jake: no.we hadn't expanded nato to the baltics and just play out the reverse counterfactual --. charlie: there would be no restraint for him. jake: or to poland or to hungary, what would be happening right now or over the last 20 years had we not done that? you can see his aggressive tendencies toward countries that do not have nato membership. i believe the fact of the article five guarantee to these countries is what keeps stability and avoids war in the peninsula and the idea that somehow this has made him do it is a new argument. he didn't make this argument in 2005 or 2010. he started making it when he came back --. charlie: the russians have always had a great concern about their border, in their d.n.a. after hitler and napoleon, there was always a sense of there are threats coming across. jake: right. in the obama administration we dealt with this issue of the missile defense system, which we were setting up to deal with iran but they felt we were setting up to deal with them. i don't d

jake: yeah. the crent set up in iran where the will of the people is consistently suppressed, where the rights not just of minorities but the majority of iranians are abused, is not sustainable over the long term. i think democratic change from iran has to come from within. charlie: the same thing about the chinese? can you put the same test on the chinese, it is not sustainable over the long term? their fear is something will happen which would take away the power of the party to control the ate. jake: right. xi jingping is heading into this 19th party congress at the end of the year with this notion in mind. the number one thing he has to worry about is maintaining party control and putting his own personal stamp on that. in the 1990's, we made a bet en we brought chinese into the wto. our bet was, over time, as they liberalize economically they'll have to liberalize politically. that was the bet, the proposition that underpinned a bipartisan view of china at that time. it's been more than 20 y

jake dove head first into a pool - a move that changed his life forever.sot: isabelle javier, jakes' mom// "and unfortunately at his height and weight 6'4" 216 pounds being a football player he hit his head at the bottom of the pool. he fractured his neck." news of the accident spread reaching a former rival high school coach.taken by the story he organized a fundraiser on saturday where jake played at the san ramon valley high football field. sot: bob ladouceur, de la salle high football coach// "i knew of him as i coached against him. i knew what kind of a player he was. he was one of their best players. team captain, one of those kids that's a great student, loved by everyone in the school. and when it happened to him i felt really bad about that and felt i had to do something."'teams from five area schools raised money toward a $100,000 goal that will pay for the care jake will need in his first two years of college.he will study biomedical engineering at cal poly san luis obispo. sot: isabelle javier, jakes' mom// "jake was the fifth recipient in the world to receive 10 million

a final salute to jake walter, a fallen east bay firefighter. this after walter and another firefighter were shot in san jose thursday night.(lydia) authorities say, the two were at a party when bullets started flying. and as kron 4's charles clifford explains the alleged gunman is in custody after an all-night manhunt. the san jose police department says that 27-year-old san jose resident oliver juinio is facing murder and attempted murder charges for allegedly shooting and killing 30-year-old off duty oakland firefighter jake walter and wounding a second fire fighter who is now in stable condition at valley medical center.the shooting occurred thursday evening here along taylor street near the gordon biersh brewing company. witnesses say the attack on the fire fighters was unprovoked and investigators have not yet identified a motive.albert morales".....right now we don't really have a motive, it's still being determined, we just don't have a concrete understanding of why he targeted these two individuals....."soton friday, neighbors in the ar

robert: jake, you track democrats. where are they in all this as the president maybe tries to get a clean debt limit? they usually wanted a clean debt limit in the past but now it seems they may be pushing for some concessions from republicans. jake: they feel like this is their one chance to get something. they're in the minority. they're out of power and out of ideas in a lot of ways. they have no leverage points. the obamacare subsidies, c.s.c. payments which helped kind of stablize insurance markets, trump is saying he'll stop them. so they are going to try to insert that into the debate and try to get that tacked on to the debt ceiling. that presents a whole other raft of issues. republicans are not going to be for that and you loork at this now and you look at this kind of matrix of issues and you wonder how they'll get out of this. i was texting last night with a senior republican leadership aide in the senate who said don't worry. we have ideas. i said what are they? he said no one really knows yet. robert: it'

