He is live. Its a media frenzy as a president defends calling ms13 murderers and rapists animals. Hello. Welcome to fox news night. Im Shannon Bream in washington. New details are emerging about the early days of the fbis probing of the Trump Campaign for alleged russian collusion. Plenty of leaks tonight as the clock ticks down to a longawaited Inspector General report. Into how the bureau handled Hillary Clintons email program. Chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge joins us with a look at the mueller probe. On twitter, President Trump welcomed the country into the second year of what he calls the greatest witch hunt in american history. Adding still no collusion. Whether we can challenge the legitimacy of the investigation. A year into the probe, new deal details emerge about an origin in the summer of 2016 ana major pivot by the fbi. We cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts. Speak the fbi launched a counterintelligence investiga
Community today is all about wait a minute, we thought Brett Kavanaugh was one of us. First Lady Melania Trump is getting in the Christmas Spirit. Today she will attend a toys for tots event in washington helping volunteers make christmas cards at joint base ans to an cost i cantbolling. Ainsley the date is 12 11. You havent woke up in the middle of the night. Steve some people have. Brian we had our station Christmas Party last night and just getting here. Picked up the camera and walked right. In ted closed the place. Ainsley thats right. The people behind the scenes they wear jeans, jeans, sweat shirts. Last night everyone dressed up. Didnt recognize half of you but you looked great. Ted even wore cologne. Brian did i not get close enough. Ainsley smells good, ted. Brian we were busy. The news cycle didnt stop. Ainsley no more old spice. Brian camera is in the way. Ainsley shut down show down set for the white house today. Key meeting in the oval office. Steve the president is going
Hicks, the arrival there for this closed door testimony. That will be fascinating. I want to bring in andrew gillum, a cnn political commentator. David, we are awaiting for the arrival of hope hicks on capitol hill, and lauren said something very interesting. Hope hicks of course spans the entire recent political career of donald trump from before he was president until after he was president. Theres absolutely no executive privilege for anything that happened before donald trump was president. She will have to answer questions about that. If she tries to get out of answering questions after he was elected president or inaugurated, thats where the problem will be. And thats where theres a potential assertion of executive privilege even if its legally dubious. She can assert it here and then away we go into the legal fight already well under way. This is the gatekeeper for a president who knows a lot, facilitated conversations, and spoken for him on a number of occasions as well. So the
Obstruction of justice. Cnns manu raju is on capitol hill. Katelyn collins is in washington. Manu, what are you hearing about this . Well, the white House Counsel in the room alongside hope hicks are saying shes immune from answering questions about her time at the white house. That includes questions such as where her office was in the west wing, as well as whether she told the truth to the special counsel. According to democratic lawmakers in the room, theyre making very clear shes not answering anything about any topics about their time at the white house. Democrats coming in did want to ask her about those allegations of obstruction of justice that were laid out in the mueller report. The efforts allegedly by the president to undermine the mueller probe, including how he handled the firing of james comey, whether he wanted to dismiss the special counsel, as was alleged in the report, among other things, including his relationship with Michael Flynn and her role in drafting a mislea
This includes families with children and not just at the border. He said millions would be targeted. Its unclear if this is an actual plan or if the budget or resources even exists to make it happen. Were watching it all this morning. Lets begin with Cnns Barbara Starr live at the pentagon with new developments with iran, a thousand u. S. Troops headed to the region in an increasingly tense situation. A thousand Additional Forces will be going. Their job still will be to defend and deter iran from further attacks. The focus will be on additional intelligence and reconnaissance, aircraft and Missile Defense systems for protection of u. S. Forces in the region and allies. The u. S. Still insistent that iran was behind the attack and taking the extraordinary step of releasing High Resolution color imagery. I want you to look at one in particular here, an overhead image of a white boat that the u. S. Says is exactly the type of boat Iranian Forces use in the gulf and that there were Irania