Then a big caravan of people crossing into the United States, nine minutes back to attacking the media. This time cnn. Few minutes later, praised rasmussen for favorable apology. Three hours later tweeted more criticism about amazon. Joining me from the white house, nbc newss jeff bennett. Good afternoon to you. Continues to be eventful around there. With respect to the tweets about amazon and immigration, theyre very confusing. Reporter they are very confusing. I have to say that the confusion has continued and spread across other topics to include what you said about russia. Heard the president twice today say that nobody has been tougher on russia than hes been. Of course, you have a disconnect between the president s con speck with us silence to say anything critical of president Vladimir Putin, while his administration has taken steps to of course expel 60 diplomats, which the administration considers to be spies, intelligence agents, and steps to impose russia sanctions. And then
Why hasnt President Trump issued orders to stop them . Trying to compromise. As senators debate immigration reform, President Trump accuses democrats of not wanting agreement is then said he was only kidding. With 2 million young immigrants futures at stake, is this any way to make a deal . And welcoming his sister back from the olympics. The Charm Offensive may not have worked can. Anything convince the young dictator to negotiate . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with the conflicting stories. One from the White House Press secretary about when the bureau passed the information about rob porter. He is the former trump aide. He resigned after his exwives allegations of Domestic Abuse and assault were published a week ago. Ill speak with our correspondents. First lets to go our chief correspondent jim acosta. The white house story, it keep oss changing. It really does. The white house is at odds with the fbi once again, this time over the time line of the scandal
Well have more later in the show. Bill were learning the House Oversight committee has begun an investigation into the rob porter scandal from the west wing as the white house knocks down roomers that chief of staff john kelly is stepping down. Sandra how the white house explain the discrepancy in the timeline here . It is challenging when you think about it from this perspective. The white house has been forced the play defense because of imprecision in its explanation instead of saying this is what we knew when about the allegations facing rob porter, well since then theyve had to explain the process and then explain the decisions that were or were not made based on what they knew. Critics are clearly hunting for john kellys resignation. It was all over twitter yesterday. One the president has refused to call for. Yesterday f. B. I. Director Christopher Wray defended his agencys handling of the investigation into the former white house aide. The f. B. I. Submitted a partial report on
Bill the brutality of the killings shocked the country. Manson said he was innocent and never showed remorse. Death is charlies trip. Manson spoke constantly of death. Their life was murder. I never broke nobodys will. I never told anybody to do anything other than what they wanted to do. Bill were live in l. A. With more on the story now. William, hello. Manson should have died a long time ago. He was sentenced to the gas chamber in 1971. California outlawed the Death Penalty a year later. The murders at the time shocked the country. Partly because it was hollywood and partly because they were so bizarre. Sharon tate was 8 1 2 months pregnant. Hogtied her, stabbed her 15 times. The next night they killed more people. He was a cult leader. He collected this group of drifters and runaways and young women living commune style in the hills of los angeles. They took acid and saw themselves as the manson family and carried out his murders. He would claim innocence. He was raised by an abusi
Blame. Two exwives ended up working side by side with the president and right hand of the chief of staff. The story magically, conveniently changed hours after the fbi director testified about a time line that directly contradicted what the white house had said just yesterday. The white house tried to make a case that you shouldnt believe your own eyes and ears you should believe each version of the white houses shifting narrative and you should believe the white house when you hear the president cares about victims of Domestic Violence. Again, this centers around porter who resigned last week after news broke had accused him of abuse. The picture showing his first wife with the black eye, the white house has been scrambling to come up with a consistent story when they learned about the allegations. They still have not been able to do that. Cnn reported that don mcgahn new a year ago and learned more details over the past year. Yesterday the white house said it learned of the extent of