he is traveling to mar-a-lago quite often. his children are traveling on business trips quite often. not just across the country but in places like to buy. the president's wife, the first lady, melania trump and the president's son both live in trump tower on fifth avenue in new york. it is a delicate place to it costs the police department hundreds of dollars a day. .hese are costs security is important to the the president criticized president obama for and traveling while america was facing all these problems. for president trump to be following that lead and almost dumping ahead -- jumping ahead, it raises questions on how diligent is president trump being and taking this travel and making these trips happen? not just once in a while as we have seen with mar-a-lago, four out of the last five weeks. the next four years, we are going to see how much are the taxpayers going to spend on that kind of travel? are they comfortable with effectively subsidizing the president's children going on these private business trips, effecti

last month president trump crashed a wedding at mar-a-lago. the resort. let's bring in cristina alesci. the $200,000 initiation fee can get you membership to the club and also face-time with the president of the united states. where do the profits for mar-a-lago go? >> they flow into the president's trust. he is the primary beneficiary of the trust. that's why we have so many questions about this kind of situation where he's popping into private events weekend after weekend is a pay-for-play kind of situation. every activity that goes on at mar-a-lago is going to come under increased scrutiny. and this is just a fact of life. and it's probably why mar-a-lago told its members just this weekend that they have to put away their cameras when the president is at the property going forward. because it knows and the white house knows that people are going to look at these events as, you know, potential situations where wealthy people can get in the president's ear and, you know, say what they want. >> say what they want to say or even have a moment w

. >> democrats want to know who exactly he is visiting at mar-a-lago. it would create a online data base of every guest. brilliantly measured the mar-a-lago act making access records available to lead american government openness. the white house maintained a visitor page on its website and said it released about 6 million records. it is currently being updated the white house under trump has not yet published visitor records or offered information about members of his club at mar-a-lago, he has spent nearly a third of his days at trump branded properties. he spent time at mar-a-lago or a property bearing his name. >>> this morning we expected to tell you about the second in house intel on russia but instead questions are growing about whether the investigation itself is compromise to. devin nunes facing calls to recuse himself after canceling hearings with three officials who happen to be critical of trump. john brennan, james clapper and former acting attorney general sally yates, adam schiff voicing concerns. >> i think the chairman has to make a dec

but his weekends at mar-a-lago are costing u.s. taxpayers big money.o fly to florida with traveling staff. to securing the beach front property with coast guard pat l patrols. "the washington post" estimates the trips so far have cost up to $10 million in just five weeks. and at the same time, taxpayers are also footing the bill to operate camp david, the secluded presidential retreat less than 70 miles from the white house. set aside for presidential down time and diplomacy. even dormant, it costs abestimated $8 million a year to run. trump has expressed little interest in using the cheaper alternative. describing the retreat to reporters as very rustic, saying it's nice, you'd like it, you know how long you'd like it? for about 30 minutes. >> it doesn't fit everybody. president obama was a city guy. this is a remote location. i don't think initially president clinton was crazy about it but came to love it. remember, jimmy carter almost thought about getting rid of it. thankfully he didn't. >> reporter: famously carter brokered the historic 1978 peace

we're at mar-a-lago with athena jones with more.t are you hearing from the white house regarding these allegations? >> hi, pamela. a couple of things, i with my colleagues have been asking white house officials in florida and also in washington since early this morning to provide some evidence to back up this, these unsubstantiated allegations that the president made. there's no official comment or statement from the white house. my colleague, jeff zeleny, the senior white house correspondent did speak with a senior white house administration official who said that the colleagues only learned about the president's tweet storm after he began tweeting this morning. he often does that, he wakes up and begins tet

