Plus theres this assumption in washington that if you get less money, its a cut. Dnc chair tom perez on the president s plan to defund Climate Science and more. Were not spending money on that anymore. We consider that to be a waste of your money. Then the president stands by his baseless wiretap claim despite public rejections from gop leaders. Are you going to take the tweets literally and, if you are, then clearly the president was wrong. Hawaiis attorney general joins me on his lawsuit against trumps new travel ban and a mac attack on the fast food president when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris heys. At his inauguration, President Trump promised his voters, who he called the forgotten men and women that he would fight for them and never let them down. 55 days later that looks like a very hollow promise. The Trump Administration has unveiled policies that seem to brutalize his core constituencies the older bluecollar rural americans who make up a key pa
Could be blackmailed by the russians. Listen to this. The russians also knew about what general flynn had done. And the russians also knew that general flynn had misled the Vice President and others. Not only did we believe that the russians knew this, but that they likely had proof of this information. And that created a compromised situation. A situation where the National Security adviser essentially could be blackmailed by the russians. So, having listened to that, pamela, break down some of what we heard today from sally yates and from the former director of national intelligence, james clapper. She laid out the chain of events, don. She revealed that she discussed Michael Flynn with don ma gcginn two separate occasion. She called to express the concern that flynn could be blackmailed by the russians. And she wanted to visit him at a secure location. When she met with him, she explained that she couwas conced that flynn could be blackmailed but lied to it to Top White House offici
Russian contacts. And hysteria. Vladimir putin dismisses the uproar over russia denying any secret deals struck with the trump team and Surprising New remarks with the kremlin boss now reporting claims of moscows election meddling to antisemitism. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Breaking news this hour, the Trump Administration always refusing, refusing to rule out an tempt to muzzle james comey. This as anticipation builds for sensational public testimony by the fired fbi director six days from now. White house Officials Say mr. Trump will review a possible effort to envoc executive privilege. Tonight, Senate Democratic source is driving home the difficulty of doing that and telling cnn the only way mr. Trump might stop comey would be to launch an unprecedented and politically risky court battle and even that might not work. Also tonight, the white house is reaffirming th
Trump. Experts are now saying that they are the russians are releasing these emails for the purpose of actually helping donald trump. Then, two days from the trumpcare vote we had a great meeting and i think were going to get a winner vote. As the president starts threatening jobs over a wildly unpopular bill, will the Freedom Caucus fall in line . Were going to negotiate and its going to go to the senate and back and forth. The end result is going to be wonderful. When all in starts right now. Good evening from washington, d. C. , im chris hayes. We have a lot of news to get to tonight. From the fate of President Trumps Signature Health care bill, which is hanging in the balance as House Republican leaders scramble for votes to the president S Supreme Court pick, neil gorsuch, facing a grilling on capitol hill. Much more on that shortly. But tonight the leader of the democrats in the senate, chuck schumer, is calling for gorsuchs confirmation hearing to be put on hold due to the big g
Hawaiis attorney general joins me on his lawsuit against trumps new travel ban and a mac attack on the fast food president when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris heys. At his inauguration, President Trump promised his voters, who he called the forgotten men and women that he would fight for them and never let them down. 55 days later that looks like a very hollow promise. The Trump Administration has unveiled policies that seem to brutalize his core constituencies the older bluecollar rural americans who make up a key part of his base the president is copping to that fact. Today the 2018 budget was released it asks billions to pay for the border wall and slashes a range of programs including the Appalachian Regional Commission which invests in Economic Opportunities in appalachian communities like mcdowell county, West Virginia, where town hall attendees told me they are desperate for both jobs and infrastructure investment. These are the forgotten men and w