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but when reince priebus was on wolf blitzer yesterday in his first interview since he resigned. he was asked about this. let's take a listen to what he had to say about leaks. >> are you the leaker in the white house? >> that's ridiculous. wolf. come on, give me a break. i'm not going to get into his accusations. >> why not respond? >> because i'm not going to. it doesn't honor the president. i'm going to honor the president every day. i'm going to honor his agenda and i'm going to honor our country and i'm not going to get into all of this -- personal stuff. so -- >> is there a leaking problem in the white house based on what you've seen? >> yeah. i think the general kelly should see if he can get to the bottom of it and figure it out. >> as you can see, fred, it's been a big topic, in the interview with the "new yorker," scaramucci warned the reporter that priebus would resign in the next few days and as we saw, he did, he formally offered his resignation on thursday. it's been a very stormy week for this white house. when john kelly comes to work on monday he's going to have

reince sat down with wolf blitzer tonight for his very first interview. take a listen. >> the president wanted to go a different direction. i support him in that and like i said a couple weeks ago, i said the president has a right to change directions. the president has a right to hit a reset button. i think it's a good time to hit the reset button. i think he was right to hit the reset button and i think it was -- it was something that i think the white house needs. i think it's healthy and i support him in it. >> david, reince he was a loyal soldier right there to the very end but this must have been tremendously difficult, if not humiliating for him. >> it's amazing. the new yorker story broke it yesterday. it was extraordinary what scaramucci the new communications director said about reince priebus 24 hours later, priebus is fired, scaramucci is still there. it's got to be humiliating. this is the way the president runs his white house. it's a tough operation. the question is can he sustain this, this turnover of staff, can he treat people this way?

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> we're following breaking news. right now the white house is unable to answer questions about the impact of a major military policy change unexpectedly announced by president trump today on twitter. he's reviving the ban on transgender people serving in the military despite his campaign promises to fight for the lgbt community. president trump is scheduled to speak this hour. >>> also, new attacks by the president on the top justice official at about the same time the attorney general jeff sessions was at the white house for meetings, the president criticized him for not firing acting fbi director andrew mccabe. the president has been very clear about his feelings toward sessions and did not see him today. >>> there is more breaking news. another defeat for the senate republican after it killed obamacare. lawmakers have finished voting on a bill that would only repeal the obamacare instead of replacement. seven

wolf blitzer is on assignment. i'm brianna keeler. you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> breaking news tonight, one of the most crossover sthal and combative white house press secretaries in modern history resigns. as president trump shakes up his communications office in a west wing reeling from shock and turmoil, sean spicer calling it quits after mr. trump hired new york financier and staunch support supporter anthony scaramucci as communications director. he revealed spicer's deputy sara sanders is going to replace spicer. scaramucci says he will report directly to mr. trump. we are told top white house officials steve bannon and reince priebus were opposed to scaramucci's hiring as was spicer. >>> also breaking, no official confirmation yet from donald trump, jr. or paul manafort on whether they'll testify before the senate judiciary committee next week as asked. the panel set tonight as a deadline to hear from the president's son and his former campaign chairman, or face the threat of subpoe

wolf blitzer is off. i'm jim accosta.'re in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> breaking news tonight, new evidence that the trump team hasn't fully connell mcshane cle come clean about possible collusion. eight possible people were inside that meeting, more than donald trump, jr. spoke about publicly. according to multiple reports, a russian american lobbyist with

with wolf blitzer going you just came from a meeting of the cia did tell us about the link to the russian hacking and. they don't have any right now like that's on c. that you can see wolf blitzer's heart just drop like what do you read how could there not adam adam schiff who is the head of the who's the ranking member on the intelligence committee he got humiliated by tucker carlson on fox news over this russian lack of evidence they even though he's screaming at the top of his lungs that treason has been committed and so what tucker carlson can you million a sitting congressman especially the ranking member on the intelligence i think you've got a case that's what i think i think you're really doing a bad job when you're able to be humiliated by tucker carlson well and it's amazing how the shows how the maser me is collapsing and how the worlds have turned on top of themselves you have tucker carlson doing some of the best reporting on the lack of evidence here and yet tucker carlson is an idiot shill the other half of the time and then you've got him agreeing glenn greenwald on in the

