How does that change the story if at all . Well sort through it together. Hope you had an awesome weekend. Welcome to americas newsroom. I know you did. Shannon its good to see you. Im shannon bream. The white house pushing back hard against kushner. President trump firing off this tweet this morning. Russian officials must be laughing at the u. S. And how a lame excuse for why the dems lost the election has taken over the fake news. Meantime Kellyanne Conway saying kushner has nothing to hide. Back channels are the regular course of business and thats really all that we know. I think its very important to recognize that the president has expressed full confidence in Jared Kushner and also went on to note the considerable progress and very large important portfolio that jared will receive at the white house. Shannon a top member of the White House Communications team has officially resigned. Kevin corke is live at the white house this morning. Tell us about who is leaving. When you thi
Including mr. Trumps own director of National Intelligence and the daughter of his ambassador to russia. And russian agent caught . A russian gun rights activist with links to the National Rifle association is charged with being a spy for moscow and infiltrating groups with influence on american politics. Im wolf blitzer in helsinki. Youre in the situation room. Were following breaking news. Truly astounding remarks by President Trump following his one on one meeting with the russian president Vladimir Putin. Standing on foreign soil, here in helsinki, with putin at his side, the president refused to accept the u. S. Intelligence communitys assessment that russia attacked the 2016 president ial election. Instead, he said that putin was, quote, extremely strong and powerful in his denial of election interference and tonight the unprecedented scene that unfolded here today is sending shock waves around the globe. Well talk about all of that. The breaking nulls with senator rand paul of t
Leave it as shole countries. Dick durbin said the president did make those remarks. To no surprise, the president started tweeting denying he used those words. It is not true. He said these hateful things and he said them repeatedly. He said haitians, do we need more haitians . Then he went on and started to describe the immigration from africa being protected in this bipartisan nature. Thats when he used the vile and vulgar words calling the nations shitholes. He said the language used by me was tough, but this was not the language used. What was really tough was the outlandish proposal made a big set back for daca. Jim accost a the president also denying hederogatory comments about haitians. The white house didnt deny the remarks. Thats where we are at this point. We have the conflicting comments the president in his press office with the group of lawmakers. We have should point out that senator tom cotton and david purdue put out a joint statement saying they do not recall, thats th
Government, with someone else having real power, subpoena power, tax and legislative power, all of it. Its going to be a challenge for donald trump because nancy pelosi has been to this rodeo before. She was speaker before and highly effective. She knows what shes doing. So that mono e mono will be one of the most fascinating lines. Well be watching it. Meanwhile i wish you a restful and happy new year. Now as mentioned i am ari melber in for Lawrence Odonnell tonight. This is the last live show of 2018, so perhaps it is fitting that a year that brought donald trump the largest midterm rebuke in decades is now a tight of the year that ends effectively with trump aides beginning to cave to what we just discussed, the Incoming Democratic congress which of course hasnt even technically taken power yet. Im about to show you what that caving may look like. Let me clear, were thought reporting tonight the shutdown is anywhere near over. Its not. Were not reporting a break through. Were not s
Kremlin is echoing Donald Trumps talking points saying this is all fake news, this is something that never happened, why does this witch hunt continue, et cetera, et cetera and the president is going into the meeting on monday wondering why the fbi didnt look at the dnc server more, not blaming president obama for the hacks that occurred during the election instead of blaming the president of russia himself, so we see hes walking into this meeting already prepared, essentially, to make concessions, whether that is potentially allowing the russians to take crimea, recognize crimea as russia, or cede syria to russia, making that their spear of influence in exchange for kicking iran out of the country. So theres a lot here and Senate Democrats have every right to be concerned that the president is going to go into this with a former kgb agent whos well prepared, knows exactly what he wants, and the president has already expressed his weariness over the conclusions of our Intelligence Comm