Im George Howell at cnn headquarters in atlanta. And im Hannah Vaughan jones in london. This is cnn newsroom. It is 9 00 a. M. Here on this sunday morning in london. Saturday, though, was an historic milestone for u. S. President donald trump, his 100th day in office. He marked the occasion with a campaignstyle rally before a large and supportive crowd in pennsylvania. Cnns jeff zelany has our report. Reporter President Trump delivering a rerun on his speech last year. President trump ran through a litany of grievances with familiar attacks on the media, familiar attacks on the Obama Administration taking little responsibility for any of his own crises and chaos in the west wing during his first 100 days. But he was speaking in harr harrisburg, pennsylvania to supporters at the same time the Correspondents Dinner was going on back in washington. He made that clear from the very beginning of his speech. A large group of hollywood actors and washington media are consoling each other in a
We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im George Howell in cnn headquarters in atlanta. And im Hannah Vaughan jones in london. Cnn newsroom starts right now. It is 5 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast. The u. S. President looked like he was still campaigning for the job saturday, exactly 100 days after he was sworn in as president of the United States. Heres the scene in pennsylvania. He told a large crowd of supporters that he was glad to be out of the swamp of washington for a few hours. That rally overlapped again with the annual Correspondents Dinner taking place in washington. Typically the sitting president is the guest of honor at this black tie event, but mr. Trump decided not to attend. The president used that rally in pennsylvania to go after one of his favorite targets, a very common line weve heard countless times, focusing on the media. Lets listen. The washington media is part of the problem. Their priorities are not my priorities, an
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigationing whether President Trump possibly attempted to obstruct justice. Three top intelligence officials will be interviewed by mueller as early as this week to see what President Trump may have said to them about possibly contradicting the investigation into possible collusion between russians and members of his 2016 campaign team. Lets bring in cnn justice correspondent evan perez. Evan, forget for a moment about what the Washington Post is reporting. What do we know . What is going on . We know that the fbi and the special council are gathering information as part of the investigation. We know theyre going to talk to dan coats, the director of national intelligence. Michael rogers who is the head of the National Security agency as well as the former deputy at the National Security agency. What they want to do is try to gather information to determine whether or not theyre going to launch a fullscale investigation of possible obstruction. Th
From james comey notes and how that could play in tomorrows hearing. And political contagion. How the russia probe is spreading like virus in the executive branch. Are you aware of any efforts of looking for advice from the other members of the tense committee about how to potentially influence an investigation . This is mtp daily and it starts right now. Good evening. Im chuck todd in washington and welcome to mtp daily. Ousted fbi director james comey is breaking his silence in what is already seen as a blockbuster bit of testimony. We know it will be a block buster because comeys Opening Statement is out already. He exhaustively details almost every interaction he had with President Trump and it is loaded with bomb shells. Comey lays it out in Chronological Order which is how well do it for you. Here are the highlights. January 6, two weeks before the inauguration, comey describes meeting with mr. Trump at trump tower to brief him on the explosive allegations made in the now infails
Did he just confirm hes under investigation for obstruction of justice . Plus, dazed and accused . The president attacks his Deputy Attorney general. Will Rod Rosenstein be the next to step aside . And the cure for cat scratch fever. While im obsessed with rocker ted nugents new political pitch. This is mtp daily and it starts right now. Good friday evening. Im chuck todd here in washington and welcome to mtp daily. The special counsels investigation is, indeed, expanding. And in response, the president has basically declared war on his own Justice Department. Or it looked that way this morning. Right now everyone in washington was waiting to see if Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein either recuses himself, resigns, or gets fired. This comes after the president seemingly targeted rosenstein personally today for the fallout after it was rosenstein, of course, who officially appointed bob mueller as a special counsel in reaction to the comey ouster. The president today tweeted, i am