Again today. Why its more expensive than ever to keep him safe. Welcome the lead. Im jim chute ore in for jake tapper and we begin with the politics lead. You better watch out, lying ted and crooked hillary and low energy jeb, candidate trump is back. After a week that cost him his National Security advisor and a cabinet nominee, President Trump hit the road again today making an appearance first at a boeing plant in South Carolina which he will followup with a Campaign Rally. Thats right, a Campaign Rally in florida tomorrow. All this as the help wanted signs continue to hang outside the oval office after the president s pick to replace Michael Flynn and his vice admiral Robert Harward turn down the offer and questions continue to swirl about russia. This is exclusive video of fbi director james comey leaving a classified briefing on capitol hill with member of the Senate Intelligence committee and a handful of other senators, and we are told that meeting was, listen to this, about ru
National security advisor had not discussed sanctions with the russian envoy. Though, slane later admitted that the issue may have come up. Earlier today, Kellyanne Conway said has the full confidence of President Trump. White house second sean spicer had told reporters that the president was monitoring the situation and it was speaking to the Vice President and others on his team about flynns future. We now know that flynn has made a future for himself by resigning. Lets turn now to john roberts with more details about this. John. Kelly, good evening. We saw this developing throughout the day. At the white house. The president according to sources close to him was willing to hang in there with flynn, willing to try and make it work, patch over the damage, but it was flynn himself, according to one of the source of self that cratered on this and decided to take himself out apparently. Again, according to the source, everyone feels badly about the fact that flynn is now gone from the wh
With scott pelley. Pelley this is our western edition. On the security advisor Michael Flynn. The president let flynn go this week because he was not honest about contacts he had with russia. Earlier today, President Trump blamed the fbi, the National Security agency, and the media for the controversy. He suggested the fbi and the nsa are behind what he called illegal leaks of classified information. The president wrote that the Fake News Media is going crazy with their conspiracy theories and blind hatred. Mr. Trump blamed the flynn controversy on the Hillary Clinton campaign, and for the second time in three days, he reminded a News Conference at the white house of his margin of victory in the electoral college. Major garrett on a busy day of deflection. General flynn is a wonderful man. I think hes been treated very, very unfairly by the media. Reporter President Trump praised ousted National Security adviser Michael Flynn just one day after the white house said mr. Trump asked for
Take very, very seriously, they were p doing but we asked them to do, going after bad guys with guns. Bill a gunwielding 18yearold shot dead by police after being released from custody by a judge. A shocking situation. Caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. The factor begins right now. Bill hi, i am bill oreilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. Mass hysteria over that is a subject of this evenings talking points memo. As we reported last night, the National Security advisor has resigned because the Trump Administration says it lost confidence in him. The story is a bit complicated but it boils down to this. Flynn had contact with the Russian Ambassador in late december, while barack obama waa still president. According to leaks from the intelligence agencies, flynn discussed mr. Obamas sanctions against russia. Then, general flynn denied that to Vice President mike pence. The fbi also interviewed general flynn, and if you lie to them, that would be a crime. However, that is
One story, spies keep intelligence from donald trump on leak concerns. President trump the wall street journal did a story today that was almost as disgraceful as the feeling New York Timess story yesterday. Any suggestion that the United States Intelligence Community, this was just given to us, is withholding information and not providing the best possible intelligence to the president and his National Security team is not true. Martha while the president awaits the confirmation for senator dan coats, who is going to be as director of National Intelligence and a big important coordinator and all of the scum of the New York Times is winning this headline. White house plans to have trump ally review intelligence agencies, an outsider. We are joined for the white house reaction and tony schaefer. We begin tonight with catherine herridge. Catherine. Thank you, martha. Based on the reporting tonight, there is deep unease at the fbi over new Law Enforcement lakes amid the bureaus probe of f