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times reported several trump aides had repeated contacts with russian intelligence in the year run-up before the election. they cite electronic intercepts. just today a question along those same lines was asked of sean spicer at the briefing. back in january, the president said that nobody in his campaign had been in touch with the russians. now, today, can you still say definitively that nobody on the trump campaign, not even general flynn, had any contact with the russians before the election? my understanding is that what general flynn has now expressed is that during the transition period well, we were very clear that during the transition period he did speak with the ambassador m talking about during the campaign. there is nothing that would conclude to me that anything has changed with respect to that time period. a quick timeline with how we got here. december 29, the obama administration reveals new sanctions on russia. december 30. putin says russia will no ....
suitorman, senior editor at reason magazine. kasie, let me start with you. we ve already seen far right groups like heritage action criticize the plan, club for growth as well, freedom works, rand paul calling it obamacare light. you tweeted this a few hours ago. here it is, it is still early so caveats apply but events of today suggest gop health care bill is already on life support, if not dead on arrival. how can that be so early, kasie? reporter: well look, craig, this bill has run into extraordinary opposition just in the first handful of hours that it has been out in the public, and you re saying you tick through some of the groups that have come out and opposed this, the heritage action went so far as to say this doesn t repeal obamacare. that of course kind of the cardinal sin for a party that has spent the last however many years campaigning specifically on repealing obamacare. so the people who are to younger people and less generous to older people. there woul ....
or prove he s been putting out false information about his predecessor. how is the white house preparing? reporter: hi, ana. they seem to be preparing by standing ground, not backing down from the president s allegations made two weeks ago. we heard the president himself do so just yesterday at that press conference with germany s chancellor angela merkel and in an interview last week. shown sho white house press secretary sean spicer has said that the president is confident evidenced will come out that will vindicate him. but spicer also claimed that the british intelligence service helped president obama spy on ten-candidate trump in trump tower. that claim has been denied vehemently by the british, also by a top u.s. national security official. and so, but the white house doesn t seem to be showing any outward concern about what the fbi director and set to say on monday. and as you noted, he is expected really tough position, trying to substantiate this tweet. there doesn ....
on the way with more rain in the extreme weather center. and the rain continues this saturday here in washington. hope it s a little drier where you are at home. i m leland vittert. elizabeth: great to be with you, i m elizabeth prann. voters in france will have a runoff that will have a global impact. one campaign trying to deal with fallout after claims it was the victim of a massive and coordinated hacking attack designed to destabilize the election. the french are about in a 48 hour blackout period before the vote takes place. greg palkot is in paris, france with the latest. hi, greg. hi, elizabeth. taking a page out of the u.s. election playbook, the leader here in this presidential elections here in france has been hit by a massive cyber attack. thousands of e-mails and documents seized have the computers of campaign safer of emmanuel macron, they were posted online. while moist of the material is kind of mundane, it is combined according to authorities today, with fak ....
weapons attack. look at those pictures. if russia has the influence in syria that it claims to have, we need to see them use it. we need to see them put an end to these horrific acts. how many more children have to die before russia cares? the trump administration s foreign policy certainly being put to the test this week. he s meeting today with jordan s king abdullah, just the latest in a series of high-profile meetings with world leaders. let s bring in our senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny. jeff, the white house condemned the attacks in syria. but the administration suggested in recent days that the syrian president bashar al assad could remain in power. what does that mean for today s very important meeting with king abdullah? wolf, it is critical in this critical meeting. more importantly, we re waiting on word from the president himself here. what he says about syria. we saw, you know, a quick remark there in the opening. but will he embrace, will he ampl ....