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listen to this exchange jake tapper had with the lawyer for stormy daniels.isten to this. >> is there anything in the litany of accusations you would call them facts that surround this case that happened while donald trump was president? >> yes. >> can you go further than that? >> no. >> what does that tell you, joey? >> it tells me he's a very media savvy lawyer and he wants us to watch the "60 minutes" interview. doesn't tell us much beyond that but let's understand that any case not only turns on credibility, we can look and assess and is she telling the truth but it turns on something called corroboration, supporting proof in the event she was threatened in any way, when did it happen, how, where, who else saw it if anyone, was it by phone? was it by text? if no one else saw it, were there any recent outcry witnesses? did she say i can't imagine? you can't imagine what happened to me? so that's all information that we need to know. now on the legal side briefly, if there is to be -- forthere were as a complaint filed with the police we don't know, the pol

i'm jake tapper.close to getting the cabinet he wants. one republican senator's response? not so fast. senator rand paul of kentucky says he will oppose president trump's pick for secretary of state, mike pompeo, and his choice for cia director, gina haspel. in a blistering op-ed, senator paul wrote, quote, this issue is much bigger that a simple disagreement over policy and far more consequential. these are dangerous appointments, unquote, with a slim majority in the senate and john mccain at home in arizona battling cancer, paul's opposition means president trump might need democratic support to move his picks through congress. and senator rand paul of kentucky is joining us now. senator, i want to talk about your opposition to president trump's nominees in one sec. but first, the news that former fbi director mccabe has been fired, the president and his lawyer are both using this as an opportunity to talk about why they think the mueller investigation should be ended immediately. what would your re

i'm jake tapper.ent trump stunned republicans and democrats at the white house this week when he appeared to throw his support behind several democratic gun control measures including a proposal from amy klobuchar to curb domestic abusers access to guns and a proposal by senator dianne feinstein to ban some semiautomatic weapons. the president suggested adding both proposals to a bipartisan bill on background checks from senators joe manchin and pat toomey. >> you can add that to this bill, that would be great. diane if you could add what you have also and i think you can, into the bill -- >> are you ready? >> joe, can you do that? pat, can you add some of the things -- you're not going to agree -- >> if you help. >> i'll help. but can you add what amy and what dianne had, can we add them in? >> and here with us is democratic senator joe manchin of west virginia. thanks so much for being here. that was -- first of all, would adding dianne feinstein's ban on some semiautomatic weapons, would that help

peter navaro told jake tapper this morning we could see these tariffs enacted before the end of the week. >> meanwhile, there are rumors swirling about the president's closest advisers, family, in fact, ivanka trump and jared kushner potentially to be the next ones to head to the exit of the white house door. what are you hearing? >> that was in the "new york times" this week, that apparently donald trump has approached his chief of staff telling him to limit their business affairs. and jared kushner losing security clearance could lend to it. the president not taking that too seriously at the grid iron dinner, joking with journalists, saying, quote, so many people have been leaving the white house. it's actually been really exciting and invig rating can you see -- because you want new thought. so i like turnover. i like chaos. it really is a good thing. now the question everyone keeps asking is, who is going to be the next to leave? steve miller? >> joining the panel now is dave druk druc ker drucker, senior analyst and politico. the president imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum, eve

we'll send to it washington with jake tapper. jake tapper. "the lead" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> moments ago, the trump white house responded after a porn star sued the president for the right to speak about their alleged affair. will we hear stormy thunder? wall street starts to sweat as one of its own bolts from the white house. is this the kind of chaos that president trump sfliks plus, where is jack ryan when you need him? we now know an exspy and his daughter were poisoned. was it putin? >>> several robust and changes in the president and a porn star. sarah sanders taking question after question about what the president knew about payments his lawyer made to an adult film actress named stormy daniels. last night in california, daniels, whose real name is stephanie clifford, filed a lawsuit against president trump alleging that the president and his attorney were trying to silence her. she is claiming that the nondisclosure agreement she signed for which she was paid $130,000 right before the 2016 presiden

