Officials, or surrogates and we will continue to investigate this issue if the evidence warrants it. Cnn White House Correspondent athena jones is near maralago where President Trump is spending the weekend. Athena, more on this . Hi, fred, thats right. After that series of tweets yesterday morning where the president made unsubstantiated allegations against president obama, allegations that have been denied by the former president and others the white house was asked repeatedly by me and my colleagues to provide some evidence to back up the president s claims. Instead of providing evidence or proofer, we got this statement this morning from White House Press secretary sean spicer. Ill read part of it. He says president donald j. Trump is requesting that as part of their investigation into russian activity the congressional Intelligence Committees exercise their Oversight Authority to determine whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016. Fred, that statement goes
Committee have agreed on the parameters of their investigation. So the House Intelligence Committee Just Announced details regarding the investigation into any potential collusion between russia and the trump campaign. What are they going to do. Reporter they did. They are basically agreeing on the fact that there will be an investigation. This is significant for this reason. You know, for so many weeks theyve been talking about was there anything that was nefarious here. We dont know the answer to that question, but tonight the committee is saying that they will look into several questions and were just getting this from the committee tonight, but a couple questions i want to talk about is whats russias cyber activity was actually involved in this, what active measures were used against the u. S. So this is a bipartisan investigation into this that, you know, really any conversation here hearing at the white house theyre accusing democrats of pushing this, but tonight were hearing for
Well, good morning, everyone. Im victor blackwell. Good ard saturday to you. President trump is waking up in florida starting his christmas vacation after his first major legislative win. And the president traveling to florida after signing the tax bill into law and cheering what he calls the largest tax cut in history. Aides telling him to avoid the traditional years and News Conference for fears he could overshadow this end of the year high. Cnn is following every development from the white house. Reporter President Trump heading to his retreat in florida spending the next ten days or so over the christmas break. He did not hold his traditional year end News Conference as many president s do. But he did sign the bill into law. Were very proud of it. President trump signing the tax bill into law. His final oval office act of the year. Injecting a burst of reality show drama into the moment, the president hastily summoning reporters after white house saisai aides said he would sign it
Lawmakers by refusing to carry out new sanctions against russia that passed congress with broad bipartisan support. Tonight, new concerns that the administrations response was cut and run. We want to welcome our viewers to our special coverage. Im anderson cooper. Im wolf blitzer and you are in the situation room. We are following breaking news. President trump at the white house, preparing to deliver his first state of the Union Address as the russia investigation cast a long shadow over speech and administration. Tonight, a source tells cnn, it is a possibility mr. Trump may fire Robert Mueller despite warnings from members of his own party that it would spell the end of his presidency. Well hear from the president less than three hours from now. Ill interview Richard Blumenthal in the russia investigation. First, lets go to jim acosta. What are you learning . While the president is not expected to address the Russian Investigation in the state of the Union Address, he has grown incr
Disappearing. Are the drum beats about impoochment hurting their messaging . Ill ask the dnc chair tom perez that question. And while everybody is obsessing over north korea, iran and Stormy Daniels, the president s longterm legacy is already being cemented on something else. As he names young conservative judges in courts around the country at a record pace. Plus, a black graduate student at yale falls asleep on a dorm couch and the next thing she knows, the police are questioning her. Why are white americans so quick to call the cops on their black neighbors . When my car hit yet another pothole and had to go to the shop this week, i had to wonder, where is that trilliondollar infrastructure bill we were promised . To get our roads fixed, are we all going to have to emulate the british activist calling himself wanksy . Ill explain. First, President Trumps chief of staff john kelly gave a rare interview this week which aired yesterday on npr. Unlike his predecessors, the former genera