happen. brianna, you just came back from georgia where they had the special election last night and karen handel won the election. democrats poured in tens of millions of dollars to try to win. they didn t. democratic congressman kathleen rice of new york, she reacted to this democratic loss by telling cnn, i m quoting her now, we need leadership change. it s time for nancy pelosi to go and the entire leadership team. we heard similar calls after the democrats lost the house, lost the senate, lost the white house. last year in november of 2016, are we going to see any changes this time? it s hard to see where there is going to be a change in the immediate future unless there is more widespread calls than this. certainly i think we are seeing, though, what is normally private sentiment or semi-public sentime sentiment bubbling up in a strong way from congressman rice. when you talk to people close to
it was directed by president vladimir putin. the top democrat in the senate intelligence committee says the only person in the u.s. who doesn t believe moscow tried to sway the election is president trump. this hour i ll talk with congressman, a key republican on the foreign affairs committee. our correspondents and specialists also standing by. first let s go to cnn crime and justice reporter. shimon, what more did we learn about this possible act of terror in flint, michigan? reporter: that s right, wolf. right out of the gate, the fbi telling us that they are investigating this as an act of terror terrorism. what we ve learned is that the suspect, a mar fatuhi came here through lake champlain through a border crossing there and had spent some time in flint, in the flint, michigan area and went to the airport today. this entire incident appears to have been capturedon surveillance cameras at the
in special elections. but lost their house majority in 2010. in the wake of the georgia contest, democratic leaders conceded today, voteders are more concerned with pocketbook issues like health care and the economy. and as much as i think people in washington tend to focus on the issues of russia and the president and the republicans inability to get much of anything accomplished, we need to focus on the local issues, that s what gets democrats elected. reporter: the white house is also eager to change the subject. back to one of the president s top priorities, rewriting the health care law. but republican leaders are making clear that they d prefer mr. trump keep his distance for now. the white house has been super hands off which feels just about right. one top republican aide told cnn, senators are still waiting to see the fine print of the health care legislation. republican leaders plan to unveil details of the bill on thursday, still hoping to take a vote before the july 4th
general jeff sessions a witch hunt. this coming hours after sessions recuses himself. a growing number of democrats say this does not go far enough. that it attorney general jeff sessions has resigned. overnight he down played his failures to disclose at the senate hearing. i had not had any such meetings, was not meeting with russian of fishlts on a continuing basis to advance any campaign agenda. some time before that i had met in my office in an official way with the russian ambassador. and so that was the answer i gave and i think it was an honest answer, tucker. i thought i was responding exactly to that question and it really became a big brouhaha. it was not in fact the question at all. we ll get to that later. first let s go to cnn s sara murray at the white house with the latest on what s happening there. sara? reporter: good morning, john.
general najames mad dog matti is his pick for secretary of defense. ryan nobles, thank you very much. let s talk about more about this. andre bower, former lieutenant governor of south carolina, and he is a donald trump supporter. good to see you, andre. and cnn political commentator tara setmyer, good to see you, as well. andrew, let s begin with the phone call with the taiwan president. what do you believe the motivation is behinds taking the call when for 40 years a u.s. president hasn t done so? well, first, i got a wake-up call for washington and the media. donald trump is not going to follow the protocol that everyone s used to. the american public sent a loud and clear message, they re fed up with it. they want a change. look, i m blessed in south carolina that we have taiwanese businesses here, over a $1 billion business in one little rural county. we re blessed. i-95 been i ve been to taiwan, i ve met with their leaders. protocol may have been broken. this was nothing