Ordering a review of all Police Reforms nationwide. What does this mean from the changes enacted under the Previous Administration . Hint, any changes are being reviewed. Good morning and welcome to early start im christine romans. And im dave briggs. Amid the constant drip, drip between the Trump Administration and russia has gotten a lot of attention, now the president taking a leap doing his best to make unmasking sounding illegal, aimed to cooking up a scandal from potentially a real one. All this that a high ranking obama official requested unmasking, blumburg news sighting susan rice requesting the unmasking. Unmasking is not the same as leaking because unmasked identity is only revealed to officials au officials authorized to know. Lets bring in cnns jim sciutto in washington. Reporter dave and christine a source close to ambassador susan rice tells me the claims she improperly unmasked the names of u. S. Citizens caught up in surveillance is in a word false, coming from ambassa
Also just in, cnn reporting on the embattled epa chief. Why President Trump may now be entertaining the idea of firing scott pruitt. Stand by, we have new information. But lets begin with the biggest Foreign Policy decision of the Trump Presidency so far. About an hour from now, the president announces whether the United States will pull out of the Iran Nuclear Deal. Sources say hes expected to announce that he will reinstate sanctions against iran. That would be the first step toward withdrawing from the agreement. But those sources also caution that nothing is final until the announcement by the president is made one hour from now, 2 00 p. M. Eastern. Cnns chief White House Correspondent jim acosta is joining us live. Jim, we know the president spoke with the french president Emmanuel Macron earlier in the day. Macron is trying to persuade him to stay in the iran deal. What are you hearing about that conversation . Wolf, what were hearing about that conversation and other conversatio
Withdrawal just moments from now from the diplomatic room. We are standing by for the announce men. I want to head over to Michelle Kosinski over at the state department right now. How are u. S. Allies, britain, france, germany, reacting to this pending announcement . Wolf, there has been a growing sense of pessimism over this over the last kefrl weeks as more and more top european leaders and diplomats have come here to washington to try for a lastditch effort to keep the u. S. In the deal. Today, now that the writing is fully on the wall whats going to happen here we dont know every detail but they fully expect that trump is going to only waive some sanctions or not waive any of them or have some sort of plan that is at the very least going to have the u. S. In violation of the Iran Nuclear Deal and start to collapse it. We are hearing words from them like they are frustrated. They are ds appointed. That this is a disaster. Because for months now they have been working with the u. S.
A friend of mine that said, why wouldnt you just try the juul. And so i went out and i bought one. The idea of going back to smoking. I couldnt even imagine doing that. I dont think anyone including myself thought that i could switch. Good evening, the wait for Robert Muellers report is almost over. How much of it does congress get to see. William barr went before the house committee, much of the question centered on the special counsels report. He says to expect it in a week and he plans documentation for every redactions thats been made. He said he does not plan on seeking a court order to release grand jury information. He doubled down as contention and being forthcoming and releasing a redacting report because regulations do not require public disclosures. The attorney general did not answer this question. Did the white house see the report before you release your summarizing letter . Has the white house seen it since then . Have they been briefed on the contents beyond what was in
Here. Its a new day, and a new chair and i have the gavel at this point. If you wish to leave, you may. When it the republicans they did not treat the secretary of the treasury this way. So if this is it the way you want to treat me, then ill rethink whether i voluntarily come back there testify, which ive offered to do. Mr. Secretary, i want you to know that no other secretary has ever told us the day before that they were going to limit their time in the way that youre doing. So if you want to use them as examples, you have acted differently than they have acted and as i have said, if you wish to leave, you may. If youd wish to keep me here so that i dont have my important meeting and continue to grill me, then we can do that. I wilg cancel my meeting and i will not be back here. Ill be clear if thats the way youd like the have this relationship. Thank you. The gentleman has agreed to stay. Please cancel your meeting and respect our time. My foroen meeting. Youre instructing me to st