Liu life in msnbc in new york. Were starting with the et russia controversy new refrlgss about the 2016 meeting with a russian lawyer at trump tower showing donald trump jr. s explanation to be false. The meeting was larger than nbc news now confirming six people from the Trump Campaign. Donald trump jr. Paul manafort, jared kushner, the pores the lawyer working with the russian government, a lobbyist brought by the lawyer who was a russian sergeants later a naturalized american a translateser. The president saying friday it was a normal meeting though that anyone would attend. Democrats do not agree with thap and here is how Intelligence Committee member jim himes and what he said today. The president s son clearly knew he was getting droger to information from a hostile foreign power and laid out a time table to use it. In my mind thats collusion. Whether its illegal or not of course remember collusion is not a legal term. Whether its illegal or not thats something for both the Justi
Today, a look inside the twisted mind of the late Charles Manson from someone who met him facetoface. This is cnn breaking news. And welcome to the lead. Im jim sciutto in for jake tapper this week. We begin with the breaking news. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson with a surprise appearance in the White House Briefing room just moments ago. To talk about brandnew measures to keep the rogue nation of north korea and its Nuclear Ambitions in check. Its really just the latest step in a series of, as you can see, ongoing steps to increase the pressure, and i think this is, though, to hold north korea accountable for a number of actions that theyve taken. Tensions have been ramping up and just this morning the president declared the nation a state sponsor of terrorism. Tomorrow, the Treasury Department will be announcing an additional sanction and a very large one on north korea. It will be the highest level of sanctions by the time its finished over a twoweek period. Tillerson insisted tha
The first member of the norths ruling dynasty to ever set foot in the south. Were live in pyeongchang. A white house in crisis, a top aide accused of spousal abuse is gone. The questions are not. In fact, theyre only growing as is the pressure on higherups who didnt act sooner. We begin with the rarest of achievements on capitol hill, a longterm bipartisan budget deal. Cnns Suzanne Malveaux is there with the latest for us. Suzanne . Reporter good morning, erica. It was going on nine hours, this Government Shutdown, much of it happening when Many Americans were sleeping. We just saw that trump tweet about 8 40 in the morning saying that he did sign this bill. He said it was good for the military and said it meant jobs, jobs, jobs. This was a couple hours after House Speaker paul ryans Office Actually sent over that bill after it was approved. There was confusion this morning about where federal workers needed to be. Now its been resolved. It comes after a night and Early Morning drama t
Anybody taken him out back and kicked his little butt. What advice would you give to the 25yearold donald trump knowing what you know today . Dont run for president. [laughter] just like fire world just one day watch this madness steve its fire friday. Ainsley fire friday. Steve actually it was fire thursday. Pete hire friday. Ainsley john bolton is in h. R. Mcmaster is out. Steve pete is in. Pete someone else is going to join us for the weekend thats back. Ainsley a little tease. Ainsley excited to see her. Steve we are, indeed. You will be excited to heart news. While you were sleeping, the Senate Passed a gigantic, monster russ, really big 1. 3 trilliondollar spending bill avoiding a government shut down. Thats the good news. The bad news is its really a lot of money. Ainsley it now heads to the president s desk but not, without of course some criticism. Pete our own Griff Jenkins joins us live from washington, d. C. With reaction from lawmakers. Good morning. Good morning, guys. It
Weeks ago i briefed the media. Media at the breaking point. That breaking has arrived. The border chief sounding the alarm as 8,000 migrants are caught crossing into the u. S. Just this week. Play ball. It is baseballs opening day. The earliest Season Opener in mlb history. Jump right in let the music pull you in jump right in steve lets jump right in, brian, sit down and get this show started. Welcome aboard, folks. Its opening day for Major League Baseball we will be celebrating that all day long. Brian im celebrating the fact that jack jones band will be coming to the beach not the beach itself but where the stage is. Steve invite him to be on the show. Ainsley we hope he will. He does a lot of charity work with joey jones. Come on zac, we would love to have you on the jones. Brian he will probably give us coupon off tickets because he works for them. Ainsley back stage pass for you, bribe. Brian possibly. One minute after the top of the hour. A lot to go over. The fbi is stepping i