We are live at cnn World Headquarters in atlanta. Im george howell. Im natalie allen. Cnn newsroom starts now. [ music playing ] and we begin with a shocking report from the New York Times with explosive implications. The paper reports the fbi looked into whether donald trump, a sitting u. S. President , was working on behalf of russia and against american interests. This, the new statement alone, it is just unprecedented. According to times, the fbi started the investigation, because it was concerned, worried about mr. Trumps behavior, his actions after he fired fbi director james comey. The probe also triggered by mr. Trumps own words. His public statements when he said in a tv interview, he dismissed comey because of the russia inquiry. To be clear, we dont know if special Counsel Robert Mueller is pursuing that probe as a part of his overall investigation into the russia collusion. The white house is quick to respovenltd Sarah Sanders calling this story absurd. Comey was fired for
All of it as the 11th hour gets under way on a wednesday night. And good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 720 of the trump administration. Day 19 of the Government Shutdown. And there is no sign of a way out as talks collapsed again today. Tomorrow the president travels to the u. S. Mexico border to make his case once again for a wall, or what he now refers to as a barrier of steel slats. The meeting at the white house came to an abrupt end when the president left the room. Both parties then rushed to the microphones in the white house driveway to give their own afteraction reports. Its cold out here, and the temperature wasnt much warmer in the situation room. The president walked into the room and passed out candy. Our meeting did not last long. I asked him to open up the government. The president then turned to the speaker and politely asked her, okay, nancy, if we open the government up, in 30 days could we have Border Security . The speaker o
Our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 767 of the trump administration. Hours from now the american president referenced in legal documents as individual 1 will land in hanoi in vietnam for his second summit with north koreas kim jongun. While the president is there, his former personal lawyer will testify as to what he knows, a city in washington also consumed with anticipation over the release of whatever it is Robert Mueller has found out during the course of his russia investigation. Some major democrats in the house have already started a campaign to pressure the new attorney general, william barr, to make the report public. And then today came this from rod rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney general who had been supervising the mueller effort, comments today that seemed to some at least to be vaguely foreshadowing some sort of legal fight over the mueller findings perhaps. Theres a kneejerk reaction that suggests that we should be transparent about what we do in government.
Amendment to the constitution would be invoked. The administration is pushing back as Andrew Mccabe is speaking out. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. You are in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Were following breaking news on the 11th hour drama as the house is preparing to vote on a bill to prevent another Government Shutdown. President trump waited until the last minute to confirm that he will sign the legislation that cleared the u. S. Senate a short while ago. He is also planning to declare a Controversial National emergency to secure border wall funding that was not in the bill. Another breaking story, william barr was sworn in as the attorney general and overseer of the russia probe. This as former fbi acting director Andrew Mccabe is speaking out about the investigation and his concerns about the president. Mccabe now publically confirming that there were high level discussions in the Justice Department abou
Newsroom. Talks to end a u. S. Budget impasse are at a stalemate with the partial Government Shutdown now in its third week. President donald trump is not backing down on his demand for more than 5 billion to build a wall on the southern border. And hes threatening to bypass congress to get the money if needed. Boris sanchez has an update from washington. Reporter as has been the case for several days during meetings between Top Administration officials and lawmakers to reopen the federal government and potentially fund some sort of border barrier between the United States and mexico that President Trump has been promising were hearing two different sides about what happened during these negotiatio negotiations. On one hand you have President Trump tweeting out that this meeting was productive. On the other hand were hearing multiple accounts from people behind those closed doors that things did not go all that well. One source telling cnn that the republicans presented the democrats t