Affair with the president violated her nondisclosure agreement and could owe more than 20 million. President trump assembled a team for his 2020 run. Meanwhile, his team has been kicked off facebook for allegedly misusing data. Were covering all of this from a lot of different angles here. Abby phillip is live at the white house. We want to start with sara sidner with more details on the Stormy Daniels case. Yeah, this is pretty remarkable because its really the first time we have seen the president himself injected into the lawsuit. His attorneys have now filed on behalf of donald trump in this lawsuit that Stormy Daniels filed. But what has happened is his attorneys have filed and they are asking for 20 million in damages, saying that she broke the confidentiality agreement, and for each violation, theyre asking for 1 million. That was in the nondisparagement agreement, the agreement she signed saying every time she violates the agreement, its a million dollars. Theyre saying she has
White house for us. Tell us what youre hearing about h. R. Mcmaster. Reporter there is no question that the president is ready to make some changes in his inner circle. And h. R. Mcmaster is someone who has been rumored to be on his way out for several weeks now, in part because he and the president have never really fully gelled in this position. And sources tell cnn that the president has decided that he wants to move forward with moving mcmaster out and moving someone into that role. The question is when might that decision happen. Now, mcmaster, with mcmaster there are several decisions that need to be made. The first of which is who replaces him, who will come in, one of the top candidates were told is john bolton, someone simpatico with President Trump on policy. Hes a former u. N. Ambassador and a television contributor. But also mcmaster has to find an exit strategy. There say possibility of him returning to military service, or perhaps going back into the private sector. The s
Has them . Do we know . And we know that it covered two key topics, mccabes own topics with the president as well as what he was told about the former fbi director james comeys separate conversations with trump. We recall that comey documented the conversation, and he said that mccabe did that as did comey because he felt that trump would lie about his conversation s so his ability to corroborate comeys story is important here as Robert Mueller continues to investigate. And he is seeing the firing of james comey to his own termination late last night and saying in the statement in part, heres the reality, i am being singled out, and treated this way, because of the role i played, the actions i took, and the events i witness ed in the aftermath of the firing of james comey. The release of this report was only accelerated after my testimony to the House Intelligence Committee revealed that i would be able to corroborate former director com comeys accounts of his discussions with the pres
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Tipping point. John dowd told cnn speaking for myself, not the president , i pray that acting attorney general rosenstein will follow the brilliant and courageous example of the fbi office of professional responsibility and attorney general Jeff Sessions and bring an end to alleged Russia Collusion Investigation manufactured by mccabes boss, james comey, based upon a fraudulent and corrupt dossier. Just end it on the merits in light of recent revelations. Now, a lawyer speaking for anyone else but his client is curious. That dowd had to clarify he was speaking just for himself after telling another news outlet he was speaking for the president , thats unusual. Cnns team of reporters and specialists have been closely tracking these developments, first to washington and cnn justice reporter laura jarrett. The special counsel now in possession of those memos from Andrew Mccabe. What do we know about their contents and why would they matter to the special counsel . We know that these memos