Just a few hours ago lawmakers close to the process were predicting that the democrats memo would go public as early as tonight. President trump himself indicated to reporters in the middle of the day he was inclined to release this with at least some sensible redactions of National Security information. But i think a clue of this holdup came later in the afternoon when the president huddled with lawyers from the White House Counsels Office and lawyers from the Justice Department and the f. B. I. Director christopher wray. Once you get the lawyers more deeply involved look out. The changes may be coming. Sure enough mcgahn fired off a letter to nunes saying although the president is inclined to declassify the february 5th memo, because the memorandum contains numerous especially sensitive passages he sun able to do so at this time. However, given the Public Interest in the transparency in these unprecedented circumstances the president has directed the Justice Department personnel be a
Part of the grand can jon theyo that is tough to get there. We understand wind gusts up to 50 miles an hour making it difficult for aerial access. Now with military assistance could hopefully get them out of the scene as this investigation begins. We understand the ntsb will be looking into the cause of this accident. This was a tour operated by papion group and say they are the Worlds Largest sightseeing company. A single engine, very roomy and very capable aircraft there case of transporting seven to eight people and the ntsb will be launching an investigation there. We found out that this tour company was involved in a deadly accident back in 2001 and havent seen anything since. Now here we are, again, 4 of 7 people did survive a deadly accident there in the grand canyon. This is still an evolving situation as the military now joins in trying to get the survivors away from the scene and over to help. Hopefully, sunrise there in a few hours will bring the people out quickly. Polo san
Mr. Speaker, the president of the United States. President trump delivers his first state of the Union Tonight. A message of unity. Can he keep that promise once he walks off the house floor . Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. Im christine romans. Nice to see you on tuesday morning. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. The clock is ticking whether to release the classified republican memo alleging surv l surveillance abuse by the fbi. Voting along party lines to release the memo drafted by devin nunes. The memo delivered to the white house starting a fiveday period for the president to decide whether to release it. The memo release would bolster the republican effort to under cut Robert Muellers investigation and escalate the battle with the Justice Department. The potential disclosure of classified material is of concern to former National Security officials. It is just bad all the way around. This is, i think, a very negative development for lots of reasons. It represent
Could the lights go out again at midnight thursday . Let the games begin. The Pyeongchang Olympics begin today the day ahead of the Opening Ceremony. Good morning. Im christine romans. Mixed doubles curling started last night. There was a military parade that took the attention away from what happened in the north. Well talk about that shortly. It is february 8th. Welcome to the viewers from the u. S. And around the world. We start with major questions of who knew what and when after a Top White House official forced to step down over allegations he abused two exwives. Staff secretary rob porter is out of the west wing today. Sources telling cnn that chief of staff has known for months of the Domestic Violence claims. Porter was upset when told about it this week and ivanka trump was disturbed of the alleged abuse. His exwives accused him of the abuse during the background checks. One of the exwives spoke out. Im not surprised that people who work with him in a professional capacity se
Wants to bring up the idea of raising the age to buy an ar15 as the president now proposes. Lets look at the front pages of the papers weve been looking at the past couple of days. The New York Post, guns half cocked idea, pay to arm teachers and the great headline, smith and wes son. Again, this has been a very conservative tabloid that has been supportive of did but this is a memo from Rupert Murdock knowing its the first paper he reads in the morning. It is a stupid idea. Its an idea that nra likes because of course you actually get more than 300 million guns on the streets. You actually get even more guns than more gun shootouts and the need for more guns. I thought the ralph peters now shrinking himself, ralph is a tough guy. And he writes a tough column today. And he talks about ban these weapons of murder and again, another tough guy, tough conservative, former military man, gun owner, fired his first gun when he was 7 years old and because he was such a delicate flower at 7 it