Ago. And i and investors spooked. Im alison kosik. It is another busy news day. Good morning. Im dave briggs. Thursday, december 20th. 4 00 a. M. In the east. We have breaking news from north korea straight ahead. We start with President Trumps decision to order a full withdrawal from syria. Running into an issue, this decision will put lives in danger around the world. The u. S. Official says planning for the pullout is under way. Reaction to the president s move range from shock to outrange. A group of senators firing off a letter to mr. Trump urging him to reconsider. If there is a pullout, isis in syria will embolden their efforts in the region. Top republicans not pleased about getting blind sided. This is an obamalike move. Its a terrible mistake. I think we will pay a price for it if it is not reversed. It i is hard to imagine any president would wake up with this decision with little preparation. Pulling the troops without giving consideration to the consequences is something i
We could find out today what compelled Michael Flynn to lie to the fbi. The former National Security adviser is set to be sentenced today with the contacts with the Russian Ambassador during the president ial transition. Following the judges order in the 11th hour, special Counsel Robert Mueller has released a memo giving details of the fbi interview where flynn lied. Flynn allies, including the president , latched on to the fact that flynn was interviewed by peter strzok who was later fired over antitrump texts. Flynn allies suggest he was tricked into lying because he did not have a lawyer with him. The memo with the questions and answers debunks that claim. White house correspondent Kaitlan Collins with more. Reporter dave and christine, flynn is expected to be sentenced in a d. C. Court today. We know special Counsel Robert Mueller has recommended littletono jail time. Where this gets interesting is the day before sentencing, the special counsel released a memo detailing the notes
Headquarters in atlanta. We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im natalie alan, newsroom starts right now. And we begin at the white house declaring a National Emergency is a big deal, so when the u. S. President made good on his threat to do that, to fund his wall the lawyers and a lot of other people packed. Within hours the first lawsuit was filed. It was made by the Government Watchdog Group public citizen. Mr. Trump acknowledged he faces an uphill battle the might not succeed. Strangest of all, he may have sabotaged his own case by admitting he didnt really need to do this. We get more from cnns jim acosta. Reporter trying to take a victory lap after a stinging defeat in congress, President Trump declared a National Emergency at the border to start tapping into Administration Funds to build his wall. But the president may have already undercut his case when he indicated his real motivation is to speed things along. I can do the wall over a
Neither trump or clinton are was implicated in epsteins alleged crimes. We have a team of Analysts Covering it all. Epstein will make his first appearance since his arrest. And former assistant u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york. And politics reporter for the wall street journal, along with Senior Writer for politico and msnbc political contributor jake sherman. Tom, i know this indictment just came out within the last couple of minutes here. I think you have had a chance to look through it. It is a wideranging indictment that lays out pretty disturbing charges against epstein. Yeah. Thats absolutely right, hallie. Heres how the scheme looked. Basically what happened here is epstein had several of his employees recruit underage victims, underage girls to come and perform quote, unquote massages, which turned out to be usually anything but. Epstein would expose himself sometimes during the course of the massages he would touch underage girls. Sometimes he would engage
President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who came under fire in October for saying 400 cases of alleged sexual abuse by clergy members did not seem to be "particularly high", said the Church must be held accountable.