scrutiny as she makes a rare public appearance. are they helping the president? l of the nfl, and i got together to remind you that no one s the same without the game. like @sirloinking who writes, just came home with $85 worth of groceries with names like, goats beard, pawpaw and that vile weed kale. what happened? well, a lack of football is what happened. breathe. soon, you ll be enjoying a big ol brat at a tailgate and kale smoothies will be but a memory. next time you order kale, try using a silent k . tastes so much better.
but i hope at mar-a-lago, at the summit, they will actually move north korea to the top of the agenda. obviously it s going to be joined by the issues that took place in syria, happening in syria yesterday. i hope we can get a commitment from china that they will lay out a plan that will bring an end to the mess in pyeongchang. china controls 90% of the economy in north korea. it s time that they take responsibility as a global power and act to stop north korea instead of sitting idly by and watching the united states and korea try to deal with this from afar. if president trump to convince president xi of that, that would be a major step forward. senator gardener, thank you for joining me. what kind of action is the president willing to take against syria s leader bashar al assad. and we ll take a closer look at the new criticism of the first lady.
of the joints chief of staff as well as the director of national of intelligence back to this committee, essentially leaving it as it had always been, this traditional structure. there s no question steve bannon still powerful in the white house but not as big of a portfolio at all. very interesting development. jeff zeleny, thank you very much. we re joined by our political and national security experts. phil mudd, let me start with you. the president in this new york times interview, without providing any evidence, said he thinks president obama s former national security adviser susan rice committed a crime. what is the precedence of even a president even saying that. we have the president s own advisers, including former national security adviser asking for immunity from the government because they don t want to admit in public what presumably was collusion with the russians. this is his people under investigation for violating the law. meanwhile, in the past few
weeks, he s accused president obama of violating the law and forcing the fbi director to humiliate the president in public by saying that s nonsense and he doubles down on that. you have to ask why the president is spending energy and capital to accuse people of violating the law when that s not even the purchase viview of branch that he manages. what do you think when you heard the president s remarks in this n this new yo new york times int? the president tweeted one month ago that his predecessor had tapped them and then elizabeth farkas last week and now it s susan rice and yet still there s no proof whatsoever regardless of the information that we have found. first of all, whether or not susan rice had committed a
kate bennett, thanks very much for joining us. that s it for me. thanks very much for watching. have a wonderful weekend. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. erin burnett, out front starts right now. out front next breaking news, crossing trump s line. the president says bashar al sad went beyond the line. we ll hear from the victims tonight. top strategist steve bannon demoted. the information coming from the president himself. plus why is president trump defending bill o reilly against charges of skpum harassment tonight? he is. we begin with breaking news, trump drawing his own red lines, the president saying the horrific chemical attack crossed many, many lines, going in his