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people are talking there in mar-a-lago who say he was upset even there.e's going back to washington and there's going to be more heat. >> i mean we know he's upset, right, because you're right. tuesday night was the high point of his brief administration so far. he got pretty good reviews on the speech. sounded like a sane guy, almost like a president and then they blew it all week with the contradictory stories, the rolling disclosures. that's honestly something to focus on. if the only time you reveal something is after the media finds out about it, yeah yeah yeah, believe me, it was no big deal. all of the statements that were made in the past were what different. it's not trust building. it would be nice if these folks step forward and said what they kn knew. there's an awful dicey con tekts here. >> donald trump thinks reportedly that his staffers should have protected him from this swirl of controversy. >> yeah. it has to be frustrating to have almost universal praise for this bold speech laying out an agenda and then having the momentum sort of sto

so far trump has spent a fourth of his time in mar-a-lago.ltiple homes and his adult children frequently travel and his wife melania and their son barron live in new york city, which reportedly costs $256 thour $256,000 a day. >> so cnn's estimate is that this weekend alone is costing palm beach more than $1 million, this is money being spent by local taxpayers and resources being used for national security, and as you saw in sarah's piece, there are a lot of people in new york city who are not happy with it. the president just called for a massive cut. so is there an optics problem now? >> it's the same optics problem every president has in varying degrees. this is a fun little football to throw around, that the president costs a lot to protect. but that's maybe the most essential function of the federal government, protecting of people and protecting our president. every time a president takes vacation, the opposition party goes bananas. so i don't think this is really anything unique to trump. i think it's something every president goes th

and if you're keeping score, that's mar-a-lago, four visits, camp david, zero.as shown he prefers the glamour of his florida estate over the traditional and more woodsy presidential retreat in maryland. but at what cost? cnn's suzanne malveaux reports. >> reporter: president donald trump taking off for florida this weekend, first for a visit at an orlando school, then on to his mar-a-lago resort. >> and we get a lot of work done. believe me, there's not rest at the southern white house, it's all work. >> reporter: his fancy florida estate, his go-to for getting business done outside the white house and hosting world leaders like japan's prime minister. but president trump's weekends at mar-a-lago are costing u.s. taxpayers big money. from firing up air force one to fly to florida with traveling staff to securing the beachfront property with coast guard patrols, "the washington post" estimates the trips, so far, have cost up to $10 million in just five weeks. and at the same time, taxpayers set aside for diplomacy even it it cost the $8 million a year to run. tru

, which supports mar-a-lago. >> phillip bump of the "washington post," we enjoy having you spend time with us, thank you very much. >> an odd photo opportunity with its current resident today. coming up. >>> last thing before we go here tonight, what we think was a joke from the president as he signed several bills into law, rolling back obamacare, land use and other things as he walked to greet people in the room he made a comment about the piece of furniture where he was supposed to sit. >> it's a child's desk, but that's okay. smallest desk i've ever seen. glamoro glamorous right? >> if the whole thing seemed familiar familiar this is why. >> may i have my desk back. >> yes, i'll go sit at my desk. >> while our recent string of presidents have not been quite as large as the current president while it's a striking strikingdy striking dichotomy, it is used for the signer ceremony like when the dodd-frank bill was signed or president george w. bush in the reduction act. or reagan on the south lawn in 1986 and went back and found linden b johnson signing a measure having to do with sou

they are having a big dish at mar-a-lago. about an hour ago president trump had a meeting with his attorney general jeff sessions. right now they are all sitting down at dinner at mar-a-lago along with his newly confirmed commerce secretary wilbur ross and senior staff members including steve bannon and steve miller. a lot to talk about tonight at dinner. >> geraldo rivera joins us now in studio. two lawyers together tonight, perfect timing in terms of this story to go over the specifics. the president is down in mar-a-lago, he started this morning when he tweeted the information. it sounded like he just received it. >> i woke up this morning to do fox and friends and was greeted with the news. the president of the united states is with the attorney general and general kelly and steve bannon. i think it's incumbent upon the * to clarify his tweet this morning. with all due respect to the commander-in-chief, he can't put out something as exclusive as these extraordinary allegations, that the 44th president wiretapped the 45th

