President trump had the president saying, quote, i just fired the head of the fbi. He was crazy, a real nult job. I faced great pressure because of russia. Thats taken off. As the president heads overseas sources tell cnn some officials in the National Security council are hoping upon hope that President Trump will not cause any international or diplomatic incidents. The responsibility for that lies with this man, National Security adviser general h. R. Mcmatter of, a source knowledgeable about mcmap. Ers daytoday challenges telling cnn, quote, it can be difficult to advise the president effectively given his seemingly short Attention Span and propensity to be easily distracted and mcmasters task is further complicated by fears on the nsc that President Trump can be reckless with sensitive information, quote. You cant say what not to say to President Trump because that will then be one of the first things hell say, unquote. A high stakes trip with an unpredictable president. Lets start here in washington with cnns sara murray and White House PressSecretary Sean Spicer released a statement and between the lines hes not denying that President Trump said those things about james comb and the pressure. Reporter im going to read a pressure. By grandstanding and politicizing the investigation into russias action james comey created unnecessary pressure on our ability to engage and negotiate with russia. The investigation would have always continued and obviously the termination of comey would not have ended it, so you see no denial about the New York Times story. No pushback about the quote that they highlighted saying that this this move would take pressure off the president in terms of the russia investigation. Of course, now we know thats not the case. The Deputy Attorney general named a special counsel to oversee that investigation. These are all the things that are going to be hanging over the president and splitting his focus as he is on this foreign trip. Now he, a number of his aides and allies outside the white house had hoped to sort of use this trip to turn the page, to turn away from the russia investigation and instead to focus on his president ial agenda, to focus on deals he hopes to do and tout while hes abroad in this fivenation tour, but its pretty clear that these challenges are going to follow him right there on this trip which is going to span nine days. We know that he was a little bit angry, a little bit frustrated heading into it already. I cant imagine that headlines like this breaking here at home are going to make that situation any better for the president or his top aides who are huddled together right now on that very long haul flight to riyadh. Jake . Sara murray, thanks so much. Lets go to Mackey Haberman from the New York Times, one of the reporters who broke this story and is joining us by the phone. Meg, this is a remarkable comment from the president , not only the inflammatory terms he uses to describe the fbi director but the fact that he would tell russian officials that there was great pressure from the russia investigation but now thats taken off. Right. Jake, and thanks for having me. You know, you see further down in our story that a Government Official defended the president , describing this essentially as a negotiating tactic. I think that theres two ways to read. This one is, you know, through a nefarious lens a president who is under investigation who fired his fbi director, then talked about it with the adversarial country, explaining to them what they had done to elivate the station and this is a president who has a speaking style and believes he can negotiate his way through everything and still does not understand the full import of his words and the import of his words in different situations as a president , and, you know, i dont know what was in his head, but this is obviously going to be an explosive remark because it is an unusual thing, to say the least, for a president to do. Maggie, the president the white house is not disputing the document that an american official read to you in which these quotes were contained based on contemporaneous notes taken in the oval office during the meeting. Right, look, you saw the statement that sean spicer released which is very similar to what he gave us. The white house did not dispute the the quotes that we asked about, you know. People can ruled into that what they want, but the spicer statement does not contradict our reporting are. Frankly, jake, i mean, the thing thats sort of remarkable, that this president which i think you know and others know who have spoken to him, is that what he says in private is often not particularly different than what he says in public. You know, the only thing that we know is, you know, that glen frush, my colleague and i had reported when comey was fired, that the president had told people, you know, that he thought something was wrong with this guy. He had gotten very upset watching comey testify before the senate so its not surprise and yet its quite jarring. And explain to me the spin about this being a negotiated tactic because i dont fully understand it. How is the president saying he had great pressure because of russia, that pressure is off now that he fired this nut job fbi director. How is that a negotiating tactic according to this official . The explanation that the explanation that i got was that, you