earlier, wolf blitzer asked the former director of u.s.elligence james clapper to weigh in. >> how risky was it for these three trump associates to meet with this woman during the campaign? >> well, understanding -- i'm old school warrior. i have truth in advertising. i have great suspicions about the russians and what they do. a lot of this to me had kind of the standard textbook craft employed by the russians or the soviets and now into the russians. i don't find it surprising these connections are coming out. it would have been a really good idea to vetted whoever they were meeting with. i think the russian objective here was, one, to explore to see if there was interest in having such a discussion and offering up, of course, dirt on hillary clinton. and somehow, you know, at least create the image of at least ostensibly plausible deny built. this is the russian craft to the soft approach. if possible to co-op. >> that was james clapper speaking with my colleague wolf blitzer at the aspen security conference. russian security minister i

i'm wolf blitzer in the situation room. we're following breaking news. president trump just announcing a new white house chief of staff, doing so on twitter. the president says, general john kelly will replace reince priebus after days of speculation about his future. our correspondents and specialists, everyone is standing by to follow the breaking news. i quickly want to go over to our white house correspondent, sara murray, for the latest. sara, the president did what a lot of people expected him to do. he basically got rid of his chief of staff, reince priebus. >> that's right, wolf, and typical donald trump fashion, he broke the news on twitter. he said, i am pleased to inform you that i've just named general/secretary john f. kelly as white house chief of staff. he is a great american and a great leader. john has also done a spectacular job at homeland security. he's been a true star of my administration. wolf, we were hearing last night and this morning the concern around reince priebus is growing. there were some close to the president who really

. >> you mentioned scaramucci and wolf blitzer asked reince priebus about scaramucci's really profane comments about reince priebus in that interview with the new yorker yesterday. here's how reince priebus answered that question. >> are you the leaker in the white house? >> that's ridiculous. wolf, come on. give me a break. i'm not going to get into his accusations? >> why not. >> because i'm not going to because it doesn't honor the president. i'm going to honor the president every day. i'm going to honor his agenda. >> he went on to say that i'm not going to get into the mud, a reference to those dirty comments that came from scaramucci. you have been watching this very closely for the last 24 hours. a bit of a deft referral you might say on what were explosive comments from the current communications director. >> well, that's right. it certainly doesn't serve him very well at all to say, yeah, this guy just destroyed me in this public setting. but i venture a guess that general kelly is not going to put up with that kind of talk about him. so i would be really surprised if we hear

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> breaking news, another stunning failure for republicans. first a senate health care bill collapses and then three republicans pose a follow-up repeal only plan with republicans killing that as well. president trump says they should let obamacare fail, never minding the millions of patients who would be without care. one top republican saying the president was playing with a fire truck as the health care bill died. an administration official admits there was no real effort to sell the gop bill and democrats say they were locked out by the republicans. the defeat comes as the white house is now mired in the russia scandal. robert mueller has given the judiciary committee the all clear to have donald trump jr. and paul manafort testify publicly. they were at a meeting with the russian lawyer as was senior adviser jared kushner whose security clearance now may be in jeopardy. cnn identifies the eighth person of that meetin

>>> i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> we're following breaking news. new pressure from president trump as senate republicans who will hold a health care vote tomorrow speaking at the white house just a little while ago. the president warned lawmakers the vote against a motion to proceed means, quote, you're fine with the obamacare nightmare, closed quote. but republican leaders have not made clear which version of their health care plan lawmakers will be voting on. we're standing by to hear live from president trump tonight. >>> we're also hearing rare public remarks by the president's son-in-law, jared kushn kushner, who spoke behind closed doors with senate investigators as part of the intelligence committee's russia probe. kushner says he did not collude with russia and the information he provided shows all of his actions he says were proper. meanwhile, senator diane feinstein is now calling for attorney general jeff sessions to appear before

wolf blitzer is off today. i'm brianna keeler.e in the situation room. >>> president trump is escalating his attacks on the news media at the start of a critical week, just days before he huddles with world leaders at the g 20 summit, mr. trump is drawing fresh criticism

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wolf blitzer is off today.jim sciutto and you're in "the situation room." >> translator: this is cnn breaking news. >> we are following breaking news at the g20 summit in germany tonight including new violent protests with clashes between demonstrators and police. fires are burning in the streets of hamburg and officials are reporting almost

