Nominee spoke earlier today. Reporter after years of refusing to apologize or talk about his role in the socalled Birther Movement, questioning first president obamas citizenship and later the authenticity of his hawaiian birth certificate, donald trump flanked by medal of honor recipients and retired military leaders tried again today blame the whole controversy on Hillary Clinton. Hillary clinton [ boos ] and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it. I finished it. You question on what i mean. President barack obama was born in the United States, period. Reporter in fact theres no record that clinton herself ever advanced the charge that obama was not born in the u. S. When questioned on 60 minutes in 2008 about whether obama was muslim, she wasnt categorical in her response. No. There is nothing to base that on, as far as i know. Reporter in march of 2007, longtime clinton strategist mark penn in a memo noted then u. S. Senator obamas lack of american root
Without giving evidence made another startling comment about women immigrants getting raped at levels never seen before. Amid all this, trump has reportedly sidelined his chief of staff and is publicly standing up to his living it up epa director scott pruitt. Pruitt is facing mounting questions about ethics and spending habits. Theres his reported taste for Luxury Travel that he often sits in first or business class. Pruitt said he needed to because of unpleasant interactions with other travelers meaning those pesky citizens in coach. Hes the first epa exadministrator to have a 24hour security detail at all times. His office requested a bullet proof Sport Utility vehicle with socalled run flat tires and pruitt wanted to use flashing lights and sirens in his motorcade, a perk more commonly associated with the presidency to expedite local tripses in washington to the airport or just to dinner. Including at least one drip top le diplomate a trendy french restaurant he frequented. Accordi
Had been kept secret. In preparation for todays hearing, mr. Cohen told a federal judge that he had three legal clients in the past two years. The president , a gop fundraiser, and a third client whose identity he asked to keep secret. The unnamed client turned out to be fox news host sean hannity. Hannity, who is on air when the news broke explained his relationship with Michael Cohen. Michael never represented me in any matter. I never retained him in the traditional sense as retaining a lawyer. I never received an invoice from michael. I never paid legal fees to michael, but i have occasionally had brief discussions with him about legal questions about which i wanted his input and perspective. Well, hannity, who had never disclosed his relationship with cohen on the air devoted a number of segments on his program after the raid of cohens office last week. Lets watch. Robert mueller is so far beyond his mandate. This is now spiraling out of control. Everything that we have warn youd
Turkey, of course, is an important player here that almost never gets discussed when were talking about assad and his allies. But turkey and iran and russia are key allies for the assad regime. Itn, the british news service, has reported tonight that british jets have taken off from cyprus. We dont know where they were headed, but with the time difference its seven hours ahead between now and syria. That means its roughly 4 00 a. M. In syria right now. If british jets are take off from cyprus, there is speculation that this may be some sort of event that involves not just American Military power but also our allies. Im told that we are less than a minute out now from the president s remarks. We dont know how long these remarks are expected to be. We are expecting that these remarks are only going to be about a military strike in syria. If youve been following the news today, you know that there is a lot of news today, particularly news involving the scandal that surrounds the president
Gavel to gavel, the house of representatives was in session for 2 minutes 43 seconds. The senate, 4 minutes exactly, because theyre working. And as you might imagine, they got about zero did you think to end the shutdown which means substantial parts of the federal government will remain shutdown right through this weekend and on into next year. Happy 2019, everybody. White house essentially declared defeat on the shutdown, donald trump vowed to own before he changed his mind and tried not to own it. Releasing a statement that was curious for what it left out, the word wall, which appeared nowhere in it. And also reiterating that the president really, really doesnt want a shutdown. He just cant sign a bill that doesnt, quote, adequately fund border security, which i guess is the new euphemism for really big, really tall wall. Well have more on that later in the hour. But first, i want to take you back for a moment to january 2017, nearly two years ago. It was just a few days before Don