Back. Redemption for shaun white in south korea, winning gold in the mens halfpipe. A live report with all the olympic headlines you missed overnight. The flying tomato, the godfather of snowboarding, he was incredible, clutch performance. 100th gold medal in the Winter Olympics for the u. S. Welcome to early start, im dave briggs. Im alison kosik. Wednesday, february 14th, happy valentines day. Thats right. Happy valentines day. Happy valentines day to you or galentines day twitter told me. I think hes going to give a rose later. I will. Conversations over who could replace embattled chief of staff john kelly heating up. Cnn is reporting that President Trump called associates in recent days discussing possible replacements for kelly in the wake of the rob porter spousal abuse scandal. Multiple sources tell us the president has made no decision to push kelly out, but they say names being floated if he does include chief economic adviser gary cohn. House majority leader kevin mccarthy,
Evangelicals are giving the president a pass as new information comes out in the Stormy Daniels scandal. We begin with a live picture of the white house where President Trumps legal team in charge of handling his defense in the Mueller Investigation might be growing. The New York Times out with this new report, trump talks with clinton impeachment lawyer about aiding in mueller response. The lawyer met with President Trump in the oval office this past week to discuss the possibility according to people familiar with the matter. President trump taking a break from the russia investigation and other scandals, going into full Campaign Mode last night during a rally in pennsylvania. He took a moment from campaigning for the republican candidate in tuesdays special election to unveil his own Campaign Slogan for 2020 and who he would like to run against. Key America Great exclamation point. Keep America Great. I would love oprah to win. Id love to beat oprah. I know her weakness. No, no, i k
President s personal attorney, michael cohen, has filed a defamation suit against buzzfeed for publishing the dossier. Buzzfeed says, its the subject of active investigations by congress and intelligence agencies. What, if any, impact could that have the investigation . This is a very strong claim. In the sense that donald trump is a public figure. And the reason they had an extensive citation about all the people who have quoted their work is because you have to show actual malice and uncorroborated statements and the reckless disregard for the truth if its published. And if you had some reason to believe it was not truthful, you you have to pay the piper. Here with all the corroboration, and the mention of other intense agencies, really helps their argument, they had a First Amendment right to write this. In terms of the investigation, you are seeing a pattern here where the president of the United States is trying to distance himself from anything that implicates either his campaign
A similar deadly attack. Police are warning residents to beware of unexpected parcels, who is terrorizing the texas capital. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were following breaking news. The house Intelligence Committees contentious investigation into Russian Election interference coming to an abrupt end, amid the same partisan infighting that plagued it from the beginning. Cnn learns the panels republicans are ending witness interviews over sharp democratic objections and that theyre announcing theres no evidence of collusion between the Trump Campaign and russia. Well talk about the breaking news and more with former director of National Intelligence, James Clapper. And senator jeff murphy, and correspondents and analysts are standing by. First, lets go to manu raju with the latest from capitol hill. You had a chance to speak with a congressman, republican congressman leading the investigation, mi
The expected inclusion with the final wording due by this weekend of a question of citizenship. Progressives, states attorneys generals will have a fleury of activity to the Commerce Department to add the question about citizenship to the census. Our colleague Kristin Welker put that question to Sarah Sanders. You heard Sarah Sanders say that she thinks or in the estimation of the Commerce Department, the department of justice that this is the right thing to do, to make sure that resources are properly allocated. The other main focus of todays briefing, of course, was Stormy Daniels. More to the point why the president has been conspicuously silent about Stormy Daniels even as her attorney is seemingly talking to any and everyone about their side of this alleged affair. Sarah sanders when asked basically said one of the reasons why the president hasnt said anything is because he has a country to run even though our reporting suggests that he has asked privately aides and advisers about