i think the president's at mar-a-lago this weekend and he's using his twitter to launch it. ambitious agenda and he has to work with congress, and that should be his focus and he should do more things like with his speech that was very presidential and well structured and that was one way to advance his agenda and not to focus tweeting at programmer president obama, and it's not a good thing at this point. >> a series of tweets with that and then a few minutes later tweeting against arnold schwarzenegger and "celebrity apprentice." morris, how is it to have a sitting president to accuse a former president in this manner? >> it's unprecedented even going after his predecessor on "the apprentice." if you think about it we're in uncharted water. i think they'll have to take his twitter account from him like they did on the campaign trail. he was much more effective. >> would that be it? don't you think he would find another way to get that out if he has accusations as serious as wiretapping from the obama administration at trump tower? do you think taking away a twitter account

when he is down at florida at mar-a-lago. he is isolated from some of his advisers, fuming about what is happening. it is good to talk about the tweets and this wiretapping but i think we need to have the wider picture here. this is an administration which is to be expected to present legislation to appeal obamacare and bring in its economic legislation within the next few weeks. all of that is up in the air. we have no clue if we are going to get anything coherent, because this russia story is sucking all the oxygen out of whatever they are trying to achieve. >> we are going to talk about that next. we thank you for your comments, scott lucas. thank you. >> as scott mentions, the trump administration russia problem just won't quit. there is no proof any law ws we broken with team trump's contact with members of the kremlin but suspicion won't go away. tom foreman likes a puzzle and has been putting together the strands of this on going story. >> russia is a ruse. >> reporter: different players but the same playbook. this all

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one of president trump's senior advisers changed plans, traveling to mar-a-lago after that tweet storm. and then the so-called winter white house. how the president's weekend trips to his private resort are causing problems for businesses in that area, and now the city wants payback. >>> but we want to begin with president trump taking a fresh jab at president obama this morning in tweets, saying "who was it that secretly said to tell the russian president, "tell vladimir that after the election i'll have more flexibility"? president trump is referring to president obama's hot mike moment with the then outgoing russian president, dmitry medvedev. meanwhile, his former campaign manager, cory coreylewandowski. >> what we've seen from the previous administration is they did spend time listening to conversations between then senator jeff sessions and the ambassador to russia while he was in his u.s. senate office. if that were to take place, which supposedly did take place, what other conversations have they listened in on from the american public? >> whoa, whoa, whoa, you're saying they w

as we noted at the top of this broadcast, president trump is in florida this weekend at his mar-a-lago property in palm beach for the fourth time since he took office. it turns out the impact of these visits is being felt well beyond the walls of the so-called winter white house. we get that story from nbc's gabe gutierrez. >> reporter: he used to be flying high, not any more. >> we're basically going broke. >> reporter: with president trump at his mar-a-lago resort tonight, this man's company southern helicopters is once again grounded. >> we were not expecting him to come down almost every weekend. >> reporter: the secret service restricting flights at the entire airport. on a typical weekend that president trump is in town all this will be shout down? >> correct. >> reporter: jonathan miller says the cost per weekend is $30,000 in lost business. >> and i don't know that my business can sustain heavy losses like that. >> reporter: local taxpayers are also getting hit. palm beach county paying $1.7 million so far for extra security. >> we've written a letter to the federal government

we're at mar-a-lago with athena jones with more. what are you hearing from the white house regarding these allegations? >> hi, pamela. a couple of things, i with my colleagues have been asking white house officials in florida and also in washington since early this morning to provide some evidence to back up this, these unsubstantiated allegations that the president made. there's no official comment or statement from the white house. my colleague, jeff zeleny, the senior white house correspondent did speak with a senior white house administration official who said that the colleagues only learned about the president's tweet storm after he began tweeting this morning. he often does that, he wakes up and begins tweeting early in the morning. not in any way apparently running these tweets by any of his staffers. this morning he began the tweets at around 6:30 a.m. now this official appointed to a story on the conservative website breitbart news, that has been circulating around the west wing. which followed up on comments made by radio