jake walter died from his injuries.e is the hearse that has made its way to san jose from oakland. it is at the chapel of the chimes on piedmont avenue.>>> coming up, displaced by fire. people living in nine units were forced out of their apartments. >>> bay area students meet be upset that summer is ending. there is a once-in-a-lifetime lesson on the first day back. >>> a three-story building caught fire this morning and san francisco's pacific heights neighborhood. it started on washington street, the building has nine units and residents of all nine apartments were displaced. one person suffered minor burns. investigators say the fire started in a second floor unit in a bedroom.>> the first engine company was able to quickly put a line in and extinguish the fire.>> i saw a window shatter right next to me. the fire was scary.>> the american red cross is offering to help residents after they have been displaced. the cause is under investigation. >>> the young woman at the center of a police sex scandal has filed a fede

to an east bay firefighter before police escort the body of jake walter to a mortuary. police say the 30 year old oakland firefighter was shot down in cold blood.(vicki) thank you for joining us i'm vicki liviakis in for steve aveson.(pam) and i'm pam moore walter and another firefighter were shot last night in san jose. the incident happened near 9-th and taylor streets in the city's japantown neighborhood. that's where a man opened fire on the two oakland firefighters. police identified that man... as 27 year old oliver juinio. he was arrested after an all- night manhunt last night. investigators say, the two firefighters were at a party at a gordon biersch brewery. they were shot outside around 10-30 last night. police do not have a motive right now. but say, it does not appear the victims knew the accused shooter. the other wounded firefighter was taken to the hospital and is recovering. police say, the suspect in the shooting will be charged with murder and attempted murder. (vicki) new tonigh at 8 before jake walter was a firefighter for oakland he worked for para

jake? >> nik valencia, stay safe, my friend. ed lavendara is in galveston. what do you see there? >> reporter: we've had a series of rain bands already whip their way on shore here this afternoon. we're in between one of those now. as you can tell, the winds are now kind of remaining sustained here. not hurricane force winds by any means just yet, but definitely winds that have picked up and we anticipate this will continue sustaining, if not increasing. we hear repeatedly from emergency officials here on the ground it's not just about what's going to happen here in the next couple hours but in the next couple of days. as chad was talking about that, flooding is a concern. we're hearing and we're getting indications from emergency management officials that there is a lot of prepositioning of rescue boats and swift high water rescue teams getting moved into position, anticipating there will be a number of those types of rescues that will have to be carried out over the next couple of days. t

kron 4's gabe slate met with people who worked along side jake walter ... they say he will not be forgotten. yasmin carmichael put a black band over her badge for her fallen former co-worker jake walter who died when he was shot off duty in san jose thursday night. sound from yasmin carmichael / worked with jake walter"it's heartbreaking and i feel for all the workers here" before jake was an oakland firefighter he cut his chops here at paramedics plus based in san leandro as an emt emergency medial technition. he chose this job as a stepping stone to work toward becoming a firefighter. sound from yasmin carmichael / worked with jake walter"he was a pro, he was nice, he was funny, passionate" sound from christina faust / worked with jake walter"when i heard it my heart dropped into my stomach" christina says it's cut their team deep. jake just left paramedics plus a few months ago for his dream job of becoming a firefighter. sound from christina faust / worked with jake walter"he was always smiling and we were so proud of him when he got his dream job of oa

jake dove head first into a pool - a move that changed his life forever.sot: isabelle javier, jakes' "and unfortunately at his height and weight 6'4" 216 pounds being a football player he hit his head at the bottom of the pool. he fractured his neck." news of the accident spread reaching a former rival high school coach.taken by the story he organized a fundraiser on saturday where jake played at the san ramon valley high football field. sot: bob ladouceur, de la salle high football coach// "i knew of him as i coached against him. i knew what kind of a player he was. he was one of their best players. team captain, one of those kids that's a great student, loved by everyone in the school. and when it happened to him i felt really bad about that and felt i had to do something."'teams from five area schools raised money toward a $100,000 goal that will pay for the care jake will need in his first two years of college.he will study biomedical engineering at cal poly san luis obispo. sot: isabelle javier, jakes' mom// "jake was the fifth recipient in the world to receive 10 million stem c

ella how well is jake doing tonight? (ella)jake is now in a wheelchair but that doesn't stop him.he has been facing this life challenge using the advice he learned on the football field. an end of school celebration last summer left former san ramon valley high senior jake javier paralyzed from the chest down after he dove head first into a pool. his time on the football field has helped him get through a tough year of physical therapy and a new life with a spinal cord injury. sot: jake javier, thankful for support// "starts with hard work that obviously helped me get through football and physical therapy. having a goal gives you something to strive for."as jake works toward independence his former teammates and rivals came together at the san ramon valley high in his name. teams from five area school raised money to help pay for jake's care in his upcoming first two years of college at cal poly san luis obispo.sot: isabelle javier, jakes' mom// "he is going to require some personal care attendants they're called pca to

