♪ the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's historic visit to the white house. historic because it's the prime minister's first visit with the new american president. >> this will be the first of many productive meetings. >> i deeply value your

friendship. >> b.b. and i have known each other for a long time. a smart man. great negotiator. >> our alliance has been remarkably strong but under your leadership, i'm confident it will get even stronger. >> the palestinians have to get rid of some of that hate that they're taught from a very young age. i'd like to see you hold back onset sets for a little bit. >> it's the art of the deal. hello. i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. here in washington and 8:00 p.m. jerusalem. wherever you're watching from around the world, thank you for joining us. we begin with what is supposed to be the start of a warm relationship between the white house and israel just in the last hour the prime minister benjamin netanyahu arrived at the white house. it's a different welcome from what we've seen for other world leaders with the first lady

there and the president there to greet benjamin netanyahu and his wife. moments after arriving, the two leaders appeared for a joint news conference. they spoke about the settlements and iran nuclear deal and hopefully a peace deal with the palestinians. jim acosta is joining us from the white house. fred pleitgen is tehran. and aaron david miller is here in washington, d.c. jim, this news conference happened even before the two men had a chance to sit down and have some quiet discussions in the oval office or elsewhere in the white house. it was as if we're watching live negotiations, at least on some points going on. >> that's right. and that is president trump playing the disrupter on the world stage. typically what we'd see is a president welcoming a foreign leader here at the white house. they would go behind closed,

they would have lunch, their officials would meet with each other and they would try to broker some kind of joint statement that would be put out by both the press offices and then you would have a news conference where both of these leaders would come out and explain perhaps what they would talk about, talk about the disagreements they had. that didn't happen today. we saw the prime minister show up here at the white house and then within just a few minutes, they both came into the east room and then started taking questions and making statements at this joint news conference. wolf f. i thought it was fascinating to hear president trump try to nudge the israeli prime minister in the direction of limiting the amount of settlements that are taking place there in the palestinian territory that is obviously something that is a great irritant in the region and something that even this white house has said that perhaps the israeli prime minister could get a handle on. and you heard the president there say that to prime minister netanyahu during this news conference to which prime

minister netanyahu not really jabbed back but responded by saying the art of the deal. you can see that the negotiations were beginning right there. why don't we play a moment that we saw a few moments ago. >> as far as settlements, i'd like to see you hold back on settlements a little bit. i think a deal will be made. bebe and i have known each other for a long time. a smart man, great negotiator. it might be a better deal than people in this room even understand. that's a possibility. so let's see what we do. >> it's the art of the deal. >> so pretty candid moment between the two leaders. wolf, one other interesting thing that we can take note of from this news conference with respect to the israeli issue is

that you heard the president there describe the iran nuclear deal as something that he just does not like, one of the worst agreements, i believe is how he described it. but at the same time, this administration has not abandoned the iran nuclear deal that was brokered by the previous administration and you heard prime minister netanyahu once again state his belief that iran is a danger to the region, to the world. he talked about how tehran is trying to develop icbms that one day may be able to reach the u.s. prime minister netanyahu brought some of that tough rhetoric that we're accustomed to him bringing to washington but this time he was doing it in a room with a president that he's very much on the same page with. wolf? >> talk about the questions that were asked. there's always two american journalists that get to ask the questions, two journalists from the foreign countries, in this case, israeli journalists. american journalists -- we're

seeing a pattern emerge at all of these joint news conferences the president has with foreign leaders. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. going back several administrations, not just the obama administration but the bush administration, clinton administration and so on, typically what you have on these two plus two news conferences, two questions for the american press and two for the foreign press. what you would see take place is perhaps a wire service, associated press or reuters or major network or newspaper called upon to ask a question of the president and that foreign leader there for the joint news conference. what we've seen happen over the course of the last three news conferences and half of the fourth news conference that we've had so far is the president calling on conservative news media. today he called on the christian broadcasting network owned by the televangelist pat robinson. and he did ask about the

