Fbi and is now cooperating with Robert Mueller. Papadopoulos was drinking with a top australian diplomat in may of 2016 when he told that diplomat that russia had political dirt on hillary clinton. Well, two months later when the dnc email were released, so this news indicates that additional intelligence celebrate from the dossier, raised concerns among security officials. Lets bring in cnn white house sarah marie is live in West Palm Beach where the president is spending the new year. Lets take a look at how they responded to George Papadopoulos in the past. They were dismissive about his role during the campaign and suggesting he did not play a role of any importance. Here is what Sarah Sanders had to say back in october. Can you explain papadopoulos role . It was limited and a volunteer position and again no activity was ever done in official capacity on behalf of the campaign in that regard. Reporter now, other former Campaign Adviser comparing him to a coffee boy but today the wh
Of very angry people that are seeing it. Its a very sad thing to watch. I will tell you that. Loved it. All right. So the president is is speaking a lot. Hes making a lot of headlines heading to quantico. We will bring you more of those in a moment. A lot going on here in new york at the u. N. Meantime secretary of state Rex Tillerson about to address the u. N. Security council on north korea. The world will be listening for more apparent disconnections potentially between what the president has said on north korea and what his secretary of state Rex Tillerson has said on north korea. Lets go through all of this. Abby philip at the white house with more. Quite a busy friday morning there . It definitely is. Bright and early, the president is heading out this morning for quantico, but hes actually not meeting with fbi agents while hes out there. Hes going to be speaking at the Graduation Ceremony for fbi state and local officials and on his way out the door you just heard that he double
Im poppy harlow down in Lower Manhattan with our special co h coverage of the deadliest terror attack in new york city since 9 11. John berman is with us well. Well get to him in a moment. But we have a lot of developments on what we know about tlor attahis terror attac. 13 victims now in the hospital, some in critical condition. Eight innocent lives taken, murdered yesterday less than 24 hours ago ins this attack. The 29yearold attacker, an Uzbek National. We know that he barreled down the side of the west side highway on a bike path for nearly a mile, taking those lives, critically injuring those others. Some developments that were learning this morning from our reporters on the ground. We know that he is in the hospital. He is alive and he is taking to authorities, cooperating somewhat with Law Enforcement. What does that mean . What questions is he answering . We have also learned that he was a resident of paterson, new jersey. That is very close to new york city, just over the bri
With the New York Times that took place at a meeting in june with his cabinet, the president was furious after he began reading a document that was prepared for him by Stephen Miller that detailed a number of visas that were given in 2017. The president specifically read off certain portions, again, according to sources that were either in this meeting or briefed on it. In one portion he speaks specifically billion haitians and the president is quoted as saying haiti had sent 15,000 people. They all have aids, he grum belled, according to one person who attended the meeting and another person who was briefed about it by a different person who was there. Here again from the times, 40,000 came from nigeria. Once they had seen the United States, they would never, quote, go back to their huts in africa, recalled the two officials who asked for anonymity to discuss sensitive conversation in the oval office. Sarah sanders says the president did not make these statements. She writes, general
Trump claims hes been vindicated in the probe. Also this morning, a cnn exclusive report reveals disturbing new details about the Florida School shooter including racist, homophobic and antisemitic messages sent. The fbi is also admitting it received a tip last month that the teenage her a desire to kill people but the bureau failed to act on it. Well have more on the latest developments from florida in moments. We start with new charges, allegations and denials in the russia investigation. Cnns Matthew Chance is live in moscow. But first, to cnn White House Correspondent abby phillips. We got spl new reaction from the Trump Administration this morning . Thats right. This morning h. R. Mcmafltester e out about the 13 indictments that prove, he says, that russia interfeared in the election. Take a listen. As you can see with the fbi indictment, the evidence is now really incontrovertible and available in the public domain. Whereas in the past, it was difficult to attribute for a couple