i want to bring in our justice correspondent pamela brown again. she's been breaking this news with our colleagues. pamela, the white house pointing out to this carve-out in these guidelines, do they have justification for that? does their argument make sense? >> reporter: i've been reading through the memos again. essentially there's an allowance for public affairs officers between the white house and the department of justice to communicate when they're coordinating something on a particular issue, not when you're talking about a pending investigation. i know the white house is basically trying to say this was an article, this was a news story. we're not trying to shoot down an investigation. but essentially, no matter how you look at it, this is about an investigation and this is an investigation involving trump's associates, president trump trump's associates during the campaign and alleged contacts with the russians. these memos from 2007 and 2009 preclude any interaction between a white house chief of staff and the deputy director of the fbi d

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for the latest now, let's get to cnn's pamela brown in washington. >> reporter: well, good morning, john and alison. high level advisers to presidential nominee donald trump were in close contact with those known to former intelligence and law enforcement tell cnn. president-elect trump and then president obama were both briefed on communications between suspected russian operatives and people soshgtsed with the trump campaign and trump business according to u.s. officials familiar with this matter. and both the frequency of the communications and proximity to trump raised a red flag to u.s. intelligence and law enforcement. and according to these officials

pamela brown, cnn, washington. >> let's get more on this. joining me now, former cnn moscow chief jill doherty. as we heard there from that pamela brown report, trump advisers were in frequent communication with russian operatives during the trump campaign. having covered russia for so long, would this be considered normal and routine during a campaign? >> because the reports talk about constant or very frequent, the level of communication and the frequency of it, it does appear not to be your average communication. that's, i think, a red flag. now, what it means is unclear. and this is where it gets really murky. you can have a benign interpretation perhaps, or more benign, which perhaps it was business. some of the people who were in communication, you know, have business interests or in the case of paul manafort, who was the chairman of his campaign for a while, you know, political consultant, who had some type of maybe reason for doing that. but then because we don't know exactly what they were talking about, then you can interpret that

john and alison. >> all right, pamela brown.ery twist and turn in the trump saga, moscow has denied again and again that it did anything to influence the u.s. election despite mounting evidence to the contrary. so what does the kremlin have to say now. cnn's clare sebastian is joining us with the latest. many americans are waking up stunned to hear the revelations. what are you hearing from moscow? >> we just heard from the kremlin spokesman dmitry peskov. he didn't actually deny any conversations. the deputy foreign minister admitted a few days after the election there were conversations with russia and the trump campaign. but the spokesman did pour cold water on the reporting of this saying don't read morning newspapers. he did say, more might come out so let's waits for that time, leaving the door open there. it is the kind of rhetoric we've been hearing coming outside of russia all morning against the media, mainly. another senior russian politician tweeted earlier trying to beat trump with the russia card. essentially sugge

here's cnn's justice correspondent pamela brown. morning, pamela. >> well, victor and christi, though nothing has been ruled out, we've learned that the white house is not wanting to immediately repeal the 9th circuit decision for fear of losing in a 4-4 split. president trump even saying aboard air force one he may want to issue a new executive order with new security measures. >> i welcome you to the very famous white house. >> reporter: as the white house tweets its now halted controversial executive order and considers whether to issue a new one, president trump speaking at a joint press conference at the white house is vowing to not give up the fight. >> we'll be doing something very rapidly, having to do with additional security for our country. you'll be seeing that sometime next week. in addition, we will continue to go through the court process. and ultimately, i have no doubt that we'll win that particular case. >> reporter: trump's announcement comes in the wake of a strong rebuke from the 9th circuit court of appeals ove

our pamela brown has all the details for you. >> reporter: high level

i'm pamela brown in washington. breaking news. senate committee investigating russian hacking of the 2016 election tells the trump administration preserve all of your documents. cnn learning formal requests were sent to more than a dozen agencies and organizations and individuals on friday the same day the men of the intelligence committee received a classified briefing from fbi director james comey. that's not the only big headline. sweden is asking the united states to explain this cryptic comment president trump made during a rally last night in florida. >> you look at what's happening in germany, you look at what's happening last night in sweden, sweden. who would believe this? sweden. they took in large numbers, they're having problems like they never thought possible. >>> so in response to that the swedish embassy tweeted unclear to us what president trump was referring to. have asked u.s. officials for explanation. trump's remarks as the administration's latest misplaced reference. trump counselor kellyanne conway referring