resignation about national security adviser michael flynn. it was in the context of a larger question about israel and so on. but the other question went to a very conservative website called townhall.com. i imagine that's a website that perhaps some conservative republicans are familiar with but by and large the american people have no idea what that is all about. but anyway, that is what the president has been doing and so he got no questions during this news conference about this major news that we've seen breaking in the last 24 hours and that's coming from "the new york times," cnn, other news outlets that associates of the president, aides of the president during the course of the 2016 presidential campaign were in contact with russians who were known to the russian intelligence community to the point that that -- those contacts prompted red flags on the u.s. intelligence community. i tried to shout a question at the president very politely at the end, not too loudly. and the president heard that

question and elected not to answer it. we heard some applause there after i asked the question, presumably to try to drown out any other questions but this president, this white house has sort of come up with their own solution for basically questions they don't want to answer at this point and as you know, wolf, having been in washington for a long time covering administrations from both parties, it's just not a tactic that works in the long run. wolf? >> i agree. jim acosta at the white house, thank you. i want to go to tehran right now. fred pleitgen is there. i want you to listen to what the president said on a very, very sensitive issue. listen to this. >> security challenges faced by israel are enormous, including the threat of iran's nuclear ambitions which i've talked a lot about. one of the worst deals i've ever seen is the iran deal. my administration has already

imposed new sanctions on iran and i will do more to prevent iran from ever developing, i mean ever, a nuclear weapon. >> all right. you're there for us in tehran, fred. what's the iranian reaction? what are you hearing from iranian officials about the new american president and what he says about the iran nuclear deal and other issues related to iran? >> reporter: yeah, wolf. there's not been any reaction so far at this specific press conference but you could see this building up throughout the day and throughout the week that i've been here. it was interesting because the adviser to iran's supreme leader, ayatollah said that it was too weak to dissuade iran

and others came out and said, look, the nuclear deal is a great deal for iran and you can see that because the trump administration is against it. they are talking up the nuclear agreement and they are also saying that their ballistic missile program is not something up for debate. the iranians publicly are saying that they are going to stick by all of their positions and they are also still warning the united states. but i can also feel, wolf, from having been here, that the rhetoric is somewhat changing. they still have the strong positions and you can also feel that the leadership is very, very careful not to try and further antagonize the situation with the united states. it was a big day last friday, revolutionary day, which is a big day, anti-americanism. normally the irans would have ballistic missiles on display there. they say they are going to stick by their position but you can also feel that they realize right now they have a president in the white house who is very,

very critical of iran. it was interesting to see before some of the officials before donald trump took office. they were saying, look, maybe this is someone we can deal with. he's an unconventional politician and maybe he can make deals with iran. donald trump is someone that is going to be very, very tough, certainly after the press conference that we saw right now, wolf. >> all right. fred pleitgen in tehran, we'll get back to you as well. i want to get the latest on the controversy surrounding the white house right now over russia and the fallout that continues from the forced resignation of michael flynn as the president's national security adviser. we're now learning that high-level advisers to then candidate of donald trump were in constant contact with the russians who on the radar of the intelligence community. we're joined now by barbara starr.

all of this is causing a huge stir and, unfortunately, the president did not directly answer -- there were no questions asked of him specifically about all these conversations between his advisers during the campaign and russian intelligence officials. >> reporter: well, wolf, what we know is that these levels of conversations and contacts between trump aides, trump officials and russian officials and russian persons, russian entities, was so severe, so serious over the summer as mr. trump was the nominee at that time that it got the attention of the u.s. intelligence community which picked it up on routine monitoring and they became so concerned, so many red flags raised that they briefed then president obama and mr. trump about all of this. a lot of concern. nobody really knows at this point what these conversations were about, or at least publicly knows what was said, if any of it is a violation of the law.

we don't know. but president trump at this press conference now for the first time actually addressing the controversy of the departure of michael flynn as his national security adviser. now, you will remember -- and it's only a day or so ago so it's not hard to remember -- that the white house said flynn was essentially fired because of the president's eroding trust in him as national security adviser. but mr. trump today had quite a different picture of the situation. have a listen to what he had to say. >> michael flynn, general flynn, is a wonderful man. i think he's been treated very, very unfairly by the media. as i call it, the fake media, in many cases. and i think it's really a sad thing that he was treated so badly. i think in addition to that, from intelligence, papers are

