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Whether the senate should go nuclear over the Supreme Court. And a new significantment whener your questions on air. Two big stories tonight, white house priorities, the controversy over what is next for the immigration ban and a new test to President Trump coming right out of north korea. Kelly odonnell is in west palm beach, florida. Pentagon correspondent hans nichols back from washington. Were also tackling these issues with former u. N. Ambassador Bill Richardson. I want to start with you, close to the action and i know you have new reporting on the immigration ban. What can you tell us . Well, good evening, ari, what we know at this point is that the white house is looking at its options, and the one concern President Trump has expressed about keeping up this court battle, not only has he been giving some setbacks, couple of defeats, but the time that it takes and so that process suggests that the president wants to pivot and do something that could include a new executive order.
I think what were beginning to see is the putting together of a case of obstruction of justice. I think we see this in the indictments, the four indictments and pleas that had just taken place in some of the comments that are being made rick Garrett Tenney is at the white house. Garrett how is the white house explaining that tweet . Garrett rick we know the president loves his twitter and hes tweeted a lot over the last 48 hours about Michael Flynn as well as the fbi but it turns out this particular tweet did not come from his own thumbs. The president s personal attorney tells us he was the one who drafted the tweet and he then sent it to the White House Social Media director who actually posted it and now dowd tells us he was simply trying to paraphrase the events and did so in a rather sloppy job and added in a statement. Im out of the tweeting business i did not mean to break news the point of that tweet was entirely correct. Its just very sad i dont know why the guy, Michael Flynn
I think what were beginning to see is the putting together of a case of obstruction of justice. I think we see this in the indictments, the four indictments and pleas that had just taken place in some of the comments that are being made rick Garrett Tenney is at the white house. Garrett how is the white house explaining that tweet . Garrett rick we know the president loves his twitter and hes tweeted a lot over the last 48 hours about Michael Flynn as well as the fbi but it turns out this particular tweet did not come from his own thumbs. The president s personal attorney tells us he was the one who drafted the tweet and he then sent it to the White House Social Media director who actually posted it and now dowd tells us he was simply trying to paraphrase the events and did so in a rather sloppy job and added in a statement. Im out of the tweeting business i did not mean to break news the point of that tweet was entirely correct. Its just very sad i dont know why the guy, Michael Flynn