pamela brown, what more can you tell us about the breaking news? >> we're learning that high level advisers close to then nominee donald trump were in frequent communication during the campaign with russians known to u.s. intelligence, former and current officials, talking to myself and colleague jim sciutto. and the frequency of the communications and proximity to mr. trump during the campaign raised a red flag with u.s. intelligence and law enforcement according to individuals and communications intercepted in routine intelligence collection targeting russians known to u.s. intelligence. among them trump -- regularly communicating with russians. caught the attention. emphasized that the communications between the campaign staff and representatives of foreign governments are not unusual but these particular communications stood out to investigators due to the frequency, volume and level of the trump advisers involved. as we have been told by sources, investigators have not reached judgment on the intent of those conversations, adding to concerns w

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cnn pamela brown reports. >> reporter: with russian known to u.s. intelligence. multiple, law enforcement and administration officials tells cnn president trump and president obama were briefed. according u.s. officials familiar with the matter, raise a red flag, communicated were int communicating with russian national were then campaign man ford joined and was out in august flynn stayed on and resigned last night. communication between campaign staff and represents are not unusual. however these communications stood out due to the frequency and the level of the trump adviser involved. they have not reached intent of those communication. those were intercepted between the had special access to trump. it's unclear whether they were exsag rating that claim or not. it was growing in confidence that russia was trying to tilt the election in trump favor. pamela brown, cnn washington. >>> the new revelation comes as white house tries to distance itself from russia. listen to what sean spicer had to say during briefing on tuesday. >> back in january the president said

thanks very much, pamela brown for that. joining us democratic senator joe manchin of west virginia. he serves, among other things on the intelligence committee. senator, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me, would have. good to be with you. >> thank you. you released a statement opposing what you called the scope and execution of president trump's executive order, calling instead for what you called common sense, a common sense approach. the president today said his travel ban is common sense. what is he missing? >> well, let me say this, wolf. i will always do everything i can to protect the people of west virginia and this country. i will make sure we are doing a proper vetting. if there is a void, a flaw, please let me know, let's work on it and clear it up. i think general kelly today as the good soldier that he is, basically said it was his fault. whoever's fault, it was a bad roll out. it didn't come out right. it came far reaching to where people that have already gone through the vetting process, whether t

so we begin with the new guidelines and pamela brown joins us for that. explain the new guidelines and what they do. >> well, these new dhs guidelines, anderson, could massively expand the number of undocumented immigrants detained and deported. so nearly all of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the united states could be subject to deportation. now, the white house has said this is not supposed to be a mass roundup of undocumented immigrants. however, sean spicer the white house spokesperson also said, though, now under these new guidelines anyone who is in the u.s. illegally could be subject to removal at any time. it's how things have changed. under the obama administration there were the convicted criminals, public safety threats, those who cross the border illegally. now under these new guidelines an undocumented immigrant charged with a crime such as a dui could be subject for removal. and the memos, these marching orders give i.c.e. agents broader discretion now. essentially if they're going after an undocumented immigrant who is

pamela brown. thank you.ning us now, melissa hart, law professor at university of colorado where judge gorsuch teaches. joining us. professor, you have known the judge for what, close to a dock aid. how would you characterize his judicial philosophy? >> well, one of the things i would actually say is i think that, judge gorsuch goes out of his way to avoid having a single judicial philosophy. he and i have talked about this. i think -- he wisely said to have a single judicial philosophy that you would apply in every single case is unreasonable given there are constitutional cases and statutory cases and common law cases. and i think what people are obviously most focused on is that as a constitutional interpreter, he tends to be a originalist and tend to be focused on the text of the constitution. but he uses different approaches depending on the needs of the case. which is what i think makes him a good judge. and -- and a great pick for the court. >> what are some of the key, use that judge gorsuch professor