if you listen to gloria's interview and jake tapper's interview, clearly seems he has an angle or axind. i don't think he has to be reliable to the broad case of what went on with candidate trump or anybody in his inner circle. special counsel mueller is sort of weaving this intricate, exquisite tapestry of information, and all he needs is a little here or there from all these characters, including nunberg, and that's what he's going to get from him if he ever testifies. >> but i think what nunberg was saying to me is that mueller, he believes, is going after roger stone whom he said to me mueller believes roger stone colluded with julian assange. he is very close to roger stone. called him his mentor. they're good friends. and so i think he believes that's why mueller may be going after him. i would argue that mueller probably already has his e-mails and maybe there's something here after five and a half hours of testimony before fbi investigators, maybe there's something here that mueller wants to pull him before the grand jury for because maybe there's something that they believe

"the lead" with jake tapper "the lead" with jake tapper starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com justice department wants us to know that they framed him on a phony crime. days of rage. he's tweeting, mentioning bob mueller's name for the first time and fuming over the russian probe as even more republicans are warning president trump to leave the special counsel alone. 50 million facebook user

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"the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >>> they say blood is thicker than water so jared kushner and ivanka trump have nothing to worry about. "the lead" starts now. a new report says president trump is urging his chief of staff to show ivanka trump and jared kushner the door. while telling them to their faces that he wants them to stick around. and this is not even the most troubling white house story of the week. now that vladimir putin is trotting out his brand new nuclear missile that he says cannot be stopped, are we on the brink of a brand new arms race? he says don't be silly but adds, you started it. >>> and who cares democracy is broken? it took dealt la just six days. by removing a tax break from the airline. still no word out of washington on when we'll see legislation to make schools safer. good afternoon, everyone. welcome to le"the lead." chaos has been part of how donald trump has run his businesses, how he ran the country. is there something boris this week's maelstrom? an ally of the president's tells gloria borg per this past week has been different and quote, s

we'll send to it washington with jake tapper. jake tapper.ions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> moments ago, the trump white house responded after a porn star sued the president for the right to speak about their alleged affair. will we hear stormy thunder? wall street starts to sweat as one of its own bolts from the white house. is this the kind of chaos that president trump sfliks plus, where is jack ryan when you need him? we now know an exspy

"the lead" with jake tapper "the lead" with jake tapper starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> the justice department wants us to know that they framed him on a phony crime. days of rage. he's tweeting, mentioning bob mueller's name for the first time and fuming over the russian probe as even more republicans are warning president trump to leave the special counsel alone. 50 million facebook users' personal candidate at exploited by a firm connected to the trump campaign and it was not even because of a hack. it is official. a deadly serial bomber is on the loose and the broms getting more sophisticated and terrifying. what police are saying about the latest explosion in texas and how close they may be to finding the killer. good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead." we begin with the politics lead and president trump signaling today, a phase to his response to the russia investigation will be even more aggressive including hiring a lawyer this afternoon who is openly claiming that the fbi and justice department are trying to frame the president. we'll get to that stu

"the lead" with jake tapper "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> the president's aides the would have learned by now, if you tell him not to do something, that's what he does. >> who leaked confidential information about his briefing for the putin phone call? a former playboy bunny, a reality star and a porn star, and the president of the united states. as one woman wins a victory in court corks this trio pose more trouble for president trump than the mueller investigation? plus, adjustment moments ago, facebook ceo mark zuckerberg broke his

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the state of the union with jake tapper today, 9:00 a.m. eastern only on cnn. >>> 18 years as russia's president and very likely counting are vladimir putin support for re-election right now and he's pretty safe bet to win. voting happening at this moment. we're going to take you live to russia in a moment. >>> facebook under fire and facing the pro prospect of tighter regulation as critics call on it to take responsibility in its role in the outcome of the 2016 election. >>> and could be drug dealers soon face the death penalty? and who qualifies as a drug dealer? president trump is report lid about to lay out his long-awaited plan and he says it will solve the opioid crisis. e about to lay out his long-awaited plan and he says it will solve the opioid crisis. d about to lay out his long-awaited plan and he says it will solve the opioid crisis. l d about to lay out his long-awaited plan and he says it will solve the opioid crisis. y lid about to lay out his long-awaited plan and he says it will solve the opioid crisis. lid about to lay out

