Breaking news tonight, involving Olivia Newtonjohn and her health. Good evening. Great to be back with you after the memorial holiday. Growing scrutiny involving president trumps inner circle. The investigation has now reached his personal attorney. The president s soninlaw is under scrutiny by the fbi. Why did he meet with the Russian Ambassador and the bank . Our own brian ross breaking the news today that the president s personal lawyer is under investigation, hes refusing to cooperate with congress and tonight youll hear why. Brian ross leading us off. Reporter the actives and future roles of the president s soninlaw Jared Kushner. Another close confidant of donald trump, his personal lawyer, michael cohen, has become a focus of the expanding congressional investigation. Cohen told abc news hes been asked to provide information and testimony about any connections to the russian government but is refusing to do so. I declined the invitation, as the request was poorly phrased, overly
Investigation and Jared Kushners communications with russians. What your question assumes is a lot of facts that are not substantiated by anything but Anonymous Sources. Your question presupposes facts that have not been confirmed. So again, im not going to get into confirming stuff. Theres an ongoing investigation. Im not going to dignify partisan accusations of Anonymous Sources and alleged unsubstantiated attacks. Anonymous sources. The thing is, it turns out that Anonymous Sources work just fine for this white house when they support the president s narrative. Earlier today President Trump fired back at a Washington Post story that said Jared Kushner tried to set up Backchannel Communications with russia. Trumps defense referred to a fox news report using Anonymous Sources. It included the headline which reads, Jared Kushner didnt suggest Russian Communications channel in meeting, source says. Hmm, guess it all depends what source is saying. At todays press conference a reporter ca
The fbi is investigating a violent attack on a commuter train after two men are killed trying to stop a man yelling antimuslim slurs at two young women. The president tweets that the victim stood up to hate and intolerance. Was this a hate crime and domestic terrorism, and catastrophic war. North korea launches its third missile in three weeks as defense secretary james mattis warns a won flikt with north korea could be catastrophic. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. President trump honors americas fallen laying a wreath at the tomb of unknowns and visiting the graves of Service Members killed in iraq and afghanistan, but as the commander in chief considers boosting americas battle against terrorism, the white house is now on the defensive amid growing questions about contacts with russia including what sources say was an effort by the president s soninlaw Jared Kushner to set up a preinauguration secret backchannel link to russia while a former cia director finds that move
For not doing their fair share on defense. A big different last year. Money is actually starting to pour in to nato from countries that would not have been doing what they are doing now had i not been elected, i can tell you that. Money is starting to pour in. Laura in just a couple hours the president is expected to land back at joint base andrews. He will have little time to get over jet lag as the administration is facing new accusations into its ties with russia. Garrett 10 is live in washingto. But first we go to italy. Did his people comment on the firestorm brewing back home . No, they did not. President trump did not give any press conferences. Even his advisors, including h. R. Mcmaster who did comment today would not say anything about those reports. A senior trump advisor and Jared Kushner its reported that they agreed to open a channel with russia. The second report was kushner had more contact than previously disclosed with the Russian Ambassador to the United States. Curb
York times met in december with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak and asked to open a secret line of communication directly to the kremlin via the russian embassy. Although the administration wouldnt comment specifically on the latest jared news, National Security adviser general h. R. Mcmaster had this to say yesterday about opening back channels to the russians. We have Backchannel Communications with a number of countries, so generally speaking, about Backchannel Communications, what that allows to you do is to communicate in a discreet manner, so it doesnt predipose you toward any sort of content of that conversation or anything so no, we dont have to be concerned about it. Join me, corinne jean pierre from moveon. Org, jamal simmons, democratic strategist. Donald trump isnt just back from europe, hes also back on twitter, and making up for lost time. Starting shortly after 8 00 a. M. Eastern he started tweeting, lets review. It is my opinion that many of the leaks coming out of th