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Information from one of the president s closest advisers, hope hicks. that s right. wolf. learning tonight that hope hicks white house communication director interviewed late this week by the special counsel s team over a course of two days. that s according to the new york times. now hicks is a prime importance because of her proximity to the president. she started with the trump organization in 2014. she was a key point pooern when donald trump launched his campaign in 2015. the special counsel wants details on the drafting of the initial statement that described donald trump junior s meeting with russians at trump tower while it turns out hope hicks was on board air force board when it was written. and secondly we know hope hicks was warned about russian operatives by u.s. officials twice earlier this year according to t the new york time times . the fbi agents met with her at the white house for defensive ....
As we get closer to tonight s cnn tax debate, more on the senate tax bill that moved forward today. the questions are what did it take to get to this point, and most importantly, what s in the bill for people to look forward to or be aware of. cnn s phil mattingly joins us from capitol hill with what he s learning tonight. what s the current state of play? does it look like the tax bill is going to make it through? look, anderson, they re in a much better place right now than this morning, no question about it. what s important to note, even though it s gone through the committee process, there s still a lot of hurdles left. mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader likened this whole prosto trying to work with a rubik s cube. a lot of competing demands. you have deficit hawks on the republican side of things. this is a $1.5 trillion proposal, and these individuals don t want it to add to the ....
Qaddafi. is this a red line without actually saying the words red line? look, i think they will test. all right. and the president made noises tonight that we might respond to that, but he didn t quite say that explicitly, which he has done and what i think was uncareful language in previous tweets and comments. yeah. cnn is learning tonight, general, that the cia director pompeo met with william been any, a man who argues that the dnc hack was an inside job, krakting the conclusion of the intelligence committee that russia was behind the meddling. that meeting came at the request of president trump himself. so as a member of the intelligence community, what kind of red flags does this raise for you? what i know about this is what i ve read in the intercept article and the source for that is bill been any himself, who was a former nsa employee when i was there. i can t imagine that director pompeo was happy to go do this. ....
Sarah sanders insisted the president wasn t criticizing predecessors, but stating a fact. but hours later, president trump once again pointed the finger directly at president obama, implying he didn t call current white house chief of staff john kelly in 2010, when kelly s son was killed in afghanistan. i mean, you can ask general kelly, did he get a call from obama? you could ask other people. reporter: kelly has repeatedly made it clear to reporters he does not want to talk about his son s death. and he would not go on the record today. but the white house tells us he never got a call from president obama. obama aides do not dispute that. but they do say kelly did attend a white house breakfast for gold star families, where he sat at the first lady s table. and cecilia vega with us live tonight from the white house. and cecilia, you point out it s been nearly two weeks since that deadly incident in niger. we hadn t heard from the president until yesterday on this and now you ....
Eastern time these horrifying scenes today, people running out of the terminal on to the tarmac to get away. we don t know the type of firearm the gunman was using, there were eyewitness reports that it was a handgun but we can t confirm that. people can also pack long guns on airplanes, shotguns or rifles so we don t know about that yet. there are reports he was able to reload his weapon at least once during the attack. the whole thing lasted less than 15 minutes. police ultimately apprehended him without shooting him. apparently he ran out of ammunition and that s why the attack stopped. witnesses say he threw his gun on the ground after he ran out of ammo. he didn t make a run for it, he just laid on the floor spread eagle and police took him into custody. tonight we re told he s being interrogated by the fbi and county investigators from ft. lauderdale. now, we re learning tonight, late tonight, that federal prosecutors are preparing to file criminal charges against him. federal pr ....