Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Breaking news, protests spreading after donald trump pulls off one of the most stunning upset victories in american history. This is cnn tonight, im don lemon. Real estate mogul, reality tv star and now president elect, how donald trump did it when even a lot of republicans thought it was possible. Plus, hes promised to make America Great again, and will build a wall and have mexicans pay for if, ban muslims temperature rarel temporarily, and put Hillary Clinton in jail. How many of that will happen . Jason carol, jean casaris, outside the trump tower and ryan young antitrump protests in chicago. Paul verkamon joins us from los angeles. Jean cesarus, youre with the protesto protestors. Tell me whats going on. Reporter were at fifth avenue at 56th street. You can see behind me at trump tower. Everyone is still here, a little bit quieter. Theyll break out in chanting mainly against donald trump. Donald trump is not my president , theyre also chanting
Rallying his supporters yesterday. We have to change our laws, the democrats have control because we dont have the votes. The republicans need we need more republicans frankly and thats why i think we will do so well in the midterms. That and because wait, that and because we have the strongest economy in the history of our nation. We have the best jobs numbers in the last 44 years. Jon Garrett Tenney live at the white house with more. Jon, busy week at the white house and no shortage of issues to talk about. It is telling that this morning the president was again tweeting about the newly released report from the Inspector General on the fbis handling of the clinton email investigation tweeting the ig report totally destroys james comey and all of his minions including the great lovers, peter strzok and lisa page who started the disgraceful witch hunt against so many innocent people. It will go down as dark and dangerous period in american history. The igs report was highly critical of
The Trump Administration considering revoking more security clearances for current or former officials with connections to the russia investigation. This, as former cia director john brennan is speaking out about the president taking away his clearances. This is an egregious act that it flies in the face of traditional practice, as well as common sense, as well as National Security. I think thats why theres been such an outcry from many intelligence officials, know the to support me, but to support the principle that security clearances are something thats very, very solemn and sacred and they never ever should be used for political purposes. All right, john brennan there on msnbc. Fox News National security correspondent Jennifer Griffin joining us now. Were about 48 hours into this. This seems to be the beginning rather than the end. Well, leland, there are very clear signs that President Trump is preparing to strip the security clearances of eight more, and one Current Justice Depar
Expectations for this summit. I do not expect anything. I frankly do not expect, i have very low expectations. I think that getting along with russia is a good thing. But it is possible we want. I think we are greatly hampered by this whole witchhunt going on in the United States. John roberts is live in helsinki. John, with all eyes on that city, what is President Trump bringing to the table tomorrow for this historic meeting . At this point, it is unclear. And good morning from helsinki at as it has just turned monday morning. This is the day of the summit here as President Trump touched down in helsinki about three hours ago it was very unclear what this summit could bring. Whether they are deliverables or what the deliverables might be. The Russian Foreign minister, sergei lavrov, sibley saying he would like to see more direct lines of communication between washington d. C. And the kremlin. President trump telling cbs news, he does not know what is going to come of this. Listen her
New york city. He is calling on attorney general Jeff Sessions to get involved. Ellison barber live at the white house with the very latest on the president s call. Hi, ellison. Reporter eric, President Trump told reporters on air force one he is considering potential legal action against the times. He thinks this is something attorney general Jeff Sessions should get involved with and investigate to try to figure out who wrote this oped. The white house seems to be walking that statement back. A white house official told the Associated Press the president was expressing his frustration with the oped but not ordering federal prosecutors to take action. The New York Times says that they are confident that the department of justice understands that the First Amendment protects all american citizens and that it would not participate in such a blatant abuse of government power. More than 30 cabinet level and cabinet members have denied writing the oped. U. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Nikki