adviser could be acting as a foreign agent. plus, it s the first rule of politics. don t compare anybody to hitler. i guess nobody told sean spicer. we didn t use chemical weapons in world war ii. you know? you had a you know, someone when s despicable as hitler who didn t sink to the to using chemical weapons. we ve got the latest on the attempts to clean that up and whether that will be enough for president trump. we want do get started with the breaking news on the trump administration charges of improper surveillance by the obama administration. cnn is learning now about the claims of chairman devin nunes that members requested the identities of americans appearing in intelligence reports. now, just to refresh your memory, here s what congressman nunes has said previously. there s some information in those documents that concern me and the reports that i read that i don t think belong there. it would make me uncomfortable. some of it i think it bothered me enoug
almost 40% in the first quarter, so much for china working with us but we had to give it a try. we also have this new video of what kim jong un calls, quote, a basket of gifts for american bastards. the missile test by north korea. this missile here that experts say could reach alaska. let me say that again. missile test that could reach alaska and u.s. defense officials call a brand-new weapon never seen before. elise is working this for us. she s our cnn global affairs correspondent. when you hear from secretary tillerson that the u.s. will never accept a nuclear armed north korea, how has the u.s. responded to this? reporter: well, clearly, it s a game changer, brooke. the u.s. called an emergency session of the u.n. security council today. i think what we re really looking at initially is maybe some kind of presidential statement of condemnation but then the u.s. is really going to put the screws to the international community to try and tighten those sanctions against
kremlinology style coverage and speculation about who is in favor and who is out of favor and who has been able to move their desk closer to the oval office and who might some day be fired and who is angling. the government is not supposed to be conducted like the gong show, right? it has been a weird 24 hours in the news because of this word that went out prfrom the white house last night. h.r. mcmaster was to be fired. why did the white house put that word out last night? i don t know. and neither do you. but you should know that right before the white house put out that word last night, this is the last public thing that national security advisor h.r. mcmaster did yesterday afternoon. russia is also coproviding political cover for assad s crimes, from february 24th to february 28th, russia conducted 20 bombing missions every day in the eastern guda and damascus areas. russia also twocondemned russiar using chemical weapons. this morning, the united states, france, germ
fire the national security advisor, h.r. mcmaster. i have little no appetite at all for kremlinology style coverage and speculation about who is in favor and who is out of favor. who has been able to move the desk closer to the oval office. who is angling for what job. the government is not supposed to be conducted like the gong show. it has been a weird 24 hours in the news because of this word that went out from the white house. about the national security advisor was to be fired. why did the white house put that word out last night? i don t know. neither do you. but you should know that right before the white house put out that word last night, this is the last public thing that national security advisor h.r. mcmaster did yesterday afternoon. russia is also providing political cover for assad s crimes, from february 24th to february 28th, russia conducted 20 bombing missions every day in the eastern guda and damascus areas. syria. thwarting efforts to hold the regime a
of candor. in a statement mccabe responded in part and it s a long and emotional statement, i am being singled out and treated this way because of the role i played, the actions i took and the events i witnessed in the aftermath of the firing of james comey. this was an unprecedented effort by the administration driven by the president himself, to remove me from my position and possibly strip me of a pension that i worked 21 years to earn. to have my career end in this way is incredibly disappointing and unfair, but it will not erase the important work i was privileged to be a part of, the results of which will in the end be revealed for the country to s see. another dramatic moment on a friday night. repeating our top story, former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe has been fired tonight. now to the rachel maddow show. the national security adviser to the president of the united states did not get fired today. and that counts as both news and a surprise because the white h