Huddling today with National Security advisors as kim jongun puts guam in his sights. Time to target, 17 minutes. Here to share reporting, carl holtz of the New York Times. Daily beasts jackie kucinich. Jack mason off reuters and Mary Katharine ham of the federalist. And marriage of convenience, bound to hit rough patches . Thats pretty much whats going on between President Trump and Senate Majority leader mcconnell except now arguing in public with a lot of people watching, causing quite a scene. Launching tweets at senator mcconnell blaming him for failing to repeal and replace obamacare and the president has never been shy about blaming congress for his stalled agenda and now we see hes got company. We have new numbers breaking right now from our new cnn poll that shows just how much americans dislike congress. Only 20 in our new poll approve of the job congress is doing. As for the Republican Leadership, senator mcconnell and House Speaker paul ryan, they are almost equally dislike
Allowed him access to highest information in the United States. Information he had access to daily more than the inauguration more than a year ago. And just moments ago our phil mattingly, he found him in the capital, followed him for four minutes, asking about the stunning develop. Kushner refusing to answer questions this is make your set back. He sees the nations top secret information every day. Been at the president s side since day one. Responsibilities include but are not limited to brokers peace in the middle east. Relations with china, mexico and canada, oveeeing office of, ending drug addiction, and the security clearance tonight as bob mueller special counsel investigates kushners links to russia and china and middle east dictator ships. And tonight more breaking news on this. Washington post is reporting at least four countries, united arab emirates, china, israel, privately discussed ways to talk to him. They did not chave contacts wit officials. Set back t a man that trum
February 8th, 2019. Newlyua released court transcris providing brandnew insight aboutw the special counsel gag and specifically the alleged lies that former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort told Robert Muellers mateam. According to the redacted document, federal prosecutors told ado judge this week that manafort may have lied in order to increase his chances of s getting a pardon for his crimes. In the transcripts prosecutors sayip manafort lied about d interactions with his former colleague rick gates in regard to an extremely sensitive issue. Thens details of which have bee redacted. Prosecutors say manafort may have lied because telling the truth would have negative consequences in termsve of the other motive that mr. Manafort had which is to augment his chances for aen pardon. Onlyrd the president can pardon somebody convicted of a federal crime. And theres more. We learned that manafort continued working for a political client in the ukraine eventh after he had already bee in
Inquiry. White House Democrats rather than we are an hour away from the News Conference where President Trump will have more to say about it all. You dont know that for sure. The stock market is down big time. More than 500 points at this moment. Well show you why coming up. Al major health scare for bernie sanders, he has to have a sudden medical procedure, forcing him to cancel upcoming events. Pete buttigieg will be joining us to talk about this and much more coming up. We have a lot to get to to get to at this hour. President trump as you have just seen. You met moments ago with the president of finfinland. He spoke to the press slamming the entire impeachment efforts. I want you to listen to this. Shifty schiff, hes a shifty dishonest guy who was critical of one of the great secretaries of state. Graduated number one of his class at west point, graduated one of the top of his class at harvard law school. The most honorable person, mike pompeo. This guy was negative on mike pomp po