it will happen southern white house mar-a-lago.f that meeting the president signed executive orders aimed at combating abuses aimed at contributing to the half trillion-dollar trade deficit. here is the key, martha, as it relates to china. white house officials say this is really all about fairness. and balancing the need for trade with an important global partner while also having a more balanced economic relationship. >> the field has not been a level field. jobs have been leaving our country, going to china and mexico and lots of other places. and you'll be seeing what's happening over the next few weeks. it should be very interesting for you to watch. >> very interesting to watch, indeed. and as you pointed out the president, of course, heads to twitter to sort of preview these big kind of meetings and i said and i'm quoting few the meeting with china will be a very difficult one in that we can no longer have massive trade deficits. there it is. and job losses. american companies must be prepared to look at other alternatives.

going to happen under the administration, as it did the last, but they want visitor logs to mar-a-lagor request? >> yes, it is a fair request. first, under the obama administration they did put up visitor logs to the white house. what you have here is a really unusual situation where the president is not going to camp david, is not going to another government place but is in fact going to one of his businesses and then holding business meetings there, and he's doing it not just at mar-a-lago. he's going it at golf courses. in fact, instead of saying he's playing golf, they are saying he's holding meetings, but they are not saying who he's holding meetings with, and i think the public has a right to know who the president is holding meetings with, who is coming into the white house and coming in to whoever he's doing business to talk to. >> we don't know if he's golfing when he's at the golf course although the time seems to indicate that he is or maybe the meetings are while he's golfing with people. is there a precedent to this, when george w. bush went to crawford, texas and was on h

tonight there'll be a big dinner at mar-a-lago, a lot of import people are going to be there. attorney general, jeff sessions, the secretary of homeland security, the newly confirmed commerce secretary into of his senior commerce secretary into of his senior advisers, stephen miller and stephen bannon. allow for all of them to be talking about at dinner tonight at mar-a-lago. >> eric: thank you. we'll cover this over the next two hours. >> arthel: democrats are calling on jeff sessions to appear in front of the judiciary committee. that after failing to disclose meetings with a russia ambassador during the presidential campaign. the justice department says mr. sessions will answer all questions in writing. lauren is live in washington with more. >> a democrats have been denied the chance to publicly question attorney general sessions about his ties to russia and pass conversations with their ambassador by the judiciary committee chairman, chuck grassley. instead, sessions will summit's written answers his written answers to their questions on monday. something republican say s

president trump will host the chinese president at mara-a-lago in april.h. >> trish: i want to go to lieutenant colonel bob mcbegin it's who says the secretary of state is right. military action should be on the table. good to have you hear. there's a school of thought called realism. part of what makes it work is the reality that if you do something crazy, somebody else is going to do something in retaliation. one of the concerns about north korea is you have a crazy guy who doesn't seem to understand the way of the world. will this help him, do you think, in terms of understanding his own vulnerabilities? >> trish, it can't hurt. we went through clint clint, bush, obama, the same outcome. they keep testing nuclear weapons. they test i want continental ballistic missiles, even by our own intelligently the genes agencies they're much closer to having a nuclear capable ballistic missile that can reach hawaii and alaska or the western united states. look at the picture of secretary tillerson today at the demilitarized zone. he's surrounded by u.s. soldiers,

if there is nothing to hide why won't president trump make public the visitors logs at mar-a-lago. we're now in day 68 of the trump administration. each day more and more information emerges about ties between putin's regime and trump's inner circle and campaign officials. each day the white house scrambles to contain the damage. it's time for the president to come clean with the american

