Announced he is going to retire in the first place. The white house moving this process along very quickly but we do have sources telling cnn that the president increasingly interested in selecting a woman to take Anthony Kennedys seat. Hes telling aides, can you imagine, remarking on how he picks gina haskell to be the cia director and believes picking a woman could do things. Bring out women voters in the midterms and appeal to two key republican votes, senator murkowski and senator collins. Now, those are two very crucial here. Theres a razor thin margin here for the president to make this pick and we heard from Susan Collins yesterday on state of the union saying that she would not vote to confirm a nominee that she believed showed hostility toward that roe versus wade decision. We have heard from the president before on that landmark case saying he was going to be putting pro life judges on the court. That was back when he was a candidate. Now saying he wont ask during the intervi
Trade tiff is full on between the u. S. And canada. So the Trump Administration as you referenced put tariffs on canadian aluminum and steel. Americans will be paying more as of yesterday for any product that has those two ingredients. Heres the retaliation list. Youll see a lot. Canada imposed tariffs on metals and a slew of wideranging products. As of yesterday, you can see the metals but american whiskey, coffee, maple syrup, ketchup and the unknown here is that canada said they targeted American Goods for which theres a canadian alternative. If you take a look at ketchup. If their favorite is heinz, they will have to buy a canadian brand or pay more. Heres some of the other goods that were targeted by the canadian government against the u. S. Imports. Chocolates, dishwasher, gas stoves, motor boats. If a canadian wants to buy these, they have to pay more. As far as the u. S. Trade tiff with china, the one that we have against china comes in two waves. The first will apply to more t
Its something that really i think we all must take seriously, because donald trump is the president of the united states. This threat of political retribution is unprecedented. Boris sanchez is in kansas city awaiting the president s arrival minutes from now. What is the white house saying about the president s thinking here, whats going on behind the scenes on this strategy . Reporter yeah, one source indicates that President Trump is more than comfortable with how this discussion about security clearances is playing out. Sarah sanders made clear the president is displeased about how these six National Security officials have publically talked about relations with russia and the russia investigation. We should point out that sanders has said this is something the president is still mulling over. They are exploring how to go about this process of revoking security clearances, not a decision thats already been made. However, as was noted by Speaker Paul Ryan in the sound bite, two of th
been collecting intelligence in bulk and some has been american s data. they have been sifkt it in ways that raise some real concerns about privacy and civil liberties. now the cia is saying they can t declassify either the report, itself, or information about the underlying intelligence programs, themselves, because it would damage sources and methods, the crown jewels by which the cia goes about dock its business. what we have is allegations from two law makers. i want to read you part of what they are saying. they have said that this report shows that the cia has secretly conducted its own bulk program and it has done so entirely outside the statutory framework they believe government s selection e collection and the judicial congress am or executive branch oversight that comes with fisa collection, which is the law that governs fbi surveillance. this basic fact, lawmakers say
citizens here in the u.s., than previously known. yeah. it was a wild letter from two democratic senators alleging that the cia may have mishandled americans information collected as part of agency s foreign surveillance programs. cnn s katie bo lewis has details. hi, it s alleged for years the cia has been reporting through vast swaths of data in a way that can negative affect america s privacy in april 2021 letter declassified thursday, saying that the cia has, quote, secretly conducted its own bulk program outside of the framework that congress and the public believe govern this collection. although the cia has declassified some of the materials in question, it says that both the report and the