Investigations into his political rival. His attorney general opened the door for dirt on political rivals from rudy guilliani, whose search in ukraine started this whole thing. He criticized the potential sentence and conviction by a jury and his long term friend and his department of justice reversed that decision, sparking the four career prosecutors in charge to either quit the case or resign. He publicly affirmed his attorney general put his thumb on the scale by congratulating him. The question now, who keeps the u. S. President potentially unbound and in check. In a matter of 24 hours, the already embattled integrity of the Justice Department has taken a huge hit and prompted justice officials to resign after its stunning reversal in the roger stone case and praises attorney general bill barr and the judge presiding over the case and with drew the nomination op former attorney general jessie liu over how her office handle cases over the mueller probe. We have kaitlyn colin. Yest
Deaths now. A new watchdog report out today shows significant stress on u. S. Hospitals heading into a week the Surgeon General predicts will be a pearl harbor moment for this country. Our Inspector General today backing up the message from governors across the country that hospitals are falling short of critical supplies. The white house says the mitigation is working, but another peak in a few weeks may overwhelm the Health Care System if americans ignore those social distancing guidelines. That underlying uncertainty and dependence on everyday followthrough clashes with the sunday evening optimism at the white house, that the end of the road might be near. I want to say to the American People that we are beginning to see the glimmers of progress. I steeee a light at the end the tunnel. If i didnt, i would not be very thrilled with what weve done. If we start seeing a flattening or stabilization of cases, what youre hearing about potential light at the end of the tunnel doesnt take a
Rights concerns after praising leadership in the past. Before trumps arrival in that country, trump unloaded on his critics, calling them haters and fools. Trump downplayed his past skepticism of russias interference in the u. S. Election after he was widely criticized this weekend for calling previous u. S. Intelligence leaders political hacks. Trump now says he has confidence in the u. S. Intel community. I believe in our intel agencies. Our intelligence agencies. I, worked with them very strongly. Lets go et to Kaitlyn Colin in manila. After initially suggesting he believes Vladimir Putins meddling denials. Has the president clarified where he stands . Well, the president certainly received a fair amount of backlash after that flight on air force one where he suggested to reporters that he thought putin was being sincere saying russia did not meddle in the election and raised the question if he meant that he believed that putin didnt meddle or thought he was being genuine when he ma
The entire case, special Counsel Robert Mueller and the only reason they didnt go through with this is White House Counsel Don Mcgahn refused to do so, disagreeing with the president s reasoning. Today the president had this reaction when asked about the account, which took place in june of last year. Mr. President , did you consider firing Robert Mueller . Fake news. Whats your story today . Typical new york times. Fake news. Thank you very much. Fake news. So there went the president , dismissing the report. This is what his attorney, ty cobb, said. We decline to comment out of respect for office of the special counsel and its process. Cnn chief White House Correspondent jim acosta is live in davos, switzerland, where the president attended that economic forum. Jim, i heard you were running around, grabbing several of the president s top advisers, top aides, just to get their reaction to this huge story. What did they tell you . Reporter its remarkable covering davos, brooke. You hav
doesn t respect him. kaitlyn colin is covering this for us in new york today. good to see you. we saw the pr jump into this impromptu q & a when it was supposed to be kelly on immigration. is that all pieces of this whole puzzle? reporter: yes. it s a signal of these flaer ups that are becoming more and more public. trump is this freewheeling off the cuff while john kelly is structured and brusque. they have very different manorisms. this flaer-up wednesday evening before the president got on a plane without john kelly to go to davos really shows the tension in the relationship. john kelly was briefing reporters and the president shows up, upends the whole thing, starts taking questions and steals the show away from john kelly and sources later describe that episode to us as a warning shot from the president. a warning shot? to john kelly to show him,