All of this as a major rift emerges in the trump Transition Team. One of its closest advisers openly questioning why mitt romney is on trumps short list to be secretary of state. Weve got all the angles covered for you with our team of political reporters. But lets begin with cnns senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny. Hi, jeff. Good morning, carol. To bring you up to speed a little bit here in case you havent been following all the recounts back and forth over the weekend, a, the election is over. B, there is some reexamination, if you will, of some of these votes specifically starting in wisconsin potentially later this week. Its all because of the Green Party Candidate jill stein whos been raising money to try and have that vote looked at again in wisconsin. Now donald trump won wisconsin by some 27,000 or so votes. So the wisconsin officials are going to be meeting later this morning to start discussing a recount here that she is paying for. The Clinton Campaign over the week
Russians, the white house is trying to move on. The fact is that general flynn continued in that position and was in the president ial daily briefings as part of the leader calls as recently as yesterday, general flynn kellyanne that makes no sense. Last month the Justice Department warned the white house that general flynn had misled them and that as a result he was vulnerable to blackmail and at that moment he still had the complete trust of the president . Matt, im telling you what the president has said, which is that hes accepted general flynns resignation and he wishes him well and that were moving on. The president ignoring questions this morning. Lets get going. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. And from capitol hill only the beginning of the investigations. I think there is significant dysfunction in the National Security apparatus of the Trump Administration, when you see that you dont know whos in charge, this flynn situation, the whole environment is one of dysfunc
Tonight, the president is expected to call for additional troops in a war that has already cast the lives of more than 2,300 servicemen and women, tens of thousands of afghans and cost tax payers hundreds of billions of dollars. For years, before President Trump was responsible for the conduct of the war, he was firmly against the war. October of 2011, he tweeted, when will we stop wasting our money on rebuilding afghanistan . We must rebuild our country first. In march of 2012, afghanistan is a disaster. We dont know what we are doing. In addition of everything else, robbing us blind. January of 2013, i agree with president obama in afghanistan. We should have a speedy withdrawal. Why keep wasting our money . Rebuild the u. S. March that same year, we should leave afghanistan immediately, no more wasted lives. If we have to go back in, we go in hard and quick. Rebuild the u. S. First. When citizen President Trump became candidate trump, his views, as they say, evolved. Do you believe
Lives of 2300 american servicemen and women, and cost american taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. For years, before President Trump was responsible for the conduct of the war, he was firmly against the war. October of 2011, he tweeted, when will we stop wasting our money on rebuilding afghanistan. In march of 2012, afghanistan is a disaster. We dont know what we are doing. January of 2013, i agree with president obama in afghanistan. We should have a speedy withdrawal. Why keep wasting our money . Rebuild the u. S. March that same year, we should leave afghanistan immediately, no more wasted lives. If we have to go back in, we rebuild the u. S. First. When citizen President Trump became candidate trump, his views, as they say, evolved. Do you believe that american boots should stay on the ground in afghanistan to stabilize the situation . I wouldnt totally disagree with it, but at some point, are they going to be there the next 200 years . Its going to be a long time. We made a
With new comments or noncomments on mike flynn. Hes talking about the threat from north korea, russia, alabama and taxes, too as we get ready in a matter of hours to finally get a look at the final text of that big plan. Senator marco rubio reiterates this morning hes holding out, looking to leverage his votes for more money for child tax credits. The president today seems to be amenable to that. We have Pete Williams and Peter Alexander standing by. Peter, i want to start with you, were taking a live look now. Any minute the president coming up to speak at the fbi. On his way there, you had an opportunity to talk with him about a lot of headlines related to this speech. Let me put this into perspective. He talked about the fbi. He has slammed the agency before. Hes angry at the fbi because of the russia investigation. And theres a lot of news this morning on where he is, where his head is at when it comes to that investigation. Reporter weve got a little insight into exactly whats in