Great move on delay by v. Putin. I always knew he was very mart. I want to bring in paolo sandoval. Lets start first with potential u. S. Reaction here. Do u. S. Officials believe that russia is now behind this new intrusion . Thats a great question. There is at least one listen for u. S. Officials to believe that there could, and i say could, be potential russian vomit in this latest cyber threat. First that company that you mentioned a few moments ago, Burlington Electric releasing a fresh new statement 20 minutes ago. In it they reiterate what we have been reporting much of today that Company Officials there have no reason to believe or at least no indication that the electrical grid that serves about 20,000 people in vermont and also that their customer information they have no reason to believe that both were compromised as a result of this malware that was located on one of their laptop computers. This all goes back to that initial discovery that was made of this possible malware
Lets begin now with cnn ryan noble in washington there on the white house property. Tell us more about whats believed to have happened, ryan. Reporter fredericka, we are still piecing together all the information thats coming from our various sources within the administration and within the secret service. What weve been able to drill down is a man was arrested after gaining access to the white house grounds. We believe from the east side of the white house. He made it all the way up to the south portico entrance which if youre looking where i am, im on the north side of the white house. It would be on the complete opposite end. This is a wellknown entrance into the white house. This is where the president would exit and enter if he were leaving on a trip to get on marine one. Its also a place where president s often greet guests that come to the white house through that entrance. Its also very close to the white house residence where President Trump was at the time that this man was a
Intelligence officials that say claims made or statements made on this subject from the president and his press secretary are not true. That is extraordinary. Thats just the next 12 hours. Within 48 hours we could hear if the president s First Supreme Court nominee will have a clear path to nomination, and then the Health Care Plan could have opposition in his own party, and thats some week. The House Intelligence Committee, the star witness will be the fbi director who for the first time might answer questions on whether there is an investigation into alleged connections between russia and associates of President Trump. Cnns ryan noble on how we got to this point. Wasting little time, Hillary Clintons Campaign Manager linked the hack to President Trump. Russian state actors were feeding emails to hackers for the purpose of helping trump. And then wikileaks unloaded a trove of dnc emails and among them damaging conversations and it did not take long for donald trump to embrace the hack
States governor, a man who we have to point out is not fully behind this plan, but ahead the sticking points, the effort to keep this bill on track. It was a week ago so its been a full week President Trumps accused president obama without evidence of spying on him at trump tower and now were learning the House Intelligence Committee wants any relevant documents, really any proof from the Justice Department on wire tapping by monday. Also growing anger after dozens of u. S. Attorneys are abruptly told to resign by the Trump Administration. What is behind that. Weve got our panel of political reporters and experts standing by to break it down for you. Just moments ago President Trump weighed in on the health care fight on twitter saying, quote, we are making great progress with health care. Obamacare is imploeding and will only get worse. Republicans coming together to get the job done. Lets go straight to our political producer dan whos live at the event in louisville. So dan, the pres