U.S. Suspends Security to Pakistan
BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN HOST: Breaking news now. Out of the U.S. State Department they have announced just moments ago that they are suspending assistance to Pakistan. Michelle Kosinski is with me now from the State Department. What exactly did they announce?</s>MICHELLE KOSINSKI, CNN SENIOR DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT: hi, Brooke, well, we've known that the U.S. now is suspending more than $200 million worth of foreign military assistance to Pakistan. I mean that was something of a surprise, even though what the State Department is saying now is that this should come as no surprise to Pakistan. But it's a big deal that now, you know, we've heard the tough talk from President Trump as well as from the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley, on Pakistan. And the U.S. is you are not doing enough to counter terrorism. So, to take away this chunk of money, now they are announcing today just now in fact, they're withholding even more. They are suspending above and beyond that $255 million in security assistance. Here's what the State Department just told us.</s>HEATHER NAUERT, SPOKESWOMAN, STATE DEPARTMENT: Today we can confirm that we are suspending national security, excuse me, we are suspending security assistance, security assistance only, to Pakistan at this time. Until the Pakistani government takes decisive action against groups, including the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani network. We consider them to be the destabilizing the region and also targeting U.S. personnel, the United States will suspend that kind of security assistance to Pakistan.</s>KOSINSKI: So, what does this mean exactly? From what we are being told these are things like delivers of some military equipment. But the State Department isn't going into a lot of specifics. Even on the total dollar amount that we are talking here. Because they said this is still being worked out and some of it comes from the Department of Defense. But the U.S. is clearly sending a strong message to Pakistan as it's been doing for the past year that they need to take decisive action against terrorists and do more. Just this week we heard Nikki Haley say that Pakistan has played a double game for years. Pakistan, though, has responded to this saying they have done more than many other countries have against terrorists. And in fact, they have suffered many casualties as a result -- Brooke.</s>BALDWIN: OK. Michelle Kosinski. Thank you so much on Pakistan there. Coming up next, the White House today banning staff from using personal cell phones. Why are they doing this? Is this unprecedented? We have that for you. Also, here's a quote, the daughter will bring down the father. This is one of the more stinging lines from Steve Bannon quoted in that Michael Wolff book. New reporting from within the White House, next.