relations committee and our correspondents, specialists and guests, they are standing by with full coverage of the day s top stories. let s begin with a series of stunning comments from president trump, including a suggest the sit-down with kim jong-un. let s go straight to our senior white house correspondent jim acosta for the very latest. jim? reporter: wolf in, a series of interviews designed to mark his first 100 days in office president trump has raised more eyebrows about his policies and beliefs from being wiretapped so he claims by president obama to north korea and to health care and the civil war and his top aides are spinning their wheels to explain the president s comments. that s why in the first 100 days reporter: more than 100 days in office and now nearly as many new questions for president trump after head-scratching comments to reporters. after weeks of tough talk aimed at north korea the president told bloomberg he would meet with that country s dick stator
us understand the foundational question. forget about talking to administration officials. what did russians do to interfere with american elections and how do we protect ourselves going forward? who better to speak about that than the cia director and director of national intelligence. here s the problem, wolf in, a nutshell. tell the committee to stop getting involved in political games and ask a question they haven t asked for a week at least. what did the russian dozen and how do we stop it from happening again? they are not talking about the real question. that s the real question. nia, a lot of people are suspecting suspect that all of this talk that devin nunes and other straight supporters are pointing to, incidental and all trying to change the subject from the main part of the investigation, was there any connection between trump associates and the russians? if you look at the opening
a week of twists and turns in the race for the republican presidential nomination. with two of the candidates in a very hot spotlight. herman cain facing accusations of sexual harassment and rick perry stumbling badly if the latest gop debate and now struggling to recover. cnn s jim acosta is watching awe of this unfold. so what s going on right now? there are certain there is certainly a lot at play. certainly. there is an unromney and his name is newt gingrich. take a look at new polls that came out, first the let s look at the first poll first. mitt romney on top 23% and then newt gingrich at 19%. he has moved into that unromy position. he is sliding it with herman cain. and then you see ron paul and rick perry. this poll, we should note, is interesting in that it was taken in part after the gop debate on wednesday night when rick perry had that big oops moment. so that potentially has hurt him in this race for the gop nomination. now to the cbs poll which also confirm
wolf blitzer from afternoon duties to take over night duties. he ll sit in for anderson cooper tonight. what s up tonight, wolf in. thanks, larry. a lot coming up at the top of the hour. more on the gripping story. i know you re working on it. stretching from haiti to idaho. group of american missionaries from idaho currently sitting in jail, but were they trying to help haitian children or were they trying to steal them? we ll have the latest. plus president obama right now caught between trying to keep the economy churning to create jobs and adding trillions to an already ballooning national debt. the raw politics, that s coming up as well. later, he s rich and famous, but is sean combs, aka, p diddy a role model? he says he is and that s not all. our revealing up close interview with the american mogul, that s coming up on 360.