Paper. It says Jared Kushner and russias ambassador to washington discussed the possibility of setting up a secret and secure channel between trumps Transition Team and the kremlin using russian diplomatic facilities in a move to shield their preinauguration discussions from monitoring. The post quotes officials briefed on this intelligence. This means the man closest to the president allegedly wanted to talk outside of known u. S. Channels and u. S. Officials know this because they intercepted the Russian Ambassador to moscow with the surprise that the kremlin had been invited in so close to the Trump White House. As the post reports, ambassador reportedly was taken aback by the suggestion of allowing an american to use Russian Communications gear at the embassy or consulate that would have carried security risks for moscow as well as the trump team. The White House Traveling overseas did not comment on the story as of yet. There was a second report in the Washington Post that went up
Which will make us competitive again and Companies Wont be leaving our country. Finally our tax plan will return trillions of dollars in wealth to our shores so that companies can invest in america again. At the same time we are working to reduce wasteful Government Spending and hear from budget director Mick Mulvaney working with my cabinet to find savings in each and every department. The cabinet members that are with us today are working on getting reductions to their various departments that we think we will be able to save a lot of money even lower than the budgets and the budgets that we are submitting. We will work on health care, infrastructure and reform. They are looking at it strongly and that will take place after taxes. Very soon and shortly after taxes. We will be submitting plans on health care and plans on infrastructure and plans on welfare reform that is des raterat operately needed. We will discuss the epidemic that is ravaging so Many American families and communiti
Patriot and a good man and has been relentless in his advocacy that helped turn our country around. I regret my delay in responding to the reporting regarding don junior diverted attention from the president s historic accomplishments in the first year of his presidency. It may be too little too late, drawing a line in the sand calling allies to make it clear they must choose between the president and bannon. The president returned to the white house after a weekend at camp david and thats where we find boris sanchez. Pan on expressing support for donald trump. In what way . Seeming to offer an olive branch to the president and it has been days since we saw the first excerpts from fire and fury with explosive quotes to the chief strategist. Now we are first hearing this and the direct response calling this reporting inaccurate and the quotes attributed to him about the meeting at trump tower between officials and russian nationals where he is calling it unwait riotic and treasonous. Ba
The house and senate start to reconcile the two bills. Well tell you where the gop has big gaps to close. And looks like billy bush is ready to come out of the shadows in a scathing oped. What will bush say on the late show tonight . A year in the wilderness. Billy bush is making an entry to society. Good morning, everybody. Interesting to see him back in the discussion. Well talk more about this oped ahead in the New York Times. Its 4 00 a. M. In the east. We start this morning with the president returning to an old playbook following the newest criminal charges in the russia probe. Hes lashing out at the intelligence community. This comes after former National Security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his discussions with the Russian Ambassador during the transition. In a series of tweets, the president tacked the fbi and its former director james comey. In one he writes, i never asked comey to stop investigating flynn. Just more fake news. Covering come
House well talk to our washington correspondent. And is this the death of diesel environmentalists are breathing a sigh of relief as a Top German Court rules that cities can ban heavily polluting diesel vehicles but will this saddle millions of drivers with worthless cars. Also on the show icy air from siberia sending europes temperatures plummeting extreme weather warnings are in place in many countries as the cold front car and even the continents southern edges of snow. Im brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show. A day after a temporary truce fails to take effect in syria the fighting now rages on as does the war of words between the United States and russia a top u. S. General has accused russia of quote behaving like an arsonist and a fire fighter in syria general joseph fatah lash out after the planned daily ceasefire collapse the u. S. State Department Also slamming moscow for backing the Syrian Government russia is certainly not hearing to this cease fire theyre not adheri