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Tonight. As negotiators keep on working, the wild card is the man in the white house. We want to welcome our view irs in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news tonight, tensions over the russia investigation explode at the first big oversight hearing since democrats took control of the house. Acting attorney general Matt Whitaker in the hot seat denies hes interfered with Robert Muellers probe or that hes talked to President Trump abou...

Build his border wall in the process potentially triggering another Government Shutdown and even perhaps a constitutional crisis. This morning a growing number of republicans are speaking out against executive action to spend money at will on the president s desired wall. We begin with cnns joe johns at the white house. A message of unity from this president. Thats right, jim. Whats not so unifying is immigration. This is the issue thats torn up capitol hill and washington all month pretty much....

In North Carolinas ninth district after allegations of election fraud. The republican candidate now conceding his unofficial victory was tainted. It has become clear to me that the publics confidence in the ninth district seat general election has been undermined to an extent that a new election is warranted. We begin today with the president and his legal team bracing for the special counsels russia report. Preparing their own report at the very same time. I have a great team to break it down. ...

Clearance or my husbands clearance. What were the problems early on . There werent any. So no special treatment . No. Joining me now is New York Times National Security correspondent who contributed to this report. Its great to see you. What have you heard about the amount of resistance from white house staff and intelligence officials to kushner getting that top secret clearance . You know, kushners security clearance was a problem from the get go. He filed first firms listing no foreign contac...

From a very busy washington. The state of politics and the commonwealth of virginia. Its chaotic. We are going to bring you all the crazy controversy surrounding both the governor the Lieutenant Governor in that state. What does it say about the current Political Climate . Lawyers representing Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann they prepare for a possible defamation case. A libel case. Were going to tell you what media figures, politicians, and entertainers are going to be feeling the heat...

Counter trumps intelligence. The nations most Senior Intelligence officials testifying to Congress Today contradicting trumps claim about mayor National Security threats to america again and again and again and again. Take isis. Isis is intent on resurging and still commands thousands of fighters in iraq and syria. We have beaten them and beaten them badly. Theyre all coming back and theyre coming back now. Talking about the troops. On top of this, the president s top intelligence add viviser re...

I can tell you i wasnt the lawyer at the time. 3. Right. Michael cohens lawyers reviewed his testimony with him did President Trump or anyone let me answer the question. Okay. As far as i snow, President Trump did not have discussions with him, certainly had no discussions with him in which he told him or counseled him to lie. If he had any discussions with him, theyd be about the version of events Michael Cohen gave then which they all believed was true. You just acknowledged its possible Presi...

Say it this morning over breakfast. The president did use crude, naughty language at the rally. And theres little doubt he understands those words. But there are growing questions about whether he understands the words hes using in the healthcare debate. His administration has moved to eliminate obamacare, all of it, which would impact millions of americans with preexisting conditions. And overnight the president used that word, preexisting conditions, its really two words, he said he would prot...

Guess what . Thats what we wanted you to see. And that was, randy, february. Did we miss things . You bet we did. Welcome to march. Im brooke baldwin. Jared kushner, his job as one of President Trumps senior advisers means his privy to the most sensitive and classified secrets in the u. S. Kushner received that clearance despite the concerns of intel officials and on the orders of his fatherinlaw. That is according to the New York Times today which reports the President Trump ignored the warning...

Hes a very fine man, and he should be given a lot of thanks by our nation. Well, the reason these new details are so important according to the times is because they reveal the extent of an even more sustained more secretive assault by mr. Trump on the machinery of federal Law Enforcement. Joining us now to take a closer look at this blockbuster report is New York Times Justice Department reporter katy benner, who contributed to the article. Good to see you. Thank you for being with us. This is ...