Announcer get on your feet for the nastiest bull in the state of texas. The Trump Administration digging a deeper and deeper hole for itself over the president s false allegation of wiretapping. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Sean spicer holds an angry and combative press briefing, refusing to admit that President Trump is wrong. Plus troubling new information about michael flynn, President Trumps First National security adviser who was fired and his ties to russia. Well talk about that. Lets begin the hour, though, with cnn senior White House Correspondent jim acosta, who was involved in the exchange with sean spicer. Our chief National Security correspondent jim sciutto, kirsten powers, senior political reporter niamalika henderson, andre bauer, and former congressman jack kingston. Unfortunately jen psaki had to go. She had other obligations. Well continue our conversation in just a bit, but, jim, bring us up to date. You were at that heated White House Press briefing today tryi
Ago all watching this down in d. C. Quite a month its been. Dance with his wife. What is happening tonight . Reporter it has been quite a month don. Really hard to believe its only four weeks. Should be measuring time in dog years because so much can happen any given day. And lot of what has happened not good news for the president. Press conference yesterday, rally tomorrow is seen as something of a way to reset things for the president. On the way down here to maralargo, he made a stop in South Carolina, toured a boeing factory. Here is part of what he had to say in that visit. When American Workers win, america as a country wins, big league wins. Thats my message here today. America is going to start winning again, winning like never ever before. Reporter so by now thats by now familiar rhetoric, the words and rhetoric from the campaign trail and very much what we expect to hear from the president tomorrow at the rally at the airport. This is described by white house as Campaign Ral
And House Republicans the cbo report was not a very favorable. They were expecting this but not necessarily expecting that top line number of 24 million more americans would be uninsured over a tenyear period here. But they are trying to spin this if you will, that it would save money in the long run because it eliminates the mandate over the coverage here but it also certainly does not make it easier to pass the bill. Republicans are trying to assess this. They are trying to House Republicans in particular are looking to the white house for some more reassurances here, and im told well hear more from the white house on this later today. But the director of the omb, mick mulvaney, a former member of the hour, conservative member of the hour, he dismissed this score this morning on cnn. He said this. Lets listen. Ill say that again. The cbo is assuming if you get medicaid, once the mandate is gone youll give up your free medicaid and replace it with nothing. The cbo report is full of er
Briefing. Administration and president have repeatedly soefrd the next few weeks present evidence he was wiretapped. Last week he said coming this week and will speak on it. Will he this week present evidence he was wiretapped by barack obama or will he speak about it . Didnt speak with it at the rally. Well see how the week goes. Will the white house finally say there is no information. Solved matter but he says coming in the next few weeks. Have to admit something . Admission for the white house is concession and its not in Donald Trumps dna to back off or jat miadmit or concede. Imprinted on him as businessman and politician. They feel their strategic goal has to be on offense. Constantly pushing forward and not admit any defeat. I dont see it coming anytime soon. So when are the claims going to come . Its like were going to invest the 3 Million People who voted illegally, inauguration crowd size, the wiretapping thing, which got him into the predicament yesterday with the fbi direc
And his contact with russian officials. And this morning, the president has something to say about all of this and tweets in part, blaming obama with this one. Let me read it. General flynn was given the highest security clearance by the Obama Administration, but the fake news seldom likes talking about that. President trump also targeting the witness with this one sallyyates under oath. If she knows how classified information got into the newspapers soon after she explained it to white house counsel. With that, lets get to cnns chief National Security correspondent jim sciutto. A lot of expectations riding on this one, jim. What are you watching for today . Reporter well, listen, you have two witnesses here, James Clapper and sally yates, who have become something of lightning rods for the gops reaction to the russia investigation. Sally yates being accused, really, of being an obama appointee, kind of a shill for the Democratic Party in terms of her role in this, clapper as well. Thi