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that's exactly what went down at mar-a-lago yesterday.tives, ted cruz and mike lee and congressman mike meadows, vocal in their opposition to this bill, people who have been arguing that it doesn't go far enough in undoing the affordable care act. those three came down to mar-a-lago and met with the president's chief strategist, steve bannon, and chief of staff reince priebus. we're told the meeting lasted for three hours. and that the the -- an aide, a senior republican aide familiar with the meeting told my colleague, lauren fox, that the meeting was intense and productive. they said that steve bannon was receptive to some of the concerns these conservative members of congress talked about. priebus is, reince priebus was pushing the approach that house speaker paul ryan is advocating. we know that they want more done to repeal the affordable care act. among the ideas offered during the meeting, the idea of phasing out medicaid sooner. that is something conservatives want to see. so far that's not changing, although they are making other

he knows he is going to mar-a-lago. he pulls everyone into his oval office. i keep reading articles about obama going after me there is some kind of silent coup in the eyes of mark levin. anhis staff is standing there listening to an irate presiden and then he goes in a huff off to mar-a-lago, leaving bannon and priebus behind. >> i just want to stop for a second. sort of hang a lantern on this which is to say the president of the united states arguably has access to some of the most closely guard guarded information of any individual on the planet, the secrets of the united states. he is also someone who needs to depend on reliable information in order to -- in order to make decisions. and what you're saying is that this information didn't come through some channel of a briefing or anything. this was him reading a printout of a breitbart write-up of a mark levin radio monologue. >> the three things that i find are most important for donald trump as he digests information is that he looks at his twitter feed, not just at what other people are tweeting, but wh

and tonight they're having there this big dipper at mar-a-lago. the homeland security secretary, attorney general jeff sessions, the newly-confirmed commerce secretary and hen several senior -- and then several senior aides to president trump including steven miller and steve bannon. so certainly, no shortage of dinner conversation tonight at mar-a-lago, julie. julie: all right. his work on the continue -- continues through the weekend on florida as he has been doing every weekend. thank you, kristin fisher. and as you just hearksd president trump is scheduled to meet this hour with his attorney general at his florida estate. the justice department meantime says jeff sessions will answer questions about his contact with the russian ambassador, but the answers will come in writing, not in a repeat appearance before the judiciary committee. lauren blanchard is in our washington bureau, and so let me ask you, will this do enough to calm down the critics? let me guess, no. [laughter] >> reporter: julie, i don't think it is going to calm anyone down, a

but president trump's weekends at mar-a-lago are costing u.s. taxpayers big money.firing up air force one to fly to florida with traveling staff, to securing the beach front property with coast guard patrols. the washington post estimates the trip so far have cost up to $10 million in just five weeks. and at the same time, taxpayers are also footing the bill to operate camp david. the secluded presidential retreat less than 70 miles from the white house. set aside for presidential down time and diplomacy, even dormant, it costs an estimated $8 million a year to run. trump has expressed little interest in using the cheaper alternative. describing the retreat to reporters as very rustic, saying, it's nice, you'd like it. you know how long you'd like it? for about 30 minutes. >> it doesn't fit everybody. he's a city guy. this is a remote location. i don't think initially president clinton was crazy about it either but then came to really love it. >> remember, jimmy carter almost thought about quittigetting rid, and thankfully he didn't. >> reporter: he brokered the pea

president trump in mar-a-lago.ice president pence state in washington over the weekend because he was part of an annual tradition, the gridiron dinner, an annual bipartisan dinner. c-span cameras caught some of the arrivals in washington last night. the vice president and tenant. senator joni ernst walking by. later in the spring, the white house correspondents dinner, with president trump said he will not attended this year. it was a privilege to address the gridiron dinner, he said. we must focus on what unites us. inocrats like, we go to joe brandywine, maryland. caller: yes, good morning. , they come on, they don't have information, and they are spewing all of these lies and things about what obama did and what trump is not doing. trump is a liar. it is proven he is a liar. and a could just come on and say something and all of a sudden it becomes a truth without someone checking it out. we have to check into ourselves. people from the midwest, weather manufacturing was going good, you are eating steaks and chic

