Lot of people have asked themselves whether america is the country we thought it was. The divisions laid bare by this election run deep. But please listen to me when i say that, america is worth it. We have a lot to cover this morning as usual. Lets begin at trump tower with Sunlen Serfaty. Good morning. Good morning, carol. The trump team really seemed very adamant about trying to rein in and reclaim the narrative around their transition right out now not only about the infighting but that the transition ed original stacked with d. C. Insiders and lobbyists. Today they are making this first big move. This announcement of a lobbying ban really trying to get back to the core elements of Donald Trumps campaign. The one that really catapulted his candidacy, that he is going to clean up washington. President elect Donald Trumps Transition Team now moving to uphold this campaign promise. We are going to drain the swamp. Reporter unveiling a new lobbying ban. Requiring anyone under considera
Right . Reporter complimenting his wife, melania. She got up and gave an incredible speech. Reporter since plagerizing her speech at the convention. You work hard for what you want in life. You work hard for what you want in life. Reporter she decided to take on cyberbullying. Especially to children and teenagers. It is never okay when a 12yearold girl or boy is marked, bullied or attacked. It is absolutely unacceptable when its done with someone with no name hiding on the internet. Reporter critics quick to pounce on the irony of melanias focus on bullying giving her husbands twitter tirades and bullying. Despite the criticism, melania helping to hope her husband win over female voters. We have to find a better way to talk with each other, to disagree with each other and to respect each other. Reporter going into the final weekend here on the campaign trail, i want to show you a snapshot of where donald trump will be campaigning. Just a flurry of lastminute Campaign Events. He will be
To be fair, multiple president s have pushed back on this kind of legislation. They say its the president s prerogative under the constitution to sort of do these things. But for trump, though, this points i think to his sort political isolation. And different too because of the many russia investigations involving the white house. Continue. Yes. Im trying the to be fair, but yes, its bad news for the administration. It shows that republicans on the hill its a small step but a step away from the Trump White House. Its republicans on the hill showing they will confront russia over the objections of the white house. The white house has been making the case they want to make relations with russia better, more flexible and that these sanctions make that more difficult. Now that the house and senate have come up with this plan to potentially override, right, the president s power on this, what kind of battle does this set up for the president . Theres a big internal battle brewing because t
A contradiction and cleanup at the white house this morning and its only 11 00 and it got started when the president tweeted, seeming to go against a bill that his administration had endorsed just hours earlier. The president tweeted, house votes on controversial fisa act today. This is the act that may have been used with the help of the discredited and phony dossier to badly surveil and abuse the Trump Campaign by the Previous Administration and others. Now, that tweet came, it caused a stir because it came less than 12 hours after the white house issued a statement strongly endorsing the reauthorization of this law and strongly opposing an amendment that would limit its scope, the White House Press secretary Sarah Sanders saying in a statement urging the house to, quote, preserve useful role of fisas 702 authority plays in protecting american lives. In this time period with between this that first tweet and the next tweet im about to read was about 90 minutes or so. Clearly someone
Democrats are going to have to decide when to stop gathering evidence and then scramble to lay out that evidence and republicans already are scrambling to combat it. The Washington Post reports democrats are looking at Holding Public hearings as early as midnovember, which would derail the current republican complaints and stunts that the president praised today which argue that the current closeddoor proceedings are unfair. Even though republicans used this same playbook and praised it during the benghazi hearings. Lindsey graham this afternoon announced a Senate Resolution condemning the houses quote closed door impeachment inquiry. The president s allies are not pounding the facts. Theyre pounding the table and the process but ultimately its the democrats who have to figure out how to lay out this case. And they have to figure that out quickly because the mounting evidence against the president is the fact if the democrats want this done before the iowa caucus, they have just weeks