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Could this derail betsy devos before a scheduled vote today . Details about the navy s. E. A. L. S life in yemen. Good morning. Im christine romans. This is early start. Im john berman. The travel ban hangs in the balance this morning with three federal judges set to hear arguments by telephone. Lawyers are urging the ninth circuit calling it a lawful exercise of the president s authority. Lawyers are arguing it should remain suspended because of the global chaos. The Trump Administration says i...

Fighters used to move around freely making it easier for them to target u. S. Military advisers and Afghan Forces in the area. The United States takes the fight against isis very seriously. In order to defeat the group, we must deny them operational space, which we did. Lets begin with the pentagon and ryan brown. Why did they do this . Officials are saying this was the right target at the right time. Its a 21,000pound bomb. Its so large that it has to be dropped out of the back of a cargo airpl...

President s evidencefree wire tapping allegation is a lie . Plus, travel ban battle. A judge overturns the president s doover and uses his own words against him. An unprecedented judicial overreach. Will the president push his case all the way to the Supreme Court . And the best political minds will be here with insights on what happens next. Hello. Im jake tapner washington where the state of our union is currently on lockdown, well, not literally but secret service alarms halt the white house ...

So we will get to that tonight as well. But we have to start with a little breaking news which has just been published by the Washington Post. And i want to say from the outset that the source of this news is very unusual this is a breaking news story about the Trump Campaign and russia. And this story springs from a very unusual leak. Its a leak of something that really doesnt usually leak. And the Washington Post goes out of their way tonight to point out in their reporting that what is the so...

Joint response. America crossed red lines and they would respond with force in the future. President trump meeting with Foreign Policy team over the weekend at maralago. His secretary of state pointed the finger at russia saying moscow failed to destroy syrias chemical weapons. Regardless of whether russia was complicit here or whether they were simply incompetent or got outwitted by the Bashar Alassad regime you would have to ask the russians. Theyve failed in their commitment to the internatio...

Schneider live in tampa, florida, with the latest. Good morning, jessica. Reporter good morning, alisyn. The president very vocal this weekend. He was on television, on twitter. His social media feed taking direct and controversial aim at the federal judge who halted his executive order. President trump launching attacks against the judge who temporarily halted his travel ban, accusing judge james robart of opening the country to potential terrorists, suggesting america should blame the judge an...

Complying with the president s request to intervene would be inappropriate. Cnn has already reported the president asked coates and the nsa director mike rogers to publicly deny his campaign cooperated with russia in the 2016 election. Sources told cnn both coates and rogers were uncomfortable with the president s request and refused to comply. The white house still cant or wont confirm that President Trump has confidence in attorney general Jeff Sessions. This as a source close to sessions tell...

Be underway . We want to welcome viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. We have breaking news this hour on the fbi directors secret briefing up on capitol hill, james comey, meeting right now with top house and Senate Leaders who have a level of security clearance that would allow them to share sensitive classified information. Comeys visit coming as lawmakers investigate russias alleged meddling, ...

Combat. Now the u. S. Shot down a syrian plane for the first time ever. And the russians are warning washington that any u. S. Or u. S. Led Coalition Planes that fly west of the Euphrates River in syria will be considered targets. The russians didnt say they would shoot them down, but this marks a major escalation over a battlefield that was already confusing. The russians have threatened to stop using the deescalation hotline. Im confident that were still communicating between our Operations Ce...

These are our families that are being impacted, so lets please get it right. Reporter the number of gop senators currently opposed to the legislation has grown to six, with at least three others expressing concerns, leadership can only afford to lose two votes to pass the bill. My state is a medicaid extension state, and so we have a lot of issues. Reporter the cbo report also estimates that over the decade, the senate bill would reduce the National Deficit by 321 billion. Largely by slashing me...