cnn's pamela brown reports. >> reporter: the legal showdown over president trump's travel ban is heating up. the states are arguing that the travel ban hurts sisz. breaking apart families. the federal government is arguing that the district judge overstepped his bounds. the president speaking to a military crowd in tampa, remains confident he will win the court battle. >> you've been seeing what's going on over the last few days. we need strong programs. so that people love us and want to love our country and will end up loving our country, are allowed in. not people that want to destroy us and destroy our country. >> reporter: d.o.j. attorneys argue the president not the courts should make national security decisions. in part because courts don't have access to classified information about the threat posed by terrorist operations. on friday, washington state district judge james robart set off a chain of events. ruling that plaintiffs, washington state and minnesota, demonstrated immediate and irreparable injury from the order. employment, business, family relations and freedom to trave

pamela brown has more. >> reporter: the white house is saying it did nothing wrong after cnn's exclusive report that the fbi refused the white house's request to knock down media reports about contacts between donald trump associates and russians during the campaign. a senior administration official says the unusual white house request came only after the fbi approached white house chief of staff reince priebus to stay a story in the new york time social security not true. the white house explained its actions by saying the conversation happened on february 15th after a 7:30 a.m. meeting led by priebus. fbi director asked priebus for five minutes alone after the meeting and calls the new york times report quote total bs. priebus asked, can we do anything about it to set the record straight? and in followup phone calls both declined priebus' request but did say he could cite top intelligence officials to say there's nothing to the story. >> i've talked to top levels of the committee and they've assured me that was grossly overstated, and inaccurate and totally wrong. >> reporter: the back

we begin with new guidelines and pamela brown joins us. explain these guidelines and what they do. >> the new guidelines could massively expand the immigrants detained and deported. all of the estimated undocumented immigrants in the united states could be subject to deportation. the white house said this is not supposed to be a mass round up of undocumented immigrants, but sean spicer said that now under the new guidelines anyone in the u.s. illegally could be subject to removal at any time. it is how things have changed under the obama administration. there were three priorities. convicted criminals and those who cross illegally. now under the new quite lines and undocumented immigrants charged with a crime like dui could be subject for removal. the marching orders give agents broader digression. if they are going after an imgrant who is a criminal and there is another immigrant with that person, they can round up everyone there and put them through the deportation proceedings. now the white house does say there is a group that is not im

here's pamela brown. >> reporter: well, high level advisers close to donald trump were in

let's bring in justice correspondent pamela brown. >> nothing has been ruled out. we've learned the white house does not want to immediately appeal the ninth circuit court of appeals decision for fear of losing in a 4-4 split. president trump saying aboard air force one he may want to issue a new executive order with new security measures. >> i welcome you to the very famous white house. >> reporter: tonight as the white house tweaks the halted controversial order president trump speaking at a joint press conference at the white house is vowing to not give up the fight. >> we'll be doing something very rapidly having to do with additional security for our i c. you'll be seeing that sometime next week. we'll continue to go through the court process and ultimately i have no doubt we'll win that particular case. >> reporter: his comment comes from a strong rebuke from the ninth circuit court of appeals travel bran. he tweeted it was, quote, disgraceful, and sound the alarm that there is an urgent need to keep the travel ban to keep the country safe. >> i've learned tr

first let's go to our justice correspondent, pamela brown. pamela, you've been poring over the new immigration guidelines. tell our viewers what you're hearing. >> the new homeland security guidelines make the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the u.s. subject to deportation so people not targeted for deportation under the obama administration could be targeted now, but the trump administration says the sweeping changes do not impact the protections for undocumented immigrants brought to the u.s. as children. tonight, the department of homeland security releasing new guidelines that could massively expand the number of undocumented immigrants detained or deported from the u.s. recently, immigration and customs enforcement arrested more than 680 people in raids in just 1 week and said most of them were criminals. >> everybody who is here illegally is subject to removal at any time. the priority that the president has laid forward and the priority that i.c.e. is putting forward through dhs' guidance is to make sure the people who h

