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. raul castro, the president of cuba will also give a news conference in his country that will happen at noon eastern time. of course cnn will continue to follow this breaking news throughout the day. thank you for joining me today, i m carol kos toll low. @this hour with berman and michaela starts now. hello, everyone. i m john berman. and. and i m michaela pereira. history is being made at this hour after more than a half century of tension and diplomat diplomatic silence between the u.s. it s releasing alan gross from prison after five years. a series of genuinely breathtaking developments. cuba is also releasing a u.s. intelligence asset, a spy, who s been locked up in cuba for more than 20 years. in return washington is freeing three cuban spies convicted in 2001 of espionage. that is big in and of itself. it all seems part now of something much, much bigger. president obama will announce major changes in u.s. policy toward cuba. officials calling them the most sw ....
reporter: certainly. that will be a challenge for some of them especially in districts where the president is very popular. if members did not side with him on this. i think the big question right now is will it get to the floor? that s a decision that doesn t reside in the white house. it s really a decision for the majority leaders of the republicans, kevin mccarthy a long with the speaker, they run the floor. if they believe it is sort of a doomed bill, they ve got to make a calculation about tip typically you could see them not put it on the floor with that political exposure for each and every member to be recorded on something that went nowhere. that s typically how this goes. we saw the president saying he wanted a vote. that was a point of leverage. in the time we ve been talking about this and when we ve been updating our own whip counts and describing the mood and the atmosphere, i can assure you, if there were people in leadership who thought we had that wrong, they ....
premptive strike by the united states. the president also is publicly declaring that he has no plans to fire robert mueller as his russia investigation heats up. fbi said he was surprised the raid of the home of paul manafort. and pouring more feud on the top republican in the senate. he called mitch mcconnell s failure to get obama care repeals and replaced a disgrace. this after he posted multiple tweets slamming the majority leader and urging him to get back to work. this hour, i ll talk about the north korea situation with our today, trump said he would consider diplomatic efforts but offered a pessimistic view of their odds of success. we will always consider negotiations, but they have been negotiating for 25 years. you look at bush and obama imploring china to step up their pressure on pyongyang. i think what noo can do more and i think they will. his secretary of state, rex tillerson, taking a different approach. offering reainsurances to the american peo ....
tonight, the deadly school shooting. the gunman opening fire inside a high school. at least two dead, more than a dozen shot or injured. police and ambulances rushing to the scene. also tonight, the major headline in the russia investigation. robert mueller now reaching right into president trump s cabinet. interviewing attorney general jeff sessions. and tonight, abc news now confirming mueller wants to question the president on two key issues. the powerful 7.9 earthquake off alaska, launching a tsunami alert in alaska and along the west coast of the u.s. and what we have learned tonight about those plates shifting and how it might have made all the difference. you ll see it here tonight. the deadly flu. the 6-year-old girl dying after paramedics came to the home. she was not taken to the hospital. the warning from her parents to others tonight. and the major announcement
the president says when he fired comey, he had the russia investigation on his mind. when i decided t ....
the powerful tools of intelligence have now been politicized and used to influence a presidential election. make no mistake about it. this scandal will reach the highest level of the obama intelligence community, d.o.j., f.b.i. and what we re reporting on is only the beginning tonight. we ll talk to sara carter about all the details in a minute and also tonight the president continuing to crush the destroy trump liberal media and the left s completely false narrative about russia collusion. it has now been over a year and so far they have zero, zip, nothing, no evidence of trump/russia collusion. during a press conference today with norway s prime minister the president was asked about the russia investigation and if he would do an interview with special counsel robert mueller. here is his answer. take a look. president trump: there has been no collusion between the trump campaign and russians or trump and russians. no collusion.
the white house. and that he had all of his faculti ....