Doug mckelway starting coverage. What changes can we report, doug since this embarrassing report went public . Reporter lots and lots of changeses are headed our way bill. Whether or not they work or enagain der confidence remains to be seen. This is latest embarassment for long line of embarassments for tsa. A recent report hundreds of security badges weeks ago were loss at the Atlanta Airport and san diego airport. This is much more serious. This new internal report shows out of 67 out of 70 attempts to pass contraband material through tsa security, screeners did not detect the contraband. In the aftermath of this, dhs secretary, jeh johnson tried to put the best face on it with a Statement Last night which read in part, these numbers in this report never look good out of context but they are critical element in the continue evolution of our aviation security. We take these findings very seriously and efforts to enhance capabilities and techniques as threats evolve. In addition to th
This is cnn breaking news. Breaking news this hour, a federal judge has now blocked part of a trump executive order that would cut off funding for socalled sanctuary cities across the country that protect illegal immigrants. The Ruling Issued in california a little while ago. Another major legal blow to the president S Immigration agenda after his travel ban was blocked by the federal courts. Also breaking, new oversight for the feds trump russia investigation amid new signs president ousted National Security adviser may have broken the law. The senate just confirmed Deputy Attorney general rod rosen stein. He now has authority over the entire russian probe since his boss, attorney general Jeff Sessions, recused himself. This as the chairman of House Oversight committee suggesting Michael Flynn may have broken the law by failing to disclose payments received from russia and turkey before he became the president s National Security adviser. Tonight we are following duelling shows of for
Following statement, president obama went outside the chain of command and didnt use the nsa or fbi or department of justice, he use the gchq, what is that . The initials for the British Intelligence spying agency, by having two people say to them the president needs transcripts involving the conversations involving donald trump and hes able to get it and no american fingerprints on this. All right, well britain has reacted putting it mildly and we just got word that the u. S. Has apologized to u. S. Officials. The president could face questions on this with he holds first News Conference and made his own evidence about wiretap claims and hell be side by side with ang la merkel in a few hours. We have a lot to cover. Lets begin with the overseas reaction in london, nic, quite a night. Absolutely first we heard from gchq and i have to stress how absolutely rare it is and almost unheard of that they would comment on anything sort of allegations. The fact they came out and then called thi
Questions that the acting director, no doubt, needs to face today. Especially given all weve learned in the last 12 hours about what is reportedly what drove this president to fire the fbi director. Lets bring back in our panel, mark preston, niamalika henderson, bob baer, laura coates, dana bash, evan perez. And evan, to you first. As andy mccabe sits down, what questions will he be drilled with off the bat, do you believe . Well, one of the first questions im sure theyre going to ask him is how he found out that his boss, james comey, was fired. We know how comey found out. He was addressing agents at the Los Angeles Field Office when fox news incorrectly reported that he had resigned. And he sort of laughed it off because he knew he hadnt resigned. Then he sees cnn and others start reporting that high been fired, and thats when he really found out. So, that is the big question for mccabe. And obviously, the other question is how is this firing going to affect this investigation into
President trump meets with survivors of the massacre, along with First Responders and medical teams praising their heroism and calling the shooter sick and demeant td. But avoids the topic of gun control. And kremlin con knifing, Senate Intelligence leaders warn moscow is still trying to interfere with americas democracy as cnn learns that thousands of russian linked facebook ads targeted at least a dozen states including key election battle grounds. Im wolf blitzer here in the situation room. Breaking news, President Trump is on his way back to washington this hour after visiting with some of those wounded in the Las Vegas Massacre along with medical teams and First Responders. The president praised the hero wism of those involved and called the shootder very sick and demented. But so far is refusing to address the issue of gun violence. Police have released body camera video revealing the chaos in the desperation as bullets rain down on the concert goers in the las vegas. But they ar