. >> and reince priebus tells our wolf blitzer that he's just fine with all of this. >> he intuitively determined that it was time to do something differently and i think he's right. >>> we have breaking news tonight on the russia investigation and the question that's been looming over this administration during a week of chaos and upheaval. president trump will sign the russian sanctions bill we've learned tonight. in a statement the white house said president donald j. trump read early drafts of the bill and negotiated regarding critical elements of it. he has now reviewed the final version and based on its responsiveness to his negotiations, approves the bill and intends to sign it. the legislation which was sent to the white house today would sanction russia while sharply limiting the president's ability to ease penalties against moscow independently. so a lot to discuss tonight. let's get right to cnn global affairs analyst david rohde. we have a counterterrorism analyst joining us along with april ryan and david swerdlick. david, i want to start with you on this breaking news abo

omg, wolf blitzer said on cnn it doesn't get a whole lot closer than that. that assessment invited parallels to hillary's 2008 loss to barack obama. it was in bill's view an absurd comparison. after all that had been a three-way race. she was still likely to come out the winner on this night, not the third place finisher. but journalists competing with her in iowa and deja vu was a hard storyline to resist. the outcome tonight insures this ways will go on for months and months on the democrat side, blitzer's colleague reported that night from sanders headquarters. the perception all night hillary was such prohibitive front-runner heading into the democrat nomination fight she should have have cleaned up easily. bill had a much different perspective. iowa had never been clinton country and hillary had increased her share of the caucus return from under 30% in 2008 to 50%, give or take a little in 2016. plus, unlike obama, bernie was tailor-made for iowa. the state is overwhelmingly white, littered with colleges and decidedly working class. working class citie

i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." >>> we're following breaking news. president trump is fueling new speculation about whether he'll fire the attorney general jeff sessions. just a little while ago, the president said he's disappointed in sessions for recusing himself from the russia investigation. and in a twitter attack, he called sessions' positions, quote, very weak. asked about sessions' future, mr. trump said, quote, time will tell. >>> also breaking. this senate has approved a motion to begin debate on a health care bill with vice president pence casting the deciding vote, breaking a 50-50 tie. but right now it's unclear what the final bill will look like and if the gop leadership can muster the votes to pass it. and former trump campaign chairman paul manafort has been subpoenaed by the u.s. senate judiciary committee as part of its russia investigation. earlier he met behind closed doors with senate intelligence investigators while the president's son-in-law jared kushner talked to the house intelligence commi

i'm wolf blitzer in the situation room. we're following breaking news.cing a new white house chief of staff, doing so on twitter. the president says, general john kelly will replace reince priebus after days of speculation about his future. our correspondents and specialists, everyone is standing by to follow the breaking news. i quickly want t

wolf blitzer is up after a quick break. >>> hello. i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m.washington. 8:00 p.m. in moz cow and 8:00 p.m. in erbil as well. whenever you're watching from around the world, thanks for joining us. >>> up next, if you questions about a meeting between a russian and the trump campaign. donald trump jr. gave two statements that

i turn you over to jim sciutto in for wolf blitzer in the situation room. >>> happening now, breaking news. violent clashes, riot police battle anti-globalization protesters as thousands take to the streets boozing the g20 summit in germany where president trump is holding high stakes meetings with world leaders. once again openly questions the u.s. intelligence community which concluded with confidence that putin directed the attack on u.s. democracy. the meeting will be small in size. the two leaders joined only by secretary of state tillerson and russia's foreign minister and interpreters. why is there only a few pages of paper? >>> and no red line. the president answers north korea's nut missile launch with big threats, saying he's weighing a severe response distressing that he doesn't draw red lines. why not? >>> wolf blitzer off today, i'm jim sciutto, and you're in the situation room. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> the breaking news, riot police use water cannons and pepper spray against protesters hurling rocks and smoke bombs as thousands take to the streets in hamburg, ge

