Is twitter his refuge . As his mood grows more sour. We want to welcome you in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Breaking news tonight. The white house is refusing to confirm or deny reports that Jared Kushner tried to establish a secret line of communication with the russians during the transition. Press Secretary Sean Spicer briefing reporters for the first time in two weeks. Since we learned that president s soninlaw and Senior Adviser is under fbi scrutiny, among other things. The fbi is looking into kushners meeting with a russian banker who has ties to Vladimir Putin. Investigators are interested in the different explanations given by the bank and kushner camp about the purpose of the meeting. This as more people are ensnared in the russia probe. The president s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, tells cnn he has been asked to testify and provide information to congress. Cohen says he wont cooperate bec
Loot into russias meddling in the election, not as a suspect but source of information. Investigators focus on meetings with sergey kislyak, as well as a meeting with a russian bank subject to u. S. Sanctions. Kushners attorneys tells nbc news, of course, mr. Kushner volunteered to share with congress what he knows about these meetings. He will do the same if hes convicted in connection with any other inquiry. Meanwhile reuters reported on friday that kushner had multiple undisclosed contacts with kislyak between april and november of last year and that fbi investigators are, quote, examining whether russians subjected to kushner or other trump aides that relaxing economic sanctions would allow russian banks to offer financing to peopl with ties to trump. Kushners attorney said kushner has no recollection of these meetings. Joining me now nayyera haq, mr. Nantz, former cia agent jack rice and former fbi double agent. Wow, wow, and wow. Im going to start with you, nayyera, how normal or
Every american who watches this is going to ask the question, who can i trust . As a former fbi agent and chairman of the house intelligence committee, i had oversight of all 16 of our nations intelligence agencies. My name is mike rogers. I had access to classified information gathered by our operators, people who risked everything for the United States and our families. You dont know their faces or their names. You dont know the real stories from the people who lived the fear and the pressure until now. 1960. Thats the year our technical experts thought russia would finally be able to develop a bomb. 1949 is when they had their bomb. Credit russian espionage agents. Agents and national traitors. Spying is something thats been with us throughout history. Its been particularly true with the russians, going back to the soviet union and the cold war. They had their spies, we had our spies. They werent the superpower confrontation that the soviet union was all about. But they represent a
Hours later, a Republican Health care plan collapsed. A pair of republican senators pulled their support killing the republican plan to repeal and replace obamacare. Now the republicans are just talking about repeal. Good morning, welcome to morning joe. We have columnist mike barnicle, economic analyst steve rattner, senior political analyst for nbc news, Mark Halperin and from the associated press, julie pace. The president said youre going to have such Great Health Care at a tiny fraction of the cost and its going to be so easy. That was october of 2016, joe. And Mark Halperin has said all along the greatest risk to donald trump, the greatest risk to the republican majority may not be the russian scandals, it may not be the indiscriminate tweeting, the unpresident ial behavior, it may not be the question of checks and balances and throwing aside every sacred tradition of the United States government over the past 240 years, it may be the inability to get things done because Donald T
Every american who watches this is going to ask the question, who can i trust . As a former fbi agent and chairman of the house intelligence committee, i had oversight of all 16 of our nations intelligence agencies. My name is mike rogers. I had access to classified information gathered by our operatives, people who risked everything for the United States and our families. You dont know their faces or their names. You dont know the real stories from the people who lived the fear and the pressure until now. 1960. Thats the year our technical experts thought russia would finally be able to develop a bomb. 1949 is when they had their bomb. Credit russian espionage agents. Aided by national traitors. Spying is something thats been with us throughout history. Its been particularly true with the russians, going back to the soviet union and the cold war. They had their spies, we had our spies. And the reality is that russia remains an adversary of the United States. They arent the superpower