Politics, the headlines tell it all. The press conference dominate the news on everything from the scandal and race and religion in america. First, the pick to replace mike flynn turned down the offer. Vice admiral Robert Harwood telling the associated press, its purely a personal issue. Its after he tapped Alexander Acosta to serve as nominee for the labor department. It came during the first solo of his administration. A joist with the media showing shades of his campaign freestyle. Reporter it wauz News Conference like no other. I turn on the tv and see stories of chaos, chaos. Yet, it is the exact opposite. This Administration Like a fine tuned machine. Reporter in a firy 1 17, the president telling his accomplishments and lashing out, trying to reset after a chaotic start to his presidency. I inherited a mess. Its a mess. The tone is such hatred. Im really not a bad person, by the way. No, but the tone is such, i do get good ratings, you have to admit that. The tone is such hate r
Petrae petraeus. He resigned in 2012 after admitting to giving classified information to his mistress. He met with trump when he was being considered for secretary of state. I turn on the tv, open the newspapers and i see stories of chaos. Chaos. Yet it is the exact opposite. This administration is running like a fine tuned machine. Now, coming up in about ten minutes, Edward Lawrence takes an indepth look at the latest News Conference and the challenges facing the administration. New this morning were working to learn how two people are doing after this bad crash on the suitland parkway. You can see how badly damaged this car is. Two people had to be flown to the hospital. Our news partner tells us one person was seriously hurt. U. S. Park police have not said whether more than one car was involved in this crash. Police are urging people to be on high alert. Thats because eight armed robberies have been reported since mid december. Many of those are happening in one specific area. Wer
Like this and it isnt even over yet. An afternoon of major breaking news. The New York Times reporting that President Trump told the russians last week during a meeting at the white house that the firing of fbi director james comey eased pressure from the russia investigation. I just fired head of the fbi. He was crazy, a real nut job. Mr. Trump said. I faced great pressure because of russia. Thats taken off. The white house notably is not will disputing that account. And the Washington Post is now reporting that the russia probe which is now in the hands of a special prosecutor has identified a Current White House official as a significant person of interest. The white house isnt disputing that report either. These two bomb shells cap off a week of sheer chaos. Why wont you just explain whether or not there are recordings . The president has made his position clear. The story that came out tonight as reported is false. There are National Security has been put at risk by those violatin
entity. joining us now is mark leibovich, staff writer for the atlantic, and thank you for your servitude, donald trump s washington and the price of submission. there s almost no one in the world i would rather talk to about this. i m going to refrain from glee. high minded show, we don t. low hanging fruit. let s go back to the nfts. let s l do it. and let s talk about the disparity between the major announcement trump was promising and the reality of photo shopped images as a 10-year-old fantasy. stunning. stunning in the caveat that we have said stunning words like that before. i couldn t believe it, and the fact that stevend bannon, micha flynn. michael flynn. i m trying to catch up. i assume that people would go into their corners and say trump is just trump. there was real contempt for people who are absolutely
probe has reached a senior white house adviser. somebody close to the president. given that, do you still believe that a special counsel was not necessary? i think as long as it is an intelligence issue and the issues being talked about pertain to classified documents is that who has the right to receive them, who should be their names disclosed, yeah, i think they should keep the jurisdiction. if a white house senior adviser, somebody close to the president is being investigated, do you trust that this administration is properly vetting people? i wouldn t know about their internal procedures about, vetting. he know the vetting procedures the bush administration did which were exacting. i would assume that they re following the same lines. micha flynn, they say they didn t know abt his ties to turkey. they say they didn t know he was under investigation. there is reporting that he alerted them early on. there are questions about vetting of michael flynn.