Or state. If they have sanctuary cities, we may have to do that. Reporter in a scathing statement, the white house calls judge william an egregious overreach and straarkly accusin officials in sanctuary cities with the blood of dead americans on their hands. Cannot take away our rights or steal our tax dollars. Reporter hours earlier, chief of staff Reince Priebus asserted the ninth circuit is going bananas. A far cry from the subdued response. This is not the first time President Trump has personally attacked a federal judge. Somebody said i should not criticize judges. Okay. Reporter earlier this year, he criticized federal judge james robart. During the campaign, then candidate trump, called judge cruiel unable to deal with the Trump University claim because he was mexican. He was born in indiana. He is a hostile judge to me. He is of mexican heritage. Im building a wall. Reporter this comes as the buy pa Bipartisan Committee reports that Michael Flynn may have broken the law by not
Nowhere. I think there is plenty of blame. What happened is washington won. The house moved too fast. 18 days is not enough time for major legislation. Reporter President Trump shifting the blame from democrats to the conservative whos who stood in the way of the bill. As the chief of staff, Reince Priebus is leaving the door open to bipartisan compromise. If democrats come on board with a plan, we will welcome that. They have to reach across the aisle and democrats say we will work with you to improve and fix the plan for people. Reporter a long time member of the house caucus ted poe is resigning. Poe writing in a statement saying no is easy. Leading is hard. House Speaker Paul Ryan under scrutiny in the wake of the defeat. President trump tweeting to watch a fox program which began like this. Paul ryan needs to step down as speaker of the house. Reporter the white house is insisting donald trump didnt know the host would make the comments and the commander in chief is sdatanding by
A dangerous new twist to an already combustible situation. New flight data reveals that the north Korean Missile fired off on friday flew within miles of at the flight path of an air france passenger jet. Flight 29 3 was seven minutes away from where is splashed down. Sounded alarm the forcing japan to sound warnings. Officials running that the missile tests which often take place with no notice could pose a serious risk to commercial airliners. What else are we hearing about this. Reporter well, it looks like this air France Flight was about 50 to 60 or so miles away when the missile splashed down. In aviation terms we are told that is not a near miss but it is a concern. And the reason is because north koreans, as they continue their very aggressive missile testing program, theyre firing into areas where it is very heavily trafficked with both commercial air traffic and commercial shipping. Off the coast the japan, that is a very busy, area. When the north koreans, as you just pointe
Fallout from President Trumps freeze on military aid to ukraine. The Washington Post was first to report this story and it found an extensive effort to justify the president s move after the fact, as well as a debate about whether it was even legal. Documents from the white house revealed include emails from acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to white house budget officials in early august asking why the president was blocking aid already approved by congress. Joining me is cnn political analyst josh dozy. A lead reporter on the team that broke this story. Let me read you one line from your reporting on here about the white house trying to retroactively create justification for the halting of u. S. Military aid to ukraine. Quote, one person briefed on the records examination said white house lawyers are expressing concern that the review has turned up some unflattering exchanges and facts that could at a minimum embarrass the president. Its unclear whether the mulvaney discussions or
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