Most recently, a woman who says moore grabbed him and put his hands on her body without her consent. People in alabama who support roy moore dont appear to be swayed in large numbers by these accusations, they blame the media and Establishment Republicans for spreading lies. Lets go to the white house now and correspondent boris sanchez. Boris, President Trump called out a sitting democratic senator by name of a shauchexual harass charges came out about him, al franken, but hes handled this roy moore question differently, even ignoring it. How do white house insiders explain the silence . Reporter well, a republican source to the white house told cnn earlier this week that the president was apprehensive about getting involved in a conversation regarding the insexual contact accusations levied against roy moore, in part because of his own allegations and controversies in the past. The president specifically did not want to get dragged into a conversation about his own being a could you
Bringing back memories. Its chilly. The theme for tonights address is building a safe, strong, proud america. President trump will attempt to open an engagement across the aisle democrats. Upbeat and uplifting is how white house officials are describing President Trumps first state of the union address. After a year of rancorous partisan bickering and polarizing legislation, President Trump will reach across the aisle. And a lunch with tv anchors, the president saying i want to see our country united. It was divided not just under president obama or in president bush. I remember the impeachment of bill clinton. Tremendous divisiveness, not just over the past year. The press secretary says tonights speech will be a personal appeal. This is his stage and its time to talk directly to the American People, and i think youre going to see a lot of the president himself come through in his words at the state of the union. Where are we with the themes . Jobs and the economy, latest jobless rate
Viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Im George Howell. And im rosemary church. This is cnn newsroom. And we start with anger turning into action in the u. S. State of florida. A Deadly School shooting killed 17 people there last wednesday. Well, now many of the survivors say they will march on washington to demand tougher gun laws. Theyre calling it the march for our lives and want students to descend on the capitol on march 24th. Survivors and reporters held this rally saturday to condemn lawmakers beholden to the gun industry. In the meantime, the u. S. President has been in the u. S. State of florida. He took time there to meet with a couple of survivors of the shooting. The white house says the president plans to discuss Campus Safety with students and teachers this week, but that may be overshadowed by a tweet that he made about the shooting on saturday. A tweet linking the shooting to the russia investigation. It has sparked outrage. Our Boris Sanchez repor
So obviously he is moving forward to try and strike this deal. If you are Paul Manafort, codefendant in this criminal case, obviously this is worrisome news for you that your former Business Partner is willing to testify against you. It also puts additional pressure on manafort to cooperate with the special counsel in his probe. We dont have a great idea on where that probe is going to be going. Getting gates cooperation could be a Building Block for robert mueller. Either to bring charges against donald trump or another trump associate. The white house has down plays any potential plea deal saying we think this has to do with their own finances, their own business, nothing to do with the campaign or transition. Yet, gates was with the trump team longer than maa fort. What his his role exactly . Even after Paul Manafort was ousted from the campaign, rick gates managed to skik around and after the campaign ended he remained in President Trumps orbit. He worked on the inaugural committee
It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. A Gale Force Storm each ven by president s standards. Special Counsel Robert Mueller on friday indicted 13 russians for meddling in the 2016 u. S. Election. The indictments focused on social influence from moscow, not collusion or obstruction. The president tweeted the indictment proved no collusion. The president avoided the golf course this weekend at maralago as a sign of respect after the Florida School shooting. He watched tv and got riled up by eric and donald junior who urged him to take a harder line on the fbi. He did. As you can see, the president quoted the Deputy Attorney general culla general and all in an effort to downplay collusion. And tried to talk about the russia investigation as a hoax. The president finished up with this, quote, if it was the goal of russia to create chaos within the u. S. , then with the Committee Hearings and party hatred, they have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. They are laughing their asses off. As you can