This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. 11 00 p. M. Op the east coast live with new developments. President trump claiming today he has been tougher on russia than former president obama and encouraging people to look at the facts. So were going to do just that. Here are just some of the actions president Obamas Administration took against russia. Okay . Here we go. After a prominent kremlin critic who called out russian financial corruption dies in prison, obama signs the act that imposes travel and financial restricting on human rights abusers in response the kremlin halts the american adoption of russian babies. In early 2014, the russians began military operations in ukraine, ultimately taking parts of the country by force. In response, the Obama Administration begins imposing multiple rounds of sanctions over the next two years. The sanctions target russian defense, financial, energy and technology companies. The u. S. Joins allies in suspending russias membership in the g8. The Obama
All right, good morning, everyone, john berman here. Were following major breaking news stories this morning. The first ee advantage gellist billy graham passed away at the age of 99. More on that in just a moment. The president takes on his own attorney general again, asking why his Justice Department is not investigating the Obama Administration over russia meddling. Also happening now, Florida Shooting survivors rallying at the State Capitol for gun reform. Never again never again never again never again as they chant never again, dozens of their classmates are inside pushing lawmakers for tighter gun control laws. Tonight some of those students will join jake tapper for a live town hall on gun laws and school safety. Well start with cnns Diane L Gallagher who has been traveling with the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in tallahassee right now. Reporter john, they are inside meeting with lawmakers at this moment. Ive been texting with some students that i rode up wi
Of policy positions. Were seeing Something Like that. But where it goes all the way down the roads into these sick smears, that is a problem for our society, and i think we all have a role to play to solve it. Brian stelter, thank you. Thank you for the conversation. Thanks to our International Viewers for watching. For you cnn newsroom is next. For u. S. Viewers, new day continues right now. Good morning. Welcome to our new day. One week after a deranged gunman turned a school into a war zone about 100 survivor office that High School Massacre will march to the State Capitol in florida and take their gun reform fight to lawmakers. There has already been a suffering on of a setback here. The republicancontrolled house, listen to this, they voted to refuse to debate an assault weapons ban and instead they voted to debate a bill that declares pornography a Public Health risk. So President Trump tweeting his support for strength epping background checks for gun purchases and directing the
Indicted 13 russians in connection with the attack on the 2016 election, President Trump has been tweeting. Tweeting about himself, tweeting about nascar, about oprah winfrey, tweeting about everything but the actual threat of russian meddling itself and what to do about it. Hes also tweeted a whole lot of lies. Tweeted about how the indictment clears him and his campaign, it doesnt. Hes tweeted how it says russian meddling did not affect the elections outcome, the indictment says nothing about that. He says about the muddling, when hes even admitting there was any, that it wasnt really about getting him elected. The Intelligence Community says it mostly was. And the mueller indictment dos too. The president has suggested if it were not for the fbi investigating russia, last weeks School Shooting might have been prevented. Four funerals were held today. Having suggested at times there wasnt any russian meddling, the president has blamed former president obama for not doing enough to st
11 00 p. M. Op the east coast live with new developments. President trump claiming today he has been tougher on russia than former president obama and encouraging people to look at the facts. Were going to do that. Here are some of the actions president Obamas Administration took against russia. Okay. Here we go. After a prominent contradict who called out the russian financial corruption dies in perrin. Obama signs the act that imposes travel and financial restricting on human rights abusers in response the kremlin halts the american adoption of russian babies np in early 2014 the russians began military operations in ukraine, ultimately taking parts of the country by force np in response the obama begins imposing multiple rounds of sapgss over the next two years. The sanctions target russian defense, financial, energy and technology companies. The u. S. Joins allies in suspending russias membership in the g 8. The Obama Administration also provides 350 million in military equipment t