know, essentially he was hoping to prompt some guilt for lack of a better way of putting it with lavrov, the russian minister who was visiting him, by saying, you know, look, you guys hacked into this into these democratic emails and its interesting that the president did appear to say that there as opposed to what he has said publicly which is conflicting things about whether he accepts that russia did it, but you guys did this it. Its created this perception about me and the election. Its put me in a bad political position, almost as if hes trying to impart some human guilt, you know. Thats just not how diplomatic negotiations are not made about personal individuals that way. They can be, but given that putins objective by all accounts is to get one over on this president , im not sure how that would work. Maggie haberman, great reporting. Thanks so much. We appreciate this. Thank you. Cnns jim acosta just arrived in riyadh, saudi arabia, ahead of President Trumps arrival. Jim, the president will be faced with yet another headline to respond to. I guess he has wifi up there. It could happen any moment but hell be asked by report remembers as soon as he lands. Reporter thats right, jake, and i can tell you that just talking to his Senior Administration official on the way over here, they have not made any plans for a press conference during this trip. We might still have a press conference, but as of this point they have nod scheduled a News Conference during this president s eight or nineday trip, and so this just sets the stage for what we see at the white house on occasion which is a reporter shouting questions during pool sprays when the president is sitting down with a foreign leader or a diplomat, and that might be what you see happening here over the next several days. Now, i can tell you right now, jake, there are some armed uniform officials on the roof of my hotel. They are asking me to stop the live shot so ill probably have to stop here in just a few moments, but obviously theres a lot at stake for the president on this trip. Hes going to be hitting the centers of three major world religious, and wh religions and the president is hoping to marshall goodwill on the part of people integral in all three of those faiths to try to accomplish some of the president s policy goals, one of them, of course, being middle east peace and taking the fight to isis and, of course, the big speech that the president has coming up this weekend to the muslim word is goi muslim world is a huge part of this and hes going say the muslim world needs to do a lot more to counter what the president refers to as radical islamic terrorism, a phrase that his predecessor barack obama wouldnt even use when he was in the white house so a lot at stake for this president , and, of course, as weve been hearing all last week and this week, this is a a very chaotic time for the president. Hes heading into a very chaotic region of the world. A diplomatic land mine just about everywhere hes stepping over the next week or so. Jim, just one last question and that is is the president focused enough on this trip . I know that there have been aides who are concerned hes not devoted enough attention towards this fivestop very challenging trip, saudi arabia, jerusalem, the vatican, the g7 in sicily, the nato summit in belgium. Is the he ready for it . Reporter well, they say hes ready for it. Its interesting when the president left the white house earlier today from what we understand, there were 50 or so staffers bidding him farewell on the south lawn of the white house. Thats something you dont see. They know theres a lot riding on the trip and when you talk to officials they insist hes prepared for it. No question about it, just going by what were hearing and seeing in the new New York Times story it appears that the president has just been downright obsessed with russia and the former fbi director james comey over the last couple of weeks, so one has to think that has to intrude on his preparation time for this visit. Now, when you talk to the leading officials and the people who work for those leading officials who are preparing for this trip, like the secretary of state, the National Security adviser, they have meticulously laid out a very, very busy schedule for this president , and, you know, its not something that weve seen from donald trump in the past when he was a candidate. You know, pretty much the most he did during that campaign was travel out to his golf courses in scotland, so this is going to be a huge challenge for the president. Theres a lot riding on this trip, and well see on the other end how all of it pans out. But no question about it. 