Nominee, neil gorsuch begins his senate con filmation hearing and later in the week the Republican Health care plan is set for a vote on the house floor, scheduled for thursday. The president predicts it will pass on a first try. I also want to note that all of these nos were potential nos, are all yess, every Single Person sitting in this room. Right now President Trump is at his maralago resort in florida. Lets go to athena jones in nearby west palm beach. You just found out who the president will dine with tonight. Fill us in. Hi, anaxt we learned hes going to have dinner with isaac perlmutter. The president and ceo of marvel entertainment. After a relatively light schedule. He spent several hours at his golf club in west palm beach. White house officials said he was working and meeting with staff. Cnn did capture some video of him on the golf course. One friend tweeted out a picture of him wearing a golf club. The white house wont confirm the golf rounds, he was geared up to play g
Complying with the president s request to intervene would be inappropriate. Cnn has already reported the president asked coates and the nsa director mike rogers to publicly deny his campaign cooperated with russia in the 2016 election. Sources told cnn both coates and rogers were uncomfortable with the president s request and refused to comply. The white house still cant or wont confirm that President Trump has confidence in attorney general Jeff Sessions. This as a source close to sessions tells cnn the ag offered to resign after a series of Heated Exchanges between two. The frustration brewing since sessions recused himself from the russian probe three months ago starting a chain of events that led to the appointment of special counsel robert mueller. For now we get Cnns Jim Acosta at the white house. Reporter the white house still cannot say whether President Trump has confidence in attorney general Jeff Sessions. Earlier in the day at the preefg White House Press Secretary Sean Spi
Judiciary committee next week. She gave a forceful warning to the white house regarding then National Security adviser Michael Flynn nearly three weeks before he was fired. This contradicting the administrations version of events. In a private meeting january 26th, yates told white House Counsel that flynn was lying when he denied in public and private that he had discussed u. S. Sanctions on russia. In conversations with russias ambassador to the u. S. Sergey kislyak. His misleading comments yates explained made him vulnerable to being compromised by russia. Yates meeting took place january 26th. On february 10th, President Trump said he was unaware of reports on flynn. Three days after that on february 13th, the Washington Post published a story that flynn had lied to Vice President mike pence about his conversations with the russian ambassador. Flynn resigned that night. Yates testimony on may 8th will be the first time the former acting attorney general will publicly speak about th
Fitzgerald after it collided with a containership. Well discuss the investigations that lie ahead. Thanks for joining us on this fathers day. Im boris sanchez. Fredricka whitfield is off. We thank you so much for watching and we begin this hour with what else, news about donald trump, and the fact that hes not under investigation for obstruction of justice. At least according to his attorney. That statement flies in the face of the president s own tweets which reads i am being investigated for firing the fbi director by the man who told me to fire the fbi director. Witch hunt. Which is it . Atheenia jones this is all in response to reporting in the media. This is complicated. The Washington Post reported on wednesday special counsel robert muler is investigating the president for possible obstruction of justice. On thursday the president took to twitter to blast this new focus on obstruction of justice as phony, that is one of the words that hes used to describe the russia investigatio
Senate Judiciary Committee. Thats coming up. Right now, we want to take you live to conway, South Carolina where we are seeing flood waters rise. Nick valencia is there. Nick . Reporter good morning, victor, diane. We have been talking about this all week. Residents have been expecting this to happen. Now the water from Waccamaw River that overflowed from North Carolina making its way to South Carolina is starting to creep into the neighborhoods. Coming up in a live report in a few minutes, what theyre saying now about a coal ash pond, whether or not that water breached into the ash pond. Well tell you what the effect on the environment will be. A live report from conway later in the show. Guys . Rod rosenstein issued two statements denying the report that he floated a plan to remove the president from office. Want to read you the latest one. Quote, i never pursued or authorized recording the president and any suggestion that i have ever advocated for the removal of the president is ab