Begins now. As we start a new week, good evening once again in our headquarters here in new york. Day 109 of the trump administration. This afternoon we were live on air with what turned out to be a dramatic day in the u. S. Senate. At the center of it, a 27 year veteran attorney general named sally yates. A 27year Public Servant promoted along the way by republicans and democrats alike. Sally yates was the acting attorney general, running the Justice Department in transition, waiting for Jeff Sessions in effect to be approved as the new attorney general back in january. But there came a day during just the second week of the Trump Presidency when she called the white house and asked the president s lawyer if they could meet. She said she had something important to tell him. Now we know it was about president Trumps National security adviser at the time, retired general Michael Flynn. Sally yates told the president s lawyer that mike flynn was potentially vulnerable to blackmail and ha
Was hired anyway. And why is the family of Jared Kushner apologizing after his sister tried to win over a business deal in china. Over in th name of kushner. The 11th hour begins now. As we start a new week, good evening from our headquarters here in new york. Day 109 of the trump administration. This afternoon we were live on air with what turned out to be a dramatic day in the u. S. Senate. At the center of it, a 27 year veteran attorney general named sally yates. She was the acting attorney general running the Justice Department in transition waiting for Jeff Sessions in effect to be approved as the you in attorney general back in january. But there came a day during just the second week of the Trump Presidency when she called the white house and asked the president s lawyer if they could meet. She said she had something important to tell him. Now we know it was about president Trumps National security adviser at the time, retired general Michael Flynn. Sally yates told the presiden
General running the Justice Department in transition waiting for Jeff Sessions in effect to be approved as the you in attorney general back in january. But there came a day during just the second week of the Trump Presidency when she called the white house and asked the president s lawyer if they could meet. She said she had something important to tell him. Now we know it was about president Trumps National security adviser at the time, retired general Michael Flynn. Sally yates told the president s lawyer that mike flynn was potentially vulnerable to blackmail and had been compromised by the russians. We began our meeting telling him that there had been press accounts of statements from the Vice President and others that related conduct that mr. Flynn had been involved in that we not to be the truth. The first thing we did was to explain to mr. Mcgann that the underlying conduct was problemate it in and of itself. Secondly, we told him we felt like the Vice President and others were e
Bill still have a chance of passing . We already made that choice. Were with trump. There you have it, paul ryan, changing his tune, despite some very tough talk during the campaign. We cant continue to allow china to rape our country and thats what theyre doing. Mm, President Trump singing a very different song when facetoface with chinese leadership. Maybe theyre not currency manipulators. I dont give china. I give china great credit. Mm, unfake news fallout, the Trump Administration holding up a potential multibillion dollar merger reportedly for one reason, ready for it, cnn. A deal we will not approve in my administration because its too much concentration of power. Thats a wow. We begin today with a tale of two republican tax bills. House and Senate Lawmakers on the verge of unveiling plans that will affect the Bank Accounts of every Single Person in this country. That said, republicans, theyre running out of time to get this thing right and they simply cannot afford to let thing
Believes her office could have proven that Jussie Smollett was guilty. Based on the facts and the evidence presented in the charging decision made by this office. They could prove him guilty. Cnn is following the new developments. It is confusing for me and has to be for folks at home. Everybody involved say they believe hes guilty yet the charges were dropped. Right. Thats the big story here. Everybody seems unsatisfied with the way this ended. You are seeing everyone take out frustrations publicly. The only thing that didnt happen publicly is why the charges were dropped. That happened in secret. We were told about the emergency hearing on tuesday. We all rushed down to court and then Jussie Smollett gave that statement which didnt seem to satisfy many people in the public in terms of how we arrived to the situation. First of all, a lot of this developed during your hour of the show. Lets go back to january when we found out according to a Police Report that Jussie Smollett said he w