Spoke out a short time ago. Votes today to politicize the intelligence process. And to the house and to selectively released to the public only the majority distorted memo without the full facts. A very sad day i think in the history of this committee as i said to my Committee Colleagues during this hearing, sadly, we can fully expect that the president of the United States will not put the National Interest over his own personal interest. But it is a sad day indeed when that is also true of our own committee. Today this committee voted to put the president s personal interest, perhaps their own political interest above the National Interest in denying themselves even the ability to hear from the department and the fbi. That is a deeply regrettable state of affairs the nunes memo will come out. I want to give you context here. The republican memo was written for the chairman of the committee devin nunes. Shocking facts he just allegedly uncovered about the russian investigation. Facts
Russia probe. Reckless. A short time ago republicans ignored that warning and ignored a request by the director of the fbi to appear personally and explain why releasing the memo is not a good idea. They ignored that and voted along party lines to release the memo. They also voted not to release a memo written by democrats which they say point out the falsehoods on the republican memo. We had votes today to politicize the intelligence process, to prohibit the fbi and the department of justice from expressing their concerns to the committee and the house and to selectedly release only the majorities distorted memo without the full facts. A very sad day, i think, in the history of this committee. As i said to my Committee Colleagues during this hearing, sadly we can fully expect that the president of the United States will not put the National Interest over his own personal interest. But it is a sad day indeed when that is also true of our own committee, because today this committee vote
This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. 11 00 p. M. On the east coast. President trumps hand picked fbi director throwing cold water on the time line put out by the white house in the rob porter director chr says the fbi briefed the white house on the investigation starting months earlier than the white house admitted. Now the administration is changing the story and trying to shift blame to the personnel security office. Which one official tells cnn doesnt actually have any power to make decisions. All this turmoil coming at a time when russia is gleefully doubling down on election meddling and targeting the midterms. And the president of the United States is it still not convinced russia meddled. He has not specifically directed the Intelligence Committee to fight back for our democracy. Why would that be . That comes as we have breaking news. President trumps longterm personal lawyer Michael Cohen says he paid foreign star stormi daniels 130,000 out of his own pocket. Crowen says he was
Back. Redemption for shaun white in south korea, winning gold in the mens halfpipe. A live report with all the olympic headlines you missed overnight. The flying tomato, the godfather of snowboarding, he was incredible, clutch performance. 100th gold medal in the Winter Olympics for the u. S. Welcome to early start, im dave briggs. Im alison kosik. Wednesday, february 14th, happy valentines day. Thats right. Happy valentines day. Happy valentines day to you or galentines day twitter told me. I think hes going to give a rose later. I will. Conversations over who could replace embattled chief of staff john kelly heating up. Cnn is reporting that President Trump called associates in recent days discussing possible replacements for kelly in the wake of the rob porter spousal abuse scandal. Multiple sources tell us the president has made no decision to push kelly out, but they say names being floated if he does include chief economic adviser gary cohn. House majority leader kevin mccarthy,
Election. What they said about the president s willingness to fight back. Redemption for shaun white in south korea, winning gold in the mens halfpipe. A live report with all the olympic headlines that you may have missed overnight. Good morning, and welcome to early start. Im alison kosik. Happy valentines day. Happy galentines day, too, for you single ladies. Ash wednesday. 5 00 a. M. In the east. We start with day eight of a story that could be a 24hour mess. Conversations over who could replace Embattled White House chief of staff john kelly heating up this morning. Cnn reporting that President Trump called associates in recent days discussing possible replacements for kelly in the wake of the rob porter spousal abuse scandal. Multiple sources tell us the president has made no decision to push kelly out, but they say names being floated if he does include chief economic adviser global gary cohn, House Majority leader kevin mccarty, and budget director mick mulvaney. Mulvaneys denie