let's bring in our justice correspondent pamela brown. pamela, can the president's attacks on these judges, on the system, if you will, backfire from his perspective? >> anything he says could potentially backfire and hurt his casey sengsly because he is a party to this lawsuit. and what's interesting is that he admitted today for the first time that he actually wanted to delay the implementation of the executive order, that he wanted there to be a grace period but he was advised by law enforcement people he was speaking with that that was not a good idea because that could let the bad guys in. and, so, ostensibly, the state could use that in his argument this was a hastily made executive order. there were a dizzying number of changes after the executive order was signed so they could use those comments potentially to bolster their argument that this was not well thought out. of course, wolf, as you know, the government could say the reason why this was done is because we have access to classified information and we felt this as an surge i

pamela brown, thank you for setting it all up. wendy sherman under secretary for the obama administration is with us, a critic with the baltimore sun and davidal cha c. and you hit the nail on the head when sean spicer talks about this being a trust issue, you raised the right question. if president trump had made aware of this mid-january, what about it being a trust issue then? >> right. again, sean spicer was clear when the president as pamela just took you through the timeline immediately learned from the white house counsel's office that doj was aware that sanctions was indeed a topic of discussion on the call, he knew immediately in that briefing that flynn had lied to pence and spicer and others, so sean spicer said hang on there needs to be due process, an exhaustive investigation, i don't know what you need more if the whole notion is the trust was eroded because he wasn't truthful to the vice president, that fact was learned on the 26th and there was no new data today that suggested any other piece of information came in

. >> cnn's jake tapper and pamela brown broke the story. our amber walker and michael holmes spoke with jake earlier. here it is. >> jake tapper joining us with all the details. hi there, jake. how is president trump trying to build the case for the upcoming travel ban? >> hi. cnn has learned the white house requested the department of homeland security to work on the travel ban. this country is somalia, sudan, yemen, libya, iran, iraq, syria. the two agencies, quote, are working on an intelligence report that will demonstrate that the security threat is substantial and that they all have been exporters of terrorism into the united states. the situation has gotten more dangerous in years and more broadly the refugee program has been an incubator for terrorism. this report was requested because they said there is no evidence that any alien has perpetrated a terror aist attac. some disagree with the trump white house position. sources telling cnn that the department of homeland security's in house intelligence agency, the office of intelligen

pamela brown, cnn, washington. >>> for more on this, civil rights attorney, brian claypool. and ron brownstein. brian, first you. the argument before the appeals court is solely to do with the stay that was issued on friday. can you read anything into this decision by the appellate court to have 30 minute of oral argument from both sides? >> i think what that means is, the three-panel judge -- set of judges, wants more information. they don't have enough information to make a decision. for example, from trump's camp, they want to have more evidence that there's some kind of irreparable harm that the united states would suffer unless this travel ban is lifted. for example, we have to have some evidence that immigrants coming from the seven countries pose an actual risk of harm to the united states. and up until now, judge robart, he was a u.s. district court judge. he looked at one of the u.s. department justice lawyers in the face and said where is the evidence that these folks are causing a risk of harm in the u.s.? and she couldn't answer that question. i think eat's impor

cnn justice correspondent pamela brown is joining me from washington with much more on this. pamela, what are you hearing right now about who is in the running to be national security advisor now? >> national security advisor is still very much in the running, and he said three other people are in the running as well. we've heard general petraus's name. you see the president trying to build espn as to who is building this in the wake perform john harward citing family and financial reasons. all of this is happening as we're learning more about michael flynn's interview with the fbi back in january. >> asking if he was certain that was his answer, and then he said he didn't remember. it is fbi does not believe he was intentionally misleading them and does not plan to press any charges. flynn was fired by president trump earlier this week after it was revealed that he did withhold information from vice president pence about discussing sanctions with russia's ambassador to the u.s., and then acting attorney general sally yates delayed notifying the white house until after flynn w

