so these parameters, which are pretty vague, really, just looking into the confines of this, are, you know, signaling that they are going to investigate what could be an issue with russia here. so the beginnings of an investigation, but the problem here is for the trump administration, this could last for a long time. as president president trump bass beinged in the glow of his big speech do congress, the hard work of turning those promises into reality was the first order of business today at the white house with the president sitting down for lunch with republican congressional leaders. we re just here to start the process. it begins as of now and we think we re going to have tremendous success. yes prooe tremendous success demends not only on senate majority leader ryan, the president delayed again today the signing of a travel ban to replace the one blocked in the courts. cnn has learned the secretary of
have them try to finn spin the story a little bit. that s going to backfire because you ve got a competition going on. you ve got a senate intelligence committee, you ve got the media who are looking at this. you ve got people who appear ready to leak and talk to the media. there s going to be a lot of different eyes on this and trying to keep each other honest and he can only harm himself by leaping into the middle of that. we re going to bring the full panel in, a closer look at everything he left out of his speech and later what he said last night, what he now says and these are his words, the trump, quote, virus has mutated. and also the top of the hour you see the preparations there seen in town hall with two republican skeptics of the president, senator john mccain and lindsey graham. americans - 83% try to eat healthy. yet up 90% fall short in getting key nutrients from food alone.
mission. deployed to yemen in the first military operation under president trump, he was killed in a mission targeting an al-qaeda compound. the next day trump called his widow. the president also had a very somber and lengthy conversation with the family of chief petty officer william, ryan owens. the president offered i had sincere rest condolences to offer owens wife, his father, and their three children. we know now that on that same call president trump invited corrine to be his guest at last night s speech, according to white house. two days after the call president trump and ivanka met corrine for the first time when her husband s body was flown to the air force base. but she refused to meet the president that day questioning the decision that launched the controversial tlad killed his son telling the mooichl herald i told them i didn t want to make a scene about it but my conscience wouldn t let me talk
in his first month? he s struggling. reporter: has anything in the early part of his presidency concerned you about his behavior, the way he s dealt with certain issues? well, a little bit of, you know, some of his communication with the twitter. i think he needs to develop some kind of relationship with the media, so it s not such a difficult thing between the two. reporter: at the central iowa farm store in marshal town, all the employees we spoke to said they voted for president trump. one of them is the co-owner. has there been any point since he s been president where you said to yourself, i m a little concerned with all the controversy, with all the arguing? just about every time he gets on twitter. i just really wish as president of the united states that he wasn t on twitter. but that would be about my only concern. i feel like his communication should not be managed through social media. reporter: looking over the
between the trump political people and russia. and so, but like we just heard, this isn t going to be a public. right. a public process anyway, so i think that it will probably behoove all of us to have a more public process so that people could feel that these questions were answered satisfactorily. it doesn t give me a lot of comfort to know it will be done in the political process. it will be interesting to see if the president can resist commenting on this, whether he decides to comment on it or not. obviously today they re sort of trying to bask in the glow kf last night s speech. if they can stay focused and stay away comforttemptation to comment on this, they may be able to let the process proceed without sort of rielg things up. you re using the royal they, you mean the president? if he can resist. when i say they, i don t mean just him because it s not just the president and his twitter account. i think he s got advisors that are nudging him to say different things