Republicans speaking out about the don junior drama urging another shoe could drop at any moment. One top gop senator is threatening to subpoena a key player in the controversy. They are hours away from unveiling new Health Care Legislation with members of their own party in revolt. The august recess on hold. Will it revive hopes for passage or be dead on arrival . We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Wolf blitzer is off. Im jim accosta. Youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Breaking news tonight, President Trump is speaking out about the new russia controversy surrounding his son. Mr. Trump says he was unaware of donald trump, jr. s meeting with the russian lawyer until days ago. He doesnt fault don junior for seeing the lawyer after being promised dirt on Hillary Clinton. President trump is getting ready to fly to paris and leave behind a white house in crisis. The trump team is paralyzed and the president is frust
Right up until just before he joined the Trump Campaign as its chairman, business entities tied to Paul Manafort appear to have been deeply indebt to business entities to putin connected oligarchs. One was the aluminum oligarch, once signed Paul Manafort to a 10 million a Year Contract to promote the interests of Vladimir Putins government around the world. Including in the United States. The other oligarch was a or the other person to whom Paul Manafort reportedly owed money was a Business Partner of dmitry furtash. He was part of the Political Party in the ukraine that Paul Manafort worked for for years. The state controlled gas company cooked up one of the oligarch specials for dmitry and his Business Partner which shoveled billions of dollars to them by letting them take a cut out of every single fart worth of natural gas that they sold to ukraine. These guys repaid putin for the multibillion dollar favor by paying the politicians that putin wanted in power in the ukraine. Its nice
Resignation this week. This has been a long rumored departure that weve been waiting on for months now. And it finally came to a fever pitch this week. But its hard to see how the new communication directors allegations that he was leaking white house information to reporters was not a big factor in that. In fact, Reince Priebus was asked about this during his first interview with cnn last night after it was made known that he had resigned. Listen to what he had to say to wolf blitzer. Are you the leaker in the white house . Thats ridiculous, wolf. Come on. Give me a break. Im not going to get into his accusations. Why not respond to them . Because im not going to because it doesnt honor the president. Im going to honor the president every day. Im going to honor his agenda. And im going to honor our country. And im not going to get into all of this personal stuff. Is there a leaking problem in the white house based on what youve seen . Yeah. I think that general kelly should see if he
Mccain who wanted to return to allow the process to go forward even though the process the senator that is suffering from brain cancer blasted something that has deteriorated in the United States, that is bipartisanship. Lets get the read from mike emanuel to where we go to from here, mike. Good afternoon. They needed Vice President mike pence to split the tie. And Mitch Mcconnell said a short time ago, they keep working at it and noted that the democrats had trouble with this seven years ago. Why watched a similar process seven years ago. They had a lot of differences. Were going to sort this out in a thoroughly open amendment process in a situation where 51 votes can change the bill. Two republicans voted against proceeding today. Lisa murkowski of alaska and Susan Collins of maine, two moderates that oppose taking up the issue of healthcare reform and Going Forward with it today. Thats why they needed the president and they also needed a heroic return from arizona senator john mccai
Failed to deliver on a Key Campaign Promise for his base. The president has failed in his attempts to bully his attorney general into resigning. Jeff sessions vowing to stay on as long as trump sees that as appropriate. The president did succeed in unifying practically all of washington against his treatment of the attorney general. The president has failed in his attempt to change the conversation with his tweets, banning transgender troops from the military. The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff saying the pentagon will not make any changes to its transgender policy until trump clarify what is he meant, quote, in the meantime we will continue to treat all of our personnel with respect. In effect saying, no, mr. President , no. And the president even managed to fail with his address to the boy scouts of america. The head of the group now apologizing to its member for the president s rhetoric. And good morning, everyone. Its friday. Thank god its friday, right . A lot of failures o