Our stop story as we mentioned, the Trump White House has yet to provide any evidence to back up explosive allegations the president made against barack obama in a flurry of tweets early saturday, trump accused the Obama Administration of tapping his phones last year in trump tower. A spokesman for former president barack obama dismissed the allegation as simply false. A former u. S. Intelligence official called it nonsense. The president apparently blindsided his own staff when he charged, how low has president barack obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process. This is nixon watergate, bad, or sick, guy. Reporter the white house has not provided any evidence to sfoert t support the president s unsubstantiated allegations. They said that white house colleagues were surprised by the president s tweet storms. They didnt know about it. It is not uncommon for the president to wake up early and begin tweeting. In this case, he began tweeting at about 6 30 a. M. And
Im George Howell at cnn headquarters in atlanta. And live for you in london, thanks so much for joining us this hour on cnn newsroom. It is 3 01 on the u. S. East coast, the u. S. President and his unsclaims that he was wiretapped. He accused the former u. S. President of ordering the wiretaps at trump tower yesterday. Again, mr. Trump offering no evidence still asking congress to investigate. Cnn has more. The fbi yesterday asked the department of justice to refute the allegations by donald trump that the Obama Administration wiretapped his phone in october during the campaign. We learned that some time over the weekend, the fbi reached out to the department of justice to try and work something out, to try and ask them if there was a way they could refute these stories. The fbi was very concerned about the allegations being not true. And the climate that it could create and the feeling that somehow the fbi was involved in this. So the director asked that the department of justice refu
Reporting the National Security adviser Michael Flynn has resigned. He has been under fire for his contacts with the russian u. S. Ambassador before President Trump took office. A number of sources say flynn inappropriately discussed u. S. Sanctions on moscow imposed by the Obama Administration. And just recently we learned that the Justice Department had warned him that flynn may be vulnerable to blackmail by russia. All right, lets go out to our senior white house correspondent, jim acosta. Jim, i suppose his relationship had been tenable, or growing that way. But was it the potential idea of blackmail that was at issue, or was it because he misled mike pence, the Vice President . I think it was that the administration had warned him a month ago, that was certainly a turning point in all of this. All of this feeling inside the white house it was just unacceptable that the National Security adviser, now the former security adviser had misled intentionally or unintentionally, about whe
Countrys ousted leader, park geunhye, will leave the president ial blue house any moment now according to the news agency. They upheld parks impeachment over a Corruption Scandal on friday and on saturday, her opponents rallied in seoul, many to demand her arrest. Cnns ivan watson now for cnn seoul with the very latest. We understand she is going to be leaving imminently, ivan. Tell us more. Reporter thats what the local media here is reporting we are outside the entrance to the socalled blue house. Thats the official residence of the president. Ill get out of the way so that you can kind of see up the road where we anticipate the impeached president to depart. She was impeached on friday. She has continued to reside within that official residence and continued to enjoy the symbolic privilege and protection of its actual walls. Once she leaves that, she really does become a private citizen again, a leader who end her political career very much in disgrace. We are hearing that the priva
Macron is being inaugurated as frances new head of state. Well be live in paris for all the live pictures and reaction. In the United States, good morning. It is 5 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast. We want to when celcome our vie here in the United States and around the world. Im George Howell live in cnn. And im Hannah Vaughn jones in london. Cnn newsroom starts right now. A live image there in paris, france. Youre looking at the steps in front of the elise palace at 11 00 a. M. In paris. Were expecting Emmanuel Macron to appear beside the outgoing president Francois Hollande. An image well continue to monitor, waiting for this very important moment in france, the changing of leadership in that nation. As we continue to monitor all of these pictures from paris, well obviously go back there as soon as we see the two men emerge. In the meantime, we want to bring you another poimportant t story. The u. S. Says the Ballistic Missile north korea launched early on sunday did not threaten th