he will head to mar-a-lago on florida -- mar-a-lago in florida on friday.reet bharara was fired over the weekend. asking u.s. attorneys to resign when changing a meditation's is standard procedure. in washington, at 3 p.m. the president will meet with his cabinet. also at 4:30, president trump will sign that executive order entitled comprehensive plan for reorganizing the executive branch. that coverage live here on bloomberg television. more details on the order as we get it. and the president will dine with his secretary of state and national security adviser. then all eyes will turn to chancellor angela merkel. as mark crumpton mentioned, question surrounding russia's involvement in the u.s. presidential election has been around for months. led to theas dismissal of president trump's national security adviser. jefft attorney general sessions in the hot seat. i spoke with general michael hayden, former director of the cia and the nsa, author of a new book playing to the edge, american intelligence in the age of terror. i asked him if he is optimistic cong

. >>> who is exactly visiting the president at mar-a-lago, a new mar-a-lago act, making access available to lead american government openness. under president obama the white house maintained a visitor page on its website released about 6 million records. the white house currently says the visitor page is being updated and has not published visitor records from the white house or mar-a-lago. trump spent nearly a third of his days at trump branded properties. this is the third consecutive weekend he spent at a property bearing his name. >>> all set to join new faces. andy scholes has more on this morning's bleacher report. what day it was. >> it was my friend. not many picked. if you did, hats off to you, oregon only been to the final four once, 78 years ago. nothing new for north carolina, their twer20th trip, the tar he and wildcats, epic game, a three for kentucky to tie the game, roy williams does not call a timeout. turns out to be a great decision. unc comes down, luke, mave, three-point shot. they are heading to the final four for the second straight year. the players somehowering

his mar-a-lago estate in florida.h weekend there since becomie ining president a closer to d.c., the famous retreat for past presidents, camp david, well, it sits empty. susan malveaux has more. >> president trump arriving in florida to spend another weekend at his mar-a-lago resort. >> going to get a lot of work done. believe me, it's not rest at the southern white house, it's all work. >> his fancy florida estate, hosting world leerds like japan's prime minister, but president trump's weekends at mar-a-lago are costing u.s. taxpayers big money. from firing up air force one to fly to florida with traveling staff. to securing the beach front property with coast guard patrols. "the washington post" estimates the trip so far have cost up to $10 million in just five weeks. and at the same time, taxpayers are also footing the bill to operate camp david. the secluded presidential retreat less than 70 miles from the white house. set aside for presidential down time in diplomacy. even dormant, it costs an estimates $8 millio

why is the president holding the meeting of mar-a-lago? because it's the most convenient location. even though at the very moment the president said that he was already in a veterans affairs meeting with the veterans affairs secretary who shook his head know when asked if he was going to be at that meeting nearly one thousand miles away tonight. but late tonight the white house confirmed that meeting is not happening. apparently it's not so convenient after all. ahead, while the president chooses to spend money on weekend getaways, he is proposing drastic cuts to meals on wheels and next the report that the president's secretary of health and human services was being investigated by -- for his stock trieds by the u.s. attorney in new york at the time the president fired that u.s. attorney. next. >>> we still don't know why president trump may have changed his mind about keeping the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, preet bharara. bharara met with the president-elect at trump tower and told reporters that trump asked if he would be prepared to stay on the job and

we did get video of him on the golf course and now back to mar-a-lago but still waiting for any sort of proof or evidence to back up these explosive allegations. >> athena jones, thank you so much. appreciate that. so we are hearing from other senior former officials under the obama administration who are also denying the phone wiretapping claims. one saying, quote, this did not happen. this is false, wrong, another telling cnn this is, quote, just nonsense. obama's foreign policy advisor ben rode slamming trump on twitter saying no president can order a wiretap. those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you, end quote and former senior advisor to president obama, david axelrod, tweeting this. this seems nuts. frantic way in which the real donald trump is kicking up dust only adds to suspicions and the need for full public reckoning. a historian and professor at princeton university. so this is pretty serious because you're talking about a sitting president making accusations about his predecessor without any kind of evidence. has there been any kind o

