Cnn learned that President Trumps attorney told him in january that Michael Flynn who was at the time the president S National Security adviser misled the fbi. You are looking at live pictures of the president who just landed in salt lake city. He just got off air force 1. The latest revelation ties into the tweet over the weekend by the president on the president s account. This is what he tweeted. I had to fire general flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the fbi. He pled guilty to the lies. It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide. The president s attorney said he wrote that tweet for the president. In an interview he said he believes the president is safe from any obstruction of justice charge over the firing and the former fbi director james comey. The president cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief Law Enforcement officer and has every right to express his view of any case. This morning before leaving for
Threatening texts from him. Authorities say they recovered three weapons. One at the scene and two from kellys vehicle. The Texas Governor said this state had denied him a license to carry a gun. On the scene for us in sutherland springs, texas. You got the latest on the investigation. What more do we know about this domestic trouble with the gunmans motherinlaw and how he got his weapons . Officials said the gunman expressed anger and there was a domestic situation involved in this entire thing. As you just mentioned, officials told us that he had sent threatening texts to his motherinlaw and one official, a source with knowledge of the investigation told cnn that the motherinlaw received a threatening text from him the morning of the shooting. Thats what we can tell you about the situation with his inlaws. His inlaws did attend this church. The First Baptist church on, on occasion, but they were not there at the time. The sheriff of the county told us that the wife of the shooter, po
His fourth day of flatout denying these allegations, and he is threatening to sue the Washington Post for publishing this bombshell report just a month before the Alabama Senate race. Three days ago the Washington Post published another attack on my character and reputation in a desperate to stop my political campaign. They are untrue. Lets start up on capitol hill with my colleague our senior washington correspondent brianna keilar. Starting on the Senate Majority leader here. What are his options for the Alabama Senate race, will he endorse a writein candidate . It is not up to Mitch Mcconnell. He mentioned that, brooke, that theyre looking at this idea of the success the potential success of a writein candidate, but that really is up to the state party to decide. At this point youre seeing Mitch Mcconnell distance himself and hes had days to look at roy moore and see how hes responded to the allegations and Mitch Mcconnell is now of a growing number of republican senators and of cou
something else that stands out is cohen s remark one other thing. one other thing. what s amazing to me is the resilience of republicans and their ability to put their heads in the sand in regard to donald trump and his activities. if and when something eventually happens, they can t do that. i don t know what they re going to do because a lot of times i talk to these republicans, well, my 401(k) s better or, you know, we re richer and he s been a good president and all that and in the meantime, think about how how much this country has been hurt, attacks on the basic institutions in this country, the fbi, the press. i got to tell you, brooke, these are kind of nuances for a lot of people. we follow it all the time but a lot of people don t follow this. and they re like, my life is okay, i m working, i have money and it s just people wanting to pick on him and that s where a lot of republicans live. with the cohen testimony, how many republicans that have been sitting on the
virginia. you know, this is why, brooke, we have to realize the great hope for america is that the real change that comes comes from the bottom up. i ll give you a perfect example. the kids in florida at parkland changed florida. had they waited for the politicians, they would be waiting for 100 years, which they were almost waiting for. the hope is in us. we have the pressure. we can get things done. let s end on the positive. governor, pleasure. thank you, brooke. thank you. breaking news out of israel today. president benjamin netanyahu has just reacted to being indicted.