Of 360 in a big, mostly bad consequencetial news day for the white house. Weve seen the republican memo alleging abuses in the russia investigation, but tonight the president decided we will not see the democratic rebuttal. Also tonight what has all the appearances of a white house coverup. Spousal abuse allegations against a top staffer, allegations some had known about for months. And Vice President pences strange olympic moments, just steps away from kim jonguns sister. We begin with the president s memo decision. Jim acosta has the latest. Reporter youre not going to see this memo. Thats the latest. The white house has decided, the president has decided hes not going to declassify the schiff memo that was going to rebut the devin nunes memo last week that was essentially released and declassified by the white house with very little redactions or accommodations made to the Intelligence Community despite the objections coming from the fbi. A very different process appears to have unf
Good morning, everyone, im alex witt at msnbc World Headquarters in new york. 9 00 a. M. And heres whats happening. Not so fast President Trump blocks the democrat memo on russia. The one respond together gop memo, released last week. The reason behind the decision, next. He says hes innocent. And i think you have to remember that. He said very strongly yesterday, that hes innocent. The president s take on one of his top aides resigning over Domestic Abuse allegations. But now theres another resignation from the white house. New details this morning. The fate of hope hicks, new information on where the latest west wing turmoil leaves the longtime trump loyalist. Plus i tried to be that person and then all of the people around him attacked me. From white house to big brother house, omarosa in hushed tones spinning tales from the west wing. Is it selfpromotion or truth, or both . Reaction ahead. And this reaction from capitol hill, President Trumps refusal to authorize release of the dem
She was next to oversee Robert Mueller and she said friday night that she got a walmart job offer that was too good to pass up. Tonight sources telling nbc that russia was also a potential factor and that rachel brand was worried that, quote, rod rosenste rosensteins job would be in danger. If rosenstein left, brand would take over that doj probe. Tonight the doj is disputing this report. Sources also tell nbc brand leaving in part because of other issues. Sources saying brand left because her work as a leader and prosecutor was undercut by the Trump Administrations chronic vacancies. Now thats a point that the Trump Justice Department and the Trump Administration cannot dispute tonight because take a look, over a year into this administration, 30 of the divisions that brand oversaw had no permanent leader. This has also dogged the Trump State Department as well. We reported on that and the Washington Post found no nominees for 230 executive branch positions that require senate confirm
5 00 a. M. Here on the u. S. East coast and were tracking developments in the middle east of a simmering standoff between israel, syria, and iran. The United States says its deeply concerned but israel has the right to defend itself. All of this comes after israel says it launched strike into syria against iranian targets there. The wave of attacks come after an israeli warplane crashed after being hit by syrian antiaircraft fire. It was taking part in a raid inside syria, after an iranian drone entered israeli air space. The Prime Minister of israel Benjamin Netanyahu had this message to say on saturday. Listen. Israel holds iran and its syrian host responsible for todays aggression. We will continue to do whatever is necessary to protect our sovereignty and our security. Were covering this across the region with our correspondents. Cnns Oren Liebermann in jerusalem and our Senior International correspondent ben wedeman live in the lebanese capital of beirut. Oren the responses were h
Shattered by mere allegations. The white house defending trumps comments today. Take a listen. Ive seen that when the president is saying, talking about due process, hes right in this way. We are a country of laws. There is due process. Thats absolutely correct. But we as individuals have a duty to assess every everybody on a casebycase basis. And in this case, you have contemporaneous police reports, you have women speaking to the fbi under the threat of perjury, you have police reports, you have photographs. And when you look at all of that pulled together, you realize that rob porter did the right thing by resigning. It sounds like you believe the women . I have no reason not to believe the women. Theres plenty of people in the last couple of years, chuck, who theres been a rather of Sexual Harassment allegations, including your own network, which you later come back and say, we could have things done better. I think what you saw the president go through this week, i dont know if yo