Thats been looming over this administration during a week of chaos and upheaval. President trump will sign the russian sanctions bill weve learned tonight. In a statement the white house said, President Trump read early drafts of the bill and negotiated regarding critical elements of it. He has now reviewed the final version and based on its responsiveness to his negotiations, approves the bill and intends to sign it. The legislation which was sent to the white house today would sanction russia while sharply limiting the president s ability to ease penalties against moscow independently. So lot to discuss tonight. Lets get right to cnn Global Affairs analyst david road. We have counterterrorism political commenter david sord leg. I want to start with you on this breaking news. Did the president have a choice here . No and thfts the right move politically. If he had vetoed this bill it adds more fuel to the whole russia fire. Smart political move for the white house. Lets give them cred
Responsibility to help one another get home. This is the cbs evening news. Mason and this is our western edition. Good evening. Im Anthony Mason. Anthony scaramucci said he and Reince Priebus got along like brothers cain and abel. Today, biblical history repeated itself as scaramucci, the new White House Communications director, won the power struggle with priebus, the chief of staff. Priebus is out, replaced by general john kelly, the secretary of Homeland Security. We begin our coverage tonight with Major Garrett at the white house. Major. Reporter characteristically, President Trump broke the news on twitter writing, i have just named general secretary john f. Kelly as white house chief of staff. He is a great american. Later the president wrote, i would like to thank Reince Priebus for his service and dedication to his country. We accomplished a lot together. The president sent the tweets just before air force one touched down. Mr. Trump, returning from new york, spoke to reporters
Reince priebus is out as chief of staff, general john kelly is in. Before we get into the details of how this happened, lets look at frankly the bazar things this week. Jared kushner appeared before the Senate Committee admitting he had four meetings with russians. On the same day the president gave a speech that boy scouts later had to apologize for. In the same vein the Suffolk County Police Department distanced itself from a speech where he encouraged officers to be rougher with people they arrest. Tuesday the president said on camera that he was disappointed in attorney general Jeff Sessions for recusing himself for the russian investigate. He followed that up announcing that transgender people are now banned from the military. Something that military said the next day Means Nothing for now. And yesterday we heard more than we thought we would hear from the mouth of anthony skacaramuc. Heres part of what he said about Reince Priebus in a phone call to cnn yesterday, insisting they
Member of the Trump Administration to resign or be fired since february. Im joined now by cnn White House Reporter Kaitlan Collins live on the floor. Kaitlan, what more are we learning about priebus relocation. Reporter the shortest serving chief of staff with the exception of chief of staffs who are interim that the u. S. Has ever seen. And as we know Reince Priebus did his first interview with cnn last night with wolf blitzer. And during that interview he was asked by wolf what his greatest disappointment was during his time here in the west wing at the white house. Lets listen to what reince had to say to that. Whats your biggest disappointment . Well, look, i mean, i wish health care would have passed, i dont think its over yet. You dont have the votes. Theres a majority the republicans have in the senate. They have to roll up their sleeves and keep coe working. They have to come up with another amendment. I think Lindsey Graham has another amendment. They have to work on Lisa Murk
Later had to apologize for. In the same vein, the Suffolk County Police Department distanced itself from a speech the president gave. Back to the timeline, tuesday the president said that he was disappointed in attorney general Jeff Sessions for recusing himself for the russian investigation. The president followed that up bright and early wednesday, announcing on twitter that transgender people are banned from serving in the military. And yesterday, we heard more than we ever thought we would hear about white house dysfunction from the white house of Anthony Scaramucci, which brings us to today. Reince priebus out. It turns out he resigned yesterday, he says, after the name calling and allegations of leaking against him. We didnt find out about it until late today. Heres part of what scaramucci said about Reince Priebus in a phone call to cnn yesterday, insisting they were bros. Not tight bros like scaramucci says he and the president are. As you know from the italian character, the f