Thats where the sense of a rigged election here. Reporter but trump undercutting that very message moments later tweeting that the election is, absolutely being rigged. At many polling places. This part of a Trump Twitter storm against multiple attacks against House Speaker paul ryan. Ryan pushing back on trumps rigged election theory. The speaker is fully confident the election will be carried out with integrity. Hillary clintons running mate tim kaine calling on more republicans to speak out against trumps allegations. He started to make wild claims. Kind of scorched earth claims about the election being rigged, et cetera. We have to keep putting out a message and we need to call on everybody to speak out about the fact that we run elections and we run them well here. We ask gop leaders also to stand up for the integrity of the electoral process. Reporter trump also continuing to fire back at allegations of Sexual Assault and unwelcomed sexual advances. Now, now accused by nine women
Of who is on the other end of the phone. United states does not recognize taiwan has a country. The chinese will see this as an infringement of what they see as their sovereignty. If youre just waking up, happy saturday and thank you for sharing some of your time with us here. We always appreciate it. Im christi paul. Im Martin Savidge in for victor blackwell. Taiwan on line one, hardly sounds Like Fighting words, but apparently it is in under 50 days until president elect donald trump enters the oval office, he is taerg up the diplomatic script in washington. Yesterday he spoke on the phone with the president of taiwan. That breaks with nearly 40 years of u. S. Diplomatic relations with china. Well, this morning, china is calling this a shenanigan staged by taiwan. Trumps Transition Team says the president of taiwan offered her congratulations to the president elect on the phone. They also talked about the, quote, close, political, economic and security ties that exist between taiwan
Campaign. Let me be clear i never had meetings with russian operatives or russian intermediaries. But defending himself amid revelations that he failed to disclose he met with russian emotions bass dor twice during president Trumps Campaign last year. I dont believe theres anything wrong with United States senator meeting with an ambassador from russia. Under oath, sessions had a different answer. I did not have communication with the russians. The attorney general admits. In retrospect i should have slowed down and said i did meet one russian officials a couple of times. And now plans to admit a supplement. My response went to the question as i indicated about the continuing surrogate relationship that i firmly denied and correctly denied. I did not mention in that time that i had met with the ambassador so i will definitely make that part of the record. Sessions first meeting last july on the side lines of the Republican National convention. Cnn obtained copies of then senators sessi
Good morning, everyone. Im rene marsh in for christi paul. Im victor blackwell. Happy easter to you. We will take you to vatican city later this morning. New this morning we start in south korea where the Vice President mike pence has arrived in seoul saying the u. S. Stand with its ally. This is hours after north koreas later provocation falls flat. Yet another Missile Launch by north korea but this one fizzled out second late. The white house is offering a lowkey response, but they are also warning another north Korean Nuclear test could be imminent. The Vice President wrapped up his first day in seoul. Earlier, the second family attended Easter Service with u. S. And south korean troops. He repeated the commitment to the region. Listen. This is a challenging time all over the world. But especially here in the Asian Pacific. The opportunity for me to be here today, at such a time as this, is a great, a privilege for me. But let me assure you, under President Trumps leadership, our re
That is. Im sure the pentagon will do so. If not, certainly congress will prod them to do so and that is appropriate. We should have those answers. Im asking for a classified briefing about exactly what happened in niger. And right now, answers are hard to come by. The scene on the ground only described by multiple u. S. Officials as confusion. At the same time, there are more and more questions over why the white house hesitated in even talking about these soldiers deaths. Kaitlan collins is at the white house and Barbara Starr has the latest from the pentagon. What are you hearing over there today . Well, lets be clear, secretary mattis is not trying to rush the investigation, but he does want some answers and is going to begin to get them in the coming days about what exactly happened as they look into this in greater detail. Theyre trying to establish a timeline, hour by hour, about how this all unfolded. What we do know, according to initial reports, is the team led by green beret