Than give President Trump money page tonight commits praise the president and his administration have backed down, at least this time. That is not, however, the way he sees it. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts starts us off. It was the centerpiece of President Trumps election campaign. His supporters knew it so well that he could, at campaign rallies, engage in a call and response over who would get pay for his vaunted border wall. Today it became clear, for the moment, no one is going to pay for it. We love our farmers. At a roundtable with american farmers. I dont know what people are talking. I watch these shows and the pundits in the morning dont know what they are talking about. The wall gets built. Despite the president s admonition that the pundits dont know what theyre talking about, the white house off its demand that money for the wall be included in the spending bill. Instead, the president is asking for money to repair and replace some existing border fences and
Authority when he demanded that comey pledge his loyalty to him . Did the president obstruct justice when he asked comey to let go of the investigation into the fired National Security advisor Michael Flynn . And why did comey not reveal these gaclaims until he was fir. The president feels vindicated by comeys testimony. The fbi director did tell President Trump that he was not under investigation as the president has claimed. Ive got cnns top reporters with me for a lot of high drama. And the excitement up here on capitol hill clearly is built. Jim comey has left his house. He is on his way to capitol hill. We are talki ithat is the forme leaving there. Anderson, we are in the hearing room where hundreds of people are waiting outside this room to get one of the hottest tickets in town in a room that only fits a couple hundred people. So a lot of people will be outside waiting for this riveting testimony in which we are going to hear james comey lay out three key things. One, President
The rnc. And by the way, just so you know, president s obama and bush, george w. , allowed reporte erer into their first fundraising events. Lets get right to cnn political director, David Chalian, cnns jim acosta, cnn white house correspondent. Kaitlyn collin, senior white house reporter. Cnn political analyst, abby phillip. With us, abby barnes for the hill and coauthor of shattered inside Hillary Clintons doomed campaign. Jim, were going to start with you. The administration facing a major hurdle on health care. The white house refused to hold a live oncamera press briefing hours after the president took to twitter to attack the media. Calling out cnn, the washington post, tthe New York Times among other news organizations as fake news. Is a war on free press . Is that the strategy of this white house . Reporter its definitely far of the strategy over here at the white house, don, and heres why. The president does not have any major legislative achievements to speak of at this point
Political director david stall on, jim acosta, Caitlyn Collins, and abbey phillip. Also with us, amie parnes. So good to have all of you on this evening. Jim, the administration facing a major hurdle on health care and the white house again refused to hold a live, oncamera press briefing hours after the president took to twitter to attack the media. Hes calling out cnn. Hes calling out the Washington Post, the New York Times, among other news organizations as fake news. Is it a war on free press . Is that the strategy of this white house . Its definitely part of the strategy over here at the white house, don. Heres why. The president does not have any major legislative achievements to speak of at this point. Hes trying to get health care passed. He talked about the surprise that is apparently in store for all of us in the coming days, but weve heard the president talk about surprises before. He talked about possible tapes that he had of jim comey. That did not materialize. And this is
That is the screen left, helicopter footage above the scene. Police say 22 people and also for nonlifethreatening injuries. Most of them being called flash burns. A number of other people got hurt as they ran for their lives. Take a look at one witness describing the chaos. I turned and saw the remnants of the flash and smoke and then hordes of people. Like a stampede. Running towards me. They had head injuries from the stampede. It was every man for himself when that happened, but the burn victims severely on both legs and no sign of clothing, so it was just torn through. Leland Scotland Yards Counterterrorism Team now leading the investigation. Police understandably have increased their presence around the city. We find amy kellogg in london with more. Hi amy. Hi leland. As you said, Scotland Yard, according to our Sister Network sky news has identified a suspect. This thanks to going through footage in london saying a lot of people complain about their privacy here. And moments like