Today officials authorize today know. Trump supporters complaining about the source of leaks rather than the substance of the leak, jim sciutto. Reporter a source close to ambassador susan rice tells me the claims she improperly unmasked u. S. Citizens caught up in surveillance is in a word false coming from ambassador rice, but ive also spoken to Senior Intelligence officials from democratic and republican administrations to ask them about the process of unmasking. Is it unusual, illegal . And the answer is usually no, not unusual, not illegal. They say a couple of things, one the law allows it, two for it to happen the official requests,
the Intelligence Community has to approve it, it is often times approved because that official wants to provide more information as they are reading Intelligence Report they want to know more about the significance, that is shared between the briefer. Its possible that official could do that him or herself but by nature of it it is only exchanged one
It looks like hes going back to exactly how he got elected. Hes going to the people and bringing his arguments to the people. But there is a particular sound here on the media where he talks about the media deserving a failing grade. Do we have that . Take a listen. The medias job is to be honest and tell the truth. Then i think we would all agree the media deserves a very, very big fat failing grade. Not all of them. We call it the fake news. Even is using the word fake news. When did you hear it first, folks . Judge jeanine is this classic donald trump where he has been graded for the fast few days about the first 100 days. He literally spun it around and graded the media. You look at the Media Coverage of this president. An analysis was released last week that said from january 20 to april 9 of the 1,900 mines, 186 minutes of that time was either neutral or positive. Which means 96 of the time was negative coverage. The American People know the fake news is real, they dont tell the
Opposition to the threat of budget cuts to agencies that fund scientific work. The president tweeting a couple hours ago i am committed but always remember it enhances environmental protection. Jobs matter. Miguel marquez is in washington where demonstrators marched from the mall to capitol hill. Miguel . Reporter ana, This Is The End point for the march for science. Thousands and thousands of scientists and their supporters clog the streets of washington. It was cold, it was windy. Where they ended here at the capitol, what they were concerned about was the general tone from the Trump Administration on science and matters of science on funding. Very enormous ly engaging in
science in washington, d. C. , said they didnt want their work to be sifted through. It certainly had a very political edge to it. Ana . Thank you, miguel. Now to new york where the rain didnt keep away the crowds. Here is rachel crane. Reporter im in a crowded and rainy times square. Lots of umbrellas and lots of h
Commencements since becoming president. It comes after the white house fallout of the sudden dismissal of james comey during the fbi investigation into possible ties between the Trump Administration or rather trump campaign, i should say and russia. Now this is as four candidates prepare to interview today for the fbi director job. We have a team of political reporters and analysts standing by here. Lets begin with cnn washington Correspondent Ryan Nobles who is at the commencement. You see him there on the left. What are you hearing from the crowd there . I understand theres about 7,000 students and families who will be watching. What are they saying . What do they expect . Reporter well, this is expected to be a pretty friendly crowd for the president. This is a group of people and voters in particular that generally supported him during the election and, of course, here at Liberty University their president Jerry Falwell jr. A very influential evangelical leader that allowed the th
The speaker warned him off of that. Made very clear that the individuals that would be voting for this bill were many of the individuals that helped republicans secure and maintain the majority, told them it Wasnt The Best idea. That said, there was still a House Freedom caucus meeting that was scheduled with tom price and nick mulvaney. They allowed that to happen after it was clear after the meeting there would be no movement with the conservatives, the House Freedom caucus members. The call was made. President trump called the speaker and told him clearly it was time to pull the bill and that is exactly what happened and the ramifications of that arent just micro, not just this week or this bill. They are health care, period. Obamacare stands not just for now, not just for the next couple months butter for the foreseeable future. A lot of republicans talked about if this goes down maybe kind of go piecemeal, piece by piece, try to do this in smaller chunks than all at once but is th