Everybody talks, everybody talks. Pete Griff Jenkins, i hope have you enough to say for four hours. Griff i want to talk about the knee on trees. This is the first time i have gotten to do this with rachel. Seriously its like my birthday and christmas all wrapped up into one today. Pete its National Chocolate cake day. Maybe we could get you. Rachel is it really National Chocolate cake day . Pete i looked it up. What is today january 27th. National chocolate cake day. Pete. Griff im excited to be here because it has been the most unbelievable news week with the president in davos. The ceos over there giving him ample praise i would say pretty much a heap load of praise. Pete almost universal. Griff as well as i cover politics every day that is the plan the white house has put forward on immigration. Pete have you the Text Messages you are right we are going over immigration as well. So much we can barely keep track of it all. Griff we are going to talk about it. It is certainly one tha
This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. 11 00 p. M. On the east coast live with breaking news. H. R. Mcmaster is out. John bolton is in. President trump replacing the National Security adviser with a former u. N. Ambassador and fox news analyst. White house Officials Say the announcement came with little warning. The president completely surprising them. And mcmasters departure comes on the same day john dowd, the lead lawyer handling President Trumps response to the russia investigation quit. Another day of chaos in the white house. I want to bring in cnns senior White House Correspondent jeff zeleny. He joins us by phone. Thank you so much. Why was the time line for mcmasters firing . Why was it moved up . Reporter well, don there was no question there was a sense inside the white house all day long that the president was not pleased with the storyline that was going on. A, with the firing or the resignation if you will of john dowd but also the extraneous talk about other people who he h
Announcement came with little warning. The president completely surprising them. And mcmasters departure comes on the same day john doud, the lead lawyer handling President Trumps response to the russia investigation quit. Another day of chaos in the white house. I want to bring in cnns senior White House Correspondent jeff zeleny. He joins us by phone. Thank you so much. Why was the time line for mcmasters firing . Why was it moved up. Well, don there was no question there was a sense inside the white house all day long that the president was not pleased with the story line that was going on. A, with the firing or the resignation if you will of john dowd but also the extraneous talk about other people who he has been involved with, other the Stormy Daniels and other situations. So he was clearly trying to white house officials move up the time line of this. Now, i was told by two white house officials tonight that they were not expecting the news of the new National Security adviser t
Washington. And today President Trumps trip. Before he stops at helsinki for illadvised meeting with putin. Cozying up with an adversary. Trump said dealing with nato and the United Kingdom represent bigger challenges for him. Lets watch. Nato has not treated us fairly but i think we will work something out. We pay far too much and they pay far too little. I have nato, i have the uk which is in somewhat turmoil and i have putin and frankly, he may be the easier of them all. Trump declined, even calling putin a foe or even an adversary. As far as i am concerned, a competitor. Getting along with russia, with china is a good thing, not a bad thing. I have said that many times for many years. Kind of like the world cup. Revealing more about trumps private call to putin last march. When putin complained to the president that u. S. Officials had quote trying to prevent the call from happening, trump referred to those members of his own administration as, get this, stupid people. Talking to p
Will that be a winning message with democratic voters or the progressives this time with massive structural changes to the u. S. . Tonight, we mentioned come up planned parenthood a whistleblower and clinic director speaking out after awarded 3 million from the countrys largest abortion provider. Coming up we will tell you why it is in her favor. Welcome to fox news a fox fox news night, breaking news correspondent trace gallagher, new developments on everything from the economy to gun rights, good evening, trace. Good evening shannon. There is no dispute he spoke with the National Rifle association and the white house confirmed as did lapierre i spoke to the president today and we discussed the best way to prevent these types of tragedies meaning el paso, dayton, ohio, and gilroy, california. The chief White House Correspondent john roberts and an article in the atlantic both reported the president told the nra that universal background checks are off at the table. Again, no dispute.