Correspondent kasie hunt. Just for entertainment i beat up bill karins this morning. Awful. Willie, you were on jury duty the past couple days. Happy to serve the great county of new york the last couple days. I didnt get picked. I was a little offended. He could go one of two ways, he said cops are always right. Is that bad . Is that bad . You do what you have to do. Go with your instinct. Lets get to the headlines. Congressional leaders say former National Security adviser Michael Flynn may have violated federal law by not disclosing payments from russia and turkey. He was paid nearly 34,000 to attend and address a gala with president Vladimir Putin in december of 2015. He got more than 500,000 to lobby for the turkish government last year. So many things wrong with this. We knew about putin, but over 500,000 to lobby for turkey while you are the National Security adviser in waiting and you dont report this publicly. Thats it. While youre doing bidding for turkey. Not just how do you
Cnn nuews headquarters, newsroom starts right now. And the u. S. President turned to twitter on friday to show his frustration to replace the Affordable Care act, he also held an important meeting with south koreas president to discuss how to best deal with north korea. Really important issues, im sure youll all agree its all being overshadowed with President Trumps ongoing twitter spats with two journalists. Reporter President Trump issued yet another dire warning on the threat posed by north korea. The era of strategic patience with the north korean regime has failed. Many years, and its failed. And frankly, that patience is over. Reporter but as the president was leaving the rose garden nearly all the questions shou shouted at him were not about National Security they were about the president s tweets and his ongoing war of words with msnbc host Joe Scarborough and mika brzezinski. Who now aallege that white house aides made them go softer and that will kill a story. He said if you
A dramatic new chapter in the russia investigation. News of a pre dawn fbi raid at the Northern Virginia home of President Trumps former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. Sources tell nbc news, the search is tied to the intense investigation into business dealings and fbi relationships, both in the u. S. And abroad. After the Washington Post broke the news, the manafort spokesperson said, quote, fbi agents executed a search warrant at one of mr. Manaforts residences. Mr. Manafort has consistently cooperated with Law Enforcement and other serious inquiries and did so on this occasion as well. A source familiar with it satisfies dozen armed fbi agents woke manafort up by knocking on his bedroom door. Manaforts friend and former logging partner gave his version of events today. Thugs authorized by Robert Mueller took down front door of manaforts home, proceeded to the bedroom, to the marital bedroom seeking documents they had never requested. The granting of the search warrant is a big de
Confirmed, the president is improvising his north korea threats. We were a super power. We are now a hyper power. And the growing back lash to the president s plan for opioid abuse. The best way to prevent drug addiction is that overdose is to prevent people from abusing drugs in the first place. When all in starts. A dramatic new chapter in the russia investigation. News of a pre dawn fbi raid at the Northern Virginia home of President Trumps former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. Sources tell nbc news, the search is tied to the intense investigation into business dealings and fbi relationships, both in the u. S. And abroad. After the Washington Post broke the news, the manafort spokesperson said, quote, fbi agents executed a search warrant at one of mr. Manaforts residences. Mr. Manafort has consistently cooperated with Law Enforcement and other serious inquiries and did so on this occasion as well. A source familiar with it satisfies dozen armed fbi agents woke manafort up by knoc
It ticks off the right people. He has the power to pardon him. But theres a pile of ige know minutous i think manning goes on that pile. Perhaps this does. Particularly because he is an avatar of toughness and Law Enforcement to some. But he is an avatar for abuses of power in Law Enforcement and some of the worst excesses there. Theres an argument that some of this was politically motivated, the timing going after him. By the obama administration. Right. But this is a guy who i think has gone too far in many cases. By the way, was voted out in a trump county in arizona 56 44 which highlights some of the divisions were seeing on this stage. Thats what trump likes to do. Thats what he is a natural at. To your question about whether this signals something first of all, anybody who thinks donald trump is loyal to anybody but himself, only needs to talk to steve bannon, Rudy Giuliani and chris christie. He will not be loyal. There are a slew of state attorneys general out there who would b