Impression. Good to be back with you, ladie ladies. Harris you feel like we have enough going on . Bill we are all right for now. Harris welcome. We will begin with the big changes to immigration enforcement. But the white house is calling improvements. New secretary of Homeland Security retired marine general john kelly has issued new directives to fortify Border Security come at 15,000 i. C. E. And border personnel and speed up deportation of Illegal Immigrants. That is not all. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts is here, and this launches the president s brandnew executive order. Writes, and that new executive order is expected to come toward the end of the week. This goes back to january 25th. You will remember the president signed two executive orders, one for Border Security and the other getting rid of criminal illegal aliens. Heres what the socalled implementation memos will do. They will call for the hiring of 10,000 additional immigration and Customs Enforcement age
Ledeckys dominance to the final fives brilliance. But only one could be the female athlete of the year. We begin with the trump transition and the president elects new tweets targeting president obama and the u. Nited nations. Hallie jackson is covering the president elect near his maralago estate. She joins us from west palm beach. A lot to get to already this morning. Yeah. Lets start with whats on his schedule. He did take christmas off. He was down a little bit, but today hes back to work . Not really, chris. Still kind of the transition into the holiday week, if you will. Theres some transition meetings happening with staff members, but we dont expect the president elect to pick up his full schedule until tomorrow. Tomorrow and thursday, transition official says he will have meetings here at maralago the way we saw him have meetings prior to the christmas holiday. You know, theres still some key positions unfilled as sort of highlevel administration posts. As you know, secretary o
Information. Well tell you about his surprise decision to step aside. Senate showdowns. Republicans made good on their threat and pulled the Nuclear Trigger to guarantee the president S Supreme Court nominee is confirmed. Will the gop come to regret this historic move. And clinton speaks out tonight. Hillary clintons talking publicly about the impact of russias election meddling calling the hacking of democrats a more effective theft than watergate. Were just getting in portions of her first interview since losing to President Trump. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Were following a lot of breaking news this hour including the new threat of u. S. Military retaliation for serious chemical weapons attack. President trump is privately telling members of congress that hes considering military action. Mr. Trump just told reporters that something should happen to punish
Reporter just last night. Speak with shane, please. But you sick and tired of you guys. The last guy who came in here did the same thing. Get the hell out of here. Jesus. Get the hell out of here. We should tell you that the reporter is live with us in just a moment. Youre going to hear from him. Plus, breaking news on russia and this is big. Going straight to the heart of the white house and the first family. Jared kushner, the president s soninlaw, and righthand man, now a focus of the investigation. Investigators looking at kushners contacts with russian officials and the campaigns Data Analytics operation. Were covering all the angles on both these big stories for you tonight. So, were going to start with the votes. Just being counted. Beginning to be counted right now in montanas special election. To fill an open seat in the house of representatives. Well find cnns ryan young there at gianfortes headquarters in bozeman, montana. Kyung lah is there as well. The Quist Campaign in mi
Breaking news tops the hour. Its also a piece of a picture of a president appearing to disengage from certain realities that he himself once acknowledged and he himself in uninstance apologized for. He apologized in that access Hollywood Tape of being able to grab womens genitals and get away it. And now hes been casting doubt with at least three people, whether its his voice on that tape. Also theres no reporting that the president has adopted old doubts about former president obamas birth certificate. And theres late reporting from jim acosta that the president believes he would have won more votes if he would have not abandoned those birther believes. David axelrod, how concerned are you tonight that the president of the United States seems to be operating in a different reality when it comes to any number of topics . Yeah, i am concerned, anderson. Because i sat next to the oval office for a couple of years. I saw the kinds of issues that come across that desk. I know the power tha