What is interesting, i think, is that the world is kind of being turned on its head. I mean, the reason nordstroms is pulling ivankas brand is purportedly because sales have declined. So you have to kind of question what the status is of the trump brand in general. Is it on the decline . Is the impact of this actually, you know, having the reverse effect on the trump brand and creating some decline . Martha, chris, thank you so much. Well learn a lot because there will be a lot more examples of this going forward. The next hour of newsroom begins right now. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Good morning, everybody, im john berman. Im poppy harlow. So glad youre with us. We begin with breaking news. President trump on the attack this morning over the raid in yemen that left one navy s. E. A. L. Dead. The white house calls it a success. John mccain not seeing it that way. Donald trump wrote this morning, senator mccain should not be talking about the success or failure of a mission to
Start with evan perez, sara murray and Alan Dershowitz. Were going to start with you evan. Great reporting from the team in washington and we appreciate it. American people do as well. Part of the team that broke this story last night. What is the latest . Today is a day the white house is on the defensive. Wanted to make the point they did nothing wrong in the contacts between the white house chief of staff Reince Priebus and Deputy Director of the fbi Andrew Mccabe. If you recall all began last week after cnn and New York Times reported there were contacts between people with the Trump Campaign and people in russia known by u. S. Intelligence sources and suspected of being perhaps agents of the russian government. Those contacts were all happening while russians were trying to interfere in the u. S. Election. After that report happened, according to the white house today, they said that andy mccabe, Deputy Director of the fbi approached Reince Priebus and said something to the effect
Against trump, the white house and the republican majority in congress. Certainly they try and regain some seats in Congress Come 2018. We have heard a lot of fiery speeches for more than a half dozen folks hoping to become the next Democratic National committee chair. Jonathan who wrote things down so well at the beginning of the show, there we bring back in professor to explain whats going on inside the dnc meeting, how are you doing, sir . Hey, there, this is round wasnt of the voting as we speak they are counting the ballots, paper ballots, i will have a little more on that later and also breaking news, indiana mayor announced during Campaign Speech that hes actually withdrawing his name of names, the field of candidates is down to six in the first round of balloting thats being counted right now. Lets talk about the two lead candidates, as for the apparent front runners, the first candidate to speak during Campaign Speeches was tom perez who served as labor secretary under preside
House pushing back hard on cnns exclusive reporting denying any wrongdoing in asking the fbi to speak out against reports of contacts between the Trump Campaign and russians, but this revelation is raising this really old question. Can the white house discuss an open investigation with the fbi and how . But first lets really get into this political reset, potential political reset we should say for the Democratic Party because we could just be hours away from it at this point. Dnc members are investigate today for the next chief of their party tasked with taking on President Trumps administration, of course, but the tight race is putting Hillary Clinton democrats against an army of progressives who backed Bernie Sanders. The Democratic Party needs to take the fight to donald trump. When we lead with our values, when we lead with our conviction, thats how we succeed. The Democratic Party is in disarray, struggling to find a path to unite all democrats after President Trumps blistering e
Country club and posting it on snapchat to get back at the young woman who turned him down. And before they were stars. From baywatch to reality tv, before they were the toast of hollywood, they were, who . A revealing look at some of the nominees. Good evening. Thanks for joining us on this saturday for a special edition of world news tonight. Im tom llamas reporting from los angeles. And we begin with the latest developments into russias meddling into the president ial election. A leading republican congressman now calling for a special prosecutor to oversee the investigation into possible contacts with russia. And just moments ago, the president announcing on twitter he will be breaking a white house tradition. We start with Abcs David Kerley in washington. Reporter a new call tonight for an independent investigation. As President Trump battles the media and reports of ties to russia. We are fighting the fake news. Its fake, phony, fake. Reporter the New York Times reported earlier