he flown down to mar-a-lago and spending seven days and he brought prime minister abe to mar-a-lago. next we learned that trump's organization decided to double mar-a-la mar-a-lago fees for people would pay more to get an audience with the president. >> it is clear that trump has incentives in hosting events at mar-a-lago which gives him personal benefits. we don't know if the member at mar-a-lago are free of security clearance. >> it is clear that the president is mirroring business that's not being seen. that's unacceptable. >> the government stated he likes to play central roles of that process. it is critical to clarify how much president trump will personally benefit. i urge my colleagues to do what's right and pass this resolution and yield the balance of my time to mr. pascrell. >> the gentleman who shout out of his mouth and does not know. >> oh, that's different. >> oh, you asked for ability and i will ask the same of you >> as the information returned a u.s. person would respect a certain cooperations. that's form 5471. for information return of a shareholder, that's form 8

. -- ld trump has been he has flown down to mar-a-lago five times. office,hird weekend in he brought prime minister sindelar led -- shinzo abe. next, we learned that the trump organization has decided to double mar-a-lago's initiation fees. now trump has announced that he plans to host the president of china at mar-a-lago next month. it is clear that trump has an incentive to host an event at mar-a-lago which gives and personal profit. we don't even know if the members of mar-a-lago are screened for security clearance. what is to stop an agent from a foreign government to pay the initiation fee to stay at the club and be near the president when he receives sensitive information? presidentr that the is marrying is this and government in a way that has not been seen in modern democracy. business in a way that has not been seen in modern democracy, and that is unacceptable. as the committee prepares to take up tax reform and the president has stated he wants to play a central role in that process, disclosure in these returns is critical to clarifying ho

the new federal probe into who the president is hosting at mira mara lago and why she doesn't trust the russia probe. they gin with news on that front. eight days since the fbi confirmed with the house intelligence committee it's investigating possible links between russia and the president's campaign the work of that committee has been effectively halted. its subsequent meetings cancelled its chairman devin nunes, concerns to the white house, all this amidst new trump company associates, their financial activities and ties to russian olegarks, ones paul manafort who offered to be interviewed by the committee. in a bank in cypress, investigated the accounts associated with his former chairman for possible money laundering. that's according to two banking sources with direct knowledge of his businesses. manafor the was associated with at least 15 bank accounts, ten companies in cypress, dating back to 2007, sources said. at least once was used to receive millions from a billionaire putin allie according to court documents. the accounts have since been closed a. spokesman said they were a

i talked to someone that ran into him at the golf course and dinner at mar-a-lago. he's firing off tweets saturday morning and doubling down and instructing the staff at the white house to defend the claims he made on twitter, again, without evidence. >> the word firing may be ominous given how mad he is. gary, president trump may have boxed himself in. i want to share a bit of what lindsey graham had to say at a town hall, echoing the sentiment robert had. take a look. >> i'm very worried our president is suggesting the former president has done something illegally. i would be very worried if, in fact, the obama administration was able to tangle more lawfully. that's my job as a united states senator to get to the bottom of this. i promise you i will. >> has the president boxed himself in here? >> i think trump plays a classic game from the playbook. always pretend you are a victim. send the message to your supporters that you are surrounded by enemies and there's a conspiracy against you. game two, if you are in trouble, blame your predecessor. i know how it works

