We want to welcome viewers in United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Tonight, disturbing information that hits at the heart of two crucial questions about the president of the United States. Did he obstruct justice and is he fit to serve . Cnn is confirmed white House Counsel done mccann tried to persuade Jeff Sessions not to recuse himself from the russia investigation. The New York Times reports that he acted on the orders of President Trump who was furious when sessions recused himself anybay. Also tonight, the author of a stunning expose is claiming that everyone in the president s inner circle, 100 , question his intelligence and fitness for office. When asked about his mental health, he would say he former trump strategist by saying hes lost it. As that new tellall went on sale today, President Trump has been lashing out tweeting that the book is phony and full of lies and denying he spoke with the author. Michael wolff stands by everyth
Process. The president tweeting this, Congress Must past smart, fast and reasonable immigration laws. Now Law Enforcement at the border is doing a great job, but the laws they are forced to work with are insane. He goes on, when people, with or without children in our country, may must be told to leave without our country being forced to endure a long and costly trial. Tell the people, out, and they must leave just as they would if they were standing on your front lawn. Our cnn congressional corporate, you we correspondent, you were on that call, what did he say . Reporter the hhs secretary on this call knegave a new data point, saying under 3,000 children in total, that have been separated from their families remain in custody today. Among that 3,000 figure, it includes 100 children who are under the age of 5. The wording that the hhs secretary is using certainly is very important. He said under 3,000 children, so that is not a real number yet. The last data point of course we had was
Ill ask the president s former Communications Director whose hiring controversy got her that job about who if anybody can replace her. Plus the great prep. Senator klobuchar is here in studio as she gets ready for the first democratic primary debates. Well do some prep with her right here. And a tweet from my pal donald trump watched our show last week. Wasnt too happy. Ripped into my shoebiz and says we were never friends. I miss you, buddy. Happy birthday. Youre a spectacular guy. Youre doing great on television. Thank you, mr. President. There is a lot to cover tonight. This is saturday night politics. We have a great group tonight. Before we get to them i want a little bit of a tip of the hat to my former you can obviously see, former friend donald trump. Yes, we have built a wall. Yes, mr. President , saturday night politics wall. We go through the Building Blocks of the wall throughout the show our road map to wrap up the weeks top stories. Think of it as our fourth guest. We hav
President trumps personal assistant who controlled daily access to the oval office forced to resign after the president learned she shared confidential details about white house operations and the trump family with reporters during an off the record dinner. I suspect this would be an issue for any administration but particularly one thats is adversarial with the press and it concerned about leaks especially sensitive ones. New low . The Trump Administration abruptly ending deferred deportation of seriously ill migrants. Children and adults who have been receiving life saving medical care since they were young. Now their doctors are speaking out. We feel like weve given her a death sentence. Its stopping feedings for a patient that needs that type of support. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. Millions of floridians on alert at this hour bracing for updates on that hurricane. Hurricane dorians path as this category 2 hurricane infence ti ifies. A new advisory forecast
political winds are more favorable to republicans in the fourth quarter giving them an advantage over democrats larger than any in more than 25 years. what we don t know is if republicans kept their momentum throughout december as omicron was spreading. independents that gallup says make up the largest political group. a lot of voters could be making up their minds before the mid-terms. either way it is a fascinating poll that just came out. bill: headline is clear and obvious. nice to see you in washington dana: let s bring in our panel reince prieb us former white house chief of staff. jim messina former deputy chief of staff under president obama. jim, i want to put this up for you. presidential house seat change at mid-terms and you can look back over history. jim, you know these numbers by heart. clinton in the mid-term lost 52 seats, bush up eight after 9/11.