Reince priebus, and trumps chief strategist, steve bannon, closely linked to the ultraconservative socalled alt right movement. Then his soninlaw jared kushner. A key question is how much are these men working together versus butting heads over all these appointments and the Big Decisions to make. Lets go to cnns sunderlin serfaty. Certainly has not been smooth sailing. Mike pence, expected to show up at trump tower, certainly arriving at a time where there has been a lot of reports and anecdotes infighting throughout the team about who is going to get some top spots. One of the most buzzed about spots is secretary of state where we know on the short list Rudy Giuliani, also former u. N. Ambassador john bolton, and giuliani really has been almost lobbying and campaigning for this job. He was at an event last night. He said, look, many times i will really like this job, and talked about how he thinks his Foreign Policy vision really aligns with donald trump. John bolton also out, talkin
Boycotted the Committee Proceedings because of their concerns that both mr. Price and mr. Mnuchin did not answer their questions correctly and in a straightforward manner in their sworn testimony last month. Now, what the republicans decided to do was, instead of there were two options. She could either see donald trump send these two nominees, install these two nominees on his own by a recess appointment, something he could do under his constitutional authority, or take this dramatic step of suspending the rules altogether and pushing these nominees through to the floor on their own accord. And that is the course they took. Now, democrats are outraged by this. They put out a letter just moments before this 9 30 hearing and said they wanted a bunch of answers to questions that they believe that price and mnuchin did not answer correctly in their hearing. But theyre not going to get answers to those questions as republicans take matters into their own hands, believing that democrats are
Massacre. In an extraordinary move, President Trump firing acting attorney general sally yates. Her dismissal coming via handdelivered letter, only hours after she stood in dwiens of the president s travel ban. She is not convince ds the executive order is lawful, citing the solemn obligation of the department of justice to seek justice and stand for what is right. We had a monday night massacre. Sally yates, a person of great integrity, who follows the law, was fired. The white house attacking the career prosecutor, claiming yates betrayed the department of justice and is weak on borders. After she instructed the Justice Department not to defend the president s executive order on immigration and refugees. Immediately following the swearing in of new acting attorney general dana boente. Yatess replacement reskinneding her guidance right away. I want to make sure i have the law and the facts. Appointed by president obama in 2015, yates garnered bipartisan support. Jeff sessions seen her
Top of this hour of 360, the highest ranking Law Enforcement official in the land is, sally yates, an obama holdover, adding her official voice to the protest unfolding around the country and the world. In columbus, ohio, watching for the last hour. President trump firing back tonight, tweeting, the democrats are delaying my cabinet picks for purely political reasons. They have nothing going but to obstruct. Now have an obama ag. What he has not done is fire her. And we are joined now. The order from acting attorney general to department of justice, what are your sources telling you . Well, anderson, were told that sally yates, acting attorney general struggled with this over the weekend. She didnt learn about this executive order until friday when everybody else saw it. And it is something that the white house should have consulted with her, if you expected that, the Justice Department and the lawyers that work under her were going to have to defend this in court. So thats something s
Classified information and share it with russian officials. Theres nothing that the president takes more seriously than the security of the american people. The story that came out tonight, as reported, is false. The president and the foreign minister reviewed a range of common threats to our two countries, including threats to civil aviation. At no time, at no time were intelligence sources or methods discussed, and the president did not disclose any military operations that were not already publicly known. I was in the room. It didnt happen. Reporter those comments from president Trumps National security adviser, h. R. Mcmaster, coming after the Washington Post broke the story that President Trump shared classified information with russias foreign minister and ambassador in a meeting at the white house last week. Now, cnn has confirmed the main details of this story. One thing is clear, despite the white houses denial, this has certainly sent the white house off of its message. They