being leaked, criminal action, criminal act and it's been going on for a long time before me. but now it's really going on. >> okay. information leaked to the news media. mr. flynn treated unfairly. what the president did not address, of course, is that he was the one that asked and got michael flynn's resignation because of the so-called eroding confidence in him. wolf? >> yeah. it was a stark difference from what we heard yesterday and what we heard from the president today, yesterday from the white house press secretary. barbara, thanks very much. barbara starr at the pentagon. president trump has been holding a private meeting with benjamin netanyahu now and there you can see them with their wives in the oval office. they a photo opportunity after the news conference that ended a while ago. now they are going to have presumably some substantive private conversations and then they are going to have a working

lunch at the white house as well. you know, let's just listen in and see if we can hear any questions. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> you can hear there were no questions there by the press pool, the news media pool being escorted out of the oval office. we'll have much more on the breaking news. there are new developments happening right now on capitol hill where we're learning that andrew puzder confirmation may be in serious jeopardy right now. top senate republicans asking

puzder to withdraw his nomination. how many republicans are behind this push to get rid of him, manu raju? >> reporter: i'm told by senior republicans that there's a message that's been sent to the white house and it's this. withdraw andrew puzder's nomination as labor secretary because they have done their whip counting and they don't have the votes to confirm him. i'll told by a senior republican source that there are four republican who is will definitely vote "no" on puzder and there can be no more than two defections in order for him to get confirmed. in addition, i'm hearing there are as many as 12 republicans that can vote "no." that means they are in serious, serious danger of puzder ever getting the job. this comes the day before he was supposed to go forward for his confirmation hearings to discuss whether or not he should get that job. but a number of issues have emerged, not just his

ideological views that some on the right do not like because of more moderate views on immigration but also liabilities in his past, as well as hiring an undocumented immigrant in his household for years and not paying taxes until much later. in addition to that, there was a mess ee divorce that he went through three decades ago in which his ex-wife at the time accused him of domestic abuse. during that time, she appeared on the oprah winfrey show in disguise to discuss her allegations of domestic abuse. some senators have reviewed that tape and are alarmed at what they saw. take all this together, wolf, and republicans are just not there yet. they are not willing to support him and that's why top republicans have sent this message to the white house saying they should drop the puzder nomination, find someone new, nominate them and worry

about the new nominee. no word back from the white house yet on whether they will listen to the top senate republican advice. possibly the first casualty of any donald trump nominee, wolf. >> yeah. there were 52 republicans, 48 democrats. so if you lose two or three, if you lose two, assuming no democrat will vote for puzder's nomination. if you lose two, the vice president breaks the tie and he's confirmed. that's happened before. but if you lose three or four republicans, it's over. that committee hearing tomorrow morning is supposed to go forward. have you heard whether they will postpone it or reschedule it. >> i have not heard that. if the white house decides to withdraw the nomination, then it will not go through. if donald trump still wants puzder as his choice, there will still be a confirmation hearing tomorrow but it's a fruitless effort because there's too much resistance within republican ranks and this is already going

to be a very, very contentious hearing with democrats lining up against him and republicans don't want to take this political hit to go through this whole confirmation hearing only to see him not get confirmed. a big shift in the republican thinking. a few days ago, mitch mcconnell was planning a very aggressive push to get him through the senate with strongly supported his nomination but they just don't, looking at the numbers, they are not there and they want donald trump to change course. wolf? >> maybe puzder will see the handwriting on the wall and decide to spare the president of the grief of being rejected in a confirmation vote and not put all of those republicans in an awkward position right now. we'll see what happens. i know you're following it very, very closely. manu raju with breaking news up on capitol hill. there's more news here we're following as more details emerge about the president's inner circle, the ties to russia. senator sheldon whitehouse is

