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Staff have had full confidence and trust in hisables. It is a lack of character and decency. The fact that somebody couldnt get clearance should be a huk red flag. Cnn learned theyve known for months, this is on general kel yif. I want to compliment them for reaching a deal. Do you have support the deal. Our dreamers hang in limbo. The republican moral coward is must end. This is not consistent with what we told the voters. This is new day. Good morning. It is thursday, february 8th, 8 00 in the...

Facebook revealing an additional 37, wait for it, Million People may have been impacted by the Cambridge Analytica data breach. Ceo and cofounder Mike Zuckerberg stays defiant in an hourlong call with reporters, as he prepares to testify in front of counsel next week. Its not enough to just give people a voice. We have to make sure that people are not using that voice to hurt people or spread disinformation. Scott pruitt continues to be under fire. A top epa ethics official says he lacked key fa...

Well get to those stories in just a minute. We start with new questions today about just how President Trump plans to deploy those troops to our border with mexico. The president just left washington a few moments ago, bound for West Virginia. He did not take questions from reporters there as he boarded air force one. At this point, it is unclear where those troops would be deployed a long the nearly 2,000milelong border with california, arizona, new mexico and texas. The troops would be Nationa...

To offer Vladimir Putin the 50 million penthouse. That is according to felix sater, a russianborn onetime business associate of trumps who worked on the project with Michael Cohen. Confronted with news of cohens plea, the president dismissed him as weak, claimed it didnt matter because he could do whatever he wanted during the campaign. But remember, all this means is that then candidate trump was trying to do business with russia in the middle of a campaign that russia interfered in to help ele...

Scrapped. Just a short time after saying it was a good time to meet with the putin, trump canceled. The official reason was the confrontation between russia and ukraine. Coming right after Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to congress about efforts to build a trump tower in moscow during the 2016 president ial campaign. It comes as were learning tonight that one idea for marketing trump tower moscow was to offer Vladimir Putin, the 50 million according to felix sater, a russian born onetime ...

This. a lot of racial animosity in the america now is a partisan attack used to attack republicans. >> dana: do you think its fair to be talking about this when the club says it is not they have a policy against thembers of the entire community, they just dont seem to have any. >> i think they would have to find an aggrieved party in newport that says i tried to join that club and i cant. it is close to marthas vineyard. because they were so quick to desegregate. the obamas or great families. >>...

2008 telling investors this, and you just mentioned that russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross section of our assets explaining that russians found the trump name appealing and were buying units in the companys buildings around the world. im going to send it to you, walter, now. what stands out to you from that statement that david just reminded us of? >> well, i think what that shows us is that there are links of some sort with russia. remember the burden of proof is on him. he decid...

Of? >> i think what that shows is there are links of some sort with russia. and remember, the burden of proof is on him. he decided to part from the tradition of modern presidents of divesting their conflicts of interest. well, if youre going to do that, what you do is you walk in and say im going to ignore the ethics guy but here are all the things im going to do to be transparent because i understand that the burden of proof is on me to reassure the american people that im using this great pow...

The inspector generals comments, the new memo that came out on wednesday, basically totally undercuts the defenses that pruitt and his defenders had been offering here. they say this is basically been run through the ethics process. the ethics guy now says it wasnt completely approved. it didnt address the actual ethics concerns about renting from the life of a lobbyist. also i would point out in that memo point out by the ethics official, there is one point at the end where the name of the lobb...

Goes about his business. theres concern among different aid aides. youre seeing the fallout after that. sources say if theres not more bad headlines, the white house will probably keep him around. that seems unlikely, just over the last 12 hours, the epa inspector general, the ethics official, says that he didnt have all the information he needed to clear the condo deal. were not going to be -- were going to keep talking about this. >> scott pruitt was offended when ed henry asked him about the ...