Memos got into the hands of reporters and retaliation. The president s lawyer is firing right back denying comeys most serious allegations and claiming hes seeking payback for getting ousted. This as the president restrains himself from tweeting but complains about being undersiege. We want to welcome our viewers from around the states and around the world. Im wolf blitzer and youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Breaking news tonight. James comeys gripping and incriminating testimony under oath portraying President Trump as a liar who directed him to end his investigation of ousted National Security advisor Michael Flynn. The former fbi director told senators he takes mr. Trump at his word, that he was fired because of the russia election meddling probe. Comey publicly confirming that the president wasnt under investigation while he was at the helm of the fbi. The white house declaring that the president is not a liar as mr. Trump tells a friendly crowd we
Enforcement officer invoking the phrase multiple times, couching answers as he testifies under oath, and his tenure as attorney general and trump administration. We want to welcome our viewers from the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. Breaking news tonight. Attorney general Jeff Sessions offing a fiery and indignant denial of knowing any collusion between the russian en. Ref refusing to discuss private conversations in his highly public testimony. The attorney general rejected accusations that he was stonewalling, claiming he is protecting the president s right to assert executive privilege down the road in the future. But frustrated democrats werent buying his explanation as they try to get more information about mr. Trumps contacts with james comey, modis for firing fbi director and any possible obstruction of justice. Sessions questioned for nearly it 1 2 hours by normer Senate Colleagues about meetings with Russian Ambassador. Recusa
Washington yesterday and now spicer giving his first interview to fox news. President trump also weighing in on twitter today saying, quote sean spicer is a wonderful person who took tremendous abuse from the fake news media, but his future is bright. Since becoming the new White House Communications director, scaramucci tells siriusxms Breitbart News today, thats happening today called saturday, the White House Team will be stepping up its strategy to take the president s message directly to the people. Lets take a listen. We have enough outlets, whether its breitbart, the president s twitter feed, all the different apparatus that people will allow us to deliver our message to the American People unfiltered. If we can tighten up that message and we can expand the throughput of that message because the president s message is a very compelling one i think we continue to win. Arthel and were going to get analysis of this. David hawkings is Senior Editor for roll call, and the name of the
Into possible collusion between the Trump Campaign and russia. This is the first charge in Robert Muellers probe that has reached President Trumps white house. We are watching that courthouse. Lets get straight to that courthouse where Michael Flynn is inside with his attorneys. Cnn justice correspondent evan perez is there. Evan, Michael Flynn hes still facing the judge the last that we know. What do we know is happening inside . Right. Right now were hearing reports from reporters who are inside the courtroom that the judge has now accepted that guilty plea from Michael Flynn. That means he is now officially pleaded guilty to this one count from the u. S. Special from the special counsel Robert Muellers office. There are four separate lies that hes agreeing to, to plead guilty to. Two of them having to do with conversations with the Russian Ambassador at the time, Sergey Kislyak back in december, and a separate two conversations that he apparently had with the russians related to a u
A potential president ial veto. Mr. Trump continuing his state visit to the u. K. Is warning republicans theyd be foolish to stand in his way. Also breaking, the Justice Department is offering to work with the House Judiciary Committee to provide a limited set of subpoenaed documents related to the Mueller Report, but theres a condition. The department of justice wants democrats to back off of a full house vote to hold the attorney general william barr in contempt. This hour, ill talk with the number two house democrat, the majority leader steny hoyer, and our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. First, lets go to cnns chief white house correspondent, jim acosta with the president in london. Jim, mr. Trump has been weighing in on u. S. And british politics, and hes facing some backlash. Reporter thats right, well, President Trump has been throwing his weight around here in london weighing in on british politics as you said. But the president is losing support back at home