sources are also telling sara carter tonight that clapper was in contact with cnn's jake tapper at roughlyhe same time that cnn published a report about president-elect trump and president obama being briefed about the dossier.t if you remember, this created a huge, massive fire storm and it helped to lay the groundwork for the medias never ending hysteria, breathless, trump-russia collusion conspiracy theory that they have been pushing ever since. sourcess are also telling us tonight, clapper was either cnn's original source or the confirming source about the report of my dossier. what's even more pathetic and more sleazy is that after allegedly leaking information tn cnn, clapper then put out a statement back in january of 2017. it reads in part, "this evening i had the opportunity to speak with president-elect donald trump to discussus recent media reports about our briefing last friday. i expressed my profound dismay at the weeks that have been appearing inar the press. we both agree they are extremely corrosive and damaging to our national security." clapper was lying through his teet

"the lead" with jake tapper "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> the president's aides the would have learned by now, if you tell him not to do something, that's what he does. >> who leaked confidential information about his briefing for the putin phone call? a former playboy bunny, a reality star and a porn star, and the president of the united states. as one woman wins a victory in court corks this trio pose more trouble for president trump than the mueller investigation? plus, adjustment moments ago, facebook ceo mark zuckerberg broke his silence. he will appear exclusively on cnn tonight talking about the 50 million users having their personal data exploited without their knowledge or permission. >> the president is infuriated, according to a source familiar with the president's thinking. over links to the "washington post" which is reporting the president's briefing materials for his call with vladimir putin included an all caps warning, do not congratulate putin on his election victory. despite the president opening the call with just tha

"state of the union with jake tapper" at 9:00 a.m. eastern right here on cnn. >>> "the new york times" says the president is looking into adding an impeachment lawyer to his white house team. >>> plus, former white house chief strategist steve bannon encouraging members of france's far right nationalist party to wear the labels of racism and zeen yoe phone with pride. da, sa and other parts of south america. like these mountains, each amazing on their own. but together? magical. all, for a smoother tasting cup of coffee. green mountain coffee roasters. but through goodt times and bad at t. rowe price we've helped our investors stay confident for over 80 years. call us or your advisor. t. rowe price. invest with confidence. at crowne plaza, we know business travel isn't just business. there's this. a bit of this. why not? your hotel should make it easy to do all the things you do. which is what we do. crowne plaza. we're all business, mostly. crowne plaza. imagine if the things you bought every day... earned you miles to get to the pla

. >> jake tapper is with me, host of "the lead" and "state of the union."h. >> it's like, you have these two talking about bodily harm against one another. you have little kids, you are trying to teach them -- >> i'm trying to teach my 8-year-old don't hit your sister just because you're mad at her. >> when they turn on your show -- >> we don't watch the news during this era when i'm around my kids. i don't want them asking me daddy, what's a porn star, what's a playmate, what's sexual assault and certainly, i don't want this as an example from either one of these gentlemen. this is not how leaders are supposed to talk. >> we have a clipbecause it's important also to remind people this goes back, some of this tough biden talk goes back to 2016. he was saying to trump, i will take you out behind a gym or by a dumpster and beat you up. >> we did a cartoon on "state of the union." >> watch this. >> don't i wish i were debating him. no, i wish we were in high school, i could take him behind the gym. >> this week we contemplated a modern day duel with biden as

bernie sanders had an interesting comment to jake tapper. he says cnn is talking about this, but we had terrorists in the news and shootings in the news, so it's a crowded news cycle. how where he may seek damages over the breaking of this agreement. first she claimed they had an affair, then she let a statement to be released saying no affair. now she is having her lawyer say the opposite as she sues the president. i would like all of it could be looked into. let's be fair to each member of the cast of characters. credibility is a question here. we know the money transfer was made. and i get it, sometimes people pay people off because it can be damaging, not because it happened. but it's frustrating. howie: we haven't seen the emails and documentation because of the non-disclosure. stormy daniels taped and interview with 60 minutes with anderson cooper. but i don't think cbs can run this unless the none disclosure business is resolved. liberal pundits should remember this is not bill clinton having sex with an intern and lying about it whil

