sure galts crisscross the country. the democrats are just as busy. hillary clinton and her top surrogates are on the ground in several battleground states including a big rally with pop star katy perry in philadelphia. so this as the map shifts slightly in donald trump s favor as utah and ohio move from battleground to republican. and hillary clinton now just below that magic number of 270 electoral votes. our team political reporters and commentators, fanned out across the country covering every aspect of this campaign. we ll hear from them throughout the hour. all right. let s begin our team coverage in florida. cnn s jason carroll is in tampa for us where donald trump is holding the first of four rallies in battleground states today. so jason, polls show florida is a very tight race. how does the trump campaign plan to secure this must win state? reporter: the trump campaign feeling good, feels the momentum is going in their favor. he s basically been staying on message.
meantime, president trump will leave mar-a-lago down in palm beach later today with two important items on his agenda. one, find a new national security adviser. he know he has been interviewing a couple of candidates over the weekend. two revise the executive order on the immigration ban and border security. we have looked at the draft of this executive order. it could come at some point this week banning travel from seven muslim majority nations. how might this be different than the original one? well, as you said, he s going to issue this new order. and he said, to protect our people. what what s key here, brooke, he has to write it the lawyers have to write it in a way that it won t be blocked by the courts, right. two federal courts halted the previous one. we have seen some glimpses of what might be in the new order. over the weekend, homeland security chief john kelly, he acknowledged something, that was in the first one was poorly rolled oud. he said we are going
let s get right to it now. our cnn senior white house correspondent joins us now from the white house with more on this. jeff, good evening to you. there are serious questions facing the white house tonight and people are asking if there is a cover-up. we re learning serious information about the president s former national security adviser, lieutenant general michael flynn. fill us in. reporter: well, don, as you said, michael flynn through his lawyer has offered to testify in this ongoing russia investigation before the house committee and the senate intelligence committee as well as the fbi, in exchange for some type of immunity we re being told. we do have a statement from his lawyer. you saw part of it a second allege. he also goes on to say this. he said, general flynn certainly has a story to tell. he very much wants to tell it should the circumstances permit. that is very interesting there, don. gem flynn certainly has a story to tell. we don t know exactly what he
now the knives areñr out. what s the realñrçóñi story?>l+r the investigation. what happens to the multi-pronged investigation inti russia s election interference and its contacts with the trump camp. democrats are demanding an independent special prosecutor. will they shut down the senate until they get one. and the optics. could it look any worse? hours after firing comey the president was all smiles as he met with russia s ambassador to the united states, a key figure in the investigation and with russia s foreign minister who early joked to reporters about the fbi directors s firing. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. breaking news. president trump sends off shock waves with sudden firing of fbi director james comey in the middle of an investigation into russia s election meddling and the trump camp s russian contacts. the president said he acted because comey, quote, was not doing a good job although the president often praised comey and the whit
an important moment there. let s get over the important place right now. jeff zell anneny has more on th. the white house put out a statement on the chemical attack yesterday, but this could be the first time we hear from the president since putting out that statement. what are you hearing from the white house? the white house is drafting comments right now that the president will be delivering later today early this afternoon in the rose garden, and it will be about syria. it will be about the chemical attack and this will be fascinating to watch what the president says specifically about this. yes. because he said in a statement yesterday he called it reprehensible, but of course, the question is what does this administration intend to do with the assad regime? he had some criticism of president obama, of course, that syria red line and we have not yet got a full sense of what this president believes and in fact what his policy toward a syria. so we will get a much mo