reporter: no other gun man is found. at this point it looked like he acted alone. reporter: officials won t say if the suspect was targeting someone on an arriving flight or if he s cooperating. randi kaye, cnn, new york. let s get much more on this. i want to bring in jeffrey thomas, an aviation perspective, joining us from skype. great to have you on the program. we want to talk about airport security to start off with. should we be alarmed that this individual was able to check in a firearm when he d already flagged himself up to authorities? absolutely. it is a troubling background to this gentleman from what has been reported to us. the fact that he had some problems apparently, allegedly, and then indeed checked this
firearm with his checked baggage which of course is allowed in certain states of the united states. and that was nothing illegal this doing that. however of course what transpired of course was a terrible tragedy. but the problem we ve got here is that a
so we haven t had a chance to digest it. but the attorney general in his confirmation hearings was very clear with a one-word answer when asked by a senator whether he had contact with the russians in any way, shape, or form. he said no, period. no condition, no modification. so obviously that turns out to not be accurate there is no reason to believe that jeff sessions in the confirmation hearing was trying to hide something. he may simply have forgotten. but it does mean two things. number one, it adds to the incredible weight of evidence that the administration is not credible on these issues. remember a couple of weeks ago when we heard that michael flynn was talking to the russian ambassador simply to wish him merry christmas. and of course that turns out not to be true. and michael flynn is no longer national security adviser. so this white house has a very, very significant credibility problem. and it s with respect to attorney general sessions, what this means, and again, it
spoke with sergey kislyak last july. it was during these conversations, i m told by j.d. gordon, they talked about improving relations between the u.s. and russia. it was dur thag time, erin, that j.d. gordon says he went to the convention, advocating on behalf of the campaign for language in the gop platform that advocated against the arming of the ukrainians in their fights against the prorussian rebels. that is something the trump campaign denied they were doing at the time. it denied it was advocating for that language in the gop platform. flash forward to december and according to a senior administration official, the president s son-in-law, jared kushner and the former security adviser, michael flynn, wret with the ambassador during a previously undisclosed meeting.
james comey was making the rounds with house members. democrats were not happy when the top democrat, adam schiff, who believes comey was not forthcoming on key details in the investigation into russia and the cont
suitorman, senior editor at reason magazine. kasie, let me start with you. we ve already seen far right groups like heritage action criticize the plan, club for growth as well, freedom works, rand paul calling it obamacare light. you tweeted this a few hours ago. here it is, it is still early so caveats apply but events of today suggest gop health care bill is already on life support, if not dead on arrival. how can that be so early, kasie? reporter: well look, craig, this bill has run into extraordinary opposition just in the first handful of hours that it has been out in the public, and you re saying you tick through some of the groups that have come out and opposed this, the heritage action went so far as to say this doesn t repeal obamacare. that of course kind of the cardinal sin for a party that has spent the last however many years campaigning specifically on repealing obamacare. so the people who are
to younger people and less generous to older people. there would be a
united states immigration and customs enforcement will hold a press conference at 2:15 today. probably not too far away. to announce the results of a highly successful recent gang surge operation. the president has made enforcement of our nation s immigration law the top priority and today s announcement will under score not only that commitment, but his focus on targeting transnational gangs and prioritizing the removal of criminal aliens who pose a threat to public safety. also today secretary mattis met with the turkish prime minister to discuss a range of bilateral security issues and the secretary reiterated the united states commitment to protecting our nato allies and both leaders affirmed their support for peace and stability in iraq and syria. one other thing i wanted to point out. last night obamacare suffered another serious blow as aetna announced its decision to pull out of the nebraska and delaware marketplaces which ends their phar teus payings in exchanges
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time you re not aware of him actually taking any calls? no. he s not taken any calls at this time since june 1st. secretary shulkin, thank you for being with me tonight. thank you. obviously not taking the place of twitter yet. don t forget, you can watch outfront any time anywhere on cnn go. anderson is next. thanks for joining us tonight. the last man in the room before the president spoke alone with fbi director james comey testified under oath, attorney general jeff sessions is seen and heard a lot as one of donald trump s closest complain advisers and is accused of being untruthful and went before the senate intelligence committee in part he said to set the record straight about a number of things, including in his words, secret innuendo being leaked about himself, the president and his whole affair. he had plenty to say about that. he had less to say to the considerable irritation of some
committee members. we ll talk about this over the next two hours and hear fro
you d actually expect all the candidates to be pretty aggressively hawkish on russia, particularly after russia had just invaded one of their neighbors. but it was interesting. in that senate primary, that republican senate primary in 2014, this one primary candidate, the local talk radio host, he really went the other way. he called himself a former pentagon expert on russia and he told radio iowa that, quote, pushing the russians out of crimea is not a realistic option. he said, quote, i think a lot of people, i m not sure they understand the history of russia. you go back, you know, 1,500 years to the foundation of the russian empire. it actually started in ukraine and was evolved out of that. this whole issue is about as russian as it gets, meaning russia should be allowed to take parts of ukraine. that s russia s business, not anybody else s. and this candidate apparently felt pretty passionately about it. he went on in some detail,
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opening for democrats to say why do you remember some things. what was happening that triggers your memory on these items that wasn t. what do we need to do to get there? i just think it gives them an in. and all he simply has to say is he doesn t remember. unless he can tell the whole context of it, i don t know if it gets us moving forward. it just seems like they are not going to give up the dog bone on this. i did think it was interesting, too, how many different roads that these lawmakers are allowed to go down. look at sheila jackson lee. she was just all over the place. sandra: you can see a little activity on capitol hill. attorney general jeff sessions has sat back down after a very brief break. so we ll go back to him when this hearing begins. it could be at any moment. the committee will reconvene. sandra: let s listen. it s reconvening now. the gentleman from florida mr. deutsche for five minutes. thank you, mr. chairman. attorney general sessions thanks for bei
the wall. i believe mexico will pay for the wall. i have a good relationship with mexico. we re negotiating nafta. in some form mexico will pay for the wall. but mexico will not pay for the wall and that is why the american government is on the verge of a shutdown. donald trump humiliated himself to everyone with a high school level understanding of government when he first said mexico will pay for the wall. and then he got personally humiliated on the telephone with the president of mexico when the president of mexico told him he would not pay for the wall. to which the president of the united states said, you cannot say that to the press. if you are going to say that, mexico is not going to pay for the wall, then i do not want to meet with you guys anymore, because i cannot live with that. there was the great negotiator the trump voters put in the white house. the great tough guy the trump
country that kind of power. what if his campaign speech had been, we will build a wall a
michael flynn. end the investigation. i m joined noud by ken dilanian with nbc news it, natasha bertrand who covers is the russia probe with the atlantic and jill wine-banks, all three of you, i want to know what you make of these two witnesses being called, comey already and sessions very soon. and then the president. chris, what i think this shows is mueller is accelerating sat ob struskz justice aspect of the probe. the three pillars of this investigation, it looks like the obstruction case is going down the track further and faster than the collusion and money laundering. there s a lot we don t see but the obstruction witnesses we know who they are and what stories they have to tell. it s not a surprise that comey is a key witness. what s surprising to me is it s happening now and seems like it s speeding up. natasha, explain how you see what kind of a case mueller is going to make here with these hot witnesses now. it seems like ken said he s moving more quickly along the