He promises to explain in this first longawaited News Conference as president elect thats set for december 15. Lets get right to cnns politics executive editor mark preston, david gergen, Ari Fleischer and kevin madden. Good evening to you. Kevin, you first. Donald trump and mitt romney had this dinner and there were still four finalists far from a lock for mitt romney. You know him well. Why does he want this job so badly to be part of the trump administration, given all of the bad blood and attacks coming from trumps inner circle . Well, again, i think his interest is driven by a sense of duty. I think that he believes that he has insights to offer on a lot of the Foreign Policy and National Security challenges that this administration will face and that he can offer some experience and wisdom in that regard and hes pledged, like many others interested in his cabinet, to help this president elect enact his agenda and that would be, again, a Guiding Force for him as well as a potentia
Withdraws. Now hes toast. Jim is here this evening. Good evening. 48 hours after the president S National Security adviser Michael Flynn resigns, fbi is saying not expecting to file charges against him. What is the latest . Also on your reporting that Trumps Campaign aides in zoont contact with russian officials. First on flynn. Fbi said barring new information, not going to pursue charges. Add in conversations he was forthcoming, if he forgot details he was not intentionally misleading. If they dont learn anything new, not going to pursue charges but learned his clearance to classified intelligence was suspended pending further review, im told in response to the conversations with the Russian Ambassador, could be reinstated but right now no access to classified information. As far as the Trump Campaign is concerned, had multiple opportunities today, including answering questions from jim acosta to answer your reporting about repeated constant communications between senior members of h
Franken after another woman accused him of inappropriate behavior. More than two dozen senators telling him to step down. Senator franken promising an announcement. In alabama, the Republican Senate candidate roy moore also facing new backlash from senators in his own party. The president is Still Standing by him with days until the special election. And flames are destroying tens of thousands of acres in Southern California right now. Homes and businesses burning to the ground. The worst december fires ever recorded in los angeles. News is breaking from coast to coast and around the world. So lets get to it. First from the fox news deck this afternoon, President Trump today reversed decades of u. S. Policy. He defied warnings of widespread demonstrations and violence and concerns of World Leaders to side with our ally, israel. This afternoon from the white house, he announced the United States officially recognized jerusalem as the capitol of israel. He says its time to acknowledge wh
Comes to policy and politics. The controversial book, fire. , dominates the headlines. The president is doubling down on the criticism of the tone and the author, michael wolf. Mike pam pompeo calling it. Fantasy. Pope is defending himself today. He says the president S Mental Health are all too real. If i left out anything at stuff that was more damning. It is that bad. It is an extraordinary moment in time. The last several days focused on my book are proof of this. Eric garrett is at the white house tonight. How is the Administration Responded to the book . For the past few days the white house has been waging an Aggressive Campaign to discredit the book and the author. That continue today. The president s surrogate described the book as fabricated and both intellectually and intellectually incompetent to run the country. Those statements are absurd. Fantasy. Statements like the one mr. Wolf made about how we think about the president is ridiculous. They are beneath the conversation
The New York Times best sellers list. Tonight is more than an open. Its who i am. Its what i know and what i did for over three decade. As a prosecutor, superior court judge as well as elected district attorney. The way it works is you are innocent until you are proven guilty. Unambiguous word etched in stone. Why would anyone ignore this truth, especially the ranking democrat on senate judiciary, senator diane fine tine, is stunning. But you shouldnt be surprised. The left is committed to the removal of a duly elected president. And now an allout assault on our system of justice. To them you are guilty, guilty until proven innocent. But no one in all the years i spent in courtrooms has ever been able to prove a negative. So forget the timehonored notion like due process, probable cause, beyond a reasonable doubt or a jury of your your peers. Today word and unsubstantiated facts are enough to convict in the esteemed hallowed halls of the United States senate. The ability to defend your