Im fredericka whitfield. President trump has two weeks to turn over memos or tapes with former fired fbi director james comey. Well hear more. The Senate Judiciary could receive the comey memos as early as monday and on tuesday attorney general Jeff Sessions will testify before a senate panel where he will more than likely be grilled on his own alleged contacts with the firing of james comey. Cnn White House Correspondent athena jones is joining me live. Athena, the president coming out yesterday saying he is 100 willing to testify under oath. Will that happen . Hi, fred. Thats right. Its a remarkable statement for the president to make. Certainly the biggest headline to come out of that conference yesterday. The president saying hes 100 willing to testify under oath before special counsel bob mueller denying some of the details that the former fbi director pell spelled out not only in his testimony of the senate panel but also in these memos weve been talking so much about. Whats so i
Rose garden of the white house after something passes in the house, that might be a bit premature. I think the president was acknowledging that here in new york city earlier this evening. He was sitting down with the australian Prime Minister before their bilateral discussion, and reporters were peppering him with questions. And he said, listen, this thing is going to change somewhat in the senate, it is going to change. Senator john corn insaid theyre not going to vote on what was passed out of the house. Theyll pass their own bill out of the senate. And so were a long way off from an actual rose garden signing ceremony. Thats the ceremony we all want to keep our eyes on, don. Today was a bit of a catharsis for the Republican Party. Because theyve been chasing this for seven years. The president did come pain on it. Paul ryan has had a zeal to repeal obamacare for some time. They certainly accomplished that. But its still a long way to go. April, talk to me about the armtwisting from
Maybe leaving the podium. Lets get to cnns jim schuitto with more on breaking news. We have new reporting tonight on what must be a thorn in the president s side. The former National Security adviser Michael Flynn failing to close a middle east trip about a russia deal. What can you tell us . This is a letter from the ranking members and democrats on the House Oversight committee and Foreign Affairs committee to general flynns lawyers as well as two of his Business Patterns asking about a trip in the summer of 2015 to saudi arabia to arrange, it appears a nuclear deal between saudi and rush to build power plants. Unclosed when he took a position in the trump white house. Theyre also asking about a trip later that year in october of 2015. Flynn provided no details for where he stay there had, who he traveled with and the purpose of the trip. In addition to that, on that security clearance form general flynn did not list any meetings with foreign officials for the seven years prior to th
Governor, senator, 9 11 Commission Bob Kerrey here with us in the studio this evening. The 11th hour begins now. Good evening once again from our headquarters here in new york as we start a new week. Day 144 of the Trump Presidency. And late in the day, it was dominated by an idea, the idea floated by a friend of the president that donald trump has considered or is considering firing the special counsel, terminating Robert Mueller. The president has the power to do so. The question is, what would happen to the president and his presidency if he did so, especially having already fired one prominent investigator, the head of the fbi. The notion of a mueller firing started to get floated out this past weekend. Most recently, it was trump friend and news max publisher chris ruddy in an interview with Judy Woodruff over on the pbs news hour. Is President Trump prepared to let the special counsel pursue his investigation . Well, i think he is considering perhaps terminating the special couns
Climate accord. Trump almost giddy as he made it clear the United States will go its own way. The United States will withdraw, so were getting out, were out of the agreement. Our withdrawal from the agreement. Exiting the agreement protects the United States. It is time to fit paris accord. He couldnt say it enough. Trump insists that the deal would cost america quote billions and billions of dollars, thats what he said today, billions and blgs of dollars, along with massive job losses and factory closings, trump said. But the man and the president has found himself with virtually zero allies on this. Right that announcement, they slammed him. The chairman of General Electric obviously, massive manufacturer tweeted he was disappointed in the president adding that industry must now lead and not depend on government. General motors said we will not aterritory from our commitment to the environment. The ceo of Goldman Sachs tweeting today is a setback for the u. S. In the world. And elon