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

here's cnn's chief white house correspondent, jake tapper jr. while they're trying to provide guidance to president trump, they're also facing attacks from outside the white house and from within the white house. lieutenant general h.r. mcmaster, the national security advisor to the president has been fending off an information and sometimes disinformation campaign against him by a warring faction vying for power under the same white house roof, al lies steve bannon and those of his first fired national security advisor, general michael flynn. >> it's a fight for the soul of president trump as he grapples with should i be more of a traditional security national president or a foreign policy president. >> reporter: bran non received a special waiver to continue to talk to his reporters at the bright bart news. earlier this week the atlantic council's digital research labs noted that many of those stories have been pushed on social media using the hashtag fire mcmaster by an employee who now works for russian government. it's also been pushed by f

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

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

our own jake tapper will begin to get immediate reaction on that.ng for paul ryan to take some leadership here to unite his party and also to speak out more forcefully against trump, spifbly how he dealt with the riots in charlottesville and the issue of prwhite supremacy. the latest poll showing he has a 44% approval rating, that is president trump, and more than 60% of the voters here feeling embarrassed by the president's actions as of late. so this is something that paul ryan is going to have to address directly. he already took some preemptive action in putting out a statement today a little bit stronger than what he has said before, condemning, of course, white supremacy and bigotry and terrorism. but he does not mention the president by name. you can bet that is something that is going to be at the forefront of the questions people have. another issue, nancy pelosi as well as senator cory booker asking when he returns to washington in two weeks to consider taking down the confederate statues inside the capitol building. that is also something

i'm for "the lead," jake tapper in wisconsin. i'll now turn you over to wolf blitzer 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 war. can he pivot to a crucial national security issue after his disastrous comments on the white supremacist rampage in charlottesville? >>> destroyer crash. ten u.s. sailors are missing after colliding with a u.s. tanker. it's the fourth incident this year and the pentagon is wondering why. >>> out of cash. the president is out of cash due to the protection of he and his family. >>> the sun goes to a total eclipse in a coast-to-coast path in the united states. in many cities, day turns to night as the moon blocks the sun. millions take the day off or stop what they're doing to watch. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room. >>> after joining the rest of the nation and watching the solar eclipse, putting on sme l special glasses t

listen to more of what schiff told jake tapper this morning. >> instead, if these allegations are true, it's moving into a new phase with the impaneling of a grand jury. so that special counsel can subpoena witnesses and documents. that wouldn't be taking place, if there was really in evidence, no evidentiary basis to move forward. >> meantime, kellyanne conway was making rounds on the sunday morning talk shows echoing the president's position, that there is no evidence the trump campaign colluded with russia. calling it a complete fabrication and taking a shot at adam schiff saying he spends more time on television than actually interviewing witnesses, fred. >> boris sanchez in washington. thanks so much. >>> all right. to that effect of the new jersey governor chris christie, a supporters a friend of president trump. he says donald trump jr. is meeting with a russian lawyer during the campaign was a bad idea. cnn's jake tapper asked governor christie about the white house standing behind president trump's role in drafting his son's initial misleading statement about that meeting. lis

he also had new jersey governor chris christie on "state of the union" with jake tapper this morning saying that this is just the natural course of events for an investigation saying that the media is blowing this news out of proportion. then you had adam schiff essentially saying the fact this investigation hasn't been dropped is indication there is something there and the fact it's moving forward is an indicator of something. of course, they all have expressed at least a vote of confidence in special counsel robert mueller. those haven't done that, those supporting the president including kellyanne conway, who said that this investigation is a witch-hunt and a complete fabrication. these allegations against the trump campaign. here's more of what kellyanne won kaye said this morning on abc. >> the entire russia investigation is a hypothetical. the president has called it a fiction, total fabrication to excuse the colossal and, you know, expected, unwanted defeat of hillary clinton in last year's election. >> reporter: you have disagreement not only whether this investigation is val

