U. S. Officials said Vladmir Putin personally directed the hacking plans to impact the u. S. Election. Now tonight we can report virtually every political reader leader who responded to the story has criticized russia because, obviously, an attack on u. S. Democracy is bigger than any political party. Well, every leader except donald trump. He may be the only person in the u. S. Government who ordered a bad headline about putin and responded by attacking president obama. Well show you the tweet. If russia or some other entity was hacking, why did the white house wait so long to act. Why did they only complain after hillary lost . He tweeted. Now we want to be fair. Two Anonymous Sources in washington doesnt make an entire allegation automatically true. And some are disputing parts of this story. Russian government officials call it ridiculous. And, quote, laughable nonsense. U. S. Officials say, however, that the outlies of this entire plot are not exactly new. Homeland security pointi
Opened this investigation into flynn this month. We are also learning about newly declassified documents that the dia warned general flynn not to take payments from foreign governments three years ago. These revelations coming from the top democrat on the House Oversight committee. The Ranking Member here, elijah coup cummings lashed out. The white house a absolutely refused to produce even a single document, not a single document in response to the bipartisan document requests that i said we needed. Not one syllable. I watched sean spicer make all kinds of excuses about how hard it would be to comply with our requests. Come on, man. Obviously you do not understand why the white house is covering up for Michael Flynn. I dont get it. After the president fired him for lying. So the president fired him for lying about his communications with the Russian Ambassador and should be bending over backwards to help us. It does not make any sense and makes the American People think the white hous
Coast. The rhetoric has ramped up to the point where one u. S. Senator said, quote, were heading for war if things dont change. We begin right now with Cnns Jim Acosta at the white house. First of all, lets talk about the how the president responded to news of this launch. Anderson, he was much tougher on democrats today than he was on kim jongun. There was no talk of fire and fury. No talk of little rocket man earlier today, but the president dill tell reporters who were gathered here at the white house earlier today that hes on top of the situation in north korea. Heres what he had to say. As you probably have heard and some of you have reported, a missile was launched a little while ago from north korea. I will only tell you that we will take care of it. We have general mattis in the room with us. And we have had a long discussion on it. It is a situation that we will handle. Now, the white house says as of this evening, the president has spoken with the leaders of japan and south k
A banner today day. Not just one but two big announcements today in the tie that binds their party, the economy. So in just a couple of moments there in the rose garden president will nominate the new Federal Reserve chair. Two senior Officials Say Jerome Powell will replace janet yellen and lead the central bank. So yellen term is ending. Another Big Development is tax plan which they call the largest set of reforms since 1986. You see House Speaker there sitting to the president s right paul ryan. Actually before he was there, he spoke with our Phil Mattingly saying that the tax cuts and jobs act will ultimately help bring down the national debt. You cant fix your fiscal problems if you dont have a growing economy. If people arent going to work and paying taxes. Thats why a key part of our agenda is getting this economy growing faster and giving people peace of mind and bigger paychecks, thats good for everybody. But on its face does debt matter to americans . Yeah, and in order to g
Said, quote, were heading for war if things dont change. We begin right now with Cnns Jim Acosta at the white house. First, lets talk about how the president responded to the news of this launch. Anderson, he was much tougher on democrats today than he was on jim jongun. No talk of fire and fury. No talk of little rocket man earlier today, but the president dill tell reporters who were gathered here at the white house earlier today that hes on top of the situation in north korea. Heres what he had to say. As you probably have heard and some of you have reported, a missile was launched a little while ago from north korea. I will only tell you that we will take care of it. We have general mattis in the room with us. And we have had a long discussion on it. It is a situation that we will handle. Now, the white house says as of this evening, the president has spoken with the leaders of japan and south korea, but anderson, absent from the president s comments from today was really any of th