Here in the usa, theyre looking at fake news, the deliberately twisted lying kind, but will anything change . And what does a newspaper to a billionaire doctor signal . Can he cure an ailing giant . But first President Trump is defending hiss staff after a series of missteps in the rob porter abuse allegations. Hope hicks has become part of the scandal and story absolutely fantastic. He says she is very talented a d and. Joining me now is lyn sweet, a columnist and bureau chief at the sun times. Washington bour bureau chief, greetings to you all and happy morning. Hi, frank. Let me start with you. You profiled hope hicks and as we pointed out, hope hicks is in the middle of all this, what does this say about the Communications Director that she can be part of the story and still trying to shape it. Shes found herself at the center of a public scandal this way, theres been tons of hir g hirings, firings and people have retired from Donald Trumps orbit and she has enjoyed. But cnn was th
This week, we learned more about the best people donald trump hired to staff his administration. Starting with his former staff secretary, rob porter. Both his exwives have accused porter of years of Domestic Violence and abuse. That was not news to some senior members of the administration. White House Counsel down mcgahn knew of the accusations back in january of 2017. Trumps chief of staff, john kelly, learned of the allegations this past fall when he found out that the fbi was delaying porters security clearance. Yet porter stayed on as kellys right hand man, designated to see classified material, despite reports that porter was one of 30 officials working without full security clearance. That list including jared kushner. When the allegations against porter were first made public tuesday night, john kelly defended porter as a man of true integrity and honor. He reversed course the following day after porter first wife, colbie holderness, released this photo showing a black eye she
For both sides in this story. We will tune in. The radical story of patty hearst premier this is sunday, 9 00 eastern here on cnn. Thanks. Thanks so much, jeffrey toobin. Hour two. You are watching cnn. Im brooke baldwin. Its a friday afternoon. Moments ago in his very first remarks on the scandal, president of the United States defending his former aide, the one accused of abusing two former wives and, oh, by the way, the president didnt say a single word about the women, not a word. Were talking about former white house staff secretary rob porter. This week, images of porters alleged abuse against his first exwife went public. See the black eye. His second exwife and an exgirlfriend have also accused him of hurting them both physically and emotionally. Again, President Trump did not speak about these women. Instead, sitting there, offering kind words to the man who has engulfed his oval office in a firestor firestorm. We wish him well. He worked very hard. I found out about it recent
We have irrefutable evidence that this was another staging which the special services of a nation had. A nation that is trying to be in the front row the campaign. For the. Chemical weapons attack happened yes the u. S. Yes it has happened the u. K. Happened france yesterday afternoon three separate analysis all coming back at the same thing. Today the Russian Military released more evidence that proves that Great Britain was involved in the organization of this provocation in eastern. Its a blatant lie its the worst piece of fake news weve yet seen from the russian propaganda machine. Is back with a vengeance but with a difference the mechanisms of the safeguards to manage the risks of escalation that existed in the past no longer seem to be present. So russia says it has proof that last weekends poison gas attack in syria was staged on orders from britain the Russian Defense Ministry Says london told the White Helmets rescue group in syria to fake the gas attack in the town of britai
Welcome to the second hour of 360. On the table tonight, the white house coverup over accused domestic abuser rob porter deepens much the white house says the president supports victims despite the fact he hasnt mentioned them, only support for porter. Security clearance questions at the white house for porter and dozens of other staffers who dont have it, including Jared Kushner, what the white house is saying and who its blaming. And budget deficits and hypocrisy, a question pose to the white house secretary. If the National Debt is a crisis, why hit the gas pedal instead of the brake . So the white house doesnt seem clear on the time line of how all this played out, and theyre unwilling to go into detail. Reporter anderson, thats right. Again for another day here, starting another week here, the white house was not giving specific answers for the time line. Sarah sanders said, yes, there were lessons learned. They could have done things better. But she did not answer specific questi