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> breaking this hour, president trump is about to speak live in west virginia, looking at live pictures on a day when the russia investigation may have hit closer to home than ever. his son-in-law and senior advisor jared kushner becoming the first member of mr. trump's inner circle to be questioned in the senate's russia investigation. kushner declaring he did not collude with any foreign government or know of anyone else in the trumped campaign who did. he spoke publicly after his two-hour session with the senate intelligence committee staffers, and he released the lengthy written statement offering new details about his russia meetings and insisting he did nothing improper. >>> also breaking, the president warns senate republicans there is still time to, quote, do the right thing and support the party's promise to repeal and replace obamacare. mr. trump delivering prepared remarks on the eve of a senate vote

i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. here in washington.m around the world, thanks very much for joining us. right now we're standing by to hear from the white house. you're looking at live pictures coming in from the briefing room where the press secretary sarah huckabee sanders will brief reporters laters think hour. live coverage of that and certainly hit with questions on several major fronts. one will be the ongoing debate and the expected votes coming up over health care. president trump has kept up the pressure on republicans in the senate. once again, tweeting today and i'm quoting him "don't let the american people down." all of this while a now deleted tweet from the white house

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> following escalating outrage that jared kushner still has a security clearance as the president's senior advisor and son-in-law faces intensifying scrutiny in the russia investigation. some top democrats are demanding kushner's clearance be revoked immediately, suggesting that america's security is at risk every day that kushner has access to the nation's secrets. this as lawmakers press for more information about that 2016 meeting with the russian lawyer arranged by donald trump, jr. and attended by kushner and former trump campaign chairman paul manafort. the president is ramping up his defense of his son tweeting today that most politicians would agree to meet with someone promising damaging information about an opponent, even if it was supposedly coming from the kremlin. but even members of his own party dispute that. tonight the senate judiciary committee chairman tells cnn he is pushing for trump junior and manafort to testify under oath withi

wolf blitzer on assignment, i'm brianna keeler, you're in the situation room. >>> o.j. simpson was granted parol after kidnapping and armed robbery. a nevada board acted after the star apologized and promised he'd have no conflicts if released. simpson could be free as soon as october. he's best known for his 1995 acquittal in the slayings of his ex-wife and her friend in what was called the trial of the century. also breaking, the white house says president trump has confidence in attorney general jeff sessions, a day after he sharply rebuked him. "new york times" interview, the president slammed sessions, one of his earliest and most loyal supporters for recusing himself tied to the russia investigation. who he warned not to investigate trump family finances. the president's attack on his own justice department is worrying officials inside the white house, one of whom calms it chilling. the russia investigation as well as picking up speed, the senate judiciary committee plans to hear next week from donald trump jr. and former campaign chairman paul manafort about thei

i'm wolf blitzer. 1:00 p.m. in washington. 8:00 p.m. in raqqa, syria. 2:00 a.m. south korea. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. >>> we start with a new push from the white house calling it made in america week. like past theme week, the white house looking to change the narrative from the multiple russia story angles to more controllable demoefk and foreign policy issues, but president trump still took time out at least this morning to start tweeting once again. this is what he tweeted. "most politicians would have gone to a meeting like the one don junior attended in order to get info on an opponent. that's politics." go to our senior washington were correspondent joe johns over at the white house right now. joe, do we know anything more about when the president's son may actually speak with congressional investigators? >> reporter: wolf, at the moment sounds like a holding pattern from what we've been able to gather.

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> we're following breaking news. anthony scaramucci is now the latest trump team casualty. just hours after president trump tweeted there is no chaos in the white house, scaramucci resigned as communications director, a job he held for just 10 days. sources tell cnn the new white house chief of staff john kelly wanted him out. >>> also a cnn exclusive. sources revealed that kelly was so angry at the way president trump fired fbi director james comey, he told comey he might resign his position at the time as homeland security supervisor. >>> also president trump intends to sign the sanctions bill but won't say when. russian president vladimir putin is already retaliating, exp expelling hundreds of diplomatic staff and planning to consecrate properties. >>> the north korea new ballistics missile was the most successful yet. it went 6,000 miles, putting many american cities at risk. >>> let's go straight for the v

i now your honturn you over to blitzer. he's in the situation room. >>> happening now, not in the clear. new questions tonight about presidential son-in-law and senior adviser jared kushner's security clearance. democrats want it revoked. there are some republicans getting tired of defending him. >>> "made in america." the white house tries to change the subject with a week devoted to boosting american products. but as the president climbs into a "made in america" fire truck and promotes u.s. manufacturers, he ignores the fact that many products that bear the trump name are made abroad. >>> sick leave. senate republicans wait for a vote on the senate health care. they can't vote without him and even with him, there may not be enough to pass it. >>> a procedure of property in the united states and a punishment for meddling in the u.s. election. but there is another punishment which putin wants to roll back. what's he doing about it? >>> i'm wolf blitzer and you're in the situation room. >>> as president trump defends his son

