And take on whatever comes next. Find out how American Express cards and services can help prepare you for growth at open. Com. So the wheels are coming off a little bit. If the wheels are not yet off you are starting to hear the start of lug nuts stripping their threads and pinging across lanes of traffic while the wheels start to wobble. Theres a bit of a Freakout In Washington and were seeing it on two big stories developing tonight. Why is it always friday night . One of these two stories tonight, developing tonight that shows this freakout, one of them is about the administration itself, the other one breaking tonight appears to be about the prospect of investigation into the administration. Press, we the citizens of the United States know about the content of communications with the russian government . Michael flynn was reportedly exposed as having lied about the content of his calls to the russian government because u. S. Law enforcement or u. S. Intelligence agencies were list
With the russian story and found zero proof, so now they go for Obstruction Of Justice on the phony story. Nice. Thats trump in tweet. Joining me now are three National Security reporters, charlie savage, adam entous and shane harris. Shane, youve got the story which follows up on what we had last night, that the Special Counsel is looking at the president for Obstruction Of Justice. My question is how do you have to add to that . What you have now is you have the president both trying to convince Director Rogers of the nsa to come out and shoot down these issues of collusion, but also privately still continuing to doubt the very intelligence that the nsa collected that led to the conclusion that russia interfered in the election. Weve seen trump publicly talk about the fact he thinks theyre nothing to russia, but to know that hes now saying this privately and continuing to argue with one of his intelligence chiefs about that, i think really reveals the degree to which this has
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Green writes Candidate Trump seemed indifferent but changed his mind when he tried it out in a speech in January Of 2015 and the place went nuts. The u. S. Economy may hinge now on a throwaway catch phrase that just happened to catch on. More from cnns sarah mur rich. Has the white house offered any more information following the president s threat about shutting down the government . Aside from what you saw from Sarah Huckabee sanders today, they havent really given us an indication of why the president decided this is something he would be willing to shut down the government over. They also didnt offer any real explanation as to how he squares and acts like this with what you showed was a regular campaign promise. A notion that this wall was going to be built and american taxpayers wouldnt be on the hook for. Since he became president , the president of mexico has made one
thing very clear to President Trump. Theyre not paying for that wall. The last time the government shut down was
West palm beach airport, following the president s First Physical exam as president. According to his doctor at walter reed, the exam went, quote, exceptionally well and further details on tuesday. Before leaving washington for this Martin Luther king holiday weekend, trump signed a proclamation expanding site, with questions from the president about remarks about haiti, el salvador the day before. And throughout the day, republican lawmakers in florida, including senator marco rubio and congressman carlos ro bechlt. Llo strongly distanced themselves from the remarks, all in a state, florida, a home to many immigrants and their families, including 300,000 haitianamericans, most in south florida, some of whom protested the president s comments. And republican governor rick scott also reacted to trumps
for so long. Do you get the sense that hes sort of distracting from his own Policy Agenda with the comments he made this week about other countries, whether true or not, with tweets he put
Through the b. S. I dont know if theres been any. Wants to cut through the b. S. , get the answers to the questions about how long this is going to go on and this is what was most interesting to me. One of my sources says to me, hes going to find out if we have to fight and where this leads. They seem to think that Rudy Giuliani will be the one to be able to do that where nobody else was able to do that before. In some interviews today he talked about his prior relationship with Robert Mueller. Its not clear to me how a prior relationship with mueller would impact an on going investigation. And he told that in his interview that they do have a prior relationship. I think i should remind people that john dab the lawyer that quit also had a prior relationship with mueller. Giuliani did work with mueller after 9 11 of course. But i think that whole we have a relationship and we get along can be overdone because a lot of people worked with mueller over the years. He also said i think when