doesn t believe it at this point, according to cnn s reporting, is president trump. the chairman of the senate intel committee, senate warner, said we still do not have a plan. this has to come from the president. who else can tell the intelligence community to act on this? time will tell. it doesn t look good for 2018. thank you very much. president trump calls the immigration debate now underway in the senate the last chance for dreamers. negotiations are off to a rocky start with democrats and republicans in a standoff over how debate should even proceed. majority leader mitch mcconnell trying to open the session with a vote on legislation to punish sanctuary cities. minority leader chuck schumer objecting to the measure because it has nothing to do with the dreamer act. no reason, no reason not to come together and get a solution this week. this has been going on endlessly. they shut down the government
then yesterday, fbi chief chris wray told the senate intel committee the bureau notified the white house of the allegations months ago. the fbi submitted a partial report on the investigation in question in march. then a completed background investigation in late july that soon thereafter we received requests for followup inquiry. and we did the followup and provided that information in november. and that we administratively closed the file in january. this comes as we learn porter was in line for a promotion at the same time the abuse allegations were emerging. president trump s longtime personal lawyer, michael cohn, says he paid $130,000 out of his own pocket to porn star stormy daniels who once claimed she had
midterm elections. director of national intelligence dan coates telling the senate intel committee russia is convinced its previous meddling efforts were successful, and he says the kremlin will continue using propaganda and social media to widen the political divide in the u.s. listen to senators questioning the intel chiefs about president trump s role in combating the russian threat. listen. making a lot of specific efforts to blunt directives by the president? not as specifically directed by the president. okay. not direct, the presidential direction to take steps to disrupt his activities? not sure could you sorry. i m not sure how specific. despite the testimony from his top intel agencies, three sources familiar with the president s thinking say he remains unconvinced russia interfered in the 2016 election. staggering. president trump calls the immigration debate now underway
staff for the once-populist president. and cohn, by the way, a registered democrat. would be a fascinating dynamic. let s be honest, the most important thing that came out yesterday in the senate intel briefing was the fact that there was a stern warning to the president, to this country that russia never went away and the meddling, warning about 2018. there should be no doubt that russia perceived that its past efforts as successful and views the 2018 u.s. midterm elections as a potential target for russian influence operations. how consequential is that sound byte, zach? i think it s a big deal. i think a lot of people need to pay attention to it. it shouldn t seem very new because they ve said this kind of thing before repeatedly on capitol hill. it appears that the only person who doesn t believe it at this point is president trump,
include chief economic adviser gary cohn. house majority leader kevin mccarthy, and nic mulval nic mulvaney. sarah sanders said yesterday the president has confidence in kelly. in comes as the white house struggles to control fallout over allegations porter, the former white house staff secretary, physically abused his two ex-wives. porter denies the accusations. chief of staff kelly defending his handling of the situation, though, telling the wall street journal, it was all done right. the scrutiny only intensified tuesday after the director of the fbi up-ended the entire white house timeline of events. let me go through a quick recap. monday the white house said top officials learned the extent of the allegations last tuesday and that porter s background check was still ongoing. but then yesterday, fbi chief chris wray told the senate intel