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purdue university s official twitter account reports a shooting on the campus. one person is in police custody. it does not say if anyone has been wounded. purdue university reports it happened in the electrical engineering building that police have cleared the building, but they continue to search the area. the university is asking students to, quote, shelter in place. we re working our sources, trying to figure out what s going on. we ll certainly report any new information as soon as we get it. this reported shooting on the campus of purdue university in west lafayette, indiana. once again, no reports yet of injuries. one person is in custody. cnn s law enforcement analyst, mike brooks, is joining us on the phone right now. let s hope this incident is over with, mike, and we re waiting for more information from authorities there. but it s obviously very disturbing. it is, wolf. and i was looking on purdue university s website, and they give the same information as ....
momentarily. we ll have live coverage of that. history unfolding behind us right here in the nation s capital. this is cnn breaking news. hello, i m wolf blitzer. it s 1:00 p.m. in washington. wherever you re watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. a remarkable meeting has just concluded at the white house. the president and the president-elect putting aside their animosity from the campaign to fulfill a time-honored tradition here in the united states, the peaceful transfer of power. president obama welcomed president-elect trump to the white house this morning. they had an excellent discussion. meeting was supposed to last, at least accord to donald trump, only ten minutes, bub according to the president-elect, it lasted almost an hour and a half. here s what they said at the end of the meeting. well, i just had the opportunity to have an excellent conversation with president obama-elect trump. it was wide-ranging, we talked about some o ....
played a role in picking the president. with us we have mark halperin, former treasury official and morning joe economic officialist steve rattner, professor at university of michigan, normer democratic congressman harold ford, junior, and co-founder and ceo of axios, jim vann da hiem is with us as well. harold, you have your notes. professor is all it says at the top. in his testimony, director comey cited the tarmac meeting between then attorney general loretta lynch and president bill clinton as a turning point in the investigation into hillary clinton s e-mails. take a look. number of things had gone on, some of which i can t talk about yet, that made me worry that the department leadership could not credibly complete the investigation and decline prosecution without grievous damage to the american people s confidence in the justice system. the cap per was, not picking on attorney general loretta lynch who i like very much, but her meeting with president c ....
we ll bring that to you live. we mentioned that long list of exits in just over six months and other high-profile departures include reince priebus, mike flynn as press secretary, mike duffy, james comey as fbi director, the white house now resembling the red wedding from game of thrones. let s get to cnn s jeff zeleny at the white house. it s john kelly s first day on the job. he was sworn in this morning. this gifves us a little bit of insight of how kelly felt about scaramucci. reporter: it gives us a lot of insight. he didn t think he was the right fit for this new order he s going to try to impose on the west wing. but it also gives us a window into how much authority the president is going to give his new chief of staff. this is something that may not have happened, you know, a few weeks or even months ago. it s clear the president is giving john kelly, at least now in the opening days of the honeymoon phase, if you will, the full authority who goes in the ova ....
night. well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 1,005 of the trump administration, and including the jeopardy currently being faced by those closely around him, this president is under intensifying pressure now. just this morning speaker pelosi distributed a fact sheet outlining what her office calls a gross abuse of presidential power regarding trump s dealings with ukraine, calling it a shakedown, a pressure campaign, a cover-up. a few hours later during a cabinet meeting, trump was back on the attack, armed with a handwritten note that read, in part, no quid pro quo. so this is a phony investigation. the republicans have to get tougher and fight. we have some that are great fighters, but they have to get tougher and fight because the democrats are trying to hurt the republican party for the election. they re vicious, and they stick together. they don t have mitt romney in their midst. kind of went on like that. trump also ....