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cnn's pamela brown has more on how we got to this point. >> i welcome you to the very famous white house. >> reporter: as the white house tweets it's now halted controversial executive order and considers whether to issue a new one, president trump speaking at the white house is vowing not to give up the fight. >> we'll be doing something very rapidly having to do with additional security in our country. you'll be seeing that sometime next week. in addition, we will continue to go through the court process and ultimately i have no doubt that we'll win that particular case. >> reporter: trump's announcement comes in the wake of a strong rebuke from the ninth circuit court of appeals over his travel ban. he tweeted the decision was, quote, disgraceful and again sounded the alarm that there was an urgent need for the travel ban to keep the country safe. >> while i've been president, which is just for a very short period of time, i've learned tremendous things that you could only learn, frankly, if you were in a certain position, namely president. and there are tremendous threats to our coun

cnn justice correspondent pamela brown is covering this story for us. pamela, communications between campaign staffs and foreign governments not necessarily so unusual. what made this different for these investigators? >> it was the frequency of these communications, jake, and the fact these were high-level advisors within the trump campaign and all this is coming as we're learning the security clearance for president trump's former embattled national security advisor michael flynn has been suspended pending review of any wrongdoing according to my colleagues dana bash and jim sciutto. this is investigators scrutinize the communications flynn and other trump aides had with russians during the campaign. >>> during hisment shal campaign, high-level advisors close to donald trump maintained constant communication with russians known to u.s. intelligence multiple sources tell cnn. the sources current and former law enforcement intelligence and administration officials say the frequency of the conversations and proximity to trump of those involved raised a re

pamela brown joins us with the latest.e order, which will i guess supersede the original one, do we know any details about it? >> so the government today, anderson said it's going to issue a superseding executive order to quote protect the nation security. this was happening as president trump was reeling his plans to roll out a new travel ban during his press conference today. he defended the old one, though, pinning the blame on the ninth circuit court's decision to keep the travel ban on hold but said the new executive order would be tailored based on the ninth circuit court decision. he said the rollout of the original ban as you pointed out was very smooth but people within the department of homeland security in charge of implementing it say it was not smooth at all. the details of the original travel ban were closely held and as a result, there was chaos at airports across the country after the president signed that executive order and there were green card holders, as you recall, that were detained at airports and k

i'm pamela brown in washington. thank you for tuning in on this saturday. four seemingly tumultuous weeks in the white house, president trump is hitting rewind and revisiting the greatest hits of his campaign. a political rally a short time from now and the president feels the need to take his message directly to the american people. he tweeted earlier today, don't believe the mainstream fake news media. the white house is running very well. i inherited a mess and i'm in the process of fixing it. the one thing the president hasn't been able to fix is finding a permanent replacement for fired national security advisor michael flynn. one top candidate found out because of the chaotic atmosphere at the white house, according to one source. will meet to others this weekend and the third straight of mar-a-lago estate in florida. and the president's round of interviews comes after a top name for that job took himself out of contention as we mentioned. vice admiral robert referred to the offer as an expletive sandwich. he turned it down over concerns he wouldn't b

evan perez and pamela brown are working on this story and spoke to jim earlier. >> why is this corroboration of some details contained in this dossier porpimportant? >> until now they said none of the contents had been verified but now we're being told that intelligence interaccepts of foreign nationals confirm it took place in the same details and the same days as contained in the dossier. it's based on interrepresentatiinterceptions they continue to actively investigate its contents. we should be clear that cnn has not confirmed the content of the calls or whether any of the content actually relates to then candidate trump and none of the newly learned information relates to the salacious allegations in the dossier. sean spicer said quote, we continue to be disgusted by cnn's fake news reporting and i should add that the fbi, department of justice, cia and officer of international intelligence all had no comment on this story. >> there's a lot of information in the dossier. explain to our viewers what they have confirmed and not yet confirmed. >> remember the goal of the counterintelligenc

sarah murray, pamela brown. thanks to you as well. let's talk a little bit more about all the day's major headlines. joining us now from new york, james, the former cia director. thank you, director, for joining us. >> great to be with you. do you think mike flynn can survive this major blunder on his part? >> i don't know. it's not entirely clear it was a blunder. there are counter -- conflicting claims, but president trump moves fast on things. mike flynn moves fast on things, and sometimes you want -- often you want at least one party in the decision making in the government to say let's rest here for a minute. have a coke, get the experts in, kick the idea around, and see whether or not we've got a violation, we've got something that we have to deal with. but if everybody is moving fast and nobody is saying, boss, we need to take some time on this one before we make a decision, it can create a very difficult situation. that may be where they are now. with the russian ambassador here, including on that day that the obama administra

