Attacks on the fbi and lying about its work will do lasting damage to our country. How will republicans explain this to their grandchildren . Our Kaitlan Collins live from the white house and this follows this stream of attacks from the president this morning including alleging some grand, criminal government conspiracy against him, thencandidate donald trump. Reporter thats right, john. The president once again repeating these unverified claims that the fbi spied on his president ial campaign tweeting about it several times saying that things have turned around on the criminal deep state, that is the president of the United States or the department of justice and saying they go after phony collusion with russia, a madeup scam and end up getting caught in a major spy scandal. Then he says spygate which he has dubbed this could be one of the biggest political scandals in history. So what we have seen that is different this morning, john and poppy, from what the president has been saying
Final vote in the house of representatives on a compromise shortterm spending bill. Were also following the shutdown fallout for President Trump and both parties. This hour, ill talk with two prominent democrats, senator bill nelson and the chairman of the congressional black caucus, saCedric Richmond, and our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. Lets go to our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta. President trump is claiming victory tonight. Thats right, wolf. The white house is taking a victory lap after democrats in the senate caved and voted to reopen the government. The odd thing about this victory lap is its missing the man in the dreevers seat. The president who has been meeting with senators from both parties behind closed doors. Hes still steering clear of the cameras. A source tells us thats by design to make sure the shutdown was not about him. For the last three days its been the art of the conceal. The ayes are 81. After pushing back it was a democratic
Family when he turned it down. If not the strangest thing that happened in washington right now. Tonight we have more on the ongoing saga of the trump dossier. Senators Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham launched a probe into National Security advisor susan rice. In the very final minutes of the Obama Administration just afternoon on Inauguration Day on 2017 come out rice sent herself an email on the white house computer system. In it she described a meeting she attended two weeks before. Atic that meeting were president obama, Vice President joe biden, fbi director jim comey, deputy ag sally yates and susan rice herself. According to rice in this email, obama instructed the officials in the room to consider Withholding National intelligence from the Incoming Trump administration in case they were compromised by russia. In other words, almost two months after the president ial election, barack obama viewed trump not as is democratically elected successor but as a traitor and a russianan
Republicans at it again. Trump had personal involvement in email scandal. So 25page report out by the republican ron johnson and in it he sites a text message between two fbi officials yes talking about peter strzok and lisa page. According to johnsons report page texted strzok about preparing talking points because, this is the operative line, pod us, President Trump wants to know everything we are doing. Okay. That one phrase was enough for senator johnson to make the connection between President Trump and the clinton email investigation. And the current president of the United States did not wait for the facts, the context or the details before tweeting about johnsons report to 47. 5 million followers in all caps, new fbi texts are bomb shells. And then Sarah Sanders came out calling for a review. I think it further shows there is reason for all of us to have great cause for concern in this pros stes and we hope its more thoroughly and fully looked at as we move forward. Okay. There
Over what the president really wants, and of course its far from over. Democrats say they have the votes to block it in the senate, and if they do, or if republicans cant agree among themselves and a shutdown happens, that would make history. The first one ever when the same Party Controls congress, the white house. A lot to get to. We continue our coverage from the capitol. What do we know about how this vote came together . Reporter well, anderson, its a day that started with confusion. The president seemingly to imply he was opposed to a key element of this bill. It continued with fierce lobbies behind the scenes by republicans. With recognition they were going to get no democratic help. They needed to do this themselves. There were conservatives that had real problems with the scale and scope of what this government funding bill would actually do. But by the middle of the day, i was told by top leadership aides that speaker ryan and his team felt like they were in a good place. In