despite jake tapper pushing him on that issue. perhaps one reason why. look at these poll numbers from the abc news, "washington post," the president's approval how he handled the charlottesville response. among u.s. adults, just 28% approved of the way he handled it. 62%, however, of republicans approved of the way he handled it. do we get that -- is this, do we think republicans, lawmakers here, are seeing, you know, different things back home than what they may be hearing nationally? >> absolutely. it's been the challenge consistently with trump. 62% of his own party thinks he did okay is still not great, but a pretty loyal chunk of the party there and republicans look at their own electoral prospects andy is if i turn on the president what happens to that group of vote jers i can't win without that either. a constant battle, how 235r to go in distancing them and maintaining support of trump's vote jer increasingly, they're okay turning backs on the republican party as we know it. >> right. seen it all along. interesting from the poll talking about pe

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

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

i'm jake tapper. the special investigation into possible collusion between the trump team and russia is picking up steam with the grand jury issuing subpoenas and investigators digging into the financial records of president trump, his business records, his associates and his family, sources tell cnn. faced with this bad news, the president went before a rally of supporters in west virginia last night and besmirched the entire investigation as a hoax. >> the russia story is a total fabrication. it's just an excuse for the greatest loss in the history of american politics. that's all it is. >> now, it's unclear what the president was calling a fabrication and a hoax. was it the fbi investigation into whether anyone on his team colluded with russians? or was it the overall intelligence community assessment that the russians attempted to interfere in the election? or was it both? it could be just the latter, though, given what he told anthony scaramucci, his now former communications director. >> he call

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

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

part of his interview was on cnn's "state of the union" with jake tapper u. said you place blame for these terrifying events right at the door of the white house and the people around the president, quote/unquote. a strong charge to level. why do you think the president himself bearing responsibility? >> look at the campaign he ran. i mean, look at the intentional courting both on the one hand of all of these white supremacist, white nationalist groups like that, anti-semitic groups and then look on the other hand the repeated failure to step up, condemn, denounce, silence, you know, put to bed all of those different efforts. >> this comes on the heels of growing backlash over the president's failure to specifically condemn white supremacists after the deadly attack. meanwhile, top members of the republican party aren't holding back in their condemnation. house speaker paul ryan, senator majority leader mitch mcconnell, senators marco rubio, rob portman, among many others speaking out specifically against 9 bigotry and hatred of the white supremacist groups.

let go to washington, "the lead with jake tapper" starts right now. >>> welcome to "the lead with jakeke 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

eye brianna keilar in for jake tapper.ow. >>> happening now, breaking news. in the deluge, tropical storm harvey hammers communities near the texas-louisiana border. the port arthur mayor says his entire city is under water. an emergency shelter and a nursing home are flooded and officials are pleading for more rescue boats. >>> rescue mission. emergency workers and volunteers take their boats door to door, evacuating people trapped by the flooding. our crews are out on the water with live coverage. >>> death toll rising. as the sun finally breaks through over parts of the disaster zone and some waters

i'm going to hand it over to jake tapper in washington, i'm brooke baldwin. special coverage continues with jake right now. >>> this is cnn breaking news. [ sirens ] >>> good afternoon, and welcome to the lead, i'm jake tapper. we again with horrific breaking news in the world lead today after the carnage on the streets in one of the most visited cities in the entire world. we're getting word of a second possible terrorist attack in barcelona. two officers run down at a check point. police say they suffered minor injuries and thankfully did not need to be hospitalized. this comes just a few hours after police in barcelona say a van purposefully rammed through a crowd of people near the popular tourist area of a government official in spain now saying that 12 people were killed and 80 were injured. and after seeing the aftermath, it's difficult to doubt it when police say that the death toll could still rise. a witness says that this van in spain was going about 50 miles per hour when it plowed into the crowd. we want to warn you about video we're about to show

