Memo which would reveal a lot about the firing of former fbi director, james comey. Special delivery. North koreas former spy chief accused of an attack against the United States will come to washington to deliver a letter to President Trump at the white house. Will that pave the way for a summit with kim jongun . Plot against the prince. An isis supporter pleads guilty after encouraging a jihadist to target 4yearold prince george, third in line to become king. How vulnerable are britains young royals . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Breaking news, President Trump bypasses the Justice Department and pardons dsdsouz and may pardon Martha Stewart and former illinois governor, Rob Blagojevich in prison for corruption. Our correspondents are standing by with full coverage. Lets get to our chief White House Correspondent, jim acosta. He profiles a conservative and more may be on the way. What is behind the latest move . Reporter a new epis
Around the world. Im Rosemary Church at cnn headquarters in atlanta. This is cnn newsroom. Well, after threats, provocations, and mixed signals, there is cautious optimism the u. S. And north korea could be getting closer to sitting at the negotiating table. South korea announced on sunday the north is willing to hold talks with the United States. The white house responded saying pyongyang must agree to give up its nuclear weapons. But that has been considered a nonstarter. Meanwhile, president trumps daughter ivanka has left south korea. She represented the u. S. At the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics. Officials say ivanka did not interact with the north korean delegation, even though they were sitting close to each other. Our Paula Hancocks joins us now live from pyeongchang. So paula, south korea says the north is now willing to hold direct talks with the u. S. , but the u. S. Is insisting north korea give up its nuclear weapons. Thats something pyongyang has said it wont do
That. Not true, not true cpac stunner. The crowd turns on a conservative writer after she calls some in her party hip k hypocrit hypocrites. This hour she joins me to tell us why herm message was so unwelcome. And ivanka in south korea and whether her efforts play any part in a diplomatic thaw. House intel chairman devin nunes squaring off with adam schiff over the fisa memo he offered. Its important for the public to see the facts that the fbi acted appropriately in seeking a warrant from carter page. Theyre not part of some deep state as the president apparently would like the public to believe. Ive been on the committee for ten years, jake. This is the first time the republicans have ever taken any issue with any fisa application. I dont think its a coincidence that it serves the president s interest to do so here. It should scare people that you have a Political Party in this country actually saying, dont worry, American Public, its okay. We do this all the time. Were going to go d
Ago that the summit was off. While theres a lot of criticism about what could potentially happen in the summit and that this has given north korea the advantage, the president was quick to warn the north Korean Leaders that he has many options on the Table Including sanctions. Take a listen. One thing i did do, and it was important, we had hundreds of new sanctions ready to go on. And he did not, the director did not ask. I said im not going to put them on until such time as the talks break down. We had significant sanctions on that. We had hundreds, we have hundreds that are ready to go. I said im not going to why would i do that when were talking so nicely . Reporter they are talking nicely now, but the president certainly dialing back expectations as to what could come out of the summit. Initially there were lofty goals as to what could happen when he and kim jongun sat down. Now this is being described as more of a get to know you meeting with the hopes that they could begin seriou
Its thursday, may 31. Aim ayman mohyeldin. We begin with the russian investigation. The counsel has obtained more information about the potential obstruction of justice. Andrew mccabe provided Robert Muellers team with a secret memo he wrote, fearing a cover story had been hatched for the firing of comey. Mccabe attended a meeting in may of 2017 shortly after Deputy Attorney general Rob Rosenstein wrote his memo that claimed comey was fired for his handling of the Hillary Clinton investigation. Well, the times sources say in the meeting, rosenstein said that the president had originally asked him to reference russia in the memo. Rosenstein did not elaborate on what he wanted him to say. That seemed like the possible evidence that the firing was actually related to the fbis investigation into the Trump Campaign ties to russia and that rosenstein helped to provide a cover story by writing about the clinton investigation instead. The fbi fired mccabe in march after an internal report dete