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Defensive measures in some of the more western airports are more robust, not totally relying upon the scanning technology. better training they say. other measures to mitigate the risk. right now were not seeing any expansion at this current moment but definitely that potential down the road. >> ryan browne in washington, thank you so much. live pictures right now. reynoldsburg, ohio, is where were taking you, just outside of columbus, where vice president mike pence is right there meeting wit...

Critical and important upcoming offensive on raqqah. among the tension, the u.s. is stepping in and reassure and deterring role to assure the campaign against isis is allowed to proceed ahead. >> ryan browne, thank you. today is a special day. not my birthday. not your birthday. it is a little bull on wall street that turns eight years old. >> what are you getting him? >> we hope for a long life for this bull. if it wants to be the longest bull market of all time, it has to run four more years...

Of course, they had years to prepare. the marines are thought to support that push. all of this comes as the u.s. publicly deployed about 100 u.s. army rangers to the syrian city of manbij. liberated from isis back in august. what is happening is a complicated picture. you are seeing syrian troops and russian allies moving in to close distance to the u.s. allies and turkey has their force in the region with a separate rebel group. not all the groups get along. the u.s. is bringing 100 troops to ...

In the face of questions about ties with the president and his businesses at home and abroad, the chinese government granted preliminary approval for 30 trump related trademarks. this according to dock ouments reviewed by cnn. they are just trying to protect the trademark, but could there be a conflict? we have matt rivers joining us from beijing. what is the potential conflict? >> reporter: lawyers for donald trump filed 39 different trademark applications in 2016 seeking to trademark donald tr...

You have seen an aarp video. hospital associations. three biggest that cover huge swaths of the country. families usa. it represents consumers. says this deal is a bad deal for you. a new report from s&p global finds as many as 10 million american cost lose coverage if the bill goes through. we dont know. another one says 15 million. >> left leaning group. >> lets bring in cnn political reporter tal kopan in our washington bureau. president trump said he would let obamacare fail. if nothing chan...

This is the thing that happens in china all the time. famous people apply for trademarks. the trump organization says they have the right to do what they have been doing. that is where things get tricky. donald trump is the president of the united states. ethics lawyers say if the approval are seen as a gift from the chinese, that is obviously a conflict of interest and perhaps unkuns unconstitutional. >> and the visa program which benefitted business executives. including those in china. what c...

Weeks. our reporter ryan browne joins us from washington. ryan, we were talking to ben wedeman an hour ago about the boots on the ground. tell us more about what the american role will be here. >> christine, good morning. as you said, an advisory role for u.s. troops in syria for some time now. advising americas local syrian and kurdish allies. this is a new contingent to provide artillery support. the local allies lack heavy weapons. they will give that support on the assault on raraqqah. isis ...

Council. thank you very much, ryan browne. and senator john mccain, who has needless to say, had a tense history from the president tweeted out this this morning, calling a mack master a man of genuine character and ability. lets go to retired colonel francona. nice to have you on the program. lets talk about what the president had to say about generals when he was campaigning. >> i know more about isis than the generals do, believe me. i would bomb the [ bleep ] out of them. >> he also said t...

Commanded troops in afghanistan. he has baggage given the fact he is on probation for disclosing information. also robert harward was secretary of defense mattiss deputy at central command. his name is in contention. we are watching. we know we believe petraeus is visiting the white house today. we will see who gets this top post. >> a fascinating turn of events. ryan, thank you. >> petraeus going to the white house. chris christie having lunch with the president. at 10:30, the president -- >> a...

Serious questions remain now about the timeline of events. what the president knew and what the white house was told about controversial phone calls that led to his demise. welcome back to "early start." im john berman. >> im christine romans. it is 31 minutes past the hour. first casualty in the trump white house. national security vikurecurity michael flynn resigning. flynn spoke to the russians and lied about it. flynns decision to step down moments after the justice department warned the whi...