Topping this hour of 360, we have breaking news in the fallout of Michael Flynns departure and reportedly Constant Contact between trump advisers and russian contacts. General flynns history appears to be off the hook with the fbi for now. Jim sciutto joins us with the latest. What do you know, jim . For the time being barring new information the fbi has decided theyre not change to charge Michael Flynn for the calls. The fbi telling Evan Perez Flynn has been forthcoming and truthful with the conversations, and while he might not remember all the details, they did not believe he was being intentionally misleading. And that led them to decide for the time being not to pursue charges against him. What are you learning about his access to classified material . His clearance has been taken away . His access to classified information has been taken away. A difference between losing clearance, its sus spended. Im told this is a Standard Practice when questions are raised about someones compl
Himself. Almost immediately after he took office. And if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me prior to taking office and i would have quite simply picked somebody else. So i think thats a bad thing, not for the president but for the presidency. I think its unfair to the presidency. And thats the way i feel. When pressed by another reporter whether he would fire sessions, the president said well have to wait and see and i quote, time will tell which does seem to mean the attorney general is twisting in the wind. The bigger issue is whether the president understands or cares what the role of the attorney general is supposed to be in our democracy. He criticized sessions for recusing himself for anything to do with the russian investigation. Today the president tweeted attorney general Jeff Sessions has taken a very weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes where are the emails and dnc server and intel leakers. Putting aside he may be trying to divert attention from the ru
Apologizing for own alleged Sexual Misconduct back during the time period of the campaign. As you might imagine, that date not sit well for President Trump, he fired up a tweet earlier this morning that reads, quote, crooked Hillary Clinton is the worst and biggest loser of all time, so good for the republican party. Get on with your life, give it on try in three years. So hes certainly not missing any words there but i want to you all the clips that started it all from Hillary Clinton yesterday. Here is part of it. Lots of questions about legitimacy and we dont have a method for contesting that in our system, thats why ive long advocated for an independent commission to get to the bottom of what happened. And dont forget who congressional committees and the special counsel are continue to go look into it, arthel. Arthel theres also jared rush kushner coming under fire today, tell us why . The Top Republican and democrat on the Senate Judiciary committee is accusing the president s son
The president says hes open to talks with north korea under the right circumstances. We have a report this morning from the white house, capitol hill, seoul, south korea, and montecito, california. Where, unfortunately, mudslides have left 17 people dead. Im dave briggs. Im christine romans. Its almost friday, we got a lot to get through before then. The president suddenly refusing to say whether he would meet with the Russia Special counsel, a potential meeting with robert mueller, hanging over the presidency. But asked in a white house News Conference if he would sit with mueller, mr. Trump was noncommittal. What he is committed to, repeating this claim about collusion. There has been no collusion between the Trump Campaign and russians, or trump and russians. No collusion. Bottom line, they all say theres no collusion. And there is no collusion. I can only say this, there was absolutely no collusion, but it has been determined that there is no collusion. When they have no collusion,