Former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort is back in court after making at least nine trips to a special counsel office. Could a judge complicate that cooperation deal and muellers investigation . And pope to pyongyang . No religion is tolerated in north korea, but dictator kim jongun has invited pope francis to visit. Why is the pope even thinking about it . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. The Trump Administration is showing extraordinary patience in allowing the saudis to come up with an explanation for the apparent grisly murder of u. S. Based journalist in the saudi consulate in istanbul. While the president calls that bad, bad stuff, the New York Times reports the saudi rulers are considering blaming a general who is a hoyranking adviser to crown Prince Mohammed bin salman. Will that let the relationship get back to business as usual . Ill speak with congressman ted deutch of the judiciary and Foreign Affairs committee and our correspondents and specialists, they
We could have predicted this would happen and how it would happen by tweet of course. We just didnt know the actual end date and now we do. The exit wasnt just predictable because President Trump sours on everyone eventually, and it wasnt predictable because the president has fired two other National Security advisers, one was actually in court todays ronnicly. It was predictable because the president and john bolton have always head strikingly different views onwide range of Foreign Policy issues. From venezuela and iran and now the meeting at camp david, they have fundamental disagreements. Bolton is a hard line more traditional conservative hawk if you will. Not a secret in washington. And it was not a secret to President Trump. John bolton is absolutely a hawk. If it was up to him, he would take on the whole world at one time. I have john bolton who i would definitely say is a hawk and i have other people that are on the other side of the equation. John is very good. John is a he h
Of isis. Isis is intent on resurging and commands thousands of fires in iraq and syria. Cold brew. Democrats are in a bitter battle with the former starbucks ceo who insists he wont sour the 2020 president ial race if he jumps in as an independent. Ive also been criticized for being a billionaire. Lets talk about that. Im selfmade. I grew up in the projects in brooklyn, new york. I thought that was the american dream. And frozen. The polar vortex subjecting 90 million americans to a deep freeze today, already killing five people. And it could get dramatically worse. These windchills dipping down well below 50 degrees below zero. Its negative 17 out here but the windchill is negative 37. Its really cold, guys. Good day, everyone, im Andrea Mitchell in washington where President Trump is lashing out at his own intelligence appointees, pushing back on their testimony from tuesday from the cia director and the director of National Intelligence before that senate committee, both contradicti
Ukraine, namely an announcement that ukraine would investigate joe biden and his son. Nearly 100 pages of state department documents released overnight by a Watchdog Group appearing to show a clear paper trail from trumps personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to secretary of state mike pompeo. We have this new additional batch of documents as you just reported from american oversight that further confirms what sondland said, that everybody knew what we were doing and why we were doing it. More breaking news to get to right now as Vice President mike pence indirectly addressing the impeachment inquiry today during an unannounced visit to iraq. Partisan politics and endless investigations have slowed things down a bit in washington, d. C. With this impeachment plane currently at 30,000 feet, democrats now need to figure out where theyre going to land this thing. We are going to go over all of this mornings developments now in the impeachment inquiry with our reporters and analysts. Our first b
Lets get right to the start with joe johns who is live at the white house. Do we have any details as to what these major new sanctions that the president is threatening here given that the u. S. Already sanctions most iranian oil sales and a whole host of other behaviors. Reporter jim, theyve been keeping us in suspends. The president tweeted it on friday. Since then repeated questions to the administration as well as the Treasury Department in specific. Just a minute ago i spoke to Kellyanne Conway here and asked what about the sanctions and she said that well know later today. What we do know is the sanctions in the past have been part of a socalled maximum Pressure Campaign to get iran to the negotiating table. Well, the fact of the matter is, of course, the president confused the issue a little bit this morning when he put out this tweet, essentially questioning why the u. S. Fifth fleet is protecting the shipping lanes of the strait of hormuz. Obviously in part to try to protect t