Controversy. Did President Trump deal with the emergency in full view of guests at maralago. Plus, the oprah effect. Im not talking free cars. How an episode of her old tv show is making the rounds in the senate. It may derail a cabinet nominee. You know who we have to start with today, the Trump White House reeling the the resignation of general mike flynn. President trumps closest confidant 24 days after being sworn in. Hes on the hunt for a successor. A move on congress to open an official investigation. We have the best team in the business to break this down. I want to go to Kristen Welker, live at the white house. Kristen, how did this go on . If you turn tv on throughout the night, it was a different story. Reporter what a day at the white house. It was a day of fast moving developments, just to reset the table. It started yesterday during the day with mounting pressure on National Security adviser flynn because of revelations that he had, in fact, spoken to russias ambassador a
Think of Nuclear Weapons of other things. The greatest thing i could do is shoot that ship out of the out of the water. Hillary clinton made the stupid black button that made us all look like a bunch of jerks . They are a very powerful Nuclear Country and so are they. Ive been briefed as Howard Cosell said. I love this. Im having a good time doing it. The public doesnt believe us any more . Willie happy friday. Willie, as we were walking in, you know what would have been really funny . That would have been a really funny hour or so of television if you werent president of the United States. Yeah. That was right off the campaign trail, call it summer of 2015. A man in his element saying whatever crossed his mind, throwing out things that were verifiably false and the key line we played at the end, i love this. Im having a good time. He did not want that press conference to end. He felt like he was back. He had watched other people try to defend him for a month, Kellyanne Conway, sean sp
Landslides and sinkholes this hour. Southern california favoring major issues this morning, after the severe storm slammed that area. The weather is blamed for at least two deaths. Caused a close call here for one driver when a sinkhole, look at this thing. Just swallowed her car. Weve got a look at the storm damage and 9 forecast live in the weather center. Thats coming up in a bit. First, our top story this morning, President Trump is going to return to the campaign trail later this afternoon, holding his first rally in an airplane hangar in the florida coast. This as Vice President makes his first visit to the nato. But the u. S. Stands in front of nato echoing Trumps Campaign line that members in the Transatlantic Alliance need to pay for the membership. As of this moment, the United States and only four other nato members meet this basic standard. Now, while we commend the few nations that are on track to achieve that goal, the truth is that many areas, including some of our large
Reporting the National Security adviser Michael Flynn has resigned. He has been under fire for his contacts with the russian u. S. Ambassador before President Trump took office. A number of sources say flynn inappropriately discussed u. S. Sanctions on moscow imposed by the Obama Administration. And just recently we learned that the Justice Department had warned him that flynn may be vulnerable to blackmail by russia. All right, lets go out to our senior white house correspondent, jim acosta. Jim, i suppose his relationship had been tenable, or growing that way. But was it the potential idea of blackmail that was at issue, or was it because he misled mike pence, the Vice President . I think it was that the administration had warned him a month ago, that was certainly a turning point in all of this. All of this feeling inside the white house it was just unacceptable that the National Security adviser, now the former security adviser had misled intentionally or unintentionally, about whe
His administration are absolutely real but news reports based on those leaks, well, theyre fake. Cnns jim acosta was there with more. To be honest, i inherited a mess. Its a mess. At home and abroad. A mess. Reporter President Trump launched into his first full News Conference of his Administration Ready for combatw his favorite adversary, the news media. As he battled back against reports that his team had contacts with the russians during the campaign. Well, i had nothing to do with it. I have nothing to do with russia. I told you. I have no deals there. I have no anything. Reporter it took a few tries but the president finally stated that hes not aware of any aides who were in touch with russian operatives. I have nothing to do with russia. To the best of my knowledge, no person that i deal with does. Reporter the president also acknowledged the mistakes made by former National Security adviser michael flynn, who was forced out for misleading the administration about his calls with