alana evans says she heard trump on the phone the night she was invited to a party with stormy daniels. she said she would take the lie detector test too to prove it. i ll talk to her tonight. we have new developments on the nerve agent used on a russian double agent in the uk. president trump ordering 60 russian diplomats expelled sending them back to moscow in response to a brazen poison attack. strong action against russia from this administration, but the white house refuses to say why the president refused to mention the poisoning in his call to vladimir putin last week. we ll have more on that in just a minute. first i want to bring in cnn white house correspondent caitlyn collins and matt lewis. okay. we have a lot to talk about. a lot of people, a lot of allegations. a lot of sex, tawdry stuff. we have yet to hear from the president about stormy daniels. he did however tweet an attack on the media saying so much fake news.
at saint patrick s cathedral. that s a look at your headlines. send it back to you. jillian: gosh, there were a lot of firefighters sanding in front of the cathedral this morning on my way to work. and to have all the railings along fifth avenue. god bless his family. we told you about the president expelling 60 russian diplomats in response to the u.k. poison attack. so what impact will that have? live reaction from the white house next. steve: plus the roseanne tv show reboot is here. it s taking on 2016. how screw voted for him, roseanne? he talked about jobs, jackie. he said he would shake things up? have you looked at the news because now things are worse. not on the real news. steve: i love that. that s just some of it. we got much more straight ahead. that s funny stuff.
what i m looking for to with ambassador bolton in north korea, is not necessarily the summit, if it happens, but the aftermath. the north koreans buy time, whether it s how the inspectors do in or when or the notification. meanwhile, their nuclear scientists and missile engineers are busy bees building a functionalized icbm and ambassador bolton will use their feet to the fire. melissa: thanks, lieutenant colonel. thanks. jon: more ahead on the diplomatic fallout on the poison attack from the former russian spy. we told you president trump ordered the expulsion of 60 diplomats. what led to the president s decision? plus, missile attacks on saudi arabia heating up. the war in yemen. how the saudis are responding.
out where these leaks are coming from, but they continue, by the way, in all manner. not just on national security matters but our reporting and reporting at other outlets has shown time and again details about the president s mood about what the president is is telling his advisers and his friends in private. just lots of information coming out to paint a full picture. an important part of that is how he approaches things like this. so is it clear if the president ignored those capital letters that said do not congratulate or he just didn t read it or hear it. well, all we know is what carol and my other colleagues reported that he was advised in those capital letters not to congratulate putin and he went on in his phone call with president putin to do the opposite. to congratulate him and not to confront him on the poison attack. so i don t know if he willfully ignored that or why he made that
but, maybe, maybe there is an explanation. maybe the president used it as an opportunity to call him out for attacks in midterm elections or poisoning former spy to lived in the u.k. americas closest ally. did he? readout department say anything about russian meddling. i don t believe it came up on the specific call. election meddling didn t come up in the call. i m curious did the recent poisoning come up? i don t believe that was discussed in today s call. okay. i don t believe that was discussed. itsds a pretty damming admission considering people in trump s own administration are criticizing russia for election meddling and likely poison attack. here s the president own u.n. ambassador nikki haley on the poisoning. if we don t take immediate concrete measures to address this now, salisbury will not be