. >> it pamela brown begins our coverage. obviously this is a dramatic 14i69. they're talking about enforcement, but this is a real shift in it the way things have been done. >> reporter: it absolutely is. under the new dhs guidelines, fwafrk basically the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the dwrund could be subject to deportation. so those not tar it gett getted undert fwom stwraiks could be target itted, but the trump administration saying that the stweeping changes do not impact for now the protections in it place for undocumented immigrants brought to the u.s. as children. tonight the department of homeland security trreleasing n guide tlins. they broaden who i.c.e. may target and a expedite the tree nufl of undocumented immigrants from the u.s. recently cuss tottoms enforced arrested 600 and said most were criminals. >> everybody who is they're illegally is subject to removal. and the priority that i.c.e. is putting forward through dhs guidance is to it make a sure that people who have committed a crime or pose a threat to our public safety are the fr

i'm pamela brown in washington. thank you for tuning in on this saturday.r seemingly tumultuous weeks in the white house, president trump is hitting rewind and revisiting the greatest hits of his campaign. a political rally a short time from now and the president feels the need to take his message directly to the american people. he tweeted earlier today, don't believe the mainstream fake news media. the white house is running very well. i inherited a mess and i'm in the process of fixing it. the one thing the president hasn't been

cnn's pamela brown has more on his record. >> reporter: judge neil gorsuch sits on the 10th circuit court of appeals and his judicial philosophy aligns with the conservative icon he could replace, justice antonin scalia, and he believes as scalia did in the literal interpretation of the constitution. >> the world suffered a seismic shock with the loss of justice scalia. >> reporter: they were good friends, seen recently fishing together. just weeks after scalia's sudden death last february gorsuch spoke about getting the news while skiing. >> i immediately lost what breath i had left and i'm not embarrassed to admit that i couldn't see the rest of the way down the mountain for the tears. >> reporter: judge gorsuch's legal opinions on religious liberty attracted the attention of those helping trump make his pick. in the hobby lobby case he sided with the corporations who claim the so-called contraceptive mandate in obamacare violated their religious beliefs. he also wrote an opinion in a separation of powers case holding that too much deference was given by the courts to administrative age

. >> pamela brown joins me now with the latest. so pam, help clear this up about what the most likely next step of the -- he made it very clear that one of the options the administration is seriously considering is issuing this brand-new executive order with new security measures and he indicatesed that may be a better option because it could be more expedient than moving through the court system. listen to what he said. >> what are some of the changes you're going to make? >> in honor of the decision, we will perhaps do that, we will see, but on monday or tuesday. >> you talk about new security measures, is that separate from potentially writing a new -- >> we're going to have very, very strong vetting, i call it extreme vetting and we're going to have very, very strong security in our country, we're going to have people in our country that want to be here for good reasons. >> as the administration is figuring everything out, the federal judge in seattle has asked both sides to turn in their plans. >> so the obvious option is to r

cnn's pamela brown reports. >> it's lovely to be here. >> the judge sits on the 10th circuit court ofeals. justice antonin scalia he could replace. and he believes in the literal interpretation of the constitution. >> the world suffered a seismic shock with the loss of justice scalia. >> they were good friends seen recently fishing together. after scalia's sudden death, he spoke about getting the news while skiing. >> i immediately lost what breath i had left. and i couldn't see the rest of the way down the mountain for the tear. >> reporter: his legal opinions on religious liberty attracted the attention of trump helping make his pick. he sided with corporations who claimed it violated religious beliefs. he also wrote an opinion in a separation of powers case holding that too much deference was given by the court to administratorive agencies and pinned a book arguing against assisted suicide. he writes the idea that all human beings are valuable and the taking of human life by persons is always wrong. he was picked above thomas hordemhord hardman who we caught up with. at 49 years ol

i'm pamela brown in washington. breaking news.investigating russian hacking of the 2016 election tells the trump administration preserve all of your documents. cnn learning formal requests were sent to more than a dozen agencies and organizations and individuals on friday the same day the men of the ige