. >> from orlando the president goes to the winter white house, his mar-a-lago palm beeach resort. >> it's still costing millions to maintain the presidential get the away from camp david. cnn investigates that ahead. >>> a former reporter accused of threatening some jewish community centers have been arrested. juan thompson said he made threats against at least eight community centers because of a broken relationship. this is part of disturbing stories, cnn's brynn bingras has more. tell us about the suspect and the targeting and this weird reason behind it. >> it's definitely weird. juan thompson is believed to be behind eight, remember just eight bomb threats against jewish institutions, of reports of 100, he did it allegedly to harass a woman he had a relationship with. and he e-mailed the anti-defamation headquarterers in new york and said he was behind it and was making more bomb threats tomorrow. the fbi says thompson continues, by making threats to jcc centers in schools and states and in some cases looked like his ex-was framing him. the threats that he made against he's jewi

three of those holdouts were spotted meeting with the white house senior staff yesterday in mar-a-lago, florida. >>> house speaker paul ryan insisted this morning he's not worried about the bill passing. >> the president is being -- bringing people to his table, and i'm impressed with how the president is helping us close this bill, making the improvements we've been making, getting the votes. we feel very good where we are. >> we're covering all of these angles. let's begin with washington correspondent ryan noble. ryan, a huge amount on tap. >> reporter: no doubt about that. and you know, keep in mind the fbi has an ongoing investigation into the russian meddling in the investigation to understand and see if there's anything criminal to pursue. the investigation includes examining interactions with people connected to president trump, and this all started back in june as the primary campaign was wrapping up and a report that the server of the democratic national committee had been hacked. the initial hack was soon connected to the russian government. and wasting little time, hillary

then he is going to sit down with a larger group there in mar-a-lago.e developments within the last three hours. do you think this is a concern about what jeff sessions did, recusing himself and the president not wanting that reportedly? do you think it's going to be about this executive order, and do you think the executive order coming up on monday as i was mentioning earlier, part of diverting attention from the russian connection question. >> well, the executive order, i think it's important to get that right. obviously that was mishandled initially. it was not written as clearly as it should have been. it was wildly misunderstood and misapplied in many respects. i think there's going to be a lot of attention paid towards getting that correct, and i do think he is going to have a conversation with sessions about, you know, being very precise in what his words need to be in terms of clarifying. er you can play. they're playing six degrees of vladimir putin that everyone has a connection to vladimir putin in some way. chuck schumer does, nancy pelosi,

>> and another tush uleapt week for trump administering as president spends the weekend at m mar-a-lago resort. >> and estranged wife of hunt are biden making shocking accusation about her ex. hear what court documents are revealing about their marriage. first a check of the weather >> we not only have roller coaster conditions but sunshine and 70s to snow squalls today and temperatures dipping well below seasonal and wind chills. get ready for a cold weekend. you'll have plenty of sunshine. details in a bit. stay with us. we'll be back after the break z29pgz z16fz y29pgy y16fy >> president trump surprise spending weekend at his mar-a-lago resort. earlier today was joined by ivanka and betsy devos. he talked about his commitment to reforming a broken education system. the trip is a break from all the political finger pointing on capitol hill these days. fox's joe waldman has more. >> president trump back in florida for the weekend touring orlando kath rick school with education secretary betsy devos both big advocates of school choice. >> education is civil >> vice-president mike pence

steve bannon did go down today and he having dinner with the president there at mar-a-lago., attorney general, homeland security kellyanne, so on. no questions about it this breaking news we saw late in the week where jeff sessions we coused himself because he did not talk about having met with the russian ambassador to the u.s. and that entire story just infuriated the president. in the words of one source, the president told the team that the staff fumble on this. >> that was jim acosta. >> i want to get to former governor, thank you for m cooing on. i want to start with you, the anger at the president staff, does it seem misguided to you. would you expect lim thim to be angry at jeff sessions. >> i'm angry that someone let this get back to someone on abc. if he did express this it didn't leave that room. he has a problem of loyalty and loyalty is a big thing with donald trump. so i would say first offi he ha to find that and stop it. if people are saying things about someone you revere, you're going to be upset. in the state of the union it was received by the american pe

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