Unveil a new framework to address Border Security and fix daca. And later, the president blocks House Democrats Intelligence Committee memo. Congressman Gerald Madler on whats in it and if it will ever come out. Plus dnc chief tom perez comes back to see if they can take back power in congress or if theyll watch the wave go by. Well talk about whether the fiscal hawk is an endangered species in the age of trump. But first, monday begins the white houses second attempt at infrastructure week and the second time that no one cares. Instead, everyone is focused on what will happen with two of the president s closest advisors. John kelly, venerated before he became chief of staff, is now said to have floated his resignation. Hope hicks sometimes seen as another trump daughter is said to have irritated the president. And now it is back to the old ways of the trump white house. Leaks from top meetings and reports of jockeying for position as top officials fall from favor with the president. S
Hightech weapon. Is he trying to put pressure on President Trump . We want to welcome our viewers from the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn braeaking news. Cnn has learned about a meeting between President Trump and his lawyers to try to wrap up the process of answering Robert Muellers questions about possible collusion with russia. The president claim hes been writing those responses by himself and that been easy, even though hes been holed up with his legal team now for days and days. The president down play iing th gravity of the moment and denying hi obvious anger as mueller and his team move deeper and deeper into their end game. This hour, ill talk to senator richard blumenthal. Hes a top democrat and our correspondents and analysts are standing by. First, to jeff. The president has spent a good chunk of this week working on those answers for mueller. If he has, the president has spent nearly every day here at the white
And reining in aoc. How to get the novice to play ball. We start with a new report on President Trump. The New York Times reporting that after the president fired james comey in 2017, the fbi began investigating whether trump as a sitting president , was working wittingly or unwittingly with russian interests against americas interests. Now the times reports there was an fbi counterintelligence inquiry. Officials were considering if the president s actions constituted a possible threat to National Security. Now the investigation was triggered by the president s own actions and words, including during this nbc news interview. The president appeared to say he fired comey because of the russia investigation. Regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. Knowing there was no good time to do it. In fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, theis russia thing wih trump and russia is a made up story. The white house is stating the report is absurd and
Thank you, again, for joining us. In the past few days if its any indicator the next two years of divided government in washington will be a doozy. Consider this, the acting attorney general in what some would call a contentious hearing and what some others would call a partisan circus, and thats just the beginning of the hearings and investigations on the horizon. Then theres the new focus on climate change, for example, the Green New Deal unveiled by a veteran lawmaker from massachusetts and a young congresswoman from new york whom the right has in their cross hairs. As to that the already long line of democrats taking on the president in the 2020 campaign. And lest we forget immigration. President trump holds a rally in el paso, texas, monday to make his case yet again for a border wall. And the clock is ticking, again, toward yet another government shutdown. That is because President Trump and lawmakers have a friday deadline to make a deal about Border Security. Mr. Trump still wa
Natalie allen. Im George Howell from cnns world headquarters. Newsroom starts now. 4 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast. A new report raises new questions about the u. S. President and his russian counterpart Vladimir Putin zeroing in on the private conversations the two men had, a lot of what has been said remains between the two of them. The latest reporting comes from the Washington Post which says mr. Trump went to extraordinary lengths to conceal the details of his meetings with mr. Putin. That included on at least one occasion confiscating the notes from his interpreter and not allowing the interpreter to discuss the meetings with anyone else in the administration. The u. S. President calls the allegations ridiculous and adds he has not kept anything under wraps. The u. S. President attacked the familiar foe the New York Times. On friday, the paper published an article alleging the fbi was so concerned about President Trumps actions following the firing of former fbi director james