His decision is stripped of one adversary setting off a war. Jim sciutto is here. We begin with breaking news. A day after the President Trump revoke John Brennans security clearance and ordering the review of many others. Here is their lead tonight. President trump told advisers hes eager to strip more security clearances and against foes who criticized him or played the role of the alleged interference of the 2016 election. Josh is sharing the line and he joins by phone. Josh dawsey. You saw Sarah Sanders yesterday recited a list of who he would put away and it seem that is the president is determined to make that happen. So the list that Sarah Sanders read from the podium or yesterday rather including James Clapper and james comey and the fbi director that trump fired and andrew mechanic caccabe. To your knowledge, the people who are on that list who are next in line or could expand beyond that . Thats our knowledge. Folks inside the white house are trying to analyze each of these c
The reaction generally to the president meeting with putin . I think there is surprise they are going to meet and its so soon, only three weeks away. There is a little bit of hopeful optimism that might break some of the stalemate in syria. It is not getting a lot of attention in the u. S. There is a precarious situation down towards the border with jordan in syria where everything is coming to a head. Assads tporgz are russian and iranian backed. They are coming into where the Opposition Forces are. Israel is potentially going to get involved. Potential this could be a terrible battle in the coming days. Theres a little bit of hopeful optimism that maybe President Trump can speak to Vladimir Putin about the ckopconfliction. Or getting the iranian president to back off a little bit. Maybe seeing exactly whats happening. There have been reports that russia is pulling back in syria. It is three weeks away. Last week i went over to the state department and sat down with secretary pompeo.
Vote. He is set to speak. He is accusing democrats of moving the goalposts. Also this morning, the first lady landing in africa, her first major solo trip abroad. We are with her in ghana. We are set up and ready to go this morning. We are going to start with with new details about the fbis reopened background check on Brett Kavanaugh. We know four people have been interviewed so far, at least. Two High School Friends of kavanaughs, including mark judge. A friend of Christine Blasey ford and the second woman who accused kavanaugh of misconduct, deborah ramirez. The post says the fbi will not conduct and unfettered review of his youthful drinking or examine statements he made about Alcohol Consumption during a hearing to see if those answers are accurate or misleading. Thats according to to folks familiar with the matter. Lets go to garrett. Mitch mcconnell seems to be digging in saying there will be a vote this week. He is about to talk on the senate floor. You just spoke to senator mu
World. Well, a panel of experts thats the hardball producers picked the winners and the results were tabulated by the accounting firm. No one else knows the results. To help discuss the nominees i want to bring in my panel for the hour. Samstein, jennifer ruben, Jason Johnson and david millbank, Political Columnist also with the washington post. The category is best diversion in regards to the mueller investigation. When news broke about the russian investigation, these nominees did their best to change topics. The first nominee is the president himself who when it comes to the original crime of hacking, doesnt even believe it happened. All i can do is ask the question. My people came to me, dancoats came to me and some others. They said they think its russia. I have president putin. He just said its not russia. I will say this. I dont see any reason why it would be. The next nominee is the president s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani who made this mindbending comment about the nature of truth. W
Taking information from russians. Theres nothing wrong with it . Depends on where it came from. It is okay for political campaigns to work with material stolen by foreign adversaries . Depends on the stolen material. Depends on where it came from . Russia. Capitolism in crisis. Members of the ultra wealthy are now, now beginning to question the sustainability of the system that made them billions. Will that concern go from the board room to the white house . We begin with new developments and a new education plogs this morning following the deadly Easter Sunday attacks on the island nation of sri lanka. A domestic militant group is to blame for the blasts sunday that killed at least 290 people and injured over 500 others. The wave of near silence as the explosions targeted three churches and three luxury hotels. Secretary of state, mike pompeo saying several killed were, in fact, americans. Authorities arrested at least 24 suspects. Lets go live to sri lanka and janis. First to the new