i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. here in washington. 8:00 p.m. in moscow. 8:30 p.m., north korea. wherever you're watching from around the world thanks very much for joining us. >>> up next, west wing makeover. president trump's new white house chief of staff officially on the job today. the appointment of john kelly represent as reset for the trump administration. the president praised kelly for his work as homeland security secretary. >> we just swore in general kelly. he will do a spectacular job. i have no doubt, as chief of staff. what he's done in terms of homeland security is record shattering. you look at the border. you look at the tremendous results we've had. >> observers will be watching to see if kelly, a retired u.s. marine corps general can bring order and discipline to this white house, but this morning president tr

and as we know reince priebus did his first interview with cnn last night with wolf blitzer. and during that interview he was asked by wolf what his greatest disappointment was during his time here in the west wing at the white house. let's listen to what reince had to say to that. >> what's your biggest disappointment? >> well, look, i mean, i wish health care would have passed, i don't think it's over yet. >> you don't have the votes. there's a majority the republicans have in the senate. >> they have to roll up their sleeves and keep coe working. they have to come up with another amendment. i think lindsey graham has another amendment. they have to work on lisa murkowski and see if we can get her on the right side of the health care debate. i don't think this is over. i think they can get this done. and obviously coming together as a party is something that i think we've had too much difficulty doing. >> so as you can see there, fred, health care was something that was definitely on reince priebus' mind. he was brought into this white house with the understanding that his

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> breaking news tonight, the commander in chief reacreates n confusion in the u.s. military to reinstate the transgender ban on service members. announcing a major policy decision in a tweet declaring the united states will not allow transgender troops in any capacity. tonight the white house isn't offering any clarity on what will happen to transgender americans who are serving right now in the military, saying the administration and the pentagon still have to work out a plan to implement the president's order. >>> also breaking, the white house insisting mr. trump still wants jeff sessions to lead the justice department even as he continues to publicly vent his disappointment with his attorney general. the president blasting sessions in yet another tweet while the embattled attorney general was under the same roof attending a meeting at the white house. we are told multiple top white house officials have urged

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but first a short time ago reince priebus spoke with wolf blitzer. >> why did you make that important decision to resign? >> it's something i always talked to the president about and i've always said to him and he always agreed with me. anytime either one of us think that we need make a change or move in a different direction, let's just talk about it and get it done and so i think the president thought about that and we talked about it yesterday and i resigned and he accepted my resignation but this is about the president, it's about moving his agenda forward. i think he's made a smart decision with general kelly and i think he's going to do a great job. >> but why did you resign? i understand you told the president you wanted to resign, he accepted your resignation yesterday but was there a series of issues? was there one thing that came up and you said i no longer can do this? >> i think the president wanted to go a different direction. i support him in that. and like i said a couple weeks ago i said the president has a right to change directions. the president has a right to hit a

i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> breaking news tonight, president trump ramping up his public shaming of the attorney general, but refusing to reotve if he's going to fire him or wants him to resign. he wants to be much tougher on leakers. when pressed on one of his early est and loyal reporters trump's response was, quote, time will tell. >>> also breaking senate republicans vote to move forward with debate on health care legislation that required vice-president pence to cast the tie breaking vote. susan collins and lisa murkowski defying their party voting no. uncertain with republicans still over odds at how to dismantle obamacare. just a little while ago the house overwhelmingly passed a bill giving congress the power to block any effort by the white house to weaken sanctions on russia offering a direct challenge to president donald trump's authority. it is unclear when the senate will vote on the measure. >>> and in the russia investigation, cnn has now learned that the senate judiciary committee has dropped the subpoena

shortly after the word came in that priebus is out, he spoke with cnn in his first interview with wolf blitzer. look the at what he said. >> why did you resign? i understand you told the president you wanted to resign. he accepted it yesterday. why? were there a series of issues or is there one thing that came up and you decided i no longer can do this? >> no. look, i think the president wanted to go a different direction. i support him in that. and like i said a couple weeks ago, i said the president has a right to change directions. the president has a right to hit a reset button. i think it's a good time to hit the reset button. i think he was right to hit the reset button, and i think it was something that i think the white house needs. i think it's healthy. and i support him in it. >> was he not happy with the direction you were setting? >> no, but look, i think bringing fresh people is a good thing. so, look, he has the best political instincts. he's -- hang on a second. he knows, i think, intuitively when things need to change. i've seen it on the wild ride with the president that i lov