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our justice correspondent pamela brown has been working her sources, breaking this story. our joe johns has spoken to senior u.s. officials about it. pamela, what have you learned? >> reporter: poppy, cnn has learned that the fbi rejected this recent white house request to publicly knock down on media reports about communications during the 2016 campaign and donald trump's associates and known contacts with russian intelligence. white house officials say the request was only made after the fbi indicated to the white house it did not believe all of the reporting was accurate. multiple u.s. officials tell myself, tell my colleagues, evan perez, jim sciutto, shimon prokupecz, in part because the alleged communications are the superintendent of an ongoing investigation. the white house spokesperson, sean spicer, responded to this, saying that basically we didn't try to knock down the story, we asked them to tell the truth. the fbi declined to comment, poppy. >> this is anything from a typical request, pamela, it is atypical, it is concerning, it is eyebrow raising. how did it a

let's bring in justice correspondent pamela brown.uess it's ultimately up to president trump what happens nextment what are the options? >> right. so, one option we've learned from our sources at the administration is considering is rewriting the executive order. in fact, one source says the white house is already working on possible tweaks as the trump white house weighs its next step, one thing is clear, mr. trump just three weeks into his presidency is not going to give up the fight over his signature travel ban. >> i welcome you to the very famous white house. >> today president trump speaking at a joint press conference with japan's prime minister. vowing not to give up the legal fight over his controversial travel ban. >> we'll be doing something very rapidly, having to do with additional security for our country. you'll be seeing that sometime next week. in addition, we will continue to go through the court process and ultimately i have no doubt that we'll win that particular case. >> reporter: trump's announcement comes in the

pamela brown joins us now. what are the government's main arguments to lift the judge's temporary halt of the travel ban? >> well, first of all, the government said the district judge who issued this injunction was wrong and overstepped his bounds, the department of justice argued in the brief filed tonight that the court's sweeping nationwide injunction is vastly overbroad, extending far beyond the state's legal claims, and it argued that the president has discretion under both the constitution and the law to manage immigration, particularly when it comes to national security, and refugees. and it says in part that the states don't have standing to even bring this lawsuit. the states in this case, washington and minnesota. it said that the state lacks authority to sue to protect its citizens from the operation of the federal law. this is important because you have to show injury. you have to prove that two of the courts and in this case, the department of justice is saying that there is no standing. so in the

our justice correspondent pamela brown is joining us to break it down for us. the situation escalated weeks ago on january 26th, right? >> that's right, wolf. the white house saying today for the first time the president has known for several weeks now that his national security adviser, michael flynn, was withholding the truth about his conversations with the russian ambassador and tonight we have learned from law enforcement sources that the fbi interviewed flynn before that warning weeks ago from the justice department to the white house. tonight, cnn has learned the fbi interviewed michael flynn in the early days of the trump administration. on january 26th, the white house says it was first warned by the justice department that flynn misled the president and top administration officials about his communications with the russian ambassador. at the same time, the top official at justice also told the white house counsel she was concerned that the national security adviser was potentially vulnerable to russian blackmail because of his denial. >> the president

>> pamela brown, thanks. with me is senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin and supreme court report eer andrea vogue. jeff, in terms of what happens now, the white house does have a number of options. >> they do. as pamela just said, they could go on bank. >> on bank. >> on bank, which is more judges on the ninth circuit. it would be 11, a panel of 11 to review what the three judges did or they could go directly to the supreme court. the problem that the trump administration has is that this is a preliminary order. this is not a final judgment in this case. >> this is not about the constitutional merits of the actual executive order. >> yeah, it's related to the merits because the decision talks about the likelihood of success on the merits but it is not a final judgment on the merits. the supreme court in particular does not like to hear cases that are not final. they don't like to get involved in the middle of cases, so even judges who might agree ultimately with the trump administration's position might say l

pamela brown and evan perez broke this story along with jim sciutto, manu raju. pamela and evan are out front. let me start with you, pamela. what are you learning tonight? >> cnn is told the fbi refused a request to knock down media reports about communications during the 2016 presidential campaign, between donald trump's associates and russians known to u.s. intelligence. multiple u.s. officials telling cnn the white house sought the help of the bureaus and other agencies investigating the matter, to say the reports were wrong and there had been no contacts whatsoever. you'll recall cnn and "the new york times" first reported that just over a week ago, the reports about these contacts that were made during the campaign. erin, so far the white house has not commented. >> this was a very significant report. evan, this is not a typical request. it's pretty stunning when you hear it on the face of it. how did it start? >> a u.s. lawmaker official tells us when deputy director andrew mccabe and white house chief of staff reince priebus on the day after those stories