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So there are no artificial colors, no artificial flavors, no artificial preservatives in any of the food we sell. We believe in real food. Whole foods market. Were back with the breaking news in our politics lead. President trump told russian officials in the oval office, quote, i just fired the head of the fbi. He was crazy, a real nut job. I faced great pressure because of russia. That has taken off according to a new report in the New York Times. Joining me now is Steven Hadley also, the former National Security adviser to george w. Bush. Thanks so much for being here. Whats your reaction to the comments, President Trump saying this not nice thing about the fbi director and then saying i was under great pressure because of russia and now thats taken off . Well, look, its hard to know. I mean, we have. You know, supposedly records of the comey has of the conversations he had with the president , the president signaled maybe he has some records of those conversations. We now have a record of a meeting in the Oval Office Read to a New York Times reporter. I mean, this is why we need a systematic by the book investigation to pull the facts together and be able to explain the American People what happened and if there was some criminal activity then to get to the bottom of it. Weve got to find a way though to get President Trump needs to find a way to get this behind him because it is impairing his ability and the countrys ability to focus on the real problems weve got. There is a real cost to this distraction, as serious as it is. It is still distracting the president and the congress from doing the business of the country. Is it fair to say, do you think, that President Trump is his own worst enemy when it comes to getting this out of the headlines . I mean, he is the one who fired comey . Hes the one who allegedly made this comment to comb . Hes the one who wasnt honest or his white house wasnt honest about the reason behind the firing, pointing to the Rod Rosenstein firing and the president said he had russia on his mind when he made the decision. Go on and on on list and all of a sudden have you a special counsel. That wouldnt have happened a couple weeks ago if not for President Trumps actions, i think its fair to say. We are where we are on this and the president is who he is, and weve seen this. This behavior is not really a surprise. I think the real question is that he needs to sit down with people in whom he has confidence and decide what hes going to do now that there is the mueller investigation, and theres really two models. There is, you know, treat it as a criminal investigation, get the best defense attorney you can and try to see if you can get your way through it. That has been tried in the past with mixed results. Thats like the bill clinton model. This is in some say the Nixon Clinton model and there they did it because they had something to hide. An alternative im somewhat familiar with was Ronald Reagan with the irancontra where he appointed the Tower Commission and said get to the bottom of it and really cooperated with that investigation, and the findings were pretty hard on the president , that he had engaged in arms for hostages, but the president was then able to admit that. His decline in the poll stopped and he was able to rebuild the last two years of his presidency so theres a basic strategic question i think the president has to decide about is he going to continue to fight this thing, or is he going to basically say, look, im going to let the system work and im going to cooperate and im going to shut down on this subject and were just going to let the investigations go forward. Hell have to decide that question. It sounds like he should take the reagan model, stop talking about, it respect the pros res and let the chips fall where they may. He will have to decide. Having contrasted how clinton and nixon went down and how reagan went down, i would think the latter offers the best prospect of him being able to put this behind him on get on with his presidency. In terms of the actual comments that New York Times is reporting based on this white house document, sean spicer, the press secretary at the white house said, quote, by grandstanding and politicizing the Russian Investigation, james comey created unnecessary pressure on us and our ability to negotiate and engage with russia. First of all, that does seem to be something of a confirmation of the quotes. It does. Hes not disputing them, and second of all, what do you make of the leaking . I have been on the end of some of them. I have reported some of them. I think that some of the leaks are coming from people that are concerned about this president and his temperament and his fitness. I think that may be. I think ive never really seen the volume of the leaking that is going on, but it is not helpful and its not constructive. Look, you know, the American People elected donald trump to be president of the united states, and all of those particularly who are brought into his administration, but those people who serve in the military and our diplomatic corps, in the civiler is vicious have an obligation to try and serve this president and by doing so serve the country, so this leaking is not helpful. It is not constructive in my view, and it is not how the system works. Weve now got mueller appointed. He is probably the best possible person we could have in that role. Lets let regular order proceed. Lets let the investigation proceed. Theres an Ongoing Investigation which hell now lead. Lets let that proceed and lets get the facts out. See where the facts take us and then decide where we need to go from here. Weve got to put this weve got to the stop the leaking and get it into a regular order and a process that the Deputy Attorney general has now established when you served with george w. Bush especially had a front row seat and also participated in an attempt to have a new relationship with russia. Ive spoken with former president george w. Bush about his regrets about how putin didnt end up being who he hoped who