Funnel money into the Trump Campaign . Its a cnn exclusive. Shoring up the border. President trump makes it official and sends u. S. Military personnel south, feeding into his base as details of the plan remain rather scarce. And this just in. New trouble for the president s embattled epa president scott pruitt. The president is not pleased with pruitts latest tv appearance in which he was hammered with a number of ethical scandals, including huge pay raises for eight. Here is how it played out. I did not know about the pay raises until yesterday. One got 3,000, the other one is 6,000. One of your friends in oklahoma got a pay raise thats they did not get a pay raise. They did not. I stopped that yesterday. You stopped it. Are you embarrassed . It should not have happened. And the officials involved in that process should not have done what they did. Lets bring in senior White House Correspondent jeff zeleny. Jeff, theres been many reports that pruitt right now is on very thin ice. Wha
February 6th. Thats the day that reporters from the daily mail came to the white house with these allegations of physical and Emotional Abuse against porter by two of his exwives. He said, quote, i have absolutely nothing to even consider resigning over. He did add that the white house did not cover itself hin glory f how it handled the situation. Why they sent out statements praising porter even after photos of his battered exwives had been released into the public. Meanwhile, kelly is also going over this timeline and insisting he did not get information from an office called the White House Security office about problems with rob porters file. He says he never learned about any of this stuff until the media came to them. When the media did come to them, porter resigned and accepted that resignation. Its important to read here. Mj lee has gotten from one of porters exwives. When he first learned of these allegations he characterized him as Emotional Abuse. Jenny willoughby said they
Priorities have yielded a significant agreement. A compromise weve reached will ensure that for the first time in years our arm forces will have more of the resources they need to keep america safe. But theres still some potentially bad news. Even though the Senate Looks Like theyve reached an agreement, it has to go to the house of representatives, and its by no means a done deal there, at least not yet. Take a look at this, speaking for close to three hours on the house floor, the minority leader, the democrat nancy pelosi, shes already throwing cold water on the idea of this budget thats about to be approved by the senate moving forward. It does nothing to even advance even with a commitment without having passed the legislation first to advance Bipartisan Legislation to protect dreamers in this house. Without that commitment from speaker ryan comparable to the commit fr commitment from leader mcconnell, this package does not have my support. All right. Lets go to sunlen serfaty. Wh
Very little action. Senior officials including members of the cabinet spent the day doing cleanup, in some cases walking back what the president has said, in other cases scrambling to craft some kind of policy to fit what he has said. You can make a policy case for or against virtually ever issue that the president has been talking about. This isnt about whether the president s ideas are good or bad. Thats for voters and of course history to decide. What we want to focus on right now is what actually happens after the president makes headlines by saying something in person or in tweets that appear to take his own administration by surprise. Its important because it raises the question just how much weight do the words of the president of the United States now actually have. Syria, for example. Heres the president departing from prepared remarks in ohio last thursday. By the way, were knocking the hell out of isis. Well be coming out of syria like very soon. Let the other people take ca
Explaining his decision a short time ago. Rex is a very good man. I like rex a lot. I really appreciate his commitment to his service and ill be speaking to rex over a long period of time. Cnns jeff zeleny is at the white house. Jeff, tell us how all of this played out there. Well, we heard the president there saying ill be speaking to Rex Tillerson for a long period of time. He did not speak to his secretary of state before doing this. At least the president did not directly. We are getting a Bigger Picture of how exactly this unfolded. Were learning that last friday the chief of staff here at the white house, john kelly, reached out to the secretary of state Rex Tillerson, who is traveling in africa and told him that the president had essentially reached the end of the line here with him and he was going to replace him. But was not told any timing specifically of when that would happen. So Rex Tillerson, the secretary of state, flew back to the u. S. Early from his trip to africa, no