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First one. Less than a week and a half after the election, the white house announced that retired general Michael Flynn would be named National Security advisor to the president. It wasnt a total surprise, right . Flynn had been around during the campaign, he was clearly a big wheel in trumpland. But even still, even though the announcement he would be National Security adviser, it couldnt be construed as a surprise. It was still nevertheless kind of a shock. Particularly to experienced National...

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi slamming the move in a statement. Republicans claim they want to drain the swamp. Evidently, ethics are the First Casualty of the new republican congress. The republicans went against their own leadership, House Speaker ryan and Paul Mccarthey did not back the move. It could last at least two years if passed. Republicans this week also expected to cast their first votes on repeeling the Affordable Care act. The Obamacare Repeal resolution will be the first item...

That we covered quite a bit on last nights show. Weve got one of the Top Democrats from the Intelligence Committee here to talk with us about both of these things, but they are both developing and or breaking tonight. Lets just get right to it. First one. Less than a week and a half after the election, the white house announced that retired general Michael Flynn would be named National Security advisor to the president. It wasnt a total surprise, right . Flynn had been around during the campaign...

No, theyre completely different, day and night. Yes, maam. Reporter one of your members, congressman keith ellison, has released a statement that mentions that perjury is a felony punishable by jail time. Do you think thats an appropriate piece of this conversation . An investigation would show that but the law has been broken. And what he was stating was fact, that perjury is a crime and there are consequences to it. It remains to be seen what the investigation what else the investigation will ...

Parts. They were not equal in terms of their strength, their ability to project power, their resilience. The United States was far stronger in terms of the economy, in terms of international influence, the soviet union had tight and oftentimes brutal control turnover statements and territories that were within their orbit. But their orbit was kind of limited. The United States had influence and involvement and even an accepted leadership role over a much bigger portion of the globe or at least a...

Lets just get right to it. First one. Less than a week and a half after the election, the white house announced that retired general Michael Flynn would be named National Security advisor to the president. It wasnt a total surprise, right . Flynn had been around during the campaign, he was clearly a big wheel in trumpland. But even still, even though the announcement he would be National Security adviser, it couldnt be construed as a surprise. It was still nevertheless kind of a shock. Particula...

From our Charlie Gasparino who is coming up that there might be a bit of agreement with the Republican Leadership and the renegade conservative whose torpedoed the healthcare deal. First, sara is at the white house with what is going on with the focus of team trump today i guess on jobs, jobs, huh . Where the white house has been most successful, the economic agenda. Thats where the Trump Administration wanted the spot light today. President trump said the Builders Union event down the road in w...

North lawn. The ongoing controversy surrounding attorney general Jeff Sessions clasp his contacts with the Russian Ambassador completely derailed what had been a terrific week for President Trump. With white house staff struggling to find a way past it, the president today decided he was going to punch his way out. Education is a civil rights issue of our time. On his way to florida to talk School Choice, President Trump launched a twitter war with the Senate Minority leader over russia. The fir...

Calling for the attorney general to clarify his testimony. Several democrats are also calling on sessions to resign, but here we are. John roberts is live on the north lawn with more for us. One of the immediate problems for this white house is that the president has a big speech this afternoon aboard the uss gerald ford. Nobody is talking about his speech today, everybodys talking about whats going to happen with senator Jeff Sessions. The doj acknowledging that while he was a senator, he did m...

Vote. But 28. 28. Yeah. Mmm. I know. They can go down to 22 no votes. Weve got 26 in the whip count right now. Presumably people are going to get some brutal knocks on the door this evening. Theyve got 21 hours to try to make this happen. Its going to be a pretty intense time. We will be watching. Thanks, lawrence. Thanks, rachel. Well, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee has described a cloud of scandal over the white house. And today he chose to walk straight into that cloud himse...