The leaks. The leaks about all that. First cnns sara murray joins us. New information about when Vice President pence found out about flynn. What are sources telling you . Thats right, anderson. Mike pence was out there publicly saying flynn did not discuss these sanctions with the Russian Ambassador. Turns out even though the president knew for weeks that was not the case, that the department of justice was looking into flynns contacts in the call, mike pence only knew for a couple days he found out on february 9th. This about why the president didnt cut his National Security adviser loose sooner. The evolving and eroding level of trust as a result of this situation and a series of other questionable instances is what led the president to ask for general flynns resignation. Reporter tonight the white house is doing damage control, trying to explain why President Trump didnt fire National Security adviser Michael Flynn until last night. Even though the white house revealed trump has kn
Obtaining the first two pages of mr. Trumps taxes. He paid 38 million in taxes on more than 150 million in income. Giving him a tax rate of 25 . The move comes as theyre battling headlines on the gop bill and wiretapping claims. Prompting him to speculate whether the president himself or one of his staffers sent them anonymo anonymously. Do you think its possible . Donald has a long history of leaking information about himself. Dismissing the tax disclosure. I dont think we learned anything at all interesting tonight. This would be a mistake for democrats to get distracted by. His son suggesting it was a positive development for his father. 12 years ago donald trump made a lot of money and paid a lot in taxes. Scandal. This after President Trump insisted for months he could not release his tax returns because they are still under audit. Theyre under audit. Everyone says you dont release your returns until the audit is complete. When the audit is complete ill do it. Depends on the audit
When he speaks tonight, mr. Trumps words and tone could go a long way toward determining how much of his ambitious agenda gets through congress and how many of his Campaign Promises he can actually keep. Lets check things out with wolf blitzer, whos standing by. Wolf . The president is signaling a dramatic shift on his signature issue of immigration. He personally told me and other news anchors today that he believes the time is right to pass a new comprehensive immigration bill. It could allow millions of undocumented immigrants to stay here in the United States legally. We may hear more details on that in the speech thats coming up. Also the president will renew his call to congress to repeal and replace obamacare, but its not clear if theyll give gop lawmakers the direction they are hoping for as they struggle with details that are complicated. As the president addresses National Security challenges, tonight a senior white house official says mr. Trump now believes that north korea
Departing, White House Communications director, mike dubke. As he left his home, no comment from President Trumps soninlaw, Jared Kushner, to the latest reporting he tried to set up a back Channel Communications with russia during the election. The president himself taking to twitter this morning, declaring, quote, russian officials must be laughing at the u. S. And how lame excuse for why the dems lost the election has taken over the fake news. This as president ial counselor Kellyanne Conway strongly defending kushner this morning. Kushner said from the beginning he is willing to go and share any information that he has with congress, with the fbi, and as you heard general mcmaster, as you heard secretary kelly over this weekend say, theyre not concerned. Back channels like this are the regular course of business. Thats really all we know. I think it is very important to recognize that the president has expressed full confidence in Jared Kushner. Nbc News White House correspondent Kr
In part, thats the Communications Directors job and the political directors job and the chief of staffs job. Six months in, what do we hear constantly . Everybody is refitting themselves, retasking, panicking inside the white house because the president s mad at them. If you conduct an administration where your priority is every day to make sure the president still likes you, youre not going to get to the business of health care. You think health cares complicated for republicans . Watch tax reform. Every second were having this conversation, were closer to 2018. If the president s had a hard time getting anything big done in the first year in office, try getting it done in a Midterm Election year. Is Anthony Scaramucci going to be the next person the president gets mad at is the big question. I think its important to underscore something that you just said, that this is completely like nothing we have ever seen before and anita is right that Anthony Scaramucci has none of the experien