jake tapper at cnn stepped up with the first avenger. first set of video got to emilio and it spread like wildfire. a number of the actors behind these characters reached out in response to my tweet. you retweeted nearly 30,000 times. most have already sent videos to emilio. others are in the works. our prayers are with emilio and his family, and my heart is really full with all with all -- everyone who reached out. most-watched, most trusted, most grateful you spent the evening with us. good night from washington. will be here tomorrow night with your latest news. for now, i am shannon bream. >> donald trump kicks out dozens of russians, the kremlin vows to retaliate. >> multiple businesses hit by suspicious packages. >> another black eye for the fbi. 49 people in the polls nightclub attack in 2016, just revealed as an fbi informant. >> big turnaround for stocks, the tao surging 669 points. ♪

jake tapper at cnn stepped up with the first avenger.irst set of video got to emilio and it spread like wildfire. a number of the actors behind these characters reached out in response to my tweet. you retweeted nearly 30,000 times. most have already sent videos to emilio. others are in the works. our prayers are with emilio and his family, and my heart is really full with all with all -- everyone who reached out. most-watched, most trusted, most grateful you spent the evening with us. good night from washington. will be here tomorrow night with your latest news. for now, i am shannon bream. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." if there is one lesson of this weekend's "march for our lives," it's that ending violence in america is easy. so easy that even children know how to do it. all that stand between the broken chaotic country we liveet in and the peaceful uptopia of the future is a small groupas of evil people mostly republicans. as a parkland student noted there are sick f-ers out there who want to sell

"the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >>> thanks, brooke. the man made famous for telling people you're fired doesn't seem to be able to say to it people's voices. "the lead" starts now. he would not deny that he once called president trump his boss a moron. now today secretary of state rex tillerson is out and breath being made on who might be next on the chopping block. and after firing his secretary of state, president trump steps foot in california for the first time as president to sample prototypes for his big beautiful border wall. plus, people voting right now and republicans sweating in an election, posing a major task for the president. could democrats turn one solid piece of trump country, blue? good afternoon. welcome to "the lead." we'll begin the politics lead. wasn't quite the red wedding but three top trump officials have been axed in the last 24 hours. most notably, the secretary of state rex tillerson and more depart urs are expected. he learned of his demise via twitter along with the fact mike pompeo would be nominated to

jim sciutto sitting in for jake tapper. "the lead" starts right now. >>> thank you.ek for a change? "the lead" starts right now. so far president trump is sticking to the sound of violence. giving no response to detailed allegations by adult film actress stormy daniels. the white house says he's too busy running the country to respond. has that stopped him before? and what opponents say is a dirty political trick. part of next census. the huge impact on upcoming elections. plus, new charges tied to the largest sex abuse scandal in sports history.

let's go to washington in for jake tapper, "the lead" starts right now. >>> thank you, brook.rump's cabinet? say he's super fit." the lead" starts right now. president trump said, i, alone, can fix it, and soon, he may have no choice. the president now told he can run the west wing all by himself as he taps his personal doctor to care for every single american veteran. russia strikes back, putin matches president trump throwing out dozens of american diplomats. just how chilly will the confrontation get? plus, breaking news in the stormy daniels scandal, a judge, for now, at least, denying the motion to get the president under oath. michael cohen's attorney

jim sciutto is sitting in for jake tapper.e lead" starts now. >>> we thought the porn star would be today's headline. "the lead" starts now. the "new york times" reporting president trump's attorney discussed presidential pardons for two former trump advisers who were later charged by special counsel mueller. what was the white house worried the advisers might say? and stormy daniels' attorney wants donald trump to testify under oath. can trump be compelled to testify? and what would he say? plus, the president says there is a good chance that he will solve the north korea problem and a proposed summit with kim jong-un. but there are new signs that china could be working against china could be working against the u.s. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> we begin with breaking news in the russia investigation. news begs the question, might this be the very definition of obstruction of justice? "the new york times" reporting faye then trump attorney john

