Lets get to it. First on the fox news deck this afternoon, the white house is denying a report that President Trumps lawyer floated an idea of pardoning two men involved in the russian investigation. The attorney john dowd suggested pardons for President Trumps former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn. Has he considered and is he considering, would he consider pardoning Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn or rick gates . As i said an onrecord statement from the president s attorney here at the white house on these matters has said theres no discussion or consideration of this. Shepard the question from john decker of fox news radio. Flynn started cooperating and pleaded guilty to lying. Manafort faces fraud charges. Peter doocy has the rest of the story live. Peter . The white house lawyer that talked to attorneys for Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort is john dowd, the man that resigned last week. The word from ty cobb, a white house lawyer still working with the president said
Secretary of state said goodbye and left his job and the president hired yet another fox news personality to join the russia legal team and hired another fox news personality to become the new National Security adviser, which means hes firing the existing National Security adviser right now. Just in the past three weeks, this president and this white house have chewed up and spat out the Communications Director who is reportedly the president s single most trusted aide, hope hicks. Also the president s personal assistant, also his staff secretary, also his chief economic advisor, also the Deputy White House chief of staff, the Deputy Director of the fbi and the secretary of state replaced by the person serving as director of the cia which means there needs to be a new director of the cia tonight as well and the National Security advisor is out, too. And so yeah, were going to need another wall soon. We figured out a way to make this one slightly larger like just by kind of taking care
Told sean republican is up by 30. s solid win. Laura all i am saying is it bishop pulls out they win. The republicans, all the people yesterday who were saying this is going to be a bellwether for whether President Trump can pull the republicans over the finish line. That will be out the window. Sean he can help some people but he cant carry on his shoulders and crossed the finish line. Theyve got to do it themselves. Laura i am Laura Ingraham and this is the ingraham angle from d. C. Tonight. Somehow we are going to fit this in an hour. We have dershowitz and joe digenova. They reveal how this latest fictional link about a cia asset, however greeks of the state involvement and yes even a conspiracy. I kid you not. Michelle malkin exposing the stunning disregard by one Maryland County showing to women who have been victimized by illegal aliens. You wont believe that. Katie pavlich and Richard Goodstein debate the gun agenda. The administrations plans to help relieve californias homeles
Weeks from tonight to see what it takes to be commander in chief, and some are asking if President Trump is wagging the dog. Welcome to the lead im jake tapper. Key allies are bracing for irans retaliation after the u. S. Strike that killed the iranian general soleimani thursday night. Massie crowds gathered to mourn sal m soleimani including the aya toe l ayatollah khamenei. And democrats who have been briefed questioned how imminent the attack, was the president is saying that he is considering declassifying the intelligence and renewed the threat to strike iranian cultural sites which would violate international law. The House Democrats are preparing to limit the resolution of limiting president s military action, and alex has this report. Reporter four days since the killing of Qasem Soleimani and calls are calling for the details of the attacks planned by iran that the Trump Administration says were imminent. Are we talk about days or weeks . If you are an american in the region,
Chief White House Correspondent john roberts starts us off on the north lawn, good evening. Good evening to you. It white house Officials Say john boltons policies did not align with those of President Trump. Sources close to john bolton say his job to provide National Security advice based on a coherent philosophy was impossible at this white house. And so President Trump is now looking for his fourth National Security advisor in three years. In his Resignation Letter dated today, john bolton was characteristically blunt. I hereby resign, he wrote, effective immediately. If thank you for having afforded me this opportunity to serve our country. Before hiring him, President Trump had been a big fan of bolt and as unvarnished opinions on Foreign Policy and National Security but over the 17 months of boltons tenure, the two frequently clashed on big issues like afghanistan, iran, north korea, venezuela, and russian meddling in the u. S. Elections. I made it clear that we wouldnt tolerate