Camp and russia. Were now learning british and European Intelligence Services also intercepted communications between Trump Associates and russian officials and passed the information to the u. S. And secret celebration. Amid tight security, a cnn correspondent is taken to a rare public appearance by kim jongun. This celebration comes as north korea is stepping the up its weapons programs. Is it about to stage another nuclear test . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Breaking news in a story reported first right here on cnn. The United States has dropped its largest nonnuclear weapon on isis. Its the first combat use of the nearly 22,000 pound device nicknamed the mother of all bombs. Officials say the target was an isis tunnel and cave complex in afghanistan. The weapon has been in the u. S. Arsenal now for more than a decade. The president says hes given the u. S. Military total authorization for such actions. Dropping that huge bomb capable of c
Theres no other way to say it. I got into a topic that i shouldnt have and i screwed up. I mean you know, and i hope people understand that we all make mistakes. I hope i showed that i understand that i did that and that i sought peoples forgiveness because i screwed up. And you know, i hope each person can understand that part of existing is understanding that when you do something wrong, if you own up to it, you do it. You let people know. And i did. So for me, obviously theres two takeaways. One is its a very holy week for both the jewish people and the christian people and this is not to take a gaffe and a mistake like this is inexcusable and ref hen reprehensible. Of all weeks, this compounds that kind of mistake. But second of all so first of all, its obviously its it really is painful to myself to know that i did Something Like that. Because that obviously was not my intention. And to know when you screw up that you possibly offended a lot of people, i just, you know i would ask
Lets begin with cnns joe johns at the white house. Reporter good morning, chris. For an administration that has tried to downplay the first 100 days as a ridiculous standard, they have also tried to orchestrate and promote the president s successes or what they see as president s successes. Going so far as set up a war room in the west wing to track it. Now a flurry of activity in the final days. We have a once in a Generation Opportunity to do something really big. Reporter after much hype, the white house revealing a onepage summary of the tax wish list which includes slashing tax rates for corporations, reducing the number of tax brackets and doubling the standard deduction for individuals. The skeletal outline would mainly benefit wealthy americans and devoid of any details of what it would cost and how it would be paid for. This will pay for itself with growth and reduced reduction of different deductions and closing loopholes. Reporter many economists are challenging this as a ma
Sunday. Im fredericka whit nooefield. The finger pointing is happening here with the conservative Freedom Caucus and other gop groups at fault for the bill failure saying they saved planned parenthood and obamacare. Athena jones is covering this for us. She is a republican source telling cnn that the president and speaker ryan did speak yesterday for more than an hour. And that their relationship is stronger than ever. And i understand that paul ryans people say that they spoke again today . Reporter thats right. They did speak again this morning. Yesterday the president tweeted what was effectively a promo for a fox news show airing at 9 00, the show of judge Jeanine Pirro. They were talking about the wiretapping details that would come out. Those didnt emerge in new news on that topic, but what did emerge is judge Jeanine Pirro in her Opening Statement last night in her show calling on House Speaker paul ryan to step down as House Speaker because of his failure to deliver the votes f
Base in california. Good evening. This was without doubt the most critical test yet of the u. S. Missile Defense System with the pentagon under huge pressure to deliver a successful strike and thus send a powerful message to north korea or any other nation that might target the United States. The launch of the grand base interceptor missile was spectacular and deadly serious. Testing the first line of u. S. Defense should north korea fire a Nuclear Weapons at an american city. The pentagon believe s kim jongun will soon have. A rare and exclusive interview ahead of the test in which the u. S. Launched an unarmed missile from the Pacific Ocean and aiming to take it down with the interceptor launched from california. Its very difficult. We are talking about intercepting in space. Hundreds of miles of altitude with velocity of 1,000 Miles Per Hour per hour. Its hitting a bullet with a bullet. And the difficulties have been evident in past tests, the interceptor just hitting the target hal