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top senate republicans are calling for the president's labor secretary pick andrew puzder to withdraw his nomination. democratic senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island is joining us. we're hearing at least four but maybe as many as a dozen republicans now have serious concerns about the labor secretary nominee and they are urging him either to withdraw, the president to withdraw. what are you hearing from your colleagues? i assume you're against the confirmation? >> the number that i have heard is that there are six republican senators who are gravely concerned about this nomination and are considering voting against it. i think that if puzder were to withdraw, it would save a lot of people a lot of heartache, particularly his own family, given some of the allegations that have been made and that i think we have some level of

responsibility to inquire into at a committee hearing. so i hope that these reports are true and i hope that president trump decides to go with a labor nominee who was less of an enemy to the working person and less of a voice for big corporate entrance. >> i know you're opposed to his confirmation. are there any democrats at all that you think might vote to confirm him? because if he loses three republicans, he's not going to be confirmed. >> i don't think there's a single democrat who is contemplating voting to approve puzder. >> all right. so we'll see what the president decides and what puzder decides as well. he's scheduled to have his confirmation hearing tomorrow before a senate committee. we'll see if that actually takes place. let's move on to the other huge issue that we're following right

now. i want to get your reaction to this revelation that several of then candidate trump's aides were in touch with senior russia officials. i assume you've been briefed on this. tell us what you can because this is a pretty potentially shocking development. >> well, the piece of information that i think is riveting prosecutors around the country and people who were prosecutors is the question whether mike flynn lied to the fbi agents when he was interviewed about his conversation with the russian ambassador. if he did, that is an easily established 18 usc 1001 violation. it's a felony. and in these circumstances, i think most prosecutors believe it's a felony that would meet with a term of incarceration and a federal prison.

when you see somebody looking at that, their only alternative is to cooperate fully and truthfully with law enforcement. that's the big news that is lurking behind what we see. did flynn lie to the fbi? and, if so, in a proper investigation by the fbi, that would lead to an enormous door opening into other behavior throughout the trump administration, including those potential other contacts with the russians that you have referred to. >> these conversations that occurred during the campaign, allegedly, between some aides and advisers to then candidate donald trump and people who are described as russian intelligence officials, do you have any idea what they talked about? because this was happening at a time when the russians, according to the u.s. government, were clearly engaged in cyber warfare against the dnc

and others in the political process. >> at this point, we don't have transcripts or text or anything like that from those conversations. i think that we're going to be able to build a timeline that correlates, at least the timing of some of these contacts, with things like the russian countermeasures that were taken against the democratic national committee. for instance, how quickly did they respond after that infamous trump tape broke with countermeasures involving dnc tapes. so i think there will be some early information that you could draw reasonable conclusions from just timing alone. at this point, just circumstantial evidence. but circumstantial evidence can lead to convictions. >> just to be precise, do you know if there's a formal justice

department or fbi investigation underway into these allegations. . >> i think that is safe to say, yes. >> and what about a senate investigation? we heard from senate majority leader mitch mcconnell that some investigation is likely. what are you hearing? >> well, the intelligence committee is already looking at this through the classified lens and through the intelligence community's information. on the judiciary committee, senator graham and i have announced an investigation going forward. we're scheduling hearings and starting to rally witnesses to look at this from a federal criminal point of view. what is the toolbox that the russians used to manipulate elections, which of the tools in the toolbox violate which united states criminal laws and kind of lay the foundation, i guess you'd say, for pursing more specifically what they did, when they did it and why they did it.

>> at his news conference just now, very quickly, senator whitehouse, i want to get your reaction, the president was discussing michael flynn, his former national security adviser's forced resignation. he said flynn was treated very unfairly by what he called the fake news media, treated so badly, papers were leaked, this is a criminal act, illegally leaked material that was smearing him. what's your reaction to the way that the president described all of this? >> well, it's not the least bit clear that those leaks did not come from inside the white house and weren't part of the toxic backstabbing internal politics of the trump white house. so i think he's jumping the gun to blame the intelligence community for those leaks. but obviously he's been attacking the intelligence community steadily and i think his attacks on the intelligence community would be consistent