a look at how many people honored jake walter. >> well, jake was an oakland native. today several of his firefigh r firefighters say it was his lifelong dream to become a firefighters. they say he gave well beyond his duty. he returned to coach baseball at his alma mater. today his colleagues say jake was a leader who always served with honor and lit up a room. oakland mayor spoke during the service, applauding jake for dedicating his life to helping people. >> kids today should rededicate ourselves to that bond of family, to honor jake's memory for what he exemplified. >> his friends on the academy pledge from now on his fellow firefighters would honor jake every time they suited up and work to meet his high stan stards. he was shot to death. witnesses say in an unprovoked attack he was shot and wounded another off duty firefighter. he was charged with murder. jake had just graduated from the oakland fire academy in april of this year. >> thank you, mary an. new at 5:00, police are in possession of close to 200 weapons tonight. all surrendered willingly. at a gun bu

i'm jake tapper.investigators are now looking into whether fired national security advisor michael flynn was paid by the turkish government as special counsel robert mueller broadens his probe to include what financial ties trump family and friends have to russia. joining me now to talk about this and much more, congressman adam schiff, the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee. congressman, thanks for joining us. are payments made to michael flynn from turkey or russia part of the house intelligence committee investigation as well? >> we're certainly looking at all of the conduct of michael flynn in the same way i think that the special counsel may be viewing the same evidence in terms of what light it will shed on the broader russia investigation. of course, michael flynn, the allegations not only include payments from potentially turkey but also the payments he received from rt and other russian entities, whether they were allowed, whether they violated the ememolluments clau in a wa

the lead with jake tapper starts now. >>> welcome to the lead, i am jake tapper. we have breaking news now. charlottesville police will be taking questions and holding a press conference any second after the deadly rallies and racist rallies over the weekend. we're going to bring you the moment that arrives. cnn's brian todd is in charlottesville. we expect to hear from the chief of police, al thomas. any idea what this press conference is about? >> we don't know what the news conference is about, some key questions haven't been answered, they haven't told us about any potential motive for the alleged attack saturday, haven't said if they believe anyone was working with the suspect, james fields, and we have not heard whether mr. fields has actually cooperated with authorities. we do know from justice department sources they believe there may be enough evidence to be suspicious of him possibly wanting to send some kind of broader message rather than just harm the individuals who he allegedly hit saturday. some details on motive, whether he is cooperating, whether

i'm jake tapper.ident trump is at camp david where he says he is closely monitoring the effects of tropical storm harvey. president trump responding in a tweet, chuck grassley, got your message loud and clear. we have fantastic people on the ground. got there long before harvey. so far, so good. joining me now the administrator of fema, brock long. administrator long, thank you for joining us. fema is on the ground in texas. what's an area that you're worried about right now? >> oh, obviously, houston is taking the brunt of the rainfall that we see. but just because the cameras are only focused on houston right now, there are many communities inside the state of texas that are hurting. so, we're doing all we can to support our state and local partners to fill the gaps and their ability to respond. >> i know that fema got generators into the state of texas before the storm to be there to provide power if need be. what else has fema been able to do? >> so, we've done a tremendous amount to support texas

>> heavy, jake. dr.flemming wrote an article that says exactly what bakari just said, it is clear that our nation is in a very public and painful reckoning with the memory of ongoing white supremacy. and that's it. what transpired in virginia was just a tipping point but this has been happening in this country all along. until we go deeper, showing disgust for and standing up very clearly and unified against racism and bigotry like the neo-nazis and kkk inspired but we've got to go deeper to deal with mass incarceration that locks up more black and brown folks and poor folks, and inequality in our school system. dealing with neo-nazis is one thing and systemic racism is another. this is a day of reckoning for our country. >> that kind of talk that really, i think, causes problems for a lot of america that says somehow or another that if you're white, you're somehow racist. >> nobody ever said that. >> we're talking about systemic racism as opposed to neo-nazis. i agree, i think everybody has stood up and

