For the first time about general Michael Flynns russian connections. Its revealing she warned the white house that flynn had lied repeatedly to Vice President mike pence and others about his contacts with russians. These are lies that yates says left flynn exposed to blackmail by the russians. We believe that general flynn was compromised with respect to the russians. Logic would tell you that you dont want the National Security adviser to be in a position where the russians have leverage over him. Yates says she warned the white house multiple times about flynn. And that news comes as were learning about yet another warning, and this one was directly from then president obama to President Trump. At this meeting youre seeing, remember it . Just two days after the election when trump visited the oval office during that meeting, obama warned him about flynn. Now, President Trump late today firing off a number of tweets, actually, some moments ago, calling the, quote, russia trump collusi
Possibly being compromised here and then these Important National security decisions had followed, would you have concern about that . Well, i would, hypothetically, question. I mean, again, i was gone from the government as well when all this happened. Youve had quite a career in intelligence and National Security, and here you have a man thats been told, the white house has been told, he could be compromised and blackmailed by the russians, continuing to make highestlevel decisions of our government. Well, thats its certainly a potential vulnerability, no question about it. I would say so. Thank withdryou very much. Thanks, mr. Chairman. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you to the witnesses for being here today. Mr. Clapper, you had testified as to the harms that come from leaks. The harms that come from our National Security. You also testified about the importance of protecting classified information and keeping it classified. During your many years in intelligence, and at the dni, h
D. C. We begin with that incredibly important decision facing donald trump. Should he okay a major u. S. Troop buildup in afghanistan . The recommendation is from his senior military and Foreign Policy advisers to send in at least several thousand more troops into the 16 year old war to fight a resurgent taliban. The this comes after what the Washington Post calls a sweeping policy riew based on the president s preference to, quote, start winning again. Peter alexander joins us from the white house. When might the president make a decision, pete centpeter . Good question. No decision has been made. One could come soon. There was some reporting today that suggests that decision would be made before the president s visit to brussels. His nato meeting thats scheduled to take place on may 25th. Just a few weeks from now. This is significant though for a variety of reasons. Not the least of which is the president , who sort of ran on this America First policy, one that advisers suggest is s
Up a phoney collusion with the russian story. Found zero proof. So now they go for obstruction of justice on the phoney story. Nice. Its possible well hear more from the white house during an off camera briefing from the Deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders later this hour. We will of course monitor that. Our other top story right now, a change of tone up on capitol hill. In the wake of the shooting at a congressional baseball practice. The majority whip Steve Scalise is in Critical Condition and undergoing a third surgical procedure. President trump today saying scalise is still in some trouble. Hes in some trouble. Hes a great fighter and hes going to be okay we hope. Weve had a very, very divided country for many years and i have a feeling that steve has made a great sacrifice, but there could be some unity being brought to our country. Congressman scalise is just one of the five people that were injured in wednesdays shooting. Lets bring in cnn brian todd. Hes
Begins now. As we start a new week, good evening once again in our headquarters here in new york. Day 109 of the trump administration. This afternoon we were live on air with what turned out to be a dramatic day in the u. S. Senate. At the center of it, a 27 year veteran attorney general named sally yates. A 27year Public Servant promoted along the way by republicans and democrats alike. Sally yates was the acting attorney general, running the Justice Department in transition, waiting for Jeff Sessions in effect to be approved as the new attorney general back in january. But there came a day during just the second week of the Trump Presidency when she called the white house and asked the president s lawyer if they could meet. She said she had something important to tell him. Now we know it was about president Trumps National security adviser at the time, retired general Michael Flynn. Sally yates told the president s lawyer that mike flynn was potentially vulnerable to blackmail and ha