While we wait for this event with Health Secretary Sylvia Burwell to get under way, well show you some of todays white house briefing. Good afternoon, everybody. I to not have any announcements at the top, so we can go straight to questions. Could you say what role the white house played, if any, in terry carter ordering the pentagon to stop recruitment recoupment of the enlistment bonuses sought from some guard members . Mr. Earnest as you know, the president makes the fair treatment of our Service Members a top priority. Officials at the department of defense and as i alluded to yesterday, the president has been pleased to see in the last 24 hours the department of defense make some specific commitments to ensuring that our Service Members are treated fairly. When a promise is made to our men and women in uniform, we should keep it. Certainly thats the view of the president. And we certainly want to avoid a situation where Service Members are punished because of nefarious or fraudule
War in the white house after taking punishing criticism for saying the strategy to fight isis is a work in progress. According to multiple reports, hes looking at plans to post hundreds of u. S. Troops to a brandnew training hub right in between a pair of isis held cities, but the white house says its not a done deal yet and says a final decision wont come until after the president sits down with ash carter later today. Kristen welker is at the white house for us. Good morning. Jim, lets start with you. What is the plan they are discussing . Well first of all, some officials that weve talked to senior military and diplomatic officials are saying when the president says the strategy is a work in progress they say that he gets that mixed up with the plans are a work in progress that the strategy is still pretty much the same to train, equip and advise the Iraqi Military in terms of how to take on isis. Now, within that strategy there are still some uncertainties about exactly how to do t
Reporter in the first few hours of obamacare enrollment, more than 23,000 people submitted applications. Thats a lot better than day one last year when internal notes revealed that just six applications went through in the whole first day. Some users today are unable to login to accounts that they just created and now Washington State is offline because they are processing tax credits. Cynthia burwell is still optimistic. We are open to things that improve afford built and access. We want to have that conversation about what can increase the fundamental goals of the act and well do that. But just because things are going better today doesnt mean obamacare isnt about to stop changes. There are unresolved legal challenges that could change key parts of the law and even if the law looks different down the line, some are predicting that president only will firmly stand by it for this reason. The president is not signing anything big. Hes going to continue to stake his legacy on what he thi
The president is on a collision course with gop leaders, only weeks after the new congress was sworn in. | we were taking our oath of office with the veto threat. Come on. This is cnns coverage of the state of the Union Address and the republican response from a new rising star in the party. We are going to make a squeal. The legacy agenda and future are on the line right now. It is you. Our citizens who make the state of our union strong. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. An exciting night in the nations capitol. The president in the white house right now soon to leave for the capitol to deliver his second to last state of the Union Address. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im Anderson Cooper in washington with a special edition of ac360. We are less than an hour away from the president s big entrance. Hes prepared to tell the nation that the economy is the strongest it has been since he took office. Its been road testing his themes using the line a
Broke from the Obama Administration on not one, but two issues, the Palestinian Conflict and the nuclear proliferation. Lets get you caught up first on the mideast. The new york security councor n supposed to agree on international law. But overnight, Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted that they should veto the resolution. President elect trump agreed. He told the sitting president to veto the resolution. That put a showdown at the u. N. , placing odds against both the president elect and netanyahu, a key ally. They said they were planning to abstain on the vote, going both against netanyahu and trump. That vote has now been postponed. A few minutes later, trump again broke with the policy, this time on Nuclear Weapons, tweeting this. The United States must greatly strengt strengthen and expand its Nuclear Capability at a time when the world must come to its senses regarding nukes. While president obama has been hesitant to speak out against trump during his last weeks in office. Usually durin