thank you for joining me. >> thank you, jake.il bob mueller has reviewed financial records of the organization, family members, campaign associates, looking at shell companies, buyers of trump-branded real estate properties. also scrutinizing tenants at trump tower reaching back to more than half a dozen years. is that within the scope of bob mueller's investigation? the president suggested the possibility he might fire him if he looked into his finances. >> jake, i can't comment on the special council's investigation or what's in or inside the scope because i don't have all the facts that mr. mueller has. i can say that as a member of the senate intelligence committee, our investigation is continuing. we'll follow those facts wherever they may lead. and hopefully produce and interim report at a minimum some time in the coming months ahead. >> the investigators claiming that paul manafort who was trump campaign chairman for three months was encouraging russians to coordinate information that could damage hillary clinton. i know t

jake tapper signing off.ext door. >>> happening now, breaking news, terror on the street. a van plows into pedestrians in a busy barcelona neighborhood in a horrifying attack directly in front of a hotel housing an american college basketball team. at least 13 people are dead. scores more are injured. and now, there's word of another vehicle plowing into a police at a check point. international man hunt. at least two people have been arrested following the barcelona attack and terror investigators are now searching for more amid reports the suspects may have been trying to reach a getaway

i'm for "the lead," jake tapper in wisconsin.itzer in the situation room. thank you for watching. >>> happening now, breaking news. president trump prepares for a major address to the nation tonight, laying out a new strategy for afghanistan in america's longest

i'm jake tapper.chael flynn was secretly paid as special prosecutor robert mueller broadens his investigation to find out what ties president trump and family members have to russia. congressman, thanks for joining us. are payments paid from michael flynn from turkey or russia part of the house intelligence committee investigation as well? >> we're certainly looking at all the conduct of michael flynn in the same way that i think the special counsel may be viewing the same evidence in terms of what it -- what light it will shed on the broader russian investigation. michael flynn, the allegations include payments from turkey and payments he received from rt and other russian entities, whether they were allowed, whether they violated any clause or properly disclosed but more broadly whether it shows an intent to work with the russians in ways that are contrary to law. it all, i think, is within the broad scope of what we're looking at. it's particularly significant, i think, in terms of the mueller inve

friends say jake walter was known for random acts ever kindness. he volunteered pat a retirement home. and returned to coach baseball at sky line high his alma matter. today they said offense a leader who always served with honor and lit up a room. the oakland mayor spoke during the service at the scottish right center applauding jake for dedicating his life to helping people. and the friends from the fire academy plead a pledge to honor jake. >> every time we suit up, and put on our sva every time we throw on the mask and put someone else's needs before our own we will do it with that jake walter confidence. we will do it holding ourselves to a higher standard. >> jake walter was shot to death in judge petersonen town in san jose on august 17th. oliver juneau has been charged with murdering him witnesses say he walked up to a group of men shot jake and another off duty firefighter in unproskd attack. he had just graduate four-door the firefighter academy in april. he was 30 years old np nbc bay area news. >> thank you marianne let's return to one

jake? >> only one primary. jim acosta, thank you so much. >> you bet. >> sticking with our politics lead, i'm joined now by my panel. we have with us mary katharine ham, author of "end of discussion" freshly out in paper book. jennifer palmieri under president obama. she also worked on the clinton campaign. joshua green of blockberg business week, author of another great book, "devil's bargain" about the trump-bannon relationship. and we also have with us the source of all this problem, ryan lizza, the washington correspondent at the new yorker who interviewed anthony scaramucci, and that was i'm told the tipping point. let us remind our viewers of what mr. scaramucci told mr. lizza. quote, i'm not steve bannon. i'm not trying to suck my own [ bleep ]. i'm not trying to build my own brand off the [ bleep ]ing strength of the president. i'm here to serve the country. he called reince priebus a [ bleep ]ing paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoid. did you think this would result in anthony scaramucci being shown the d

ella how is jake? a spinal cord injury has put the former athelete in a wheelchair but he is still moving onto college in the fall using his injury as inspiration. playing football has helped jake javier get through a tough year after a spinal cord injury last summer left him unable to move from the chest down.sot: jake javier, thankful for support// "just having something like a goal to strive for i think is huge. in football it's always been to be the best i can be and in rehab it's been working toward getting back independence and just getting my life back." jake dove head first into a pool - a move that changed his life forever.sot: isabelle javier, jakes' mom// "and unfortunately at his height and weight 6'4" 216 pounds being a football player he hit his head at the bottom of the pool. he fractured his neck." news of the accident spread reaching a former rival high school coach.taken by the story he organized a fundraiser on saturday where jake played at the san ramon valley high football field. s

