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these aircraft come in close proximity to one another. all right, ryan brown reporting from the pentagon. thanks very much. remember, important programming note. stay with cnn later tonight for a very timely debate on tax reform. that s coming up, 9:00 p.m. eastern. that s it for me. thanks for watching. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, breaking news. north korea firing what could be its most powerful missile yet, one that could reach washington, d.c. plus, the president s reality show. today, trump staging a white house meeting like an episode of the apprentice playing roulette with a government shutdown. and trump going after senator elizabeth warren, raising questions about what he said about his own heritage. why did he say he s of swedish descent when he actually isn t? let s go outfront. good afternoon. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, breaking news. north korea with a record breaking missile launch that potentially puts washing ....
about a pending vote in the u.n. general assembly regarding israel. according to the charges, a very senior member of the presidential transition team directed flynn to contact officials from foreign governments, including russia, to learn where each government stood on the resolution and to influence those governments to delay the vote or defeat the resolution. nbc news reported today that the very senior official was jared kushner, the president s son-in-law. in a statement today michael flynn said, i recognize that the actions i acknowledged in court today were wrong, and through my faith in god i am working to set things right. my guilty plea and agreement to cooperate with the special counsel s office reflect the decision i made in the best wanted of my family and of our country. i accept full responsibility for my actions. there was strong reaction to today s news from democrats on the hill involved in the russia probe. their message, there s more to come. inside the ....
destabilizing to put it mildly. when asked if that was confirmation there was a bit of name-calling. finally ben rhodes weighed in accusing the new york times of prop gating garbage. finally we should note the kuwait newspaper is reporting the u.s. has now given israel the green light to assassinate general soleimani. the white house has not commented. martha? martha: trace, thank you very much. so marc thiessen who you see often on the story got in the middle of this buzz saw when he chimed in on it today is he an american enterprise scholar and former speech writer for president george w. bush. is he also a fox news contributor. mark, why did this insight you? you know, why did this make you want to dive into the middle of this and give your own opinion? well, just because this just shows the blythe attitude of the obama administration had towards terrorism. i mean, this is the same guy who went on bret baier s show and said dude, that was like three years ago. martha: sinc ....
the dni and the rest of the national security establishment? a question a lot of people are asking this hour. we re going to take you through the much balihooed memo release, what it means for the russia investigation and discuss potential resignations or firings of senior d.o.j. or fbi leadership. let s get right to it with our experts. jeremy bash, former chief of staff at both the cia and pentagon. now an msnbc national security analyst. matt miller, former chief spokesman for the justice department in the obama administration, now an msnbc justice and security analyst. chuck rosenberg, a former u.s. attorney who has worked on the staffs of both robert mueller and james comey at the fbi and is now an msnbc contributor. and with us on-set, nbc s ken delanian and republican strategist steve schmidt. jeremy bash, let me start with you on this idea that carter page, who we know was first surveilled in 2013, at least two to three years before he ended up in the trump orbit and y ....
right behind this. but we have to get through this first. you ll be here every step of the way. ginger, thank you. we re going to turn next tonight to the political storm brewing in washington. the president back at the white house today and back to twitter, taking aim at his own justice department, tweeting about the, quote, deep state. and so, we asked tonight, does the president really believe there is a shadow government out to get him? abc s senior white house correspondent cecilia vega beginning another year at the white house. reporter: president trump kicked off 2018 with a tweet storm today, attacking his own justice department as a deep state secretly working to undermine his presidency. he also lashed out at hillary clinton s long-time aide huma abedin, suggesting she should be punished for her handling of certain government e-mails. the president tweeting, jail. deep state justice department must finally act. also on comey and others. what did the president mean w ....