President s claims that trump tower was wiretapped by president barack obama. Even as the department of justice and members of both intelligence committees are rebuking those allegations. The president is not backing down. Rather, hes blaming a conservative commentator for floating the idea in the first place. Also this week, the president S Supreme Court nominee neil gorsuch begins a confirmation process that could be included by tough questions from democrats. And trumps partys health care plan. Very much in peril. Going to a vote on thursday. The president says is he confident, however, that it will pass on the first try. I also want everyone to know that all of these noes or potential noes are all yeses. Every Single Person sitting in this room. All right. Thats President Trump meeting with republicans yesterday. So the president now is at his maralago resort in florida today. Lets go to athena jones live for us in nearby west palm beach. Good to see. Do we know what trump is worki
The New York Times reports, a russian banker. First, though, lets go to capitol hill. Manu raju is there. Devon nunes, the house intelligence chair, on white house grounds the day before that major announcement. Reporter thats right. Hes now confirming this, telling our colleague, jake tapper, in a phone interview that he was, in fact, on white house grounds. What hes actually saying now, john and poppy, is that he was reviewing this in a secure facility on white house grounds, reviewing this information that he revealed publicly the next day, that information that perhaps some communication, something involving the Trump Transition Team were swept up, inadvertently picked up, sdins incidentally in intelligence reports, so he wanted to review this document in a secure facility. Now he is telling jake tapper that he was not in communication with any white house staff that d day, he was not in the white house, but he was in the secure facility. And this comes with a lot of questions abou
Not taking sides in this. President trump arrived this morning to great fanfare with the israeli Prime Minister hailing his visit as truly historic. It is unprecedented that a u. S. President s first trip abroad includes a visit to israel. Prime minister netanyahu will not accompany President Trump on this hours visit to the western wall, that is again because the United States does not want to enflame tension over this disputed territory. In fact, topping the president s agenda is reviving the Israeli Palestinian Peace Process, a deal he calls the ultimate deal. Sara murray is traveling with the president and joins us from jerusalem. An israeli newspaper published yesterday quote President Trump as saying i think we have a very, very good chance of making a deal. The president appears very optimistic on this trip. Reporter thats right, he does feel very optimistic about this. He feels like the situation is ripe and that he has a good relationship, even though early in his presidency w
Price . Otherwise, he will be encouraged to do so again. Obviously. Adding to the confusion and bewilderment on both sides of the aisle, trumps proposal to actually work with russia on forming a Cyber Security unit. This is like the guy who robbed your house proposing a working group on burglary. Talk more about all of this and what the president has been saying on the heels of his meeting with president putin. Bringing in cnns White House Correspondent athena jones. Athena . Reporter hi, fred. These are remarkable and confusing tweets, as you said. Here are a couple of the tweets. Put them back on the screen from this morning. From the president. He said, i strongly pressed president putin twice about russian meddling in our election. He vehemently denied it. Ive already given my opinion. He also tweeted, putin and i discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that Election Hacking and many other negative things will be guarded. Both of those tweets are rather curious. Fo
Kas wits who has had a very rough week. Just a few days ago some private emails between him and a critic were released in the press, expletive laden and had to apologize for those emails. But this is an indication from the white house that they need something more when it comes to the response at least to russia and the press. He is expected to stay on as the president s private attorney, fred. And as it pertains to health care, i know the president is making his rounds on the phone. Hes talking about hes trying to get support, but what else is he doing, thinking, feeling about this Republican Health care plan . The president tweeted out to say going to save from the obamacare disaster. This is a full court press right now from the white house. Its not only the president making phone calls this weekend, its also mike pence going to several events promoting the repeal and replacement of obamacare, something that is essentially in do or die mode. The Congressional Budget Office is expect