Grounds last tuesday. Why is that important . Thats the day before he rushed to the white house or now i guess we should say rushed back to the white house and announced that president Trumps Communications may have been incidentally intercepted during surveillance. Now, at the time chairman nunes refused to say how he learned this, but todays admission raise the question of whether someone in the white house or at least in the administration was his source. It comes as democrats say the House Committee cannot move forward with an impartial investigation, and now Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer just called on the senate floor for speaker ryan to remove chairman nunes as the chair of the Intelligence Committee. Meanwhile, the Senate Intelligence committee is set to hold its first public hearing this week, this as cnn has confirmed one of the president s close advisers, his soninlaw, Jared Kushner, will testify about his meetings with russian officials, including reportedly a russia
Back news, the white house is flatly denying that it acted to block key testimony in the investigation of ties between trump aides and russia. The white house says there was no move to prevent an appearance by former acting attorney general sally yates before the house Intelligence Committee. Yates who was fired by the president in january for refusing to enforce his travel ban had investigated former National Security adviser Michael Flynn and his contacts with russian officials. Yates was supposed to testify publicly testify, but that hearing and others were cancelled by the panels republican chairman devin nunes who is rejecting calls by democrats to step aside from the entire russia investigation. Critics say nun eds is too close to the white house to lead that probe after he made a secret visit to the white house complex and then publicly declared he found evidence of potential surveillance of Trump Campaign officials briefing the president before his own committee and vowing to p
Against two Police Officers at the scene, but they may not be off the hook. And nuclear activity. As the u. S. Carrier groups holds war games offshore, satellite images suggest north korea is still getting ready for a nuclear test. At the same time, a detained u. S. Citizen is accused of plotting against the kim jongun regime. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news. Fbi director james comey is strongly defending his late october decision to reveal that the clinton email probe had been reactivated. A day after Hillary Clinton blamed him in part for her election defeat, comey told senators the idea of impattinging the president ial election makes him, quote, mildly nauseous, but insist that had hiding the renewed investigation would have been catastrophic for the fbi. Comey faced tough questions from democrats and republicans alike, but the fbi chief says he cant worry for a second about anyones political fortunes. Comey says he wont reveal anything about the probe i
Controversial russian banker. Hell answer questions as part of the Senate Investigation into senate meddling in the president ial election. Tonight, new questions about why these meetings were not revealed until now. Changing the subject. Still smarting from from his defeat on Health Care President trump gets busy with bill signings, business roundtables and promises of tax reform, but after his stinging loss, who is he willing to work with in washington and what can he really accomplish . And tests and thefts. North korea tests a rocket engine once generation the possibility kim jongun is making progress on a Ballistic Missile that could hit the United States. We also have new details pointing to north koreas involvement in a multimillion dollar cyber theft breaking into banks computers and draining money from the accounts. Is the north Korean Leader becoming more brazen . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were following breaking news, new revelations from the House Intell
By the president after record of infighting between steve bannon and Jared Kushner go public. The white house says their differences are overblown. Can they cooperate, or will one of them be pushed out . And logging on. Watchdog groups sued to get a closer look at visitor logs from the white house and President Trumps florida resort. Should americans be able to see who is calling on the president at home. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. The white house is facing questions tonight about its next moves regarding syria with Top Administration officials sending mixed messages. Press secretary zane spicer is echoing u. N. Ambassador nikki haley on the future of the syrian leader Bashar Al Assad calling the possibility of peace under his regime unimaginable. Hes also leaving opening the possibility of new u. S. Military strikes in response to attacks on syrian civilians. But secretary of state Rex Tillerson is downplaying regime change. Hes heading to moscow which he says share