Understanding of what happened. With that caveat, i should tell you that preliminarily reports make it seem what happened here is a single shooter, a 45yearold man. He was ultimately killed by police. Authorities tell us that of the people who were shot and injured in this mass shooting, at least five were Police Officers themselves. So, again, that means we think were talking about five injured Police Officers, five nonPolice Officers, five civilians killed and the shooter himself killed on top of that. So we arch wassie watching thats it continues to develop. Well let you know more as we know more. Today started, of course, with the president declaring a National Emergency to try to give himself a sort of legal way to take money, mostly from the military, to build a wall between u. S. And mexico, despite the fact that congress will not appropriate the money that the president wants for that purpose. Immediately upon declaring this emergency today, the president in what appeared to be
Threatens to declare a National Emergency if the democrats dont fund his wall. We will look at the history of such declarations and the awesome powers they give the commander in chief. And bring back our girls, remember the intense anger over the kidnapping of almost 300 Nigerian School girls . Bring back our girls. Remember the feverish demands to get them back . Well, some 100 of those girls are still missing. We have not forgotten. But first here is my take. Watching the struggle over funding for a border wall im struck by the way in which in one sense donald trump has already achieved success. He has been able to conjure up a crisis out of thin air, elevate this manufactured emergency to national attention, paralyze the government and perhaps now even invoke warlike authority and bypass congress. He may still fail, but it should worry us that a president , any president , can do what trump has done. Lets be clear, there is no crisis. The number of undocumented immigrants in the Uni
This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Breaking news on the russia investigation. The special counsel, robert mueller, asking a federal judge in virginia to throw the book at Paul Manafort, arguing that the former Trump Campaign chairman deserves up to 24 and a half years in prison for his conviction. And team mueller saying that his age should not be a factor in receiving a reduced sentence because manaforts crimes are serious and he acted as if he were above the law for years. Also tonight, the special counsels office saying for the first time that it has evidence of roger stone communicating directly with wikileaks. Previously prosecutors had only outlined how stone attempted to get in touch with wikileaks. Were also learning that White House Press secretary Sarah Sanders confirming to cnn that she has been interviewed by Robert Muellers team. The interview was conducted late last year. It is unclear what she was asked. A lot to get to. I want to bring in shimon prokupe prokupecz. Prose
Intelligence. Also tonight, two things you seldom see. Both are from roger stone who first publicly attacked a federal judge and then took it back when some took it as a threat. And protests over the president s wall emergency as 16 states now line up to take him to court. All of it as the 11th hour gets under way on a monday night. And good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 760 of the Trump Administration, and on this holiday monday night, we have news over just the past few hours about when Rod Rosenstein, number two man at the Justice Department who has in the past supervised the mueller investigation, when he may be leaving the department. More on that in a moment. But lets begin here tonight with Andrew Mccabe, this man, the man who first opened the investigations into the president. He is now going into detail about just how alarmed senior Justice Department officials were about the conduct of our president of the United States in the days af
Dollar. I remember looking down and seeing the claus. A man who took out a Mountain Lion alone with his bare hands tells his story. Good morning, welcome to early start, you will probably not do anything that remark. Im dave grigs, its friday, february 15th. Hope you had a valentines day like christine roman. I got roses. My poor wife. Restart this friday with a National Emergency after failing at every turn to get funding for his wall, President Trump is just hours away from signing a compromise. Border security bill to avoid a second government shut down. He is not surrendering, he will also declare a National Emergency, and announced hes using executive powers to bring together 8 billion from a variety of Funding Sources to Fund Construction of his wall, a move that has the backing of Senate Majority leader mitch mcconnell. I have had an opportunity to speak with President Trump and he, i would say to all my colleagues has indicated hes prepared to sign the bill. He will also be iss