i want to bring in pamela brown, our justice correspondent. pamela, says if this court were to reinstate the ban and it would go into effect presumably immediately, that would potentially cause another level of chaos. not only at international airports here in the united states, whether jfk or lax or in atlanta or chicago, but airports around the world because once again, a lot of people would be barred from coming into the united states. our -- what are you hearing about that? are people ready for this possibility? >> well, certainly. i mean, it is a possibility, wolf, and so they have to be certainly cvp is ready to re-implement the executive order and do what they did a week ago. you could certainly see a repeat of what we saw when the executive order was initially signed when people were on planes from all around the world coming to the united states and then suddenly banned, you know, when they arrived because they were from one of those seven countries listed in the travel ban. certainly that could happen again. what was really interesti

i want to go to pamela brown over at the high court for us.arning about the candidates? >> reporter: increasing indications, wolf, at this point that neil gorsuch, a judge from colorado, is president trump's pick. he has a conservative track record when it comes to personal lib liberty. he ruled in favor of hobby lobby. he has a conservative track record and he's young, 49. also he shares a similar judicial philosophy as antonin scalia. they both believe the constitution should be interpreted literally. we're told the two were friends and went fishing together. and his confirmation hearing he sailed through. the other contender as jim pointed out is thomas hardiman, a judge in pennsylvania. he arrived in washington today. he has a story that may be appealing to president trump particularly the fact that he comes from a blue-collar working background. he was a cabdriver and worked his way up to become a judge on the federal bench. his track record is appealing to conservatives when it comes to guns and immigration. we'll have to see what happen

pamela brown takes a closer look at what it could all mean for undocumented immigrants.department of homeland security releasing ánewá guidelines that could massively expand the number of people detained or deported from the u-s.recently ice arrested more than 680 people in raids - in just one week and said most of them were criminals.sean spicer/ white house press secretary: "everybody who is here illegally is subject to removal at any time. the priority that the president's laid forth and the priority that ice is putting forward through dhs' guidance is to make sure that the people who have committed a crime or threat to public safety are the priority of their efforts, first and foremost."under president obama - ice focused on deportation in three categories... convicted criminals, public safety threats and those who recently crossed the border illegally. under the trump administration - anyone who is even áaccusedá of a crime - such as a dui - is eligible for deportation...a nd the new memos make clear immigration agents now have broader discretion to decide áwhoá to

pamela brown is in washington. manu raju is on capitol hill. jason, they're awaiting the president's arrival. what are you hearing there? >> reporter: first of all, i have to tell you, it wasn't that long ago the president was at odds with some of the folks here at boeing after he balked at the $4 billion price tag for building two new air force ones. as you recall, kate, he tweeted out, cancel the order. shortly thereafter he had a meeting with the ceo, the head of boeing. and they decided together they would come up with an alternative plan for the cost of those air force ones. and give a break to taxpayers. so right now, though, things are looking good in terms of how the president is expected to be received here at boeing for the unveiling of the 787-10. he's expected to arrive here just at about 12 noon. shortly after arriving, kate, he's then expected to meet with the president and ceo of boeing. after that, he'll tour the facility. he'll give some brief remarks. that's expected to be at 1:00. at 1:40, he'll get a tour of the new 787-10.

justice correspondent pamela brown joins me. pamela, a lot of attention on the conference call hearing last night. what's the timing for a decision? >> reporter: it's really unusual for so many people to be paying so much attention to a phone conference on the ninth circuit. given the high stakes, that's exactly what happened. we expect a decision this week. the justice department attorney spent a lot of time in oral arguments yesterday saying that the people that the executive order affects don't have standing. we've been hearing from president trump this is about national security, about what he's learned in the past couple of weeks when it comes to terrorism. then on the other hand the states argue the travel ban harms their citizens and violates the establishment clause in the constitution's first amendment because it discriminates against muslims, pointing to comments that president trump and his surrogates have made in the last several months, including the idea of a muslim ban. kate, it's clear the judges were very fiery