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The United States and around the world. Im George Howell. Cnn newsroom starts right now. The music just gets you excited. The rio olympics. The games have begun. Summer games officially under way. There was the parade of nations. Every time you would expect the worlds best athletes proudly marched together in the Opening Statement at Rios Maracana stadium. Former olympian bronze medalist took that honor. You see the image there. Beautiful moment there. The theme of the ceremony was rebirth and r...

And more signs of tension a month after this election. The raw exchange at harvard between the Clinton Campaigns Jennifer Palmieri and Trump Campaign manager Kellyanne Conway. Campaign where white supremacist had a platform and youre going look me in the face and tell me that . Really . It did. Back and forth between the two teams. And breaking this morning, man who shot and killed a former nfl player has been released with no charges. At this point. Very latest on what happened and what police ...

Breaking news tonight on Donald Trumps transition team, big breaking news. We have pictures from donald trump and mitt romneys dinner. Reince priebus also attended. Mitt romney is a top contender for secretary of state. Mitt romney spoke about the dinner just a short time ago. I had a wonderful evening with president elect trump. We had another discussion about affairs throughout the world and these discussions ive had with him have been enlightening and interesting and engaging. Ive enjoyed the...

But that said, hes got a lot of connections. He understands the world. There was concern, as you know, among critics that hes potentially too close to vladimir putin, but actually the counterargument is he has real life relationships and might be able to use those relationships to not only expand american diplomacy but perhaps persuade the president of the United States not to precipitously tweet or pick up the phone at times and roil troubled waters, even friendly waters, as you alluded to the ...

Ones that i was ever had a front row seat to. So theres some suspense to this thing. Yeah, the secret ballot specifically is the thing that makes it a very newsworthy thing and a thing that wed love to be a fly on the wall for. At some other time i will tell you about a senator who pledged one way and voted another way in the secret ballot and tipped the whole thing. Thanks, rachel. Breaking news tonight on Donald Trumps transition team, big breaking news. We have pictures from donald trump and ...

For a key role. Reporter so, controversial, but i would say not totally unexpected. We know that for so long in his campaign, from the very beginning, Jared Kushner, who is a v a v ivanka trumps husband and Donald Trumps soninlaw. One of his inner sishlg leading him on his campaign and Strategic Moves during his candidacy. We expect it will be a similar role when donald trump ends up in the white house on january 20th. Kushner, according to a senior transition official, expected to be named a Se...

According to investigative files obtained by cnn, German Authorities not only knew he had contacts with these proisis operatives but that he had spoken several times about launching attacks in germany. Now the manhunt is on not just for him but anyone who may have helped him slip away. Evan perez is with me, our cnn justice correspondent so evan what specifically did the u. S. Know about this guy and what did they do about it . Well, brooke, what they first did was put him on a no fly list. This...

Trumps next secretary of state i believe the vote was 4653. Im not sure which democrats those were, well be looking into see who crossed party lines to support him on the floor. But remember this is a big big win for donald trump. When Rex Tillerson was first put out there you remember the very public dating with mitt romney and rudy giuliani, and when he landed on the former exxonmobil. You heard a lot of concerns about the russian president , hawkish folks when it comes to russia, and all of t...

Clarify areas of common interest and areas of sharp difference so we can better understand why these differences exist and what prospects for narrowing those differences may be. Were not going into syria, but when i see people using horrible, horrible chemical weapons, which they agreed not to use under the obama administration, but they violated it. Frankly putin is backing a person that is truly evil. I think it is very bad for russia. But the russian president firing back saying where is the ...

He also has a pissy schedule at the white house. As you just saw, he was signing an executive order. He signed two bills into law today. We will bring you a full report from the white house in just a moment. And we are keeping a close eye on the markets this afternoon. Today the dow jones has a shot at making history. Could be a 13th record close, or not. Well be tracking that for you. It is a busy day in washington. Our team is in place to walk us through all of it. Lets begin with the latest o...