President ial election. Whats behind long delays in collecting crucial documents and link up key witnesses . And obamas back. The former president makes his First Public Appearance Since Leaving Office ending months of silence. What is he saying about his successor and the unusual events of the last three months . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were following the scramble to avert a Government Shutdown. On friday lawmakers are battling over funding over President Trumps bothered wall that needs more than is billion taxpayer dollars to get started despite the president s repeated insistence that mexico would pay for it. Were also following the case of a u. S. Citizen being detained by north korea. The kim jongun regime is now holding three americans. Were going live to pyongyang this hour for an exclusive report. And new tonight, former president obama reemerging after three months of silence with his First Public Appearance Since Leaving Office. He took part in a forum a
What steve bannon calls the Opposition Party President Trump will be the first president in 36 years to skip it. Hes holding what sounds like a reelection rally in president. The president of the Correspondents Association just interviewed the commander in chief in the oval office who told him he misses his old life. Jeff mason is here. Selena zito of the Washington Examiner also interviewed the president she writes me found him, quote, humble. This week he tried to make good on the promise of the biggest tax cut in history, but what would his onepage memo do to the deficit . And north korea causing more trouble on day 99, firing another Ballistic Missile. I will ask senator chris coons how we should respond. But first today it feels like the end of a semester. Everybody it seems has a grade for President Trumps first 100 days and how he fairs, well, that depends upon the proctor. According to a recent cnn orc poll his Approval Rating is a modern low at 44 , but a Washington Post abc n
It started last month, remember President Trump set out a tweet accusing the Obama Administration of surveilling him during the election. Since then, weve been peeling away all the layers of the president s claim with the help of the investigative reporting from people like sara carter and john solomon. For sarah and john uncovered the existence of an fbi investigation into a server being utilized at trump tower. They also discovered that a fisa warrant that allowed federal officials tol cant capture trup team prior to the present taking office. And they reveal that highranking officials with direct access to president obama may have had access to unmasked federalsk surveillance of Trump Transition Team members. This is all very important. They may have brief the president about thiss information. On march 22nd, devin nunes revealed he had seen reports that had proved President Trump and members of his Transition Team were in fact unmasked and that the intel had nothing to do with russ
Zaghba. Terror every few days, no coincidence its just a few days into ramadan. Cant imagine what the next 18 days might ring. Every day seems like we are talking about another attack. Eboni its insane. What happened with paris this morning, certainly also questions. What is sad is that none of it seems surprising anymore. Its almost expected at this point, not to confuse that with comfortable or condoning it but its almost expected that this is a way of life. Eric kat, every day, everyday we are opening the show and talking about either a terror attack that happened today were a couple days ago. Ramadan. Isis had said find your 72 virgins during ramadan. We have 18 more days of this. Kat if you ask nato list whats happened, i might miss one. Its a horrific thing. We have to get a handle on it. At the same time, keep the Civil Liberties concerns in mind. There is nothing to say other than that its horrific. Eric lets meet our todays specialists. Reported for the wall street journal, co
Well get into that in a second. But moments ago, the editor of breitbart, this is Steve Bannons former website, tweeted this in a single word. War. Lets begin with our senior White House Correspondent jim acosta live in bridgewater, new jersey, where the president is having this working vacation. Jim acosta, we wont beat around the bush. The man was fired. Reporter not much of a working vacation. Yeah, not much of a working vacation for the president , and he had to deal with something that was really pressing, it seems, if you talk to multiple white house sources and that is the pyrifiring of steve bannon. My understanding from talking to white house sources is that this was going to happen a couple of weeks ago, that bannon was going to be fired a couple of weeks ago, that it didnt happen, and then that recently he was given the option to resign, which, you know, if you want to break through the white house speak there and you were just doing that a few moments ago, brooke, he was fi