Targeted Law Enforcement vehicles arriving at the scene. And police are now clarifying the timeline of the attack. Why were there discrepancies with the hotel . And red flag. The raising of a person flag over the interior department is raising new questions about secretary ryan zinke already under investigation for his use of private planes. Why has he revived an arcane military ritual . 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 breaking news. Controversial moves by President Trump to dismantle two of president obamas signature achievements, including the Iran Nuclear Deal. Hes threatening to pull out of the agreement unless congress strengthens it. Mr. Trump calls the deal one of the worst in u. S. History. The president is also cutting funding for a critical subsidy that helps ensure millions of low income americans through obamacare. He calls the subsidie
Persio, politics editor for New York Times is here, sam stein. And also with us, nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of kasie dc. Kasie hunt. Along with willie, joe and me. Its never going to get old. There will be a day where were all wearing kasie d. C. Shirts. Rock on, lets do it. Joe, where are we with this shutdown at this point . Well i think the president was right when he was a private citizen. 50 years from now, people arent going to be saying you know, who is the majority leader, who is the minority leader . You know, it whats so fascinating, he says its all on barack obama when barack obama is president of the United States. And if its not on barack obama, then he suggests it maybe people might look at the person who is running the senate or running the house. What donald trump and the republicans are betting on, are two very, very faulty things. Their logic is so faulty. Number one, theyre betting that americans will look at washington, d. C. , knowing that washing
She comes out in a few moments, will be asked about that. What is not in plan, wolf and it would keep the government running until february 16th of so a fix for daca, the Deferred Action Program for those dreamer kids and young adults who are still in the country but wondering whats going to happen to them come march 5th when that program terminates. So that is also going to be an issue in this Briefing Room, i suspect, because democrats have been saying, hey, we dont want to sign on to another continuing resolution. We want to sign on to a spending plan that includes a daca fix. It just seems that there are too many trains coming into the station at once. What we may end up seeing over the next 48 hours, wolf, is the house, the senate, and this white house putting together some sort of proposal that throws another token in the toll booth to keep the government running for another couple weeks. That all, of course, remains to be seen, but as of this point, the white house has said repe
His resignation this week. We got some news about members of conyers families. Melanie sloan joins us tonight. You are one of the reasons this story has come to light, tell us how it happened. After i told my story to the Washington Post and appeared in the news, Courtney Morris reached out to me, wanted to talk about what happened to her. She was considering whether or not to come forward and i encouraged her to publicly tell her story. Tucker one of the reasons i want to talk about this, there are a lot of allegations were flying around and some of them seem true, some you dont really know. This seems to be in a different category because she is suggesting he was implying something very dark by invoking the name of a murdered intern during their exchange. Are we mistreating this . She thought he was implying something horrible. She thought it was possible. She was clearly very nervous by it and scared by the entire experience. Tucker here you have a member of congress, one of the mos
Public, the democrats and their lap dogs, the fake news Mainstream Media are taking out the old Ronald Reagan playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence. Actually, throughout my life my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. Crooked Hillary Clinton also played these cards very hard, and as everyone knows, went down in flames. I went from very successful businessman to top tv star, to president of the United States. On my first try. I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius, and a very stable genius at that. All of that via twitter this morning from the president of the United States and all of this as cnn learns two senior white house officials were involved in pressuring Jeff Sessions to not recuse himself from the russia investigation. Not only did white House Counsel don mcgann pressure sessions, but so did former chief of staff Reince Priebus and express secretary sean spicer. One official telling cnn, i think its fair