president bush hoped he would be. How concerned are you by what you know and what youve read about russian interference, not only in the American Election in 2016, but in the french election, whats going to come up in germany and the uk, how worried are you about democracy . Im very worried about that. Look, i think there was a time in probably the First Bush Administration when you talked to russian officials they would say, look, president putin knows that his legacy is to bring russia closer to the west, and they would talk about a democratic future. They dont talk that way, and if you listen to what putin says, hes really just trying to discredit democracy at home and abroad, and this intervention in the elections i think is less to achieve particular results than the more it is to basically undermine the process and undermine western citizens confidence in their own processes and to basically say to the world the western system, the u. S. System isnt any better than ours and making the case in some sense for an authoritarian kind of state capitalism system, so were back strangely in what we thought wed ended at the end of the cold war. Were back at an ideological struggle about two different struggles how societies order themselves. We need to recognize it and get in the debate. And they are using our freedoms against us in a way that we cannot do against them. Our freedoms against us, our technology against us, and weve got to start pushing back. Stephen hadly, always a pleasure to see you. Thanks so much. Nice to be here. Join us tonight please at 10 00 p. M. Eastern for a cnn special report white house in crisis. They have been reporting on the Russian Investigation for months, breaking news on links to the trump team and the unfolding crisis in the white house. Watch that this evening. Lots to discuss in our break news. The New York Times reporting President Trump told russian officials that james comby is, quote, a nut job and he was no longer under pressure and will this dog the president on his first foreign trip . Stick around. Welcome back. Were covering this breaking news out of the white house. The president s problems will probably follow him on his overseas trip. Lets dive right in with my panel. Guys, as you know, the New York Times is reporting that President Trump according to this white house document told russian officials in the oval office about ten days ago that fbi director james comby is a nut job and that firing him eased pressure over the russia probe. And and sean spicer in his statement clearly did not deny it. In fact, kind of tried to explain where the pressure came from. It seems like this will not go away even though the president is hoping that this trip will provide a reset. Im troubled by the fact that donald trump seems to be giving the russians a straight story about the firing of james comey before he gave everyone else and thats disturbing and the white house is going to come say their stock line to this investigation is theres no evidence of collusion. If you listen to talk radio, thats all they say no. Evidence of collusion. I dont know what the Legal Standard for collusion is but donald trump having a secret meeting in the oval office to trash the leader of the fbi to the russians sounds an all of like like it it, and as a candidate donald trump could get away with lying to the public and lying to everyone without consequence, but when you lie about the firing of the fbi director, thats something that is going to mark his presidency without question. It does so many, livie do, olivier, that the firing of the fbi director changed the equation for a lot of people, including republicans, in washington. Hes working within the system, is what he is, outrageous and a disrupter, but hes operating within system but firing the head of the fbi seems to have changed the calculus. Firing the head of the fbi certainly has for a lot of people and that meeting in general has. If you kislyak and lavrov. Thats right. Someone described it as, you know, the opening of the ark at the end of raiders of the lost ark where severing coming out but you have the israelis furious with the administration for the disclosure of intelligence that the president made to the russians. You have all this stuff about the comey firing where we can dispense with the official explanation now, the original explanation that the acting attorney general had made a good solid legal rationale. Which was ridiculous anyway. That stuck around for at least three hours, that was the official line. Fair enough. But it has changed things and if you talk to people on capitol hill, there used to be sort of even amounts of you guys are crazy in the media, Everything Everything you right is hair on fire gone crazy. Thats like what are you hearing . Whats happening. Tell me whats happening next. Get ahead of the next bombshell and they sound a lot more wl worried. And yet, jackie, its still relatively quiet from republican officials on capitol hill in terms of their criticisms for behavior that in a democrat had done any of this, one of these actions, much less the last 15 that weve report on in the last week, you know, there would be calls for hearings and impeachment, but still i think its pretty quiet from republicans. I think theres two things going on here. They dont want to talk about this stuff anymore. They want to talk about their agenda. They