Highly credentialed critics, all former officials in law enforcement, National Security, or the Intelligence Community. Now he wants to punish them for speaking out by stripping them of their security clearances. It began with republican senator rand paul lobbying the president to do it of john brennan, who has become a vocal critic of the president. So rand paul may have started the idea, but by the time todays White House Press briefing was over, james clapper, former fbi director james comey, susan rice, former deputy fbi director andrew mccabe, and former cia National Security agency michael hayden. Comey and mccabe no longer have clearances, but that small, important detail didnt stop the white house from attacking them. In any case, here is what the white house said about it at all. When you have the highest level of security clearance, when youre the person that holds the nations deepest, most sacred secrets at your hands, and you go out and you make false accusations against th
National emergency claim at the southern border. Nielsen is expected to cite a surge in illegal border crossings in february to argue that the system is, in her words, severely strained. Also on capitol hill this hour and probably for several more hours to come, Michael Cohen, the president s former lawyer and former Trump Organization executive was initially supposed to start his prison term today. Instead hes rejsuming his closeddoor testimony. The president personally gave his daughter ivanka a security clearance over the objection of white house screeners and the white House Counsel and the white house chief of staff. Jared kushner got the same preferential treatment from this president. We begin this hour with Michael Cohens return to the witness chair. Manu raju is on the other side of the hearing room door. Were hearing that cohen might make a Public Statement after this closed session testimony. Reporter yeah. I actually asked him going into this hearing whether or not they bro
Condemning antisemitism. This is the source of quite a controversy within the Democratic Party. Absolutely and delayed and delayed. Leading up to the vote sources tell cnn a messy debate was happening about how to handle and address the repeated controversial comments. So there is that. And also questions about whether what else to include in this resolution. Absolutely. And some of the attacks made against her in the wake of all of this. Its a big deal. Well get to it in a moment. Michael cohen has finished his many days, four full days of testimony before multiple senate and house committees. This morning the president s former lawyer is facing some serious new questions about this statement that he made under oath last week. I have never asked for nor would i accept a pardon from President Trump. Now, cohens own lawyer is saying that cohen told his former lawyer to quote explore possibilities of pardon at one point with trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani as well as other lawyers advising Pr
original sin, obtained, say the president and others, under false pretenses which tainted everything else. now, that was a view trumpeted by congressman devin nunes, and it s an easy case to make, when hard facts are in short supply. he made it loudly on fox news and in committee statements, echoed by the president and members of the gop. not here, though. he won t come on the program, even though we invite him on a regular basis. over the weekend we got hard facts. the 412 pages supporting documents for warrants against carter page, and keeping them honest, they re not kind of congressman nunes claims, as to his claim that fbi was biased in seeking to monitor page, the documents give a very good reason. according to the filing, the fbi had evidence that page was, quote, the subject of targeted recruitment by the russian government, and four republican appointed judges agreed. republican-appointed judges. the documents also undermine nunes claims that the steele dossier was why the g
the things we do every single day that puts ourselves in harm s way, and to have a partner that is so skilled at what they do is indispensable, and i couldn t ask for a better partner. for a guy who claims to have had nothing to do with russia, carter page has played at least one major role. he has been in many ways the first so-called victim in trump s deemology of the russia probe. in the president s few, the surveillance warrants targeting him, carter page, were kind of original sin, obtained said the president, under false pretenses which tainted everything else. that was a view trumpeted by devin nunes, chairman of the house intelligence committee and it s an easy charge to make when facts are in short supply. he made it in committee