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i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> tonight president trump says his new health care strategy is to let obamacare fail, now that his promise to repeal and replace it has been doomed by his own party. in a dramatic chain of events, two senate republicans declare their opposition to the gop's repeal and replace bill overnight, effectively killing the legislation and apparently blind siding the president. now the majority leader mitch mcconnell says he wants the senate to vote on a repeal only bill soon, but that back up plan appears to be dead on arrival with three republicans saying they'll vote no. mr. trump acknowledges he's very disappointed by all of this, but he's refusing to accept responsibility, blaming democrats, even though republicans control congress. >>> also breaking, the white house just revealed a second previously undisclosed conversation between mr. trump and russia's president vladimir putin at the g20 summit this month. this a

wolf blitzer picks up coverage after a quick break. no.uard your rates won't go up just because of a claim. i totally could've - no! switching to allstate is worth it. >>> hello. i'm wolf blitzer. 1:00 p.m. in washington, 8:00 p.m. in moscow, 9:00 p.m. in kabul. whereof you're watching from around the world, welcome. >>> waiting to hear directly from jared kushner from the white house. looking a the microphone there outside the west wing. the president's son-in-law and trusted adviser spent much of the day so far up on capitol hill answering questions from senate intelligence committee staffers. at any moment now, we're told we expect to hear directly from kushner, making a public statement. we'll have live coverage of that as soon as

prebus tells cnn wolf blitzer there are no hard feelings. >> this is not a situation where there's ach of ill will feelings. this is, i think, good for the president. >> reporter: sources tell abc news the president felt he needed a white house chief of staff who could push his agenda forward and get the west wing in order. as one source puts it, this was a long time coming. gentleman nay norman, abc news, washington. >>> tonight the "new york post" has updated its cover from this morning. in a tweet in newspaper crossed out the picture of reince priebus and posted the caption, the tribe has spoken. >> here in san francisco tonight a call for unity in washington d.c. the divisive climate has inspired one-time san francisco resident van jones to host a 14 city tour called we rise. >> that's right. the cnn commentator took his message to the masonic in knob hill. lonnie is in the newsroom with the story. >> reporter: this is the second stop for the tour. first was los angeles. the idea is to foster good conversation to encourage progress. jones urged a large audience to focus on values

prebus tells cnn wolf blitzer there are no hard feelings. >> this is not a situation where there's ach of ill will feelings. this is, i think, good for the president. >> reporter: sources tell abc news the president felt he needed a white house chief of staff who could push his agenda forward and get the west wing in order. as one source puts it, this was a long time coming. gentleman nay norman, abc news, washington. >>> tonight the "new york post" has updated its cover from this morning. in a tweet in newspaper crossed out the picture of reince priebus and posted the caption, the tribe has spoken. >> here in san francisco tonight a call for unity in washington d.c. the divisive climate has inspired one-time san francisco resident van jones to host a 14 city tour called we rise. >> that's right. the cnn commentator took his message to the masonic in knob hill. lonnie is in the newsroom with the story. >> reporter: this is the second stop for the tour. first was los angeles. the idea is to foster good conversation to encourage progress. jones urged a large audience to focus on values

he was doing an interview with wolf blitzer on cnn a short time ago. if he has not left yet, he will be leaving shortly. general kelly is not here. he will officially start next week on a monday and he is going to start getting his hands around the organizational structures here. i think a question here tonight is we know that reince priebus will be taking his leave. he is vowing to work with general kelly as well, but how many more people from the rnc will be going with him? i think that is something that this is about, clearing house. robert: you mentioned the rnc wing and the other wings of the white house, steve bannon, jared kushner, more established republican wing. how is general kelly going to fit into that order? jeff: that is a great question. i think we will have to see how it works before we know the answer completely. there are so many wings, more wings that always here in the west wing. i think one thing that general kelly brings in, one thing the president trusts about him is his organizational structure and his strength. one thing the p

