Good morning, and welcome to americas newsroom. I am bill hemmer. Sandra i am we are going to do strong background checks. We are going to get the age up from 18 to 21. We have to harden our schools not soften them up. A gun free zone to a killer or somebody who wants to be a killer, thats like going in for the ice cream. Thats like here i am, take me. We have to get smarter on gun free zones. Sandra john roberts is live for us on the white house lawn this morning. Good morning to you. We have breaking news. An hour from now, the president speaks to cpac down there, just south of washington, d. C. He will announce a new package of sanctions on north korea. This has been described by white house officials as a massive package of sanctions. The biggest yet. And thats will follow the speech, adding a greater level of detail to this new package of sanctions that will be against the pyongyang regime. The president will be talking tough about north korea. It was the Vice President who was ta
A propaganda stunt. Also coming up congo deploys an experimental vaccine to stop the countrys latest a bowl outbreak now threatening to spread in a city of one million and drugs mostly tested only on animals could also be on the way plus trade tensions escalate the u. S. Is expected to apply higher tariffs to steel and aluminum from the e. U. After last minute talks fail in paris europe says it will retaliate and a love of soccer is bringing migrants together in russia with the world cup theyre just two weeks away. Is a cleaner by day and a footballer by night we will find out how Foreign Workers are using the game to try and integrate. Im sorry kelly welcome to the Program Great to have you with us. We begin with a tale of murky political intrigue with a stunning twist at the end heres what happened on tuesday a prominent empty kremlin journalist arkadi bob chain go was reported to have been shot dead and ukrainian capital kiev authorities there they blame moscow but go turned up aliv
Political capital, in his words, everyone dies. Adding he does not regret taking the job. In many ways id rather be back to my old life, but i think that i love the department of justice, i love the fbi, i think its important that he would not, in this period of intense partisan feeling, destroy our institutions. I think one of the ironies today is that people are saying that its President Trump that is shredding our institutions. I really see no evidence of that. From my perspective, the idea of resisting a democratically elected president , and basically throwing everything at him, and you know, really changing the norms on the grounds that we have to stop this president , thats where the shredding of our normts and our institutions is occurring. Really . Stop and think about what he said for a second. And how appropriate it is that the man who decided unilaterally what Robert Mueller would not, that there wasnt enough evidence to say that the president had committed a crime, also se
Democrats attempt at oversight, the white house today instructed its former counsel don mcgahn to defy a subpoena from the House Judiciary Committee now run by democrats. Mcgahn currently a private citizen and perhaps the most important witness in special counsel Robert Muellers potential obstruction of justice case against President Trump. Mcgahn declined today at the instruction of acting white house chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to provide documents subpoenaed by the house. Documents that could back up mcgahns version of events as detailed in the Mueller Report, including what mcgahn perceived to be instructions by President Trump to fire special Counsel Robert Mueller himself, a charge President Trump denies. This move now part of a white house that is refusing, as a strategy, to comply with almost any democratic investigations of the president , from the justice departments refusal to hand over the full unredacted Mueller Report and supporting documents to attorney general barrs re
Well. Im Natalie Allen in atlanta and this is cnn newsroom. President trump is coming under fire for his extreme immigration policies. On friday mr. Trump said he is seriously considering sending crowds of detained migrants to u. S. Sanctuary cities as a way to spite his political rivals for not supporting his border wall. Sanctuary cities have policies or are laws limiting the kind of assistance local Law Enforcement will give the u. S. Federal government on immigration. Usually that means that they will protect undoumcumented immigrants. Critics accuse him of using human beings as political pawns. We get more from Kaitlan Collins at the white house. We can give them an up limit supplied. Reporter president is touting a proposal to place undocumented migrants in sanctuary cities to retaliate against democrats. Shattering his own administrations dems of the policy. So well give them to the sanctuary cities maybe to take care of if thats the way they want it. Trump making the threat in