Its not clear tonight if one of those allegations was viewed as significantly more important than the others or maybe the sheer number of them now, but something happened today to break the political dam in terms of senator franken having the support of his colleagues. Nearly three dozen Democratic Senators came out to call for him to resign. Senator frankens office announced a Public Statement tomorrow, midmorning. Shortly thereafter, reported that senator franken would announce resignation from senate but shortly after that report, senator frankens twitter account contested that reporting. Saying that npr should change story, had made no such decision. Number of Big Questions around the fate of al franken. One is what is going to happen tomorrow. On that one, i have a feeling well just find out tomorrow. Other big question, what drove this dramatic news today . What happened behind the scenes among Democratic Senators that caused so many of them to come out in quick succession today,
President trump talked about flynn at the time. Michael flynn, general flynn, is a wonderful man, hes been treated unfairly by the media. As i call it the fake media in many cases. I think it is a sad thing that he was treated so badly. I think it is very, very unfair whats happening to general flynn the way he was treated, very, very unfair. Clearly this was not a president who had just fired Michael Flynn. Michael flynn was allowed to resign. The president said so himself awkwardly standing next to Benjamin Netanyahu as today police announced that he could be indicted on charges. The president made that clear himself and it was made clear on one excruciating white houses press briefing right after flynns departure. Good afternoon. Happy valentines day, i can sense the love in the room. When the president heard the information presented by white houses council, he thought general flynn did not do anything wrong. Back in january, the president said that nobody in his campaign had been
How could it change from how you get around to what your kids are watching on tv. Good afternoon. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. One full week into the scandal involving rob porter and yet the American People do not know who knew what and when and why. Why the white house staff kept someone around who had been accused of Domestic Abuse by two exwives and an exgirlfriend. Questions that the white house refuse to answer. What we do know, it seems the explanation is not really holding up. The white house would lead to you believe theyve been nothing but clear and consistent on this issue. Chief of staff john kelly just talked about the porter situation. It was all done right. Thats just wrong. Just since yesterday weve learned more that suggests the white house has not told the American People the full truth. From the white house podium yesterday, Sarah Sanders painted rosie picture of a white house motivated by a clear sense of right and wrong someone who had been removed because o
Muellers questions, everything. Axios reports today muellers decision to drop the more expansive charges against gates suggests that he may have provided good information for muellers probe. Unanswered question now is whether that information will be used to further pressure Paul Manafort or whether gates has the goods on the president himself. Meanwhile, nbc news is reporting among the many states that were targeted by Russian Hackers some were actually compromised. The u. S. Intelligence community developed substantial evidence that state web sites and seven states with compromised by russianbacked covert operatives prior to the 2016 election but never told the states involved, according to multiple u. S. Officials. As of january of last year, those seven states included alaska, arizona, california, florida, illinois, texas, and wisconsin. While state and federal Officials Say no votes were actually changed theyre concerned that 2016 was laying the groundwork for a possible future at
Party has left their fingerprints on the state of our immigration system today. The reagan administrations amnesty policy drew widespread backlash and still gives some conservatives pause today. The inistrion had its faults. The Obama Administration struggled to handle a spike in migrations amid mass deportations. But at the moment, the Current Administration is separating families from their children at our border with mexico, not because of a law, but because this administration has chosen to do so. So far despite nearly 2000 children being separated from their families, whats missing from this story are a flood of images of these Young Children. It was images of children, after all, that spurred the president to change course in syria. So far, this young toddler has become the face of this policy. Stop and look at her for just a moment. And remember that there are thousands thousands of other faces that we have not seen. Thats, in part, because cameras have been granted such limited