into the National Security adviser mike flynn. Mike flynn had resigned the day before that meeting because of his undisclosed contacts with russian officials. Now two people who say they have read comeys memo say the memo quotes the president directly from that conversation saying about the Flynn Investigation, quote, i hope you can let this go. So there is a lot to this story. The white house is denying this conversation took place. James comey would probably be a pretty good witness if it came down to a he said he said disagreement about whether or not this conversation happened. Particularly if he contemporaneously documented the contents of that conversation when it happened and he can prove it. But its possible the white house could also prove it in terms of their side of the story. If they are not erasing that proof right now. The president has previously indicated that conversations that take place in the Trump White House might possibly