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the lead with jake tapper starts now. >>> thanks, brooke. >>> but why would the u.s. government have to shutdown if mexico's paying for the wall? the lead starts right now. president trump with a fresh twitter thrashing of the people he needs most in washington. could an internal republican civil war force the federal government to close up shop? it just keeps getting stronger, hurricane harvey closing in on land with enough rain to make noah shudder. >>> plus crashes at sea. non-combat casualties. deadly, alarming trend appearing this summer at our armed forces. our 14 years of two wars wearing down our military. >>> good afternoon, everyone, welcome to the lead, i'm jake tapper. we're going to begin with the politics lead. fresh off his multiple calls for unity and healing yesterday saying we are one people with one home and one great flag, and it's time to heal the wounds that have divided this nation. president trump this morning retweeted this image of himself eclipsing president obama. he attacked congressional republicans and democrats. he referred to the fourt

jake? >> all right. thanks so much. go now ed lavandera in galveston, texas. >> reporter: you see a lot of people on the roads, jammed with traffic most of the day. last-minute preparations, grocery stores that sort of thing. here on galveston island we expect to be on the eastern edge of this storm, as we've talked about. it's flooding, that's the main concern. we started out the morning here about 30 yards down here, out on to this jetty. see the storm surge, how it's already starting to pull, push up here towards the sea wall. gives you a sense how things are changing here. hasn't been raining that much here in galveston but the winds definitely have picked up quite a bit. as we mentioned, flooding is the real main concern between corpus christi and where we are here in galveston. various communities. not just on the gulf coast, but even inland where that flooding is going to be a major concern, and we know their first responders at the county, city, state level. the state deployed some 700 national guard members and

let go to washington, "the lead with jake tapper" starts right now. >>> welcome to "the lead with jake tapper". i'm jake tapper. the politics lead. firing of president trump's senior staffer steve bannon. the ark connechitect of preside trump's controversial policies and strategies. in many ways the beating heart of the populist nationalism in the white house senior ranks for better or worse. the move comes within two days of bannon's liberal "prospect" magazine opened up talk with internal fights with white house and administration colleagues and flat out contradicted president trump and his posture toward north korea by saying there is no viable military solution to the conflict. also this comes within a week of tremendous national controversy over the president's response to the violence surrounding that nazi klan, white supremacist alt right rally in charlottesville, virginia, when which a young woman, heather heyer killed in terrorism allegedly by one of these racist. the president blamed both sides and pilloried by republicans and others. made up for it monday clearly condemning

i'm jake tapper. it is a maxim of this show that we want ideas and policies to be debated full-throatedly while we also try to stay with facts and basic human decency. with that, let's start with president trump's rally last night. let's discuss the policy news of most consequence. the president saying if he does not get funding for the border wall he wants to construct at the u.s.-mexico border, he will force a government shutdown. >> we'll have to close down our government. we're building that wall. >> reporter: >> he also updated reporters on the attempt to renegotiate the free trade agreement, or nafta, with canada and mexico. he did not sound particularly optimistic. >> i don't think we can make a deal, so i think we'll probably end up terminating nafta at some point. probably. >> arizona is also home to former sheriff arpaio in which citizen trump once found common cause in their joint unfounded and not a little bit racist campaign to smear the african-american president for having been born in

on one moment, jake. i don't for one minute, i don't for one moment and i won't allow you for one second to put me in a position of being an appa appallgist for someone who is now a charged murderer. this individual should face swift justice. the president of the united states shares that view. i know he does. i share that view deeply. and i don't want to be put in a position and i won't allow you to put me or him in a position of not finding that justice as swiftly as possible. >> you just decried both sides. you just decried both sides. here we have a situation, mr. bossert, where neo-nazis, the and others went to charlottesville, virginia, chanting other racist slogans provoking the people of charlottesville, virginia. making them feel intimidated. yes, violence did break out. one person was killed by one of these alt-right clan nazi protesters and you just decried both sides of this and this is the issue. >> no. no, i didn't. you're making this issue a little distorted. what i would decry is the indiv

