For palestinians. This twitter tirade raising new questions in some corners about the president s mental state. One of the president s biggest supporters calling it quits. Utahs orrin hatch announcing he will not run for reelection in november. It opens the door for former president ial candidate and trump critic mitt romney to jump in. We have it all covered for you. Cnns Paula Hancocks live in seoul. What do we know, paula . Reporter well, alisyn, this was a very short phone call apparently. It did last 20 minutes. But the redact we had was extremely short. It is significant. The fact that north korea and south korea are finally communicating with each other. This phone call originated from north korea, starting 1 30 a. M. Eastern. It lasted about 20 minutes. Not necessarily that there were conversation the whole way through. It was really to test the technical issues of this hotline. It is known as the panmujon communications channel. It is a line that hasnt been used since february
Who are frantic to know whats been written about them in a scathing new book by Michael Wolff called fire and fury inside the Trump White House. Its based on 200 interviews and more than a dozen visits to the white house complex. One of his key sources was dismissed chief strategist steve bannon. Among the most damaging revelations are ones like this about russia and that Infamous Trump tower meeting with russian lobbyists. The three senior guys in the campaign thought it was a good idea to meet with a Foreign Government inside trump tower in the Conference Room on the 25th floor with no lawyers. They didnt have any lawyers. Even if you thought this was not treason us, unpatriotic or bad bleep, and i happen to think its all of that, you should have called the fbi immediately. And this one about potential financial crimes. You realize where this is going. This is all about Money Laundering. Mueller chose senior prosecutor Andrew Weissmann first, and hes a Money Laundering guy. Their pat
Our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Im Nicole Wallace in for brian williams. Day 348 of the Trump Administration and tonight theres breaking news in the russia investigation. The founders of fusion gps, the firm behind that explosive trump russia dossier are speaking out tonight about what they learned about trumps ties to russians. Glen simpson and peter frich writing an oped in the New York Times that details their investigation and the process by which the results of that investigation were shared with American Government officials. All of this is information they have testified to before three congressional committees. Simpson and frich confirm in their piece that they hired former British Intelligence officer Christopher Steele and write, quote, yes, we hired mr. Steele, a highly respected russia expert. But we did so without informing him whom we were working for and gave him no specific marching orders beyond this basic question. Why did mr. Trump repeatedly seek to do d
Bit early cold temperatures and dangerous windchills to persist east of the rockies into the weekend, lake effect snowfall will continue down wind of the great lakes, reinforcing shots of arctic air will continue across much of the eastern half of the country through this week. Keeping high temperatures as much as 10 to 20 at the kndegre normal. Snow and ice as far down as the carolinas into florida and thats all before it gets really cold. Look at this head lane at the Washington Post tonight. Bomb cyclone to bomb east coast before polar vortex uncorks cold late this week. Happy new year. Happy balm cyclone. Balm and cyclone sound bad. Not only did i not know that was a thing you have to worry about, who knew thats a thing you have to worry about in the weather . Bomb cyclone. In the wake of the east coast storm that were getting, they are saying the cold in the wake of the storm will be 20 to 40 degrees below normal for friday and saturday. So, like i said, long underwear. You and me
Paul manafort indicted on Money Laundering charges files a lawsuit challenging the authority of special counsel Robert Mueller, saying the charges have nothing to do with the 2016 campaign. And size matters. As President Trump takes heat for tweeting that his Nuclear Button is bigger than kim jonguns, the white house says americans should be concerned with the north Korean Leaders Mental Fitness, not the Mental Health of the president. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Breaking news. President trump is now at war with his former chief strategist and top adviser steve bannon. Bannon sharply attacks the president and his family in passages from a new book. In the most explosive portion, bannon labels as treasonous the 2016 trump tower meeting with donald trump jr. , president ial soninlaw Jared Kushner and Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort when they sat down with several russians, ostensibly to get dirt on hillary clinton. The book is called fire and