priebus was asked about that tonight when he spoke to cnn's wolf blitzer. >> are you the leaker in thehite house? >> that's ridiculous, wolf, come on. give me a break. i'm not going to get into his accusations. >> why not -- >> i'm not going to because it doesn't honor the president. i'm going to honor the president every day, honor his agenda, and i'm going to honor our country. and i'm not going to get into this all of this personal stuff. >> a source tells nbc news that the last straw for the president and priebus was the failure to repeal obamacare. john kelly will officially take over as chief of staff on monday. >>> north korea fired off another intercontinental missile late today. the missile traveled about 2,300 miles up and landed in the waters off japan. had it been aimed toward the u.s., it likely could have reached not only the west coast, but some experts say even denver or chicago. >>> immediately after the launch, the u.s. and south korea responded by firing missiles of their own. video released by the department of defense shows the missiles being launched from a u.s. b

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> breaking news. a bombshell revelation today draws the most direct line yet between the trump campaign and russia and it comes in the form of e-mails released by none other than donald trump jr. the e-mails set up the june 2016 meeting between a russian lawyer with trump jr., a trump campaign manager, paul manafort, and trump's son-in-law jared kushner. in the first e-mail an intermediary relayed a message that russia's state prosecutor, quote, offered to provide the trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate hillary. closed quote, the e-mail said the information, once again quoting, would be very useful to your father. this is obviously very high level and sensitive information, but it's part of russia and its government support for mr. trump, closed quote. trump jr. replied, quote, i love it. the russian lawyer who met with trump and his colleagues said they want the i

now wolf blitzer is right next door in the situation room. thanks so much for watching. >>> happening now, breaking news, voting for voting sake. the senate is standing by the act of the latest republican health care bill, but no one exactly what's in it, and republican leaders don't want it to become law. so what is their strategy? >>> family feud. stunning white house infighting with the new communications director, suggesting that white house chief of staff is leaking to the news media. so who will come out on top in this very public battle? >>> holy hell to pay. a dire warning from a top gop senator amid deep concerns president trump may fire his attorney general jeff sessions, and replace him in a recess appointment. now sessions is speaking out about the president's humiliating criticism of him. how long is he willing to take it? >>> and zinke, murkowski new details in a difficult call from the interior secretary, ryan zinke. murkowski says it was an unpleasant conversation. did it include a direct threat? i'm wolf blitzer, you're in th

q&a interview with blitzer prize-winning author david garrow. been prime minister theresa may takes questions from members of the house of commons. after that a conversation marking the 50th anniversary of the detroit riots. ♪ announcer: this week on q&a, part two of our interview with pulitzer prize-winning author dr. david gero. --dr. david garrow. he talked about his book "rising star: the making of barack obama ." which covers president obama's life prior to winning the presidency. you can watch this interview on our website c-span.org. >> david garrow, author of "rising star: the making of barack obama." what was the hardest part of this book to be? >> without question the most challenging aspect of doing this book with dealing with the women before michelle obama. historian.demic i'm different with how i deal with people than journalists are. when one is talking with people about intimate personal relationships, i'm very hesitant differential. i do not pose intrusive questions. it is crucially important both with alec mcnair and genevieve

he is the boy who cried wolf blitzer is fake news. this might actually be a nothing burger but every time they tell us it is a nothing burger it turns out to be a juicy quarter pounder with sleeves. (applause). >> jon: oh, oh, oh! >> stephen: you i am choosing to believe that nothing happened this time. have i to just to sleep at night. because between health care, and the president playing foot see with the russians, every time trump speaks this is all i hear. >> death, everyone's going to die, death, death, death. >> stephen: we have a great show for you tonight. james mcavoy is here. and i sit down with an actual russian oligarch mikhail prokhorov. stick around. and i'm an arborist with i'pg&e in the sierras. the drought in california has killed trees on a massive scale. any of those trees that fail into power lines could cause a wildfire or a power outage. public safety is the main goal of our program. that's why we're out removing these hundreds of thousands of hazard trees. having tools and technology gives us a huge edge to ide