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welcome back. the chairman of the senate armed services committee republican senator john mccain says he's concerned right now that at the moment the country does not have a national security adviser. cnn spoke to senators mccain and marco rubio just a while ago about russia, the departure of the national security adviser michael flynn and a white house that one of them is calling, quote, more turbulent than we've been accustomed to. >> do you think anything happened, that any laws were broken during this period? >> we don't know. we only have the small media reports of a very serious problem. we know that the russians attempted to affect the outcome of our election. we know that, although we don't think they succeeded. but the latest information in the media requires questions to be answered. >> reporter: do you think there's any evidence of coordination between the trump

campaign and -- >> it's too early. i think it's too early. but it raises serious questions. and, also, my concern is also that now with no national security adviser and the turmoil within the administration makes it very difficult for us to exercise responsibilities as to defend the nation. there is turmoil as far as national security is concerned within the white house and that needs to be fixed as well. and the first step is to provide and appoint a new national security adviser, someone who is respected both here in congress and in the country. >> the house speaker said this morning that it was very much appropriate for flynn to be talking with the russian ambassador during the transition. is it possible that too much is being made about these communications? >> well, i don't know what was said but there is a question. then why did he deny it? >> would you like flynn to

testify? >> i want questions answered first. i think we've got to take this step by step. >> you obviously have been calling for this bipartisan inquiry largely into russia. is it time for the republican leadership to join you in this? >> i believe there's a need for a bipartisan investigation of the russian efforts to affect the outcome of the election. now, on the flynn issue, i think that we need to ask questions first and find out whether the scope of that committee or investigation needs to be expanded. >> this is perhaps a little bit more turbulent than we've been accustomed to in the past but we have a job to do here and our job that we're going to do here is conduct oversight over our counterintelligence programs. we're going to conduct that. that investigation has begun. it's bipartisan.

>> are you confident no laws were broken during -- >> we don't know. that's why we're doing an investigation. that's the purpose of the investigation, to figure out what happened and what didn't. as we're conducting that, the facts will come out and the report will be issued and then obviously the appropriate agencies and others will look at it and make the determination. the bottom line is, the leaks to the press are outpacing the information available to congress right now. so we're operating in a situation in which we don't have all of the facts before us. >> senator marco rubio of florida. by the way, he and his wife have been invited to dinner tonight with the president and the first lady. we'll see how that goes as well. there are dramatic developments unfolding in washington right now. donald trump's secretary of state rex tillerson is set to meet with his russia counterpart. all of this as the trump camp faces a new wave of controversy. we'll talk foreign policy with

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the breaking news we're following, president trump last hour speaking out for the first time since his national security adviser michael flynn resigned. listen to this. >> i think it's a really sad thing that he was treated so badly. in addition to that papers are being leaked, it's criminal action, criminal act and it's been going on for a long time before me. but now it's really going on and people are trying to recover up for a terrible loss that the democrats had under hillary clinton. >> president has yet to deny the allegations against flynn ands

had campaign staff. in the midst of the chaos, they are also trying to sort out their policy positions. lots to discuss with our next guest, the former deputy national security adviser under president obama, cnn global affairs analyst tony blinken, former deputy secretary of state as well. what is your reaction to what we just heard, the president saying that michael flynn, his former national security adviser who he fired was a great guy and it's all the problem of the fake news media and the leaks coming from the intelligence community? >> it doesn't added a up. had the story not come up in "the post" and "the times," you have to wonder whether he'd still be on the job risking our security. >> what kind of security do you think he risked? >> having had these contacts

with the russians, having denied them to his own team, including the vice president, he might be susceptible to the russians influence and the russians being able to say, hey, if you don't do what we want, we're going to reveal that you were misleading your own vice president, your own chief of staff, your own president. >> the fact that he was interviewed early on as national security adviser to the president by the fbi, what does that say to you when he was questioned about the context, the communications with russian officials? >> look, the larger question here, now that mr. flynn has resigned -- >> under pressure. he was fired by the president. >> to put a clear term on it. >> yeah. >> there's still more questions to be answered than there are answers. what were the nature of his conversations during the campaign period? because apparently there were conversations and contacts then. a whole series of trump

administration officials were talking to the russians, including intelligence officials, during the campaign. we don't know what was said. we need to find out. here's what really matters, wolf. the russians upping the pressure in ukraine from the separatists and deploying missiles in violation of the inf treaty. the president needs a team, he needs a coherent team and he needs it fast. in order to do that, he needs not only a new national security adviser, he needs to answer all of these questions. because until these questions that have been raised are answered, the administration is never going to be able to get out from under it. it will be hard for them to make policy and focus on all of these issues vital to our national security. we know that once something like this happens, the best path is to put everything out there. what were the conversations, who had them, what was said, get it

