Casualties. There has, in fact, been a surge in reported civilian casualties in the u. S. Air campaign against the socalled islamic state. And under trump, a massive increase in u. S. Drone strikes, more broadly, almost one every two days according to the council on u. S. Foreign relations. Today, tragically, marked the third time this month a u. S. Led air strike may have killed civilians or even our allies, with 18 syrian fighters alied with the u. S. Killed in a Coalition Air strike in syria. The pentagon blamed partner forces. That news comes on the heels of last weeks air strike in syria and now today the decision to launch the mother of all bombs. And we are just 84 days into the Trump Administration. Im joined by Steve Schmidt larry corb. Larry, im going to go to you first because there is a very strange donald trump relationship to the military. He claimed during the came papa
that you knew more about the generals, that he was smarter about isis, now hes in office hes outsource
Second, the second, to study evidence actually exist . Today the top democrat on the House Intelligence Committee says he doesnt think so. I dont expect well see any evidence of this either. I agree with timecard. One of two possibilities here. The president quite deliberately for some reason made up this charge are perhaps more disturbing the president really believes this. Reporter the charges former president barack obama ordered the wiretapping of trump tower during the election. The former president has led the charge. So as the current fbi director reportedly asked the Justice Department to publicly reject the president s claims. Congressman schiff plans to ask about it directly when he testifies before the full Committee Later this month. Republicans have also been very critical of President Trump on this issue. Just today, john mccain said thursday road need for congress
to investigate these wiretapping allegations. Here is why. Ive no reason to believe the charge is true, but
Wanted to have them all in this same meeting in the same room here to discuss all this with the president. But still, even though the vote is scheduled for this evening, expected this evening, other republicans im talking to here and on capitol hill say they would nobt at all surprised if it was set aside or pushed back. That happens, thats a sign there is a big problem. John . Thats an understatement to say the least. Jeff zeleny at the white house. Lets bring it into the room. House Speaker Paul Ryan was supposed to speak to reporters this morning. Hes delayed that until this afternoon. Horse trading behind closed doors, wheeling and dealing, the very thing republicans criticize the democrats for doing when they passed obamacare but well put that aside for a second. What does this tell you that the president is meeting and gets a standing ovation from members of the House Freedom caucus who at the moment you can make the case are undermining the president on priority number one becau
On that part of the country. Im coming to you from steel city, so this is very important here. Ive always supported the Steel Industry and i support our steelworkers and our steelworkers can compete with anybody in the world, as long as the Playing Field is level but that Playing Field has been slanted. President trumps just trying to restore some balance to the Playing Field here and i want to help him. Im ready to go down there and be his wing man and help im implement that agenda. Julie molly is in moon township, pennsylvania where the president is about to speak minutes from now. Molly, i can tell the crowd is getting pretty excited. Reporter there are a lot of Great America great hats here, julie. This is the 20th rally in pennsylvania, his fifth outside of the pittsburgh area since he started driving toward the white house in june of 2015. This is a pretty special appearance specifically for a
reasons why. One, his opponent has been so antiunion since hes been in office. Weve tri
A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. Guiliani described the supposed meeting, then said it never happened. And he once again reiterated the president knew nothing about the meeting in advance. Tonight, Rudy Guiliani seems to be muddying the waters about what meetings may have taken place before the now controversial june 2016 sit down between donald trump jr. And the russians. Guiliani brought up for the first time another meeting without the president three days before the russians met at trump tower. Guiliani claims reporters have been asking questions about its occurrence, and guiliani is trying to make clear it did not happen. There wasnt another meeting, that has been leaked, but hasnt been public yet. That was a meeting, alleged meeting three days before. He says there was a meeting with donald jr. , with jared kushner, with Paul Manafort, with gates, and possibly two others in which they out of the presence of the president discussed the meeting w