Between the fence and the south portico. At least in the last 15 minutes or so what weve been able to hear and folks we talked to is the system worked the way it was supposed to. Our Kristin Fisher, who is at the white house now and looking at a live picture, things have returned to normal in the past 12 hours or so. This is americas news headquarters from washingtons, as we continue our coverage. Im leland vittert. Im laura ingal in for elizabeth prann. Kristin fisher standing by at the white house. What more have you learned . Looking around you wouldnt know less there was a breach at the white house of this magnitude. Here is what we know, around midnight last night, a man wearing a backpack jumped the fence somewhere were hearing likely along the east or south side of the white house and then made it to the south portico entrance. Thats the entrance that you see every time President Trump exits the white house to board marine one, its also the entrance thats right by the white hous
Compliance with the law. That is no small thing. And underlined the fact that during this campaign, we saw this time and again, general flynn was leading the chance of lock her up during the campaign and now hes being accused not just by democrats on the House Oversight committee and up on capitol hill but by fellow republicans that he was not in compliance with the law. I suspect that will come up in the briefing. At this point, the white house is offering no further comment than we dont have those documents to provide to the committee at this point which is not a response that will work for the committee for very long. Let me follow up on that. The white house is saying we dont have the documents and this is where general flynn worked for a time. And theyre referring people to the relevant agencies. What are those agencies . Reporter my guess is it would be the Defense Intelligence agency, the department of defense. If he did brief the Intelligence Agency as his attorney is saying at
What can you tell us about tomorrow . Arctic air is piling up in the center of the country and thats going to be sweeping towards new york city. Its going to be a cold one. All of that coming up on americas news headquarters. Welcome to americas news headquarters from washington d. C. Live. Im Gillian Turner. Leland nice to be with you. Perhaps youre enjoying the weekend indoors as cold as it is. A lot of news this weekend. President trump still on violation vacation, and dropping a bombshell about the growing antigovernment protests in iran. Our own Steve Harrigan live in West Palm Beach as the president is in the last days of his vacation. Hi, steve. Leland, some back and forth between the United States and iran coming on the heels of three days of protests across a number of iranian system. It started as economic anger and spreading to antigovernment protests as well. 11 p. M. The president tweeted the following, many reports of peaceful protests by iranian citizens fed up with regi
of the doubt for my first year in office, but not more unless you make and he s dealing with different acts, recently giving arms to ukraine and that shocked people because people thought, some people thought he was very pro russia. gillian: tom rogin, washington examininger, we ll have you back soon. thank you. leland: live pictures right now from a very cold and perhaps even snowy, dare i say, times square, ahead of the massive new year s eve celebration. brian llenas, braving the cold. they re testing the ball, we understand. have you seen the ramp up in security ahead of tomorrow night? leland, that s right, they just tested the big ball behind me, you can take a look at it right there. there s the big switch that will cause that ball to go up. it takes about two minutes for the ball to rise and then drop
the emolument clause is part of the u.s. constitution. it s about protecting national security interests. it s central to basic constitutional principles. okay. tom rogin, what are your thoughts on this? the first issue here is if you look at the context of what is going on with the three-star general now without the paper trail that his people had suggested that would eventually vindicate him, there s an implication of that act and misconduct itself but also a serious concern, quite frankly, about what he was thinking in terms of the basic foundation that if russia gives you money, whether through a cut-out or a thinly viewed cutout, they have leverage over you for the long term. that that is something that will