all out there, get it done with and get back to the business of running the country and looking for out for our national security. >> earlier today the president was tweeting all sorts of stuff complaining about these leaks and also one tweet saying crimea was taking by russia during the obama administration. was obama too soft on russia? you were the deputy secretary of state during the obama administration. go ahead and respond to the president. >> well, i would say it gives me whiplash after everything we've heard from the president during the campaign and then making nice with the russians and for getting what has happened to ukraine. absent the leadership of president obama, we wouldn't have the sanctions and the possibility of the agreement reached to actually -- >> i guess his point, though, is that if the obama administration would have been tougher with the russians, they never would have

thought of fought crimea taking over ukraine. >> it's hard to square that with what we've seen in this approach to date with regard to russia. >> what do you think of the palestinian issue? you heard the president saying, one-state solution, two-state solution, whatever the palestinians want and maybe it's better to bring in other arab countries and get a bigger deal. what did you think of that? >> the part about trying to bring in other arab countries, looking at a bigger deal, that's something that makes sense. in fact, secretary kerry when he was secretary of state was exploring just that. but leaving the two-state solution behind, talking about one state, that means the end of a jewish democratic israel. you can't have both in one state. the palestinian arab population is going to become a majority. in that case, if israel is to remain democratic, give them all the vote. it won't be jewish. on the other hand, if it's going

to prevent them from exercising their rights, it may be jewish but it won't be democratic. i don't think any president wants to rule over a . up next we're going to discuss president's meeting with prime minister netanyahu. what could this mean for u.s./israeli relations?

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investigation on russia and trump. the white house senior official telling they're looking into michael flynn national security adviser, the news conference just called a wonderful man. there are new reports emerging of other members of the trump team being described as being in constant contact with russian intelligence officials over the summer. >> let's bring in senator clayton, colonel elise. >> being described as intelligence officials raising all sorts of concern right now. >> raising concern because you know that the intelligence community has talked about whether rush was meddling in the

election and the question is everyone's mind is were those trump aides in on it. but the kind of distraction this is causing president trump. we were just talking about the press conference with prime minister netanyahu which is a good story, but president trump throughout all the campaign had said he wants to team up with russia in syria, wants to have a better relationship and clearly they're having tentative signals with each other that hey, we can't really talk right now. >> a russian spy ship is off the coast of connecticut right now. there's talk that russians may have violated an arms treaty, it's a very tense moment

potentially. >> i think it is, the russians are testing us, specifically trump, because not only had he been forced to change his national security apparatus, but this is the time when the russians seem to want to take advantage, they want to move the pieces on the chess board. off ukraine, that's part of the intelligence the russians do but now making it visible and known they are here. >> looks like the iranians are testing him, the north koreans testing him, there are elements probing him right now. >> that's right, he's been coming with these much tougher lines against russia and cry mia. >> -- crimea.

>> he was tweeting that they took crimea and i think this is president trump saying you may think i'm going to be soft on russia, i'm not, then talking about north korea. >> if he personally is now talking tougher and russia that's significant because north korea he's been tough on, iran he's obviously been very tough on and general matritis was meeting with defense secretaries, and he said the u.s. and nato need to stand together dealing with russia but also said the u.s. could quote moderate its commitment if members don't raise their financial participation, only 28 only allocate the 2% of their gdp on defense expenditures. >> yeah, and that's one that's

really been at the forefront. it was kind of what he did when he was in charge of unbar province, he said no better friend, no worse enemy so you better get your house in order europe and this is the reason why because it's not a commitment that will go on blindly forever and ever and i think that's the signal trump wanted him to send to nato and other nations. >> and since trump said that countries are saying we are willing to make more of a commitment. they don't like when he disparages nato but they are willing to step up because to want to continue the alliance. >> the nato allies have to step

up and pay their fair share. >> absolutely and the idea of having their fair share is something that secretary yates did and now this administration is doing it too. >> thanks. that's it for me. i'll be back 5:00 p.m. eastern in the "situation room" the news continues on cnn right now. all right. you're watching cnn i'm brooke baldwin breaking news with multiple major headlines for another day here coming out of the historic first news conference with prime minister benjamin netanyahu. they talked two-state, one-state -- russia, amid news during the