i'm jake tapper. welcome to snoot le"the lead." >>> the excitement that chief john kelly might bring to this white house this morning must have been a disappointment. donald trump went from an outdoor storm where he was playing golf to an indoor tweet storm. was the subject congress for not replaealing and replacing obamacare? his desire for changes to the tax code? or immigration system? his desire for an infrastructure bill? nope. the president again attacked the free press, specifically cnn, abc, nbc, cbs, "new york times" and the "washington post." he also went after a critic, senator blumenthal, who had just been on cnn discussing the possible collusion between the president and the russians. he had an hour-long call between john kelly and rex tillerson. the subject? north korea. from nonsense to gravely serious. sara murray starts us off in new jersey. >> reporter: president trump securing united nations sanctions against north korea quickly buried by a flurry of tweets today. first he called th

>> i don't think so, jake.korea very carefully, and we have seen over the months top u.s. military commanders say they do assume north korea has that full capability, the missile, the warhead, all of it. do they know for sure? no. because you never know what the north koreans really have. but the assessment has always been, you must plan against the very worst case scenario that they have all of this. the assessment behind the scenes right now is that they likely have produced some sort of warhead device, but whether it can be functional, can be deployed, can be put on a missile for an attack remains an open question. that may well be small comfort because the north koreans are headed in that direction. it helps keep the level of uncertainty, the level rhetoric on his end for him to. if he invitcan hold onto his po that may be the biggest game in the checks and balances. >> thank you, everyone. be sure to follow me on facebook and twitter. i'm @jaketapper. that's it for "the lead." i turn you over to wolf blitz

they look like you and me, jake. the fact is we need to get to the nub why people don't think they have opportunity and we need to fix that. the i'm sorry to go on and on but i just feel strongly now that we've got to stop it now and figure out how to find things that we can agree upon. >> all right. stay right there. we have much more to talk about. the taking a quick break. coming up next a report this week governor kasich might be more convinced now that someone needs to challenge trump in the primaries in 2020. the talk about that next. stay with us. "how to win at business." step one: point decisively with the arm of your glasses. abracadabra. the stage is yours. step two: choose la quinta. the only hotel where you can redeem loyalty points for a free night-instantly and win at business. with the new sleep number 360 smart bed. it senses and automatically adjusts on both sides. the new 360 smart bed is part of our biggest sale of the year where all beds are on sale. and right now save 50% on the labor day limite

i'm jake tapper.our world lead, an unarmed russian jet flew at low altitude today including the capitol, the pentagon, cia headquarters in langley, virginia and joint base andrews, home of air force i. it was part of a treaty that allows mill taeitaries of ul.s. russia to observe things from the air. this one is over bedford, new jersey where the president is having his so-called working vacation. the flights were approved by the president. please follow me on @jaketapper. i turn you toeover to wolf blit in "the situation room." thank you for watching. >>> happening now, breaking news. improvised threat. cnn has learned that president trump's shocking warning to north korea of fire and fury was a surprise to even his closest aides. why did he decide to dramatically escalate the war of words? >>> mixed messages. while the president and defense secretary warn the kim regime of death and destruction, the secretary of state tries to calm nerves with a much different message. why does the state department

i'm jake tapper. we begin tonight with breaking news in the politics lead, and just like that, poof, he was gone. anthony scaramucci doing his best kaiser impression before he could even begin in his role. a week and change before walking into the west wing. moments after general john kelly was sworn in as the white house chief of staff, and sources tell us scaramucci offered to resign. but sources tell us general kelly wanted him out and scaramucci was escorted out of the white house. the retired attorney general thought scaramucci undisciplined and without credibility after his profanity-laced tirade. since fired after an interview with the new yorker magazine on thursday. this is what the white house had to say about why he was ousted. >> the president certainly felt that anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person in that position, and he didn't want to burden general kelly also with that line of succession. as i think we've made clear a few times. >> so president trump thought that some vu

a final salute to jake walter...a fallen east bay firefighter.i'm vicki liviakis.. in for steve aveson. (pam) and i'm pam moore. 30-year-old jake walter and another firefighter were shot in san jose last night. authorities say, the two were at a party... when bullets started flying. ((vicki)) there is a suspct in custody . and as kron 4's charles clifford explains...that alleged gunman is in custody... after an all- night manhunt. the san jose police department says that 27-year-old san jose resident oliver juinio is facing murder and attempted murder charges for allegedly shooting and killing 30-year-old off duty oakland firefighter jake walter and wounding a second fire fighter who is now in stable condition at valley medical center.the shooting occurred thursday evening here along taylor street near the gordon biersh brewing company. witnesses say the attack on the fire fighters was unprovoked and investigators have not yet identified a motive.albert morales".....right now we don't really have a motive, it's still being determined, we just don't have a concrete u

