Memo in his 80 minute speech last night, but he did say this on his way out. Lets release the memo. Dont worry. 100 . Lets go live now to Cnns Kaitlan Collins at the white house. What are you hearing about when this memo could be released . Well, that really depends on who you ask at the white house this morning. The press secretary Sarah Sanders was on cnn and she said she has not seen the memo and a final decision has not been made on whether or not they are going to release it. The chief of staff john kelly minutes ago gave what is the polar opposite of that answer. As far as the memo goes, the memo came over. Weve got our folks in the our National Security lawyers in the white house that work for me and work for the president. Theyre slicing and dicing it, looking at it so we know what it means and understand. Did you see it . I did. What do you think. It will be released pretty quick. The whole can see it. Do you think the things change the next day . Again, ill let all the expert
Breaking stories, including the surprise exit of the thirdranking official at the Justice Department, rachel brand. Were learning more about her departure and what it could potentially mean for the russia investigation. Also this hour, ill get reaction from democratic congressman ruben gallega, our correspondents and analysts are standing by. But first lets go to our justice correspondent evan perez. Evan, what is the latest on rachel brand stepping down . Wolf, were told rachel brand is planning to step down as the number three official at the Justice Department. Normally we dont pay a lot of attention to the associate attorney general but theres been speculation about her role because of the focus on Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney general who oversees the Mueller Investigation, the russia and whether or not President Trump decides to either fire or forces him out from office so if rosenstein were out, the person next in line to oversee the investigation would be the associate at
Background ons this documents that the president is referring to. Thats right, ryan, the president has been threatening electoral consequences for jon tester for a few days now. But clearly tester is unfazed by this. And in part because many of the allegations that are out there against Ronny Jackson are not totally answered by some of the documents being presented by the white house to refute them. Now these allegations have come forward not just to jon testers committee, the va committee and the senate, but also cnn has spoken to multiple sources, current and former colleagues of Ronny Jacksons who detail series of behaviors they believe were inappropriate. Going through these allegation, some of the most serious are ones that john tester detailed in a document he released this week about the allegations against jackson saying that at one point he was intoxicated and wrecked a government vehicle. Now the white house released a doubt yesterday saying that they looked at the use of gov
Hints about the good numbers before the markets open, breaking decades after protocol and giving traders an edge. And canada. President trump imposes steep tariffs s on imports causing a split with some of his closest allies and leaders of his own party by blaming Close Friends like canada for a trade imbalance. Is he setting off a trade war . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news. A blockbuster announcement from President Trump saying the june 12th summit with kim jongun will take place as originally scheduled in singapore. That follows an extraordinary white house meeting with a top aide to the north korean dictator. The president called the summit the start of a process which he hopes will be very successful, his words. Ill speak with a congressman of the Foreign Affairs and judiciary committees. And our specialists are standing by with full coverage. Straight to the breaking news. Our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta is joining us. A risky turn of ev
And the latest in the conspiracy theories to derail the russia investigation. And weinstein charged. Former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is charged with rape and sexual abuse seven months after women came forward to tell their stories. Tb tonight the alleged victims react. Im wolf blitzer and youre in the situation room. Just a day after scrapping the summit with kim jongun, President Trump now said the meeting could be back on following what he calls a very nice statement from the north korean regime expressing a willingness to meet at any time. As for the posturing, the brinksmanship of the summit negotiations, the president said everybody plays games. David cicilline of the Foreign Affairs and Judiciary Committee and the correspondents are standing by with full coverage. And lets begin with the offagain, onagain summit with pamela standing by. So what is behind this turnaround and where do things stand now . Reporter i just spoke to a white house official who said that Administratio