jake tapper had done a long phone interview with him. the news has been made.hink it's inappropriate to ask somebody about, even if you do think they are drunk. the better thing to do, i hope of the war the -- if i were int situation, i would say were going to commercial break. it's unnecessary. he had been on air for five hours. i wonder if we were given the opportunity to talk to john doe of the state department during the obama administration who had a lot of information about benghazi, i can imagine it's tempting. i can't say what would've happened. that's hypothetical. this guy is going to end up talking about grand jury. he has met with mueller informally. he's going to have to do it. i don't know if this was to make them look like he's maybe out of his mind. if you can't have that testimon testimony. >> greg: that's a good point. thank god nobody asked me if i was drinking. my goodness. kimberly. >> dana: we are going to go to commercial break. >> greg: what do you make of this? >> kimberly: i think it is sort of rich that cnn, that they are going after

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jim sciutto sitting in for jake tapper. "the lead" starts right now. >>> thank you. is the counter punching president turning the other cheek for a change? "the lead" starts right now. so far president trump is sticking to the sound of violence. giving no response to detailed allegations by adult film actress stormy daniels. the white house says he's too busy running the country to respond. has that stopped him before? and what opponents say is a dirty political trick. part of next census. the huge impact on upcoming elections. plus, new charges tied to the largest sex abuse scandal in sports history. nassar's boss now charges with sexually assaulting female students himself. welcome to lead lead. the politics lead. the white house forcefully defending the president's uncharacteristic silence on stormy daniels as the adult film actress and her attorney continue to go public with her account of an alleged affair with donald trump. today the white house press secretary sarah sanders insisted the president doesn't always counter punch against his critics because he has

i'm jake tapper.'re about to witness an historic exchange between survivors of a horrific school shooting and their elected leaders. >> i need his name and the contact. >> my contact from cnn is just checking to see. we don't have a name. >> david hall? >> david hogg. >> ah! david hogg is here. you're more than welcome to come in. >> copy that. >> i want to bring in cameron kasky. he's a junior, and he has a question for senator rubio. cameron? ( crowd cheering ) >> can you tell me right now that you will not accept a single donation from the n.r.a. in the future? ( cheers and applause ) in the name of 17 people, you cannot ask the n.r.a. to keep their money out of your campaign? >> i think in the name of 17 people, i can pledge to you that i will support any law that will prevent a killer like this-- >> no, but i'm talking n.r.a. money. >> no. i have told you that i support lifting the age from 18 to 21 of buying a rifle. my understanding as-- before i walked out here, was that that organization is n

. >> and post-election kate's impersonation of an unhinged conway, trying to win over cnn's jake tapperng to be ignored, jake. >> gave "snl"'s version of "fatal attraction" another hit. >> i'm here to swallow gum, and i'm here to take names. >> comedian melissa mccarthy struck comedy gold as press secretary sean "spicey" spicer. >> and our president will not be deterred. >> driving his podium into the press. >> are you kidding me? [ laughter ] >> a lot of it is just funny. and, again, all credit goes to trump for that. he sets that up. >> it's "saturday night live." >> trump gave "snl" a record-shattering season. >> come over to daddy. >> and brought baldwin back for another round. >> the president of the united states. >> "snl" has historically always gone after presidents. >> hey, hold on, harry. why so tense? >> arguably no one did a better ronald reagan than comic joe piscopo. >> i think alec baldwin is absolutely brilliant. folks get upset when they see him portray trump, but you know what i've learned? you don't cut funny. if it's funny, it's going to hurt, but you've got to have