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

our viewers in the united states and around the world to the lead, i'm jake tapper. we have breaking news about special council robert mueller's investigation into possible russian meddling in the 2016 election. the wall street journal is now reporting that mueller has impanelled a grand jury right here in washington, d.c. suggesting that the investigation is entering a new heightened phase. grand jury is being powerful, investigatory pujle issuing subpoenas or of course possibly indictments, but now we're going to talk about something else. we'll talk about the journal story in a second. let's turn to more breaking news being broken by cnn right now. a look inside the actual investigation that mueller and the fbi are conducting. the diligent and detailed efforts of investigators, what they are looking at, why possible targets in the probe. let's bring in cnn's pamela brown with this reporting. what are you learning about the focus of the special council's investigation? >> well bottom line, it's expanding. new details, jake, that give us an inside look into how the

i'm jake tapper.osely 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. we have over -- nearly 5,000 people from the fed

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

a special edition of "the lead" with jake tapper starts now. have a good night. >>> so how did the first day of the white house's american dream week go? "the lead" starts right now. president trump says there is no chaos in his white house, right before more chaos erupts. anthony scaramucci is out before he even started officially as white house communications director. so what in the blanking blank happened? also breaking, "the washington post" with a potential bombshell. was donald trump jr.'s initial misleading response to his meeting with the russians actually trump sr.'s response? >>> plus -- a lead exclusive. white house officials pumped by an e-mail prankster. do the silly e-mails expose a much bigger security risk that could potentially impact you? good evening, everyone. welcome to this special edition of "the lead." 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 sose impression before he could begin. a weekend change after walk

"the lead" with jake tapper starts now. >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper.oing to start with breaking news in the national lead. harvey is now a category 3 hurricane and closing in on the texas coast. forecasters say harvey will be the strongest hurricane to hit the continental u.s. in 12 years when it makes landfall overnight. the outer bands of the hurricane are already stinging the texas coast. authorities warn that in some areas, it is already too late to get out of dodge. forecasters expect harvey to be a slow mover withay

at jake tapper we can let theoo this situation. i'm jake tapper. that does it for "the lead." now to wolf blitzer next door in "the situation room "snoochlt. >>> the kim jong-un regime accuses the u.s. of pushing north korea to a sanctions. >>> president trump's vacation doesn't include time off for twitter with the president setting off a tweet storm over the russia investigation, including a tweet just a short time ago. i'll speak to the tirade of the president's outrage this hour. >>> filling the void. secretary of state rex tillerson says hurt u.s.-russia relations, with the kremlin now. how will the trump administration respond? a and. he's looking at a white house. . >> i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room. and he hopes that recent white house shake-ups might tame president trump's twitter are proved false. the president made a tirade a few moments ago against senator blumenthal who he has targeted previously and he will join us shortly to talk about the president's attacks and the russia investigation. >>> meanwhile, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein is d

that's followed by an exclusive town hall with house speaker paul ryan hosted by cnn's jake tapper. people wondering if he'll call out the president by name given his charlottesville response. >> tune in. >>> one of the biggest names in business is quitting on president trump. this time it's not over charlottesville. billionaire investor carl icahn is stepping down as an adviser for regulatory reform. it is with the president's blessing. stating in a letter that he doesn't want partisan bickering over him to cloud the administration. democrats have long bickered over him, criticized his role as a conflict of interest. he still runs his business, and for months icahn has called all of these claims absurd. it's unclear what prompted his decision to leave now. it is another crack in the uneasy alliance between america's ceos and the president. corporate america disagrees with trump on climate change, nafta, immigration. but it was the president's response to charlottesville that caused the collapse of his business councils and top executives distancing themselves from trump. wall stree

i'm jake tapper. tonight president trump will take the stage in phoenix, arizona for an unscripted campaign rally, we're told. it comes after last night when the president laid out some details for the path to afghanistan. tonight will the president echo what he said in his scripted teleprompter address last night, urging americans to come together with love and in peace, or -- or -- as is his wont when speaking before adoring crowds and free from the constraints of his teleprompter, might president trump come closer to exploring something quite more divisive? that is the question. sara murray is live for us in phoenix. sara, elected officials are not exactly rolling out the welcome mat. the mayor asked him to delay his visit and senators there are at odds with president trump. >> reporter: that's right, you can expect president trump's words to be closely scrutinized as he takes the stage where both republican senators jeff flake and john mccain has challenged him. they will be attending the rally an

