To he may not need these roles of chief of staff or Communications Director, that other president s have relied on so often. He, of course, is listening to this advice. We dont know what hell do with the avdvice, we have no reason o believe john kelly is in danger at the moment. It is giving a window into how the president is reshaping the west wing, how hes becoming more comfortable with the job and trying to change the job in many respects. Hope hicks, Outgoing Communications director, is still here at the white house. But this is expected to be one of her last days on the job. That is raising the question of who is the next Communications Director going to be. It is somewhat of a ceremonial job, though, because as you know, the president himself, he sets the narrative and the tone and the story line here every day online, on social media. The Communications Director not as important perhaps as in years past because it is a job he relishes. And, again, this is outside people giving t
Door because pruitts security broke in to check on him after he didnt answer his phone. Cnns Abby Phillips joins us live from west palm beach, florida, where the president is spending the easter weekend there on palm beach island. Good morning to you. There is a lot going on. Thats right. Good morning. Just another day and another problem with one of the president s cabinet members. The Environmental Protection agency had scott pruitt as under fire today over his spending on a condo in washington, d. C. The fact that he paid what seems to be below market rate for that condo, about 50 a night. But only for the nights that he stayed there. As well below what people say you ought to be paying on capitol hill in that area for a nightly stay in a room there. But scott pruitt is just dealing with several of these issues with ethics. A couple of days ago there was some questions raised about his use of a 24 7 security detail not only when he is on official business but also whether he was on
And by extension the Washington Post. Thats right. Good morning, ryan. The president is here playing golf and also tweeting about amazon on the subject for really the second time this week. Hes been tweeting about this quite a bit for several months. Its an issue that is always seemingly top of mind for him. But kind of came to a head this week when some reporting about the president s private conversations on this subject sent amazon stock tumbling. Now President Trump is here in this tweet going after amazon on some questionable basis. For example, the Washington Post is not a part of amazon, the company. In fact, its owned by amazons Ceo Jeff Bezos who used his private funds to on that newspaper. And the president seems to be making a connection here between the newspaper which often publishes unflattering stories about him and his administration and the Company Amazon which he now accuses of defrauding the u. S. Postal service and also defrauding american taxpayers. On those two fr
The swamp won on this one. This president is very clear that he will not sign another bill like this but hes not going to leave our military, our troops unfunded. Robinson rebounded. Thats all she wrote. And the block. Count the basket. Thats it good sunday morning. How do you like waking up to that . I love you too. But come on. America loves her voice better. A ton of march madness going on, loyola, come on, sister jean dance in the final four. I love march madness. Theres so much spirit to it. You get behind the teams. Its different than the nba because you believe in the teams so much. You either went to the school or your kids did. I dont know theres something much more exciting. And you have michigan, which is massive, which is huge and a Loyola Chicago coming out of nowhere shaking up the cinderella and the big dogs. Never know whats going to map. I think we know who america is pulling for. Yesterday if you werent watching march madness, you might have been marching. The march f
Campaign deputy rick gates to cooperate with his probe. And how gates could help muellers team connect the Trump Campaign to the russian Intelligence Agency. Cnns Shimon Prokupecz is following every development, joining us to explain the connection. Shimon, first, tell us about how we learned of this new development and its significance. As you say, Significant Development and we really learned from one of our great reporters caitlin polands working this story for quite some time and developed a lot of this information and we worked with other sources obviously to confirm it. And basically the significance here has to do with, like you said, the collusion investigation, and that Robert Muellers investigators, when they met with rick gates about cooperating, they essentially told him that they did not need his help on the Paul Manafort investigation, which is finances and taxes, that they really needed him for the central mission, which is the russia collusion, russia interference inves