European leaders reacting disappointme disappointment. Warning the deal is not going to be renegotiated. Fired fbi director james comey is set to testify before the senate next week. What will he say . All of this as the white house turns to the Supreme Court to get the halted travel ban reinstated. We have it all covered for you with cnns joe johns at the white house. Reporter withdrawing from the paris accord was a big promise the president made to his base and most loyal supporters. Fulfilling it, he had to faceoff with the condemnation of the world. Now going forward, the leadership on the global stage could have enormous impact. The United States will withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord. Reporter President Trump making good on his Campaign Promise to withdraw from the landmark 195nation agreement, but leaving the door open for potential new deal. We are getting out, but we will start to negotiate and we will see if we can make a deal thats fair. If we can, thats great. Report
And in a speech in the heartland promoting a infrastructure plan where he ducked questions on whether he has confidence in his attorney general. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news. The fired fbi director james comey will testify tomorrow that President Trump asked him directly about former National Security adviser Michael Flynn under investigation for russia contacts saying, quote, i hope you can let this go. In his Opening Statement released early by the Senate Intelligence committee and raising lots of new questions about how hell add all of this up tomorrow, comey says the president also described the russia investigation as a cloud and asked what could be done, quote, to lift the cloud. Comey says the president repeatedly demanded loyalty and asked him to get the word out that he wasnt under investigation. Appearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee Panel today, director of National Intelligence dan coats and director of the National Security agency
This plan being formulated, more power for the generals to determine troops levels. Lets head immediate ly to the white house with hallie jackson, analysis with dana milbank and george will. Hans, let me start with you. Tell us about the plan and how it differs from president obamas strategy. Its namely a directional shift. Obama clearly was winding down the war. He wanted to end up with around 8,400 troops. Thats how many are there, now theres an indication that it will be winding up. Its not a drastic increase. He had a variety of policy reviews when president obama took office, they did more than 30,000 troops for the second surge. One thing we need to be clear, this is still very much in discussion. An Administration Official just told me this has not gone to the policy committee yet the princip Principles Committee at the National Security council so it gives you a sense theres deliberating over this and that gets into the second question. Theres so many numbers out there in terms
Iowa, that might as well have been a campaign stop. He went offscript early and often and relitigated a lot of longstanding battles. He made some lofty claims about his accomplishments thus far, about legislation and the number of coal industry jobs, for instance, that have been produced. He promised the crowd a Great National rebuilding. He promised health care with a heart, the largest tax cut in history, and he assured them hes going to build that wall along our southern border. But he said hed had an idea to make it a solar wall because, as he put it, its one of the places where solar works best. He said the wall pays for itself, and thus mexico will have to pay less. And, yes, we will build the wall. Weve already started planning. It will be built. But ill give you an idea that nobody has heard about yet, and im not sure, but im a builder. Thats what i love to do. Thats probably what i do best. Im a builder. And were thinking of something thats unique. Were talking about the south
President or anyone else . Senator feinstein, that would call for a communication between the attorney general and the president and im not able to comment on that. Have any department of justice officials been involved with conversations about any possibility of president ial pardons about any of the individuals involved with the russia investigation . Mr. Chairman, im not able to comment on conversations with high officials within the white house. In any of your discussions with the president about the firing of james comey, did the question of the russia investigation ever come up . I cannot answer that because has the president ever expressed his frustration with you regarding your decision to recuse yourself . Senator, im not able to share with this committee private communications because youre invoking executive privilege . Im not able to invoke executive privilege. Thats the president prerogative. Well, one question the attorney general did address, reports about a possible thi