then there is this minutes later to jake tapper. >> they know. they know something on him. and jake, i don't know what it is. >> they know something? >> perhaps i'm wrong, but he did something. >> and nun berg was not finished just yet. not by a long shot. listen to this a little while ago. this is what erin burnett. he said he knew about the meeting between his son don jr. and russians. >> i think he probably knew in advance. >> in advance? >> yeah. i think if i had to guess, don informed him about it. >> nun berg offering no proof of any of this, but his all day marathon and interviews, you have to admit it was pretty incredible. we are kind of in the twilight zone. it's hard to believe someone refusing to talk to a grand jury would spend all day talking on tv. you know who else could hardly believe all of this? the white house. sources tell cnn multiple officials were glued to the televisions all day, calling them bizarre and nuts. remember sam nun berg is a man who has been hired, fired, rehired, refired and finally sued by donald trump. as i said, twilight zone. the tru

when cnn's jake tapper pressed sheriff scott israel about his office's approach to student crime, hed this. >> what you are referring to is the promise program. and it's giving the school the school has the ability under certain circumstances not to call the police, not to get the police involved on misdemeanor offenses. and take care of it within the school. it's an excellent program. >> laura: what did we expect he was going to say until it helps a mass killer maintain a clean record up until the time of his shooting, that is broward cut sheriff union president jeff bell revealed this to me last week. >> they don't want the police officers making arrests on campus and elm they don't want the warrants to be seshedz on campus because it looks like there is bad stats at the school. i place a lot of blame on the school alberto with that and at state. profit. for example. >> the problem is when that program started we took all discretion away from the law enforcement officers to affect appear arrest if we cheese to. >> laura: that was stunning. now, broward school superintendent robert

on "state of the union" today with jake tapper senators ron johnson and elizabeth warren on show withhe jake. "state of the union" today at 9:00 a.m. eastern, right here on cnn. >>> still to come, "the new york times" says the president is looking to add an impeachment lawyer to his white house team. what does that mean for the special counsel's russia investigation and the investigations happening in congress? >> steve bannon's message to a far right nationalist party. let them call you racist. be proud of that. >>> one of the victims of the california veterans home shooting was pregnant when she was killed and we have got new details on the gunman. today, smart planning is helping the new new york rise higher than ever. as the world leader in unmanned aerial systems, we're attracting the world's best talent to central new york. and turning the airport into a first-class transportation hub. all while growing urban areas into vibrant places to live and work. across new york state, we're building the new new york. to grow your business with us in new york state, visit esd.ny.gov. to gr

as we've seen ten days ago on our colleague jake tapper's show, peter navarro was saying that larry kulow never agreed with the president and is just wrong on economics. gary cohn and peter navarro didn't get along. will larry kudlow and peter navarro get along? he will arrive with treasury secretary steve mnuchin, one cabinet member that the president has been getting along with lately and one person that does get along with larry kudlow. they both advise the president on his economic plan in the 2016 campaign. a lot of interesting dynamics in the white house. can according to the president there is no chaos. brooke. >> the one with whom he gets along. heard you, kaitlyn, in st. louis. appreciate that bit of news. >>> ex-fbi direeputy director andrew mccabe may face being fired days before his planned retirement sunday. attorney general jeff sessions is the one weighing whether or not he should fire mccabe before then. the stakes are incredibly high. if he is fired before sunday, he loses his pension after a 22-year career at the fbi. this goes back, this issue stems from an internal jus

. >> sam nunberg told jake tapper that he was in the meeting with the russians the week before. have you heard that before? >> i have not. this is somebody, sam nunberg, who has been on our radar. we would like the chance to hear from him and hear what he has to say about this whole thing. so i mope the majority will help us make that happen. >> he also said that carter page was colluding with the russians, but that page wasn't a serious adviser on the trump campaign. what do you make of. ? >> carter page is a very interesting character. he had very deep russian connections. and he was working his way within the trump campaign. so none of that would surprise me. again, we would need to sit down and talk on mr. nunberg to get a full understanding of what he knows. >> he left the campaign in late summer 2015. very early in the campaign. why do you believe the special counsel even wants to talk to him? how useful is he really? >> well, i suspect he was very involved at the launching of the campaign around that time. it sounds like he's close to people who were knee deep in the camp

