Warning the president not to fire the special counsel. Comes after the president directly attacked Robert Mueller by name for the first time. Fierce criticism for facebook over protecting user data. It comes after a firm with ties to the Trump Campaign gained access to information of 50 million users. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Im dave briggs. Hope you had a great weekend. Wild ncaa tournament. A bonkers tournament. Breaking news. Police in austin investigating another explosion rattled by a series of blasts. They are working on the attack which is connected to earlier explosions that killed two people. It was reported near the republic of texas boulevard. Austin police are asking residents to stay home until 10 00 a. M. Local time. The chief says the way the device was detonated is serious cause for concern. It is possible this device was a device that was activated by someone handling or kicking or coming in contact with a trip wire that activated the
The 37page indictment describes an Unprecedented Campaign by russia to support trump, disparage Hillary Clinton and communicate with, quote, unwitting people tied to the Trump Campaign. The defendants allegedly conducted what they called Information Warfare against the United States. With the stated goal of spreading distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general. And russia making their first comments since the indictment came down, firing back, saying they have, quote, no response to the indictments, end quote, Everything Else is just blather, end quote. We have full coverage. Lets get to cnns Boris Sanchez live in west palm beach, florida, boris. Hey there, fred, yes, in response to these indictments being announced by the Deputy Attorney general, the white house and the president himself really giving their first full admission that russia meddled in the 2016 election. Previously wed heard from the president saying that the russia investigation is a hoax, sayin
New reporting at the white house a couple of weeks ago the president s soninlaw Jared Kushner was facing significant issues over getting a White House Security clearance and a guilty plea in new charges in the russia investigation. Sarah, rick gates, the former Trump Campaign deputy chair pleaded guilty today. Walk us through the details. Thats right. This is in d. C. Federal court. He pleaded guilty to two federal charges. One was conspiracy to defraud the United States and the other was making false statements. And in these charges he pleaded guilty to prosecutors kind of outlined how he and his Business Partner hid all this money from the Ukrainian Government work, from the federal government and proceeded to lie to investigators about it in 2016. Rick gates had immediately pleaded not guilty to these charges and talking about the change of heart in deciding to plead guilty, why he did not want to go through a trial. We know he had been under enormous financial and personal pressure
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Agreed to cooperate with muellers investigation. Manafort says hes innocent. But its hard to square that with gates guilty plea. The stakes are getting higher every day. What does mueller want from manafort and where will it lead . Outrage tonight as were learning that authorities at every single level failed the students and teachers at Stoneman Douglas high school. Repeatedly missing chances to stop the shooter who gunned down 17 people. An unidentified woman who called the fbi tip line on january 5th said Nicholas Cruz was, going to explode. She said she feared him, quote, getting into a school and just shooting the place up. Her chilling conclusion, quote, i just want to get it off my chest in case something does happen and i do believe something is going to happen. And what happened after this graphic warning . Nothing. Cnn also learning tonight that as shots rang out in the high school, some Broward County deputies stayed outside. Thats after we learned the School Resource deputy