Unseasonable temperatures. Milder yesterday. Kind of cloudy. But at least did not feel as cold the past two days. Mild one today. Taking a live look outside on sunday morning. See the light on at the white house. Were just starting to see daylight. Trying to get them to flick the lights. Flick the lights. Sometimes they watch they will flick the lights. Im sure theyre watching like that upstairs window to our right, flick it for us and let us know, give us a sign. Tom, youre hilarious. You need lights on this morning. Its dark and cloudy out there. Actually we have a few showers around, too. Showers in the forecast. 4 Reagan National and 48 dulles and 48 bwi. Temperatures well above freezing and above normal this is closer to normal high for this time of year. Warmer air came in yesterday and we made it into 50s in washington. And this morning were starting off not too cold in 40s. Theres the showers i mentioned. Corridor seeing showers in extreme western maryland, hagers up to, down t
The president s defense team and he appeared on Fox News Sunday earlier this morning. The legal argument is that sense they didnt allege any impeachable offense, since they only alleged abuse of pow he, obstruction of congress, those are vague openended criteria of exactly the sort the framers had rejected back in the constitutional convention. Even if true, they did not allege impeachable offenses. So there cant be constitutionally authorized impeachment. Eric the trial resumes tomorrow. For a preview, Mark Meredith is live on capitol hill. Reporter good morning, eric. Senators have the day off. The impeachment trial will resume tomorrow. We heard from the president s lawyers. They gave a fairly short presentation. We expect monday to be a bit longer. We heard on saturday from president s lead lawyer, Pat Cipollone who said that the democrats are trying to impair the president going into the 2020 election and accused them of trying to reverse the 2016 election. They are reacting to th
This is cnn break news. Hello, welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Just 11 00 here on the west coast im john vause. Im isha sesay. Breaking news this hour, President Trumps second try at a travel ban has been blocked by a federal judge just like the first one. A judge in hawaii made the decision hours before the ban was supposed to take effect. The execute executive order would have stopped travel from a majority of muslim countries. Mr. Trump told a crowd just a while ago he will fight this decision. A judge has just blocked our executive order on travel and refugees coming into our country from certain countries. The order he blocked was a watered down version of the first order that was also bl blocked by another judge and should have never been blocked to start with . We spoke last hour to hawaiis attorney general about the judges decision. Bottom line here, did judge watson, the judge in this case, did he essentially decide that the executive order, t
And it starts right now. President trump is on his first foreign trim but that doesnt mean he left his problems in washington. We have breaking news right now about ousted National Security adviser Michael Flynn. The House Oversight Committee Ranking member democrat Elijah Cummings is accepteding a letter to Jason Chaffetz saying the committee has documents that indicate flynn lied the investigators when he was renewing his security clearance. What about . Well, according to the letter, flynn told investigators, he was paid by u. S. Companies when he traveled to moscow in december of 2015. That was the trim where he was pictured deeng with russian president vladimir putin. The Committee Said flynns payment came from the russian state media company. Rt. Now separately, a u. S. Official with direct knowledge told nbc that flynn left blank a line on his security clearance form asking him to disclose any business relationships or transitions with foreign entities. Earlier we learn that had
people expect a fair trial. i will tell you it is difficult after watching the house a bit this evening. the bottom line is i think the american people expect our government to work. here for our lead off discussion. phillip rucker for the washington post, ashley parker, white house reporter for the washington post and amica amicah oh yang. good evening and welcome to all three of you. mark meadows is urging donald trump to add alan dershwitz. is this a concern or a deficiency on the white house s legal team? it assumes that the president is going to want as many people