i'll point out the conversation of david duke, that interview with jake tapper the president later saidear what jake tapper was saying when he said i don't know who you're talking about, although he talked about david duke several years ago or before that and a news conference several days later will you disavow david duke? he said, disavow david duke? okay, i will disavow david duke. ben, to you. >> look. david duke is a guy that i'm not -- we have to stop covering and talking about a sick and vile disgusting human being like david duke. the only reason he gets on tv, the only reason he was on camera yesterday is because he tries to align himself with somebody that will then make it a controversy, that will then get him on tv. so i'm tired of david duke. i don't know why any of us give him a platform to then -- that may be fine 150 white supremacists, extremist crazy that might come around him. david duke is one of the no disgusting human beings in this country. we need to stop covering david duke because all it does is help him recruit people. now, i want to get back to something the

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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

listen to what he told jake tapper. >> instead, if these allegations are true, it's moving into a new phase with the impaneling of a grand jury, so the special council can subpoena witnesses and documents, that wouldn't be taking place, if there was no evidence, no evidentiary basis to move forward. >> from what we've heard from most republicans, they seem to voice confidence in robert mueller, though they disagree on where the line, the scope of the investigation would be. a very different tone frat white house, and one of the president's main surrogates, in kellyanne conway, who said this complete russia thing is a complete fab race, we heard the president call this a witch hunt before, and this morning on abc, kellyanne conway took a shot at him saying he spends most of his time on tv. >>> coming up, a quick response from the vice president and white house after a report surfaced claiming mike pence is plotting a presidential run for 2020? that's next. who knew that phones would start doing everything? entertaining us, getting us back on track and finding us dates. phones really ha

i don't think it will work, i don't like its effective, i agree with jake tapper, i think it's an effectivergument is that they will not be able to get their message out and that message is the strong economy, the robust stock market. the media just doesn't cover it. is it their own fault to not get the message? >> jessica: it's the fault of president trump to not be able to stay on message. to your point of anonymous sources and leaked documents, unfortunately, we'll see a lot of that happen. the president retweeted that report that nikki haley wouldn't even address on fox news sunday. i think it's scary, you're right about the music. if you didn't know where it was coming from, you could think it was out of north korea or russi russia. >> sandra: here's a question that was asked of american people, how well are things going in the country today? the poll revealing that 53% say very or fairly well. 45%, pretty badly, very badly. that is a cnn poll. are you getting that sense, is that being conveyed to the mainstream media? >> jason: first, i think the president has a first amendment right,

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i'm jake tapper. john king soon a well-deserved vacation.ensifies on its way to the gulf coast in what could be the worst storm to hit the continental u.s. in over a decade. president trump's new fema administrator is urging residents of dirge designated areas to flee. >> texas is about to have a very significant disaster. >> the bo um line message is right now, people have not heeded warnings, again, their window to do so is closing. if they refuse toee

"the lead" with jake tapper starts now. >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we're going to start with breaking news in the national lead. harvey is now a category 3 hurricane and closing in on the texas coast. forecasters say harvey will be the strongest hurricane to hit the continental u.s. in 12 years when it makes landfall overnight. the outer bands of the hurricane are already stinging the texas coast. authorities warn that in some areas, it is already too late to get out of dodge. forecasters expect harvey to be a slow mover with days of rain dropping around 3 feet of water in some places. the worst-case scenario? some weather models show harvey making landfall, then going back out to sea, regrouping, and then returning to shore. either way, the storm surge is forecast to push walls of water onto shore. today fema moved gigantic generators to texas, anticipating huge power outages. this will be the most major disaster in the u.s. on president trump's watch. moments earlier he left for camp david. he will be monitoring the storm there. cnn has teams posit

that is hosted by jake tapper. >>> one of the biggest names in business quitting on donald trump. the billionaire investor and friend of donald trump, carl ica icahn, stepping down. this he says with the president's blessing stating that he doesn't want partisan bickering over him to cloud the administration. democrats have long criticized his role as a conflict of interest. he still runs his business and is advising the president how to lower barriers for people like him to make more money. for months icahn has called those claims absurd. it's unclear what prompted his decision to leave now. it is another crack in the uneasy alliance between america's ceos and the president. corporate rat america disagrees with -- corporate america disagrees with the president on climate change, nafta, immigration. it was the president's comments on charlottesville, on race, that caused top executives to distance themselves after many months of, you know, of deciding they wanted to work with him on some other issues. wall street worries what it means for trump's corporate agenda. corporate americ

