Likely the influence of the new Chief Of Staff here, Retired General john kelly who has been clear, trying to send a signal there is a new sheriff in town. That hes not going to tolerate discord and some of these tweets that are off message. But will we see this over the course of time . That remains to be seen. Weve had sort of the pockets of the president being very restrained when it comes to his messaging. I think when it comes to the relationship on capitol hill and this next battle that you talk about, the challenges, not only do you have republicans, conservatives like jeff flake speaking out, obviously hes been critical of candidate trump all the way back to the campaign trail, but republicans just dont seem that afraid of him. Thats why you have Lisa Murkowski saying im going to vote against you in the health care fight. How does he get republicans on board to get tax reform done . The reality may be that theyre looking at tax cuts, because they dont have that big, broad
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Hackers were targeting the dnc and other democratic operations. By the way, as candidate trump was publicly calling on the russians to publicly hack Hillary Clintons emails. We dont know the contact or motive before the conversations, but the word they happened is a big real development. We should note the kremlin and donald trump this morning are calling it fake news. Cnns jim sciutto has been working sources all day, all night on this story. Jim, bring us up to speed on where we are right now at 9 01 eastern time. I should knnote calling it fe news without the president or the white house responding to the substance of the reporting which weve asked them to do. Lets get to what the reporting is. One, two things caused alarm, raised red flags in u. S. Law enforcement and intelligence. First, the volume and frequency of the communications between trump advisers and the russians. Communications happen during campaigns, typically at a much lower level and much less frequent than what the
Another seems to open. Enter, the New York Times Front Page Story of a secret plan by Trump Associates said to be backed by kremlin about the Armed Conflict with Russian Allied forces within its own borders. In other words, while the fbis investigating an alleged back channel during the election between russia and the Trump Campaign, there may be another previously undisclosed back channel between russia and known Trump Associates. But before we dive into the times report, a little context. Throughout the entire russia controversy, the president has repeatedly denied having any russian Business Ties. I own nothing in russia. I have no loans in russia. I dont have any deals in russia. Russia is fake news. Russia is fake news. But thats a relatively recent claim. In 2008, for instance, donald trump jr. Told an interviewer, russians make up a pretty
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Or prove hes been putting out false information about his predecessor. How is the white house preparing . Reporter hi, ana. They seem to be preparing by standing ground, not backing down from the president s allegations made two weeks ago. We heard the president himself do so just yesterday at that Press Conference with germanys chancellor Angela Merkel and in an interview last week. Shown sho White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has said that the president is confident evidenced will come out that will vindicate him. But spicer also claimed that the British Intelligence service helped President Obama spy on tencandidate trump in trump tower. That claim has been denied vehemently by the british, also by a top u. S. National security official. And so, but the white house doesnt seem to be showing any outward concern about what the fbi director and set to say on monday. And as you noted, he is expected
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President and this administration, really the world, wants north korea to finally step down with regard to its nuclear process. John . All right, dana bash. Fascinating interview from right there in the Demilitarized Zone in north korea, between north korea and south korea. The Vice President with a message that Military Action might be on the table, but a different message coming from inside the white house. Cnns athena jones is there. And athena, we have heard from the National Security adviser maybe some different language than the Vice President. Reporter hi, john. Thats right. H. R. Mcmaster, the National Security adviser, putting the emphasis on nonmilitary options. But john, the Central Question in all of this, or a big Central Question in all of this is what china will do. Will china do more . President trump has made it clear he wants to see China Step Up Pressure on north korea to rein in its nuclear ambitions, and he believes china can do so because china is the norths main