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He didnt want to burden general kelly also with that line of succession as i think weve made clear a few times over the course of the last couple of days to several of these individually but general kelly has the full authority to operate within the white house and all staff will report to him. All staff will report to general kelly including ivanka trump and Jared Kushner which is a change in the chain of command at the white house because it used to be that ivanka and jared had their direct li...

In 2014, a man named Michael Flynn was starting his new life. As one of the highest profile firings of the Obama Administration. Mike flynn, of course, is now famous for having served very, very briefly as Trumps National security adviser and also for being in the bullseye of the ongoing trumprussia investigation ever since. Being Trumps National security adviser was not the first highprofile washington job that mike flynn had. He had been hired by the Obama Administration to run the Defense Int...

And also 81,000 Power Outages and they are all working as swiftly as possible to restore power. For the texas tceq, i want you to know that we have been working with the epa on a daily basis to address environmental issues. They have deployed rapid needs teams to assess needs that have arids ariz arise on in certain areas, and on the corpus christi, engel side and port arreansass areas. They have 5,000 evacuees in the state of texas amount most of those are in shelters, cabins, or mobile homes. ...

As the u. S. Navy successfully conducts a missile intercept test off hawaii. And cancer breakthrough. The first of its kind treatment approved in the u. S. And good evening. Thanks for joining us on this wednesday night. Im tom llamas in for david, and tonight, Tropical Storm harvey delivering a second punch along the gulf. Millions along the texas louisiana border now feeling its wrath. Port arthur, texas, a city under water. Residents at this nursing home rescued from their flooded out buildin...

Shannon. Happy friday. Im shannon bream. President trump with meet with ambassador nikki haley. This comes after President Trump unleashes on pyongyang again during his working vacation in new jersey. Frankly, the people that were questioning that statement was it too tough, maybe it wasnt tough enough. Theyve been doing this to our country for a long time, for many years. Its about time somebody stuck up for the people of this country. Its a whole new ball game. Hes not going to be saying those...

Options at the white house yesterday. When asked about how he will deal with pyongyang, the president was brief. But he did leave all options open. Mr. President , will you attack north korea . There was reaction at the u. N. And washington from the United States and around the world. Benjamin hall live in london with more on the International Response to this. Hi, benjamin. Hi, leland. Weve been following reports that kim jongun and north korea would be doubling down on the nuclear test. South ...

Series of storms, political and literal intensified over the weekend. President trump addressed the rising water in texas moments ago. Weve pledged our full support as texas and louisiana battle and recover from this very devastating and historic storm. Theres probably never been anything like this. President trump is scheduled to go to texas tomorrow. He also said he might return to texas again on saturday. And possibly to louisiana as well. And promised funding wouldnt be delayed by congress. ...

Well congratulate each other when it is all finished. The coordination as much as anything else, everybody is talking about, the coordination has been beautiful to watch. So to the two of you in particular, i want to say congratulations, thank you very much. Coming up, well talk to the mayor of Corpus Christi who was there with the president yesterday. And flood fight, the politics of Disaster Relief gets personal with texas senator ted cruz who voted against federal aid after hurricane sandy, s...

Where he kind of blind sided everybody by cutting a deal with nancy pelosi and chuck shumer with 30 day debt ceiling. The president really yesterday during that meeting weighed in there, wanted to clear the decks of any extraneous issues he thought were going to muddy the conversation about tax reform, so he could get congress to focus on tax reform. During the course of the meeting it became clear that everybody was retreating to their typical positions and it didnt look like bipartisanship was...

No, it doesnt mean that yet. Its a Significant Development along that path. But there are other technological hurdles our sources say to doing that. You have to be able to build a missile and warhead that survives reentry and you have to have a reliable missile system. And of course u. S. Intelligence inside north korea is very limited. We dont know what we dont know, so there is significant question as to what their capabilities actually are. This assessment speeds up the time table and subject...