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. >> he saw jake tapper. >> whoa! expwhr anybody watch the bachelor yesterday? terrible great tv. >> very goods. despite the number disaster and the bachelor implications, the impending departure of the long time communications director and the fact that jared kushner lost his security clearance and robert mueller is examining trump's finances before the campaign, the president saying everything is going smoothly tweeting this morning, the new fake news narrative is that there's chaos in the white house. wrong. people will always come and go and i want strong dialogue before making a final decision. i still have some people that i want to change. always seeking perfection. there is no chaos, only great energy. so is the oval office imploding or is this really just fake news. >> i think it can be both. i think you can have total chaos. i think there are elements beyond the president's control but i also think people are foolish to count him out at this point. what do you think? >> he's such an anomaly to everything we've seen in the past as far as presidents go o

. >> we have breaking news in the nation's capitol tonight, i want to go straight to jake tapper.a team of cnn repo's reporters a stunning story. >> we have been working on this story about america's new president. >> claims of russian efforts to compromise the president-elect trump, donald trump. >> the president-elect trump and the out going president have been briefed on the most sensational charges on the dossier. >> personal information and finance information of mr. trump. >> u.s. officials of direct knowledge told cnn that trump has been warned. that's the damaging information opting gathered through surveillance that vladimir putin is believed to collect unpowerful people. >> was it your concern that the president could have leverage over the president of the united states. >> former intelligence, jamesgan compromise anybody, tlas tehere term for it. >> it was our strong sense that the nation's senior most intelligence official would not waste the time of the president-elect trump if it was easy to dismiss information. >> cnn did not reveal the content of the dossier becau

let's send it to washington with "the lead" with jake tapper. right now. >>> a former trump campaign ad says let them arrest me. he won't abide by the subpoena. "the lead" starts now. breaking news. trump campaign aide of past days sam nunberg said robert mueller has subpoenaed him to the grand but he won't go. what will mueller do next? with the white house being described as one ally as pure madness, are we seeing the chaos reflected in his policies? one minute he says trade wars are easy. the next minute he doesn't think there will be trade wars. which is it? >>> a self-proclaimed sex expert will talk about the trump campaign and russia but fond the u.s. gets her out of a prison in thailand. why should anyone believe her? why is this causing an international ruckus? we went to her to find out. >>> we're beginning some breaking news in the russia investigation. the former trump campaign aide sam nunberg says he will not comply with a subpoena by robert mueller to appear before the grand jury saying let him arrest me. the trump campaign aide fi

"the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >>> they say blood is thicker than water so jared kushnernothing to worry about. "the lead" starts now. a new report says president trump is urging his chief of staff to show ivanka trump and jared kushner the door. while telling them to their faces that he wants them to stick around. and this is not even the most troubling white house story of the week. now that vladimir putin is trotting out his brand new nuclear missile that he says cannot be stopped, are we on the brink of a

"the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >>> thanks, brooke.elling people you're fired doesn't seem to be able to say to it people's voices. "the lead" starts now. he would not deny that he once called president trump his boss a moron. now today secretary of state rex tillerson is out and breath being made on who might be next on the chopping block. and after firing his secretary

about russian interference, but one year earlier, jake tapper did. he asked trump jr.e then still just suspicions. >> robbie mook, the campaign manager for secretary of state hillary clinton, i asked him about the dnc leak and he suggested that experts were saying that russians were behind both the hacking of the dnc e-mails and their release. >> keep in mind as you watch this, it was six weeks after the trump tower meeting, after trump jr. had been told russia wanted to help his father win. >> it just goes to show you their exact moral compass. they'll say anything to be able to win this. this is time and time again, lie after lie. it's disgusting. it's so phony. >> journalists began questioning everything they heard. >> you are 100% confident that no one in the campaign, not don jr., not jared kushner, not paul manafort, no one in the campaign told the president about what happened? >> i don't know how that's coming into the picture. the president of not at the meeting, was not aware at the meeting, did not participate in the meeting. the fact is the president of not