And we can also see at any moment votes rolling in for the next chair of the dnc. The two front runners emerging for the dncs top post are former labor secretary tom perez and minnesota congressman Keith Ellison. Each representing the two forces that currently divide that party, the Progressive Movement versus the establishment. Cnn washington correspondent ryan noble is at the dnc meeting in atlanta. Ryan, what exactly is happening . Reporter well, fredericka, right now whats happening is pretty interesting. This is a battle right now over the use of corporate money when it comes to the Democratic Party. It kind of an example of the larger fight in the Democratic Party between the Bernie Sanders and more progressive wing of the party versus the Hillary Clinton barack obama more establishment wing of the party. Thats what were going to see play out later here maybe in an hour or two when they go to elect the chair of the party and tom perez, the former labor secretary in the Obama Admi
The white house saying the president has never asked mr. Comey or anyone else to end an investigation, including any investigation involving general flynn. This is perhaps the most explosive revelation yet in President Trumps short tenure. Jake tapper, what are you learning about what happened in that room on february 14th between the president and jim comey . Pamela brown and i each have spoken to sources that confirmed the existence of this memo. The source i spoke with has a copy of the memo. Hes a source close to comey. He tells me that on february 14, director comey, then still the fbi director was in the oval office with President Trump, Vice President pence and the attorney general Jeff Sessions talking about an issue of National Security or the law. After that meeting was over, the president asked the Vice President and the attorney general to leave the room and then according to this memo, comey said, as you read, that the president said to him, i hope you can see your way cle
Why today . Is it because the media with a laser focus on health care and the russia investigation has to cover it . One could be for given for wondering if this is more about changing the narrative for an administration thats having a tough week. The president is missing no chance to hairs and publicly belittle his own attorney general. Jared kushner has been speaking to lawmakers about a meeting he had with a russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign. There have been staff shake ups and mixed maenlz from the new White House Communications team. And now within the past 24 hours theres been a major defeat on a widely unpopular healthcare bill that could have caused millions nor mernls to become uninsured. And were expecting another defeat in just a moment. Lets go to garrett headache. Garrett, are this next vote is scheduled for some time in the next half an hour. This is also a vote a bill that is not expected to pass. Tell us about it rrlt thats right. So in the next half hour we shoul
Him, he can do his job. This storys not over, brooke. Theyre going to have to, as Anthony Scaramucci has said, theyre going to have to resolve this in some way between the two of them. Number one on sessions and yes, agree. Number two, jeff zeleny do we have jeff . I dont see him in the box. There he is, jeff zeleny, in the briefing, the real question that was dominating, i felt like, was the transgender issue and how the president , and we saw him throughout the campaign saying to the lgbtq community,ly stand for you, i will fight for you. It seemed to me that Sarah Huckabee sanders had a hard time defending the president eats twee president s tweets on this one. I think in part because this came essentially out of the blue. This is not something that the president had been talking about at all, at least not publicly. This is not something that the president had been working with a Small Working Group or bringing his staff along here. It had the feel today when he did it that he was e
About an hour from now. And theres been no let up in the president s tirade against Jeff Sessions, he tweeted again just before sessions arrived at the white house. The president also tweeting he will reinstate a ban on transgender individuals serving in the United States military, and he cited medical costs and did ruppation. The natt meanwhile has delayed the next vote on a plan to repeal obamacare, scheduled for about 2 1 2 hours or so from now, well update the Health Care Debate here in the United States in a live report, thats coming up this hour as well. But lets start with the u. S. Attorney general Jeff Sessions who was there at the white house when the president launched his latest attack against him. And ill quote, why didnt a. G. Sessions replace acting fbi director Andrew Mccabe, a comey friend who was in charge of the clinton investigation, but got big dollars, 700,000 for his wifes run against Hillary Clinton and the represents drain the swamp. She got 700,000 from the de