jake?right, jason carroll in new jersey where president trump is vacationing for 17 days. >>> also in our politics lead, the president's national security adviser has become a target of the right wing. the latest move from h.r. mcmaster that has moved some of the president's base supporters after this short break. stay with us. depot/office max. this week, filler paper just one cent with five dollar minimum purchase. ♪taking care of business. twith choices like the classicr. crab lover's dream and new favorites like dueling crab legs with dungeness and snow crab. it's happening right now right here at crabfest. red lobster. now this is seafood. pepsoriasis does that. it was tough getting out there on stage. i wanted to be clear. i wanted it to last. so i kept on fighting. i found something that worked. and keeps on working. now? they see me. see me. see if cosentyx could make a difference for you- cosentyx is proven to help people with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis... ...find clear sk

jake? >> once again touting the dow's rise and the success of the overall economy. as i recall, though, alison, counter-trump dismissed rallies as a bubble. is there anything tangibly different now? >> what's different is he's the president and he believes the stock market is evidence that the economy is doing well on his watch. but as a candidate, trump was warning about the stock market rising too much. let's take a little walk down memory lane. listen to this. >> we have a stock market that is so loaded. be careful of a bubble. believe me, we're in a bubble right now. and the only thing that looks good is the stock market, but if you raise interest rates even a little bit, that's going to come crashing down. >> but now the president has become the market's cheerleader in chief. the danger, though, is the markets don't always go straight up, so the president is playing with a little bit of fire here. a little perspective for you, it's been trading almost 400 days since the s&p 500 suffere

jake?>> with steve bannon and the president's fired chief strategist back in charge, the far right news website breitbart is blasting president trump's afghanistan strategy, that's a strategy opposite what bannon had advised and opposite the president's america first, anti-conventionist rhetoric. he was concerned about the damage bannon might be able to do from outside the white house, and now new e-mails obtained by cnn provide some insight into just how nasty it might get and how low the editor in chief of breitbart might be willing to go, including sharing a personal smear against first daughter ivanka trump. >> reporter: war was how breitbart's senior editor responded from the ouster from the white house last week. now bannon has tricked the white house into responding just as the fake bannon was sending e-mails to editor in chief alex marlow. the topic, the commander in chief and ivanka trump. hard to know given your description of evil. i don't know what motivates them. if they are se

i'm jake tapper. a brand new warning. >> anything in respect to guam or anyplace else with territory to america, he will regret it and regret it fast. >> might be more accustomed to hear in a hollywood flick. military solutions are now fully in place. locked and loaded. should north korea act unwisely. hopefully kim jong-un will find another path. meet with secretary of state rex tillerson and lieutenant general h.r. mcmaster and nikki haley. before the latest tweet, said to the state run media the u.s. is, quote, driving the situation to the brink to a nuclear war, and, quote, suffer a shameful defeat and final doom. if the u.s., quote, persists in extreme military venture. correspondents from guam, tokyo, and beijing to the pentagon and new jersey where the president is on his working vacation. we're going to begin with cnn's barbara starr at the pentagon. here's what his words locked and loaded meant militarily. >> we are looking at that very carefully and i hope that they are going to fully unders

i'm jake tapper. john king is on a well-deserved vacation. cue the elton john, because "sorry seems to be the hardest word" in washington these days. the pret ramping up a public feud with senate majority leader mcconnell. >> mark: mostly over twitter, of course, as fears grow about the future of the republican agenda. >> and often asked what is being the majority leader of the senate like? a little bit like being a groundskeeper at a cemetery. everybody'seneder you, but nobody's listening. >>> plus, he said, what? republicans react to the president's threat to shut down the government, if he does not get funding for the border wall. and, whiplash anyone? a different day, a different audience and the return of teleprompter trump reading lines within the bounds of normal president's displace. >> we are not defined by the color of our skin. the figure on our paycheck. or the party of our politics. we are defined by our shared humanity. by our citizenship in this magnificent nation, and by the love that fills our hearts. >> with us to share repo