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minutes. so when that statement comes, we ll, of course bring it to you. and of course all of this ongoing in sydney as it comes up on 6:00 local time. this siege going on now for more than eight hours. i m john vause at the cnn center in atlanta. and i m natalie allen. we have been with you for several hours, and we will push on as this situation in australia continues. it is breaking news of a siege there in a coffee shop that has been ongoing. a gunman holding people hostage at the lindt coffee shop in downtown sydney. sky news has just informed us that the gunman is calling himself the brother , and has contacted a radio station and two tv stations via hostages with demands, a conversation with the prime minister and an isil flag. we do know five people have managed to get out. three men were seen running out two hours ago. two of them were customers. the man in the blue jacket, the man in the white zirs and a few moments later there was a man wearing an apron who ....
father s administration. jeff zeleny is outfront in new york. we learned ivanka trump, jared kushner are going to move to washington. now, that s a pretty stunning thing, right, if you think about the fact ivanka trump said she will have no role in her father s administration. this is a clear signal she s going to be right by her father s side. maybe she doesn t have a technical title. she s staying in her job at the trump organization. what can you tell us? reporter: something they have to work out and sort through. they ve already had missteps here in the first month of this transition meeting with the world leader, the first meeting that her father had with the prime minister of japan, and, but erin, it s clear that they are still trying to sort through this. the american presidency is not simply set up for a family like this so they re going to be making the rules as they go along, but we are told they are planning to move to washington. they re looking for houses there at ....
who is our person of the week. good evening and it s great to have you with us on a friday night. we end the week with the breaking headline from the white house. president trump demanding the resignation of tom price, the secretary of health and human services is out. he ll be replaced at midnight tonight comes after spending hundreds of thousands of dollars of your money on luxury jets and that list of cabinet members under fire for spending is growing. epa chief scott pruitt. treasury secretary steve mnuchin, interior secretary ryan zinke and top republicans are demanding an investigation and mary bruce on how much of your money taxpayer dollars has been spent and the questions now mounting tonight. reporter: as he boarded air force one tonight, it sounded like the president had made up his mind about health secretary tom price. i m disappointed in him. he s a good man, but i m disappointed in him. reporter: just minutes before, abc s jon karl asked the president if p ....
that all happening all at once. maybe it s a coincidence, maybe that s what happens when the charges start to get filed. they all interrelate. they must be at least some level read into what s going on in mueller s shop, we would hope. this all looks like it s designed to protect donald trump. not get at the meat and potatoes of what russia did to us. i feel like so much of what we re seeing is it to protect donald trump i don t know maybe i m a little paranoid thinking that is disturbing. none of us are naive. but the part of it that i have been a little bit dismayed by is that it s one thing for people who are partisans of the trump administration or who are republicans and see it as their job to defend the president, to say, you know what, this collusion thing didn t happen. what russia did was terrible. we are against that. but don t try to drag donald trump into this, don t try you re saying that he was involved in this to try to undercut his election. he won his el ....
opening for democrats to say why do you remember some things. what was happening that triggers your memory on these items that wasn t. what do we need to do to get there? i just think it gives them an in. and all he simply has to say is he doesn t remember. unless he can tell the whole context of it, i don t know if it gets us moving forward. it just seems like they are not going to give up the dog bone on this. i did think it was interesting, too, how many different roads that these lawmakers are allowed to go down. look at sheila jackson lee. she was just all over the place. sandra: you can see a little activity on capitol hill. attorney general jeff sessions has sat back down after a very brief break. so we ll go back to him when this hearing begins. it could be at any moment. the committee will reconvene. sandra: let s listen. it s reconvening now. the gentleman from florida mr. deutsche for five minutes. thank you, mr. chairman. attorney general sessions thanks for ....