Voted illegally. His tweet, quote, i will be asking for a Major Investigation on voter fraud including those who registered in two states, those who are illegal and even those who registered to vote who are dead and many for a long time. Depending on results, well strengthen on voting procedures. First, the president s claims of widespread voter fraud, cnn athena jones at the white house with more. Reporter good morning, carol. The president not backing down from the debunked claims that 3 to 5 Million People voted illegally in the november election. As weve said over and over again, there is absolutely no evidence of widespread voter fraud, but this is something that the president continues to bring up. White House Press Secretary sean spicer was repeatedly pressed about this including by my colleague jeff zeleny. Watch. You say the president believes there was voter fraud. I wonder if you believe that. You worked for the Republican National committee. Do you believe this is not my jo
The white house spokesman refuses to reject whats called the deep state conspiracy theory, saying there are people burrowed into the government still promoting the obama agenda. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. The white house says President Trump was not aware that his former National Security advisor retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn was a paid Foreign Agent. Flynns preelection activities on behalf of turkish interests came to light when he retroactively filed paperwork just this week. President trump removed flynn in february for not coming clean about his contacts with russia. Leaders of the House Intelligence Committee say they still see no evidence to back President Trumps claim that he was wiretapped by president obama. That just a day after fbi director james comey met secretly with the gang of 8 congressional leaders who have top security access. Top House Democrat nancy pelosi says the fbi chief needs to publicly dispel any mythology, her word, mythology a
Replace the law. But the big question right now is what exactly to replace it with. This is both a big priority for this white house and also a big challenge. Take a listen to Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders talking about what the administration hopes to do. I know that the goal is that we make sure that people dont lose their coverage and that we have to put a high priority on the people that need it most. We have to lower costs and we have to make sure that the people that need insurance the very most are covered. But at the same time, george, we cannot survive under the current system. We have to make massive overhaul to the Health Care System in america because its simply just not sustainable, and everybody agrees with that. Theres nobody that argues that were on a track that we can maintain. So were looking at every possible way to do exactly that, repeal a terrible, failed system and replace it with something better. Again, ill just have to ask this one more time. Y
And others are all advocating for more funding and support for science and Climate Change solutions. Todays march coming just one week before the president s 100day mark and while this administration is expediting the socalled to do list with health care and tax reform, new cnn reporting is revealing new details about alleged ties between russia and the 2016 election. Cnn justice correspondent pamela brown has more details on how russia might have used trump advisers to infiltrate the Trump Campaign. Pamela . Weve learned the fbi gathered intelligence last summer that suggest russian operatives tried to use trump advisers including carter page to infiltrate the Trump Campaign. Carter pages critical speech against russia in july of 2016 is one factor. Its part of what raised concerns in the bureau that he may have been compromised by russian intelligence, but the new information adds to this emerging pick titure of how russ tried to influence the 2016 election not only through email hac
Step. Overnight, you can probably imagine all of the condolences pouring in from around the world. Frances president as well as the countrys Prime Minister in canada saying their thoughts are with the victims and families and Justin Trudeau says the country will stand together. In new york city, the nypd is instructing the counterterrorism teams to give extra attention to mosques today here in new york city. And they will keep an eye on the investigation in quebec. Brynn, thank you. We do not know the identity of the two people in custody or what they are saying . We dont know. Authorities are saying lets not speculate. Lets collect information. Thank you. This morning, confusion after a weekend of chaos, protests and clarification after clarification. President trumps executive order banning travelers from seven muslim majority countries. The president went way too far in the travel ban part of the socalled extreme vetting he promised, which bans all refugee admissions for the next 12