for now have the house and the senate and the presidency and they want to try to refocus their members on that. That said, talking to members of congress on the hill this week, the other thing is they are waiting for the other shoe to drop. They saw the appointment of the special counsel as kind of this doubleedged sword. Great, theres someone thats going to handle this, above board, that we can tell our constituents that is actually taking this out of even our hands, but at the same time they know that bob muler is no one to to sneeze at really. Hes someone thats going to dig until he gets answers, and so they dont know what to say because this is coming so fast and furious. It seems like they are really trying to find their footing and what the right thing is to say, but youre absolutely right. I think everyone has been playing this game. If this was obama or clinton, they would be screaming bloody murderer. Its really truly hard to imagine meeting with lavrov and kislyak in the oval office. Theres this allegation from National Security officials that he shared information that put at risk intelligence and perhaps even a source of intelligence and now hes trashing the fbi director, and saying, the straight story, i had great pressure because of russia, and now thats off, thats gone, and i guess, olivier, thats another indication that this is why he fired james comey because he didnt like the russia probe. That seems outrageous on its face, and i i mean, i cant believe that im not hearing more criticism of this just from all the law and order republicans on capitol hill. You know, partisanship is a very strong drug and a lot of people in d. C. Are hooked on it. If this is an accurate report, right, one, theres a document, right, which can be requested. The white house is not denying it, we should point out. Right, right. They are shading it though. They are not really embracing the way the story is being told. Theres a document for sure, so that presumably could find its way into the public, an and if this is all true, the president is essentially forthrightly acknowledging what amounts to obstruction of justice. Yes, i killed the investigation by firing jim comey. Thinking getting rild of comey would squelch this entire investigation. Almost like he didnt consult anybody on this or someone didnt play it forward. Thats whats so confusing. In terms of the republican responsible, and i totally agree republicans are trying to find a way to get a policy win to run on in the midterm elections but in terms of recourse, what do you do . Theres already the investigations happening. We have a special counsel looking into it, and so the problem with this president , as weve known throughout the campaign is his personality. He has bad judgment. He has bad character. What the kind of policy recourse is there for that besides investigations . I truly dont know but as a republican what do you do besides pray you pass tax reform and hang on through the mid terms . I guess the only question i have is we heard a lot about lawlessness when president obama was wright executive actions and orders that according to some judges did go beyond his executive office role. This seems to go i mean, look, article two says he can fire the fbi director no, question about that, but purposefully firing a guy because hes leading an investigation into your associates that you dont like. We would ask for a special prosecutor to be appointed. Not much can you do did, defund offices or agencies, but the tools for someone who has really bad judgment besides impeachment and if youre not willing to go there what are you going to do . Amanda, olivier, jackie, thanks very much. Mothers forced to dig through the trash to find just a bite to eat for their children. Protesters preparing weapons of their own to fight back against a Brutal Police force. 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Side effects can lead to dehydration, which may cause kidney problems. Nows the time for a better moment of proof. Ask your doctor about victoza®. Welcome back to the lead. Lets turn to the world lead. Venezuela may be on verge of collapse. Every day the latin American Country is seeing a massive wave of antigovernment demonstrations. As of today, at least 45 people have been killed during the violent protests and people are now being forced to dig through trash bins for food. Its been difficult for cnn to report on this crisis the way we want to because the government took cnn off the air and restricted access to our journalists so cnn went undercover as tourists in venezuela to bring you the following story. Cnns Senior International correspondent nick paton walsh, joins us now. Is it as bad in venezuela as it looks . Reporter this is so much a manmade crisis, borne of a governments desire to handle the economy in a certain way. Donald trump called it a disgrace to humanity. Yes, we did have to go undercover to report this because of restrictions and intimidation against the media, but, still, this is what we managed to see. Venezuelas dark lurch into poverty and chaos is on display us a drive into the capital. This food truck breaking down for mere seconds before it was looted. Basic food is scarce. No shortage of bleach but long lines for bread. This crisis all created by the mad policies of a government that now wants to hide the collapse, cracking down on and intimidating