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Hurricane and they will meet with volunteers and sort boxes for delivery. finally, theres more questions about the presidents decision on jerusalem. tomorrow the president will deliver marks on jerusalem. senior officials will have a background briefing to explain the presidents decision. with that, ill take your questions. major? >> sarah, one issue you may have seen this morning, is the white house at any level considering creating a global or regional spy network that would circumvent the u.s...

Months. you know, just take our viewers behind the scenes here a little bit, as jeffrey toobin said, we are talking about our own network here at cnn, the channel youre watching at home right now, but whats interesting about this, given president trumps animosity towards cnn, is that there have been concerns -- there has been speculation that maybe somehow the government would try to force a spin-off to cnn, basically say youve got to sell cnn to get this deal through. there was a concern the go...

The president said that he might play sanctions on venezuela. he can look at the things trump said and said im doing what the president of the united states has said. >> hold on for a moment buzz sarah huckabee sanders is starting the briefing. >> today at 5:45 p.m., the white house will hold a background briefing for reporters on the iran strategy. at 12:45 tomorrow the president will announce the strategy to the country. further details on both of those will be forth coming. until then, i know...

This is not useful. >> its just very clear where its coming from, david. anthony scaramucci just got installed. you know hes dealing with the president very closely and constantly. this is clearly a presidential priority. how else do we know that? jeff sessions who has every reason to be doing whatever the president wants, what did they just announce? theyre going to launch an investigation into leaks. it seems like this is what the president wants. >> it certainly does. of course, the president...

>> anderson, thats about all we know about the ban this evening. the president sent out those urgent messages early this morning saying, look, you know, the military service will not be allowed any transgendered member of the service will not be allowed to be an active member of the military. but beyond that, it was left at that. just to give you a window into how things work here at the white house, there were background briefings today on whats going on in venezuela. there was a background mee...

Allowed -- any transgender member of the service will not be allowed to be an active member of the military. beyond that, it was left at that. there were background briefings today on whats going on in venezuela, a background briefing for administration officials on whats going on in the job announcement in wisconsin. anderson, for a major policy change like this, there was not a single background briefing. administration officials we talked to were, quite frankly, caught off guard, they could n...

Warming is a hoax is this. >> youll have to ask him that. >> of course, we have a difficult time doing that because he doesnt take our questions very often. why wont they give a straight answer to this? >> clearly doesnt want to answer this question and even when a briefer in the background briefing was asked about this, well, why wont you stay on topic talking about the accord. it did seem to be on topic. >> a little bit. >> even when the president talked yesterday, he did not talk about climat...

Extremism and terrorism, and all of the remarks by not only the president, in that historic speech, to 50-plus muslim and arab nations but from the sing of saudi arabia. a lot of people didnt catch what he said but the saudis did. the president moving on to israel, those images very powerful as john and rich have been talking about. and the first president to visit western wall, the first president to put israel on the first foreign trip, but the saudis had the first stop on that first foreign t...

There are other issues, trade issues they want to take about, dairy issues and so on. in has the potential to get complicated for the president to make good on this promise. >> thanks, jim accosta. back to the panel. maggie, i saw people criticizing the president, hes changed again. what hes saying today does sound very much like what he said on the campaign trail, he wants to renegotiate. hes not emphasizing how terrible it is perhaps as much as he did. there is continuity there. >> it is not a...

More secure. from south korea, the vice president will head to japan, continue to provide updates as they warrant during the vice presidents trip throughout the rest of the week. looking ahead, tomorrow the president heads to wisconsin where hell talk about his buy america, hire america agenda at snap-on tools in wisconsin. for those who arent aware, snap-on is a prime example of a company that builds american made tools with american workers for u.s. taxpayers. well be having a background brief...