Im george howell. Cnn newsroom starts right now. U. S. President spending the night in hawaii. He and his wife arrived there overnight. They then go to the pacific rim. It is the president s first trim to the region. We get the latest from ryan be nobles in honolulu. Reporter the longest trip of the Donald Trump Administration is now under way. The trip to the asia pacific region, itthe longest trip sinc george h. W. Bush administration. The president en route to hawaii. The first leg of the trip, busy on twitter talking about Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders and Bowe Bergdahl. The army soldier who escaped jail time. He has not talked a lot about the trip in the weeks leading up to the event. Despite the fact it will be vital. Particularly as it relates to north korea and the kim jong un administration. And he will meet with leader from vietnam and china and japan, all who played an Important Role as it relates to dealing with north korea. In hawaii, the president has a busy schedule
Never acted without Campaign Officials permission. What is she revealing about members of the trump team . California fires spreading. New wildfires devour homes between los angeles and san diego as fires already burning cause more damage. How long will it be before weary firefighters and nearly 200,000 evacuees get a break from the weather . And strong job market. The president cheers some of the rosiest economic numbers in years. So is the big tax cut in Congress Really needed to help the economy . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Were following multiple breaking stories right now, including new information on the astonishing breadth of special counsel Robert Muellers investigation into former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort and manaforts associate rick gates. According to Court Documents, investigators have used 15 search warrants to collect information from 36 Electronic Devices, including laptop computers. In all, theyve assembled some
Unnamed officials with the Trump Campaign who would respond back that they were appreciative of George Papadopouloss efforts. There is a statement coming from an attorney from George Papadopoulos. We can talk about this more. Said it we will have the opportunity to comment on his involvement at a later date. We look forward to the facts that resulted in the charge. Just to underlie what i said, Sarah Sanders is going to be coming out here at about 1 15. They pushed back the briefing somewhat. I suppose to get their ducks in a row. If past is prologue, what we will see from Sarah Sanders is repeating over and over again by the end of the day. A montage of these responses over and over again. Saying the white house is referring you to the special counsels office and referring you to the president s team of attorneys. Wolf, when you talk to people in and around this white house, there is a sense of dread that winder is coming. We have been waiting months and months for some kind of big sh
United states means on his shoulders. The president is fighting back, on twitter, of course. The fake news is working overtime as Paul Manaforts lawyer said there was no collusion and events mentioned took place long before he came to the campaign. Few people knew the young lowlevel volunteer named george. Who has already proven to be a liar. Check the democrats. Quick note, Manafort Indictment does include statements made during the 2016 campaign, important to keep in mind. Manafort and rick gates are under house arrest on court order and new Court Documents shedding new light on the former Campaign Adviser that the president calls a liar and how he is now cooperating with federal investigators. Let us begin there. With cnn justice correspondent jessica snyder. Jessica, these new Court Documents coming out kind of connect the dots somewhat on what happened and when George Papadopolous with George Papadopolous, lay it out for us. Kate, from the Court Documents i want to give you two wo
Campaign. Because what papadopoulos did was take this inside the Trump Campaign. And that was the importance of his testimony. And not only that, you can hear the reporters kept coming back to the sam clovis point. What of the key contact within the campaign, i think the Campaign Supervisor was how he was dubbed in the email exchange with papadopoulos. And this is an individual who the white house wants to be serving as deputy of agriculture chief scientist, right. And the question was based upon what we are seeing now in this criminal complaint, back and forth this is the guy who apparently was suggesting this meeting with russia, she responded nothing has changed. Yeah, i mean, they dont want to seed any ground on this. They dont want to treat George Papadopoulos like he ever existed. Right. Its a this idea he was a volunteer. Guess what most people who serve on boards in those advisory rolls are volunteers. And typically they dont meet very often. She was saying they only met once.