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Hurricane and they will meet with volunteers and sort boxes for delivery. finally, there's more questions about the president's decision on jerusalem. tomorrow the president will deliver marks on jerusalem. senior officials will have a background briefing to explain the president's decision. with that, i'll take your questions. major? >> sarah, one issue you may have seen this morning, is the white house at any level considering creating a global or regional spy network that would circumvent the u.s. intelligence an -- apparatus? >> i'm not aware of any plans for something of that definition o...

Months. you know, just take our viewers behind the scenes here a little bit, as jeffrey toobin said, we are talking about our own network here at cnn, the channel you're watching at home right now, but what's interesting about this, given president trump's animosity towards cnn, is that there have been concerns -- there has been speculation that maybe somehow the government would try to force a spin-off to cnn, basically say you've got to sell cnn to get this deal through. there was a concern the government would try to force a change of leadership here at cnn. none of that based in evidence w...

The president said that he might play sanctions on venezuela. he can look at the things trump said and said i'm doing what the president of the united states has said. >> hold on for a moment buzz sarah huckabee sanders is starting the briefing. >> today at 5:45 p.m., the white house will hold a background briefing for reporters on the iran strategy. at 12:45 tomorrow the president will announce the strategy to the country. further details on both of those will be forth coming. until then, i know you guys have lots of questions and although i really enjoy answering them every single day, espec...

This is not useful. >> it's just very clear where it's coming from, david. anthony scaramucci just got installed. you know he's dealing with the president very closely and constantly. this is clearly a presidential priority. how else do we know that? jeff sessions who has every reason to be doing whatever the president wants, what did they just announce? they're going to launch an investigation into leaks. it seems like this is what the president wants. >> it certainly does. of course, the president himself was doing twreets about leaks before scaramucci was thinking about incoming to the whit...

>> anderson, that's about all we know about the ban this evening. the president sent out those urgent messages early this morning saying, look, you know, the military service will not be allowed any transgendered member of the service will not be allowed to be an active member of the military. but beyond that, it was left at that. just to give you a window into how things work here at the white house, there were background briefings today on what's going on in venezuela. there was a background meeting on what is going on with the job in wisconsin. anderson, for a major policy change like this,...