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

he did have harsh words, a little nudging from jake tapper.ship between the two men? they will have to work at things in the coming days if the president's agendas is going to be -- president's agenda is going to be enacted? >> i'm told that he and mitch mcconnell aren't held in high regard in the white house because they can't count votes. that's the problem with the health care bill, they couldn't get the house votes right. if you're the speaker or senate majority leader, you've got to get that right. there is bad blood over the stweets th-- tweets that trump kept sending. >> and on charlottesville, he opened his comments by saying in part, "we cannot remain a force for peace in the world if we are not at peace with each other." the president will not apologize for his statements on charlottesville. we would like to turn the page -- he would like to turn the page. has he? >> we'll see. we talked earlier about the fact that he spoke a little bit more gently on the boston protest. that he spoke last night at the beginning of his speech about b

the lead with jake tapper starts now. >>> welcome to the lead, i am jake tapper.e 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,

manu brought up the jake tapper conversation.aign just to refresh your memory. >> will you unequivocally condemn david duke and say you don't want his vote or that of other white supremacists in this election? >> just so you understand, i don't know anything about david duke. i don't know anything about anything you're talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists. i don't know what group you're talking about. >> we would want you to condemn. david duke is very well known. you don't have to meet him. we know what he stands for and what he says. easy to say, there is no place. and the remember the mexican american judge that was overseeing the trump university case and, again, the history that bothars lers a lot of republicans. >> he's a mexican. we're building a wall between here and mexico. the answer is, he is giving us very unfair rulings. rulings that people can't even believe. this is a case that should have e ended. this judge is giving us unfair rulings. now i say why. i'm building a wall, okay. and it's a wall

i'm jake tapper. john king soon a well-deserved vacation. hurricane harvey intensifies on its way to the gulf coast in what could be the worst storm to hit the continental u.s. in over a decade. president trump's new fema administrator is urging residents of dirge designated areas to flee. >> texas is about to have a very significant disaster. >> the bo um line message is right now, people have not heeded warnings, again, their window to do so is closing. if they refuse to heed the warning, that's on them. >> president trump tweeted minutes ago, i have spoken with the governor closely monitoring hurricane harvey developments and here to assist as needed. facing its first natural disaster test. a senate republican is warning president trump to remain focused and avoid mistakes made during hurricane katrina. >>> plus criticism coming from inside the white house. gary cohn admonishing the white house for comments such as these -- >> i think there's blame on both sides and i have no doubt about it. >> you had very bad people in that group, but y

i'm jake tapper. let's start with breaking news on our money lead. the dow close to hitting another record money-making high today. the dow is holding close to the 22,000 mark. it's up nearly 20% since election day. president trump is one of the biggest cheerleaders of its success. let's go to cnn's allison cozsyk. >> the index hit 22,000 for the first time ever. it's a new record high. it is the dow's sixth record high in a row, and it's the 49th record high since the election. in fact, the dow is up more than 3,600 points since the election. investors have been shrugging off turmoil happening in washington and instead they're focusing on big name profits. they had beat expectations like apple last night and was actually a bump in apple stock today that pushed the dow over 22,000. apple is one of the 30 stocks in the dow, and when it moves, it can impact the entire index. what you're really seeing, jake, is a rally that's less about investors hoping president trump will deliver on massive tax cuts and more on solid profits. jake? >> once again touti

