i'm brianna keilar in for brooke baldw baldwin. one day after president trump's best previewed speech ever, the market is riding high and republicans are riding high. one question is on the nation's mind. was it a performance or a true pivot. even some democrats praised his address and why wouldn't they, some observers noted when some of his policies were democratic. all are likely to lead to some epic showdowns on capitol hill. >> i believe that real and possible immigration reform is possible. if we're guidinged by the well being of american citizens, then e believe republicans and democrats can work together to achieve an outcome that has eluded our country for decades. to launch our national rebuilding i will be asking congress to lay prove legislation that produces a $1 trillion investment in infrastructure of the united states financed through both public and private capital creating millions of new jobs. first we should ensure that americans with pre-existing conditions have access to coverage and that we have a stable trans

cnn's washington correspondent brianna keilar is covering that story for us.is the road to 60 coming? >> reporter: not looking good and looking worse, brooke. keep in mind we still have some time to go before this key vote, so there is that. a lot of democrats are sitting on the fence who aren't necessarily committing to an answer, but the thought at first was that you had democrats who were up for re-election here in a couple of years in states that donald trump won. they would go along with this get neil gores such to 60 votes. that's not quite looking that way and here's one of the data points. here's chuck schumer, the leader of the democrats in the senate today. >> you look at his history. he didn't answer questions. we know that. when you can't answer whether brown v. board was decided right which even judge roberts who is very rite sent didn't, something is really wrong, and you look at his history. you look at his early writings, and then you look apt how he got here so they are going to do the right thing, and it's going to be a real uphill climb for

i'm brianna keilar in for brooke baldw baldwin.rump's best previewed speech ever, the market is riding high and republicans are riding high. one question is on the nation's mind. was it a performance or a true pivot. even some democrats praised his address and why wouldn't they, some observers noted when some of his policies were democratic. all are likely to lead to some epic

i'm brianna keilar. a critical day for the trump administration as the fbi is investigating potential ties between donald trump's campaign aids, former aids and russian officials. trying to get to the bottom of it. there was some coordination between political attacks during the 2016 election. e with just saw sean spicer peppered with a lot of questions about something we have been trying to get to the bottom of and that's a visit to the white house last week by devin nunes, the chairman of the house intelligence committee. the committee that's supposed to be investigating this it very matter of russia and the trump campaign. and what we have found out, not tr the briefing, but we're trying to get more details from the briefing, that he went to the white house one night last week. the next day he viewed some classified information. we don't know with whom or what it was. what he did do was the next day said that there was evidence that trump aids, maybe donald trump himself had been caught up in the surv

. >>> i'm brianna keilar thank you for joining me, president trump visiting a catholic school in orlando, this is happening after his administration is getting a schooling with a new homeland security system casting doubt on a travel ban. found out after exam 88 cases of terrorism, found out they do not arri arrive in the u.s. radicalalized. but after. this is based on unsealed information not on classified data. another one reportedly concluded that citizenship is quote an unreliable threat indicator. i want to turn now to senior white house correspondence jeff zeleny, how is the white house responding to this? >> reporter: with virtual silence. another week has gone by with the president not signing the second version of the travel ban, remember back when he said this is so urgent to protect the security of this country, one of the reasons his advisors explained during the first week of presidency that he wanted to sign it by friday the fifth day in office but now they have gone back to the drawing board because of the legal challenges but also because of the specifics of the ban and y

new yorker magazine, cnn political director david chalian and senior washington correspondent brianna keilarbrianna, how is this all going to play out now? the senate side seems pretty smooth. house side seems pretty ugly. >> at some point, that is the perfect characterization of it. it seems as if the senate side on the intel committees has been doing a better job of trying to project this sense of being objective. so the expectation now is we're going to be hearing from sally yates. we don't know when but expect we're going to hear from her and what she is going to say, we would expect, is not going to be something that the trump white house is going to feel is friendly to them. she is the one who alerted the trump white house that michael flynn, the now ousted nsa director was someone who could be open to blackmail. why? because we know he told mike pence the vice president and told administration officials had he not talks to the russian ambassador about sanctions. turned out he did and that led to him being fired. >> can they get their act together on the house side? you've heard the ra

. >>> i'm brianna keilar, special live coverage in a chaotic day, the ppt is moments away from speaking live from the uss general f ford. -- russia all of this after it was revealed that sessions met with russian's ambassador twice, this included a formal sit down in session's office, during the election season, during these cyberattacks by russia. the top democrat in the house says session lied about those meetings and demanding he resigns, why? because in an online questionnaire he was asked several of the president elect's nominees or advisors have russian ties have you been in contact with anyone connected to any part either before or after election day? no, he responded simply. also on camera, this exchange. >> cnn just publish add story alleging that the intelligence community provided documents to the president elect last week that included information that quote russian operatives claimed to have compromising personal and financial information about mr. trump. these documents also allegedly stated quote there was a continuing exchange of information during the campaign between t

