This is cnn breaking news. Breaking news this hour, a federal judge has now blocked part of a trump executive order that would cut off funding for socalled sanctuary cities across the country that protect illegal immigrants. The Ruling Issued in california a little while ago. Another major legal blow to the president S Immigration agenda after his travel ban was blocked by the federal courts. Also breaking, new oversight for the feds trump russia investigation amid new signs president ousted National Security adviser may have broken the law. The senate just confirmed Deputy Attorney general rod rosen stein. He now has authority over the entire russian probe since his boss, attorney general Jeff Sessions, recused himself. This as the chairman of House Oversight committee suggesting Michael Flynn may have broken the law by failing to disclose payments received from russia and turkey before he became the president s National Security adviser. Tonight we are following duelling shows of for
Political that has been alleged. The allegation is that somehow the obama officials utilized intelligence for political purposes. Thats false. Let me explain how this works. I was a National Security adviser and my job is to protect the American People and the security of our country. Thats the same as the secretary of defense. Every morning to enable us to do that. We received from the Intelligence Community a compilation of reports that the ic, Intelligence Community selected for us on a daily basis to give us the best information as to whats going on around the world. I received the reports as did the other officials and there were occasions when i would receive a report in which a u. S. Person was referred to. Name not provided, just u. S. Person. Sometimes in that context, in order to understand the importance of the report and assess the significance, it was necessary to request the information as to who that official was. I will give you a hypothetical example. This is made up,
Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. We are not even one month into the Trump Administration and already a major scandal exploding in washington, d. C. Last night, president Trumps National security advisor Michael Flynn, who even before this scandal was intensely controversial known for his bigoted views of islam and muslims, handed in his resignation after just 24 days on the job. Today we got the Trump Administrations version of events. The president asked flynn to resign not because of what flynn did which the white house says it has no problem with but because he had lied about it to members of the administration. The level of trust between the president and general flynn had eroded to the point where he felt he had to make a change. The president was very concerned that general flynn had misled the Vice President and others. Heres what happened. On december 29, then president obama announced sanctions against russia for russias alleged hacking of democratic email accounts
To dras to push tax reform or infrastructure . As a splintered Republican Caucus points fingers over the health care debacle. Well, i dont really blame anyone in particular. But the Freedom Caucus was brought to the table and refused to working to having a better bill. So when it comes to tax reform and border security, when it comes to other big issues weve talked about accomplishing and that we promised the voters, lets do what we said. If we do that, well be fine. If we dont, we may have the same problems on this last bill. And target paul ryan . Is it just coincidence as the white house claims in the aftermath of the failed health care vote, President Trump promoted a Fox News Program on twitter which began like this. My open last night, he said speaker ryan should step down over his failure to deliver the votes on his health care bill. And good day, im Andrea Mitchell with breaking news on two big stories here in washington. Latest twist involving devin nunes, it the House Intelli
Individuals world very, very small. A Cross Country man hunt for a killer. All i want to see is him brought to justice. This is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. Welcome to your new day. We are talking about a lack of transparency this morning. The president s tax returns still not released to the American People and now neither are the white house visitor logs. Also will not be released. That has trigger add brandnew lawsuit. Remember, trump said he would release the taxes as soon as the audit was over. He attacked president obama, saying you should release the logs. It goes to transparency. Now, how is this not hip krasy. Lets begin with joe johns live at the white house. Joe. Reporter good morning, chris. The biggest problem for this administration on this issue is objects. The picture this creates, especially since donald trump the candidate ran on issues of transparency. Used it as a weapon. It also gives fuel to the critics who love to question whether this administra