i'm brianna keeler in for jake tapper. we're going to begin with breaking news in the national lead. president trump arriving in texas. he is about to get a tour of the operations center there after stopping in corpus christi today. today there are new warnings to residents. get out now as a levee is pushed to its limit in houston and harvey continues to relentlessly pour down on the gulf coast. just moments ago we learned that a houston police officer, sergeant steve perez, was killed in this storm drowning on his way to work on sunday. his police chief overcome with emotion as he was explaining the decision to not go in after him. >> it was too treacherous to go under and look for him, so we made a decision to leave officers there waiting until the morning, because as much as we wanted to recover him last night, we could not put more officers at risk. in our hearts it was going to be a recovery mission. >> harvey has set a rainfall record in the continental u.s. and another foot and a half of rain could fall. now the sto

but chris christie was on our show with jake tapper this morning in the "state of the union." here's what he had to say about the meeting in trump tower last summer between don jr., paul manafort and jared kushner. >> this meeting was ill advised. this is not something that should have happened. and i believe they had reached out to the campaign attorney, the white house counsel now, he would have told them that. i think everybody in retrospect knows this was a bad idea. >> so, david, he is a loyal trump supporter. but he's saying something that's opposite of what we're hearing from the white house. >> well, first of all, what governor christie is correct. the first thing that don jr. should have done is when he was e-mailed with the offer is go to don mcgann, who is a sharp election lawyer, understands the law well, knows how campaigns should operate and said, how should i handle this. with the campaign to fall back on when they get caught in problems like this, they're saying, look, we're new to politics and we don't know what we're doing. the governor makes a point, which i

a home zand security adviser was on with jake tapper defending the president's stance which many republicans and democrats are saying was not not strong enough. >> these were people showing up intentionally looking for trouble. i'm sure there were good people in the group that had various opinions on the removal or maintenance of the statue but what they found when they showed up were groups from outside that showed up on both sides looking for trouble, dressed in riot gear, prepared for violence. it's not tolerated. it's not tolerable. i think what you saw is republican unity in terms of denouncing it and i think you saw the president stand up clearly and not only denounce it but rise to a presidential level of calling for a counter message of love, dignity and respect for fellow human beings. >> how many people did the counterprotests are kill yesterday, mrs. bossert? >> one death is too many. >> that wasn't by the counterprotester. the victim was a counterprotester. >> hold on one moment. 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 po

the president's tweet came at the same time jake tapper was reporting on the story. and the president seems to be taking no time away from cable news or tweeting. he tweeted a total of 13 times just yesterday, and today for the first time during this working vacation we do expect to see the president in front of the cameras, it will be a briefing on the opioid crisis. chris and alisyn? >> joe, we'll watch for that. thank you very much. let's bring in our panel. we have cnn politics reporter chris cillizza, cnn political analyst john avlon and cnn political commentator errol lewlie louis. his approval rating at 38% approval, 56% of respondents disapprove. that is the lowest level in the cnn poll. let's look at what happened to his approval rating in the past few months it dipped from where it was in february march, 45% and now it's 38%. here's context of where other presidents were, every president in recent memory was higher, some of them much higher lix kennedy, eisenhower, and president trump at 38%, the closest was clinton with 44%. >> these are historic lows in t

"the lead" with jake tapper begins now. >>> good evening, i'm jake tapper. the rhetoric in the u.s. korea standoff intensifying again today. james mattis the latest to issue a stark warning, saying kim jong-un must choose to stop isolating itself and stand down to pursuit of nuclear weapons. they need to end this regime and the destruction of its

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christie told jake tapper he ignored the man's comments the first time and then he yelled at him again calling him a hypocrite. >> if you are going to give it you will get it back. that is a mellow reaction from a governor saying you are a real big shot. public officials are not meant to be public punching bags. >> a pair of crashes created a nightmare in south jersey. the trouble began with an overnight collision on route 42 in gloucester township. three cars collided at 2:00 this morning and police were diverted off the highway a truck overturned on the exit ramp causing even bigger delays. traffic heading northbound was backed up for miles before all lanes were reopened six hours after the original crash. a fire caused heavy damage at a restaurant during the jersey shore, the flames broke out at the bbq at route 9 at the cape may courthouse. there were no injuries. the cause of the fire is under investigation and the owner says the restaurant is closed until further notice. >> the eagles are well rested and the birds have the day off yesterday today they were back at it and hitting