. >>> i'm brianna keilar thank you for joining me, president trump visiting a catholic school in orlando after his administration is getting a schooling with a new homeland security system casting doubt on a travel ban. found out after exam 88 cases of terrorism, found out they do not arri arrive in the u.s. radicalalized. but after. this is based on unsealed information not

cnn's brianna keilar fact checks what the president has to today. >> president trump unveiling a stringhs as he talks about how he handles the truth in an nv with "time" magazine. start with explanation of his recent claims that president obama wiretapped him before he entered the white house. claim unfounded and unsupported by almost all democrats and republicans. remember this trump said, when i said wiretapping it was in quotes because wiretapping today you know it is different than wiretapping. it is just a good description. but wiretapping was in quotes. what i'm talking about is surveillance. >> the president's tweet said clearly wiretapping, in quotes. >> not exactly. in this tweet but no in this one. on surveillance pointed to comments from devin nunes chair of the house intelligence committee. >> recently -- none of this related to russia or investigation of russian activities or of the trump team. >> that communication seemingly picked up by agencies legally looking at foreign targets. nunes's evidence remains secret. even members of his committee have yet to see it and he sho

i'm brianna keilar in for brooke baldwin. they're urging the white house to remove iraq from the list of banned countries in its new executive order. the first travel ban was stayed by the courts as you may recall. it was iraq and these six other majority nations. let's get right to senior white house correspondent sara murray. sara, why iraq, and i also understand you have breaking news coming to us out of the white house there. >> first let's talk about this travel ban because the president is, you know, hearing this from some of his senior advisers, his secretary of state, his national security adviser suggesting to him that iraq should not be part of this travel ban in large part because of their role in helping to fight isis. now, we have yet to see what the new travel ban has yet to look like. we were expecting it today. the white house hinted on that and they sort of wanted to bask in the glory of the president's speech and they haven't set a new timeline, brianna. today sean spicer, the press secretary, was asked what

cnn's brianna keilar fact checks what the president has to say. brianna?: don, president trump unveiling a string of untruths as he talked about how he handles the truth in an interview with "time" magazine. ♪ let's start with president trump's explanation of his recent claims that president obama wiretapped him before he entered the white house, a claim that is unfounded and unsupported by almost all democrats and republicans. now, remember this, trump said. when i said wiretapping, it was in quotes because a wiretapping is, you know, today it is different than wiretapping. it is just a good description. but wiretapping was in quotes. what i'm talking about is surveillance. >> if you look at the president's tweet, he said very clearly, quote, wiretapping in quotes. >> reporter: well, not exactly. wiretapping was in quotes in this tweet, but look at this one. it's not in quotes. and on surveillance, trump pointed to these comments from devin nunes, the republican chair of the house intelligence committee. >> i recently confirmed that on numerous oh caccasi

. >>> i'm brianna keilar, special live coverage in a chaotic day, the ppt is moments away from speakinguss general f ford. -- russia all of this after it was revealed that sessions met with russian's ambassador twice, this included a formal sit down

brianna keilar has more. >> reporter: long before paul manafort was facing skrooutny for his ties tosia he overworked on ronald reagan's campaign and managed bob dole's national convention has bowl attempted to push bill clinton out of the white house. even then with a party over abortion brewing manafort was tasked with smoothing things over ahead of the republican convention. >> everybody is united. what you saw today was the republican party coming together. >> reporter: it's the very reason he was brought on to the trump campaign in the spring of 2016. trump faced opposition within his own party that threatened to spill over during his nomination in cleveland. >> i have fantastic people. paul manafort just came on. he's great. >> reporter: his influence was seen as a threat to corey lewandows lewandowski. >> i work directly for the boss. >> only one guy you listen to and it's trump? >> i listen to everybody, but one voice is louder than everybody else. >> manafort convinced trump to practice more discipline with limited success and used teleprompters at least occasionally. >> the

let's bring in our experts, brianna keilar, you're with us.clearly wanted to instill confidence today, the republican and democratic leaders of the senate intelligence committee, that they were on the right path. >> it is such a different scene in the senate than it is in the house. i mean, can you imagine adam schiff, the ranking democrat on the house intim committee and devin nunes, the republican chairman coming together and having a press conference, i don't think so, right. we're seeing this sort of partisan clown show play out on the house side, and so you have two senators trying to show that there is a bipartisan effort to get to the bottom of something which the intelligence community has determined quite some time ago was the russians interfering or at least attempting to interfere in a way that would undermine faith in the democratic process, something that is so key and certainly mark warner and richard burr feel goes beyond politics which we heard today. >> burr and warner, the chairman and the vice chairman. right at the top befo

cnn's senior washington correspondent brianna keilar reports. >> reporter: ana, president trump unveilingd about how he handles the truth in an interview with "time" magazine. ♪ let's start with president trump's explanation of his recent claims that president obama wiretapped him before he entered the white house. a claim that is unfounded and unsupported by almost all democrats and republicans. now, remember this, trump said, when i said wiretapping, it was in quotes, because a wiretapping is, you know, today it is different than wiretapping. it is just a good description. but wiretapping was in quotes. what i'm talking about is surveillance. >> if you look at the president's tweet, he said very clearly, quote, wiretapping, in quotes. >> reporter: well, not exactly. wiretapping was in quotes in this tweet, but look at this one, it's not in quotes. and on surveillance, trump pointed to these comments from devin nunes, the republican chair of the house intelligence committee. >> i recently confirmed that on numerous occasions, the intelligence community incidentally collected information