What the Trump Administration is saying today about this devastating tragedy. This is cnn breaking news. And welcome to the lead im jake tapper. We begin with breaking news. A brandnew court filing. Robert muellers team slamming former Trump National security adviser, Michael Flynn for lying about his conversations with the Russian Ambassador and the suggestion from flynns lawyers that flynn only lied because he was caught off guard when two fbi agents approached him. The special counsel laying out in the sentencing memo response, quote, a sitting National Security adviser, former head of an Intelligence Agency knows he should not lie to federal agents. He does not need to be warned it is a crime to lie to federal agents that know the importance of telling them the truth. The special counsel team also emphasizing before meeting with the fbi agents, flynn had already been lying about his conversations with the Russian Ambassador for weeks. Lying to the washington post, lying to Vice Pre
We had to what is looking like a Government Shutdown. What does nielsen think about the exit of defense secretary jim mattis, one of President Trumps most trusted advisors . Can the president find a defense secretary that agrees with his America First strategy but also has the traps to lead the pentagon . Well begin without question. Hello and welcome to fox news night. Im Shannon Bream in washington. On one hot issue, the president heard the message from his base loud and clear. He now says he will veto any bill that does not contain funding for the border wall. On the other hand, he is holding firm tonight on pulling out of syria, even signaling plans to get out of afghanistan, and that combo may have led to todays shock announcement from mattis. Chief National Correspondent ed henry joins us live from new york. Good to see you, shannon. Before President Trump took that newsstand today, too bad that he will veto any spending bill that does not have no money for the wall, he was sendi
President trump announced hes going to pull troops out of syria, something putin wants more than anything. It could not get better for putin today. And trump in a new white house video tonight sticking by his syria announcement. And he did it on a video. He didnt speak to the nation, he didnt answer questions on the decision, hes not answering questions from congress, no, he hid away and put out a video. Heres a clip. Weve won against isis, weve beaten them back badly and now its time for our troops to come back home. He could say it as much as he wants to say it but he said that without taking questions to anyo anyone. His own party is livid. This is a terrible mistake. Its an obamalike move. There isnt anybody thats stunned by this precipitous decision, like you just woke up and made it. That shock and anger again from his own party. Coming in response to trumps twitter announcement that hes going to withdraw those u. S. Troops fighting isis in syria. So the original tweet, quote, to
Provides funding and financing for Development Projects in parts of the world. They guarantee funding where banks find it too risky. It is something thats not a big priority of this administration and the issue is for many, many years for decades, the world bank and the International Monetary fund were the only games in town led by the United States. China is doing something very similar. Theyll go into africa and all these countries as theyll fund your dams and hospitals and america is once again retreating from an important world stage. Thats in a nutshell. Good to know, ali velshi and stephanie ruhle, thank you very much. It is 2 00 p. M. Here. State of the union, 41 of them are making the most news. An economic miracle is taking place in the United States, and the only thing that can stop it are wars, politics or ridiculous partisan investigations. There is going to be peace and legislation. There cant be war and investigations. It just does not work that way. The reaction of the d
Paycheck . Eric well, the president s expected announcement comes, of course, as there have been new developments south of the border. Hundreds more Central American migrants are on the move, were told, heading toward our country from mexico and the guatemala Mexican Border gates were temporarily left open. The president reacting to that earlier today. I think itll be an important statement having to do with the, as you know, caravans are coming up. They have a big one coming up now. Im disappointed that mexico is not stopping them. I mean, mexico seems, unfortunately, powerless to stop them. Many got through. They broke through the mexican area where, in theory, they were guarded, and they werent so well guarded. So you have a lot of people in caravans coming up. If we had a wall, we wouldnt have a problem, but we dont. We have too many open areas. The walls that we fixed and the walls that we built hold beautifully, but we have a lot of open areas, and its too bad. Now, the previous