And right now he is in a listening phase. He wants to hear from everybody. The white house dealing with the fallout over the latest guilty plea by a former Trump Campaign aide, rick gates. Heres how house intel Ranking Member adam schiff say it is sending a message to Paul Manafort. The worst thing for rick gates would be to agree to cooperate and then be found to be less than forth coming. These very detailed charges involving manafort and gates i think also tell manafort just how much special counsel knows, just how much liability he faces. Now, these charges came at the end of what has already been an unprecedented week in the russia investigation. Robert mueller has brought dozens of felony charges against more than a dozen charges this week alone. Three former members of the Trump Campaign have pleaded guilty. The charges against Paul Manafort came just hours after former Business Partner rick gates pleaded guilty to conspiracy and lying to investigators. Gates has an agreement wi
82 minutes. It came in under that time. For anyone whos familiar with Billy Grahams crusades or his meeting, they have a formula that they follow very regularly. That is you have bible reading, music and personal testimony. This funeral today had exactly those elements. Perhaps the most powerful was the personal testimony. All five of Billy Grahams children spoke, at times addressing that casket directly as daddy. It was a real mixture of tears and laughter for the audience. On the one hand, each child confirming without doubt that their father is in heaven right now, is in a better place, but also at the same time the sadness that they feel for losing him. Dana. Dana all right, steve. Thank you very much for that report. Were happy to carry it live. White house chief of staff john kelly going into detail about what he knew about rob porter and when he knew it. Kelly today saying the white house was first informed of the allegations in march of last year. Kelly said more information wa
Better than what he does but he is doing a great job. Amid the chaos there is more talk about something thats been discussed on this broadcast among others, and that is defense secretary mattis remains on the job, while the original band of brothers, the generals that trump hired, have diminished around him, there has been speculation that mattis does not welcome and may not get along with the new neocon security adviser and longtime hawk john bolton. So it was interesting to overhear him greet bolton outside the pentagon today. Thanks for coming and its good to finally meet you. Ive heard that youre actually the devil incarnate. I wanted to meet you. As for the president after a nearly weeklong disappearance of any public setting, he got to cut loose a bit before a Union Audience today in ohio. Were now finally putting america first. Just this week we secured a wonderful deal with south korea. I made hold it up till after a deal is made with north korea. Were launching the next phase
Downgraded last week after chief of staff john kelly made changes to the security clearance system. And we are learning officials from at least four countries have reportedly discussed how they could use kushners business dealings, inexperience and financial troubles to manipulate him. That is according to the Washington Post, which also reports that those countries, israel, mexico, china, and uae, acted on those conversations. The report goes on to say that a source said Top White House officials were worried that kushner was, quote, naive and being tricked by foreign officials. Going to bring in now cnns chief National Correspondent jim sciutto. Jim, good evening to you. What are you learning tonight . Sir don, my colleagues gloria borger, pamela brown and i are told that investigators for mueller have recently been asking witnesses about Donald Trumps Business Activities in russia prior to the 2016 president ial campaign as he considered a run for president. This according to three
Former staffer said about the trump family. Developing this hour, House Democrats wrapping up the battle as the Trump Administration stonewalls multiple questions. Just yesterday the ways and Means Committee subpoenaed two allies for the president s tax returns. Congress richard neal gave the agencies until may 17th to produce trumps tax records. Chairman neal explained why he did not go to the courts first. He wrote, quote, while i do not take the step lightly, i believe this action gave us the best opportunity to succeed and obtain the requested material. Earlier a top member of the ways and Means Committee laid out was on the table if the ways and Means Committee defies their season. We should consider the power of inherent contempt, an old doctrine that allows the congress itself to issue a summons, arrest warrant to an official and demand they appear at a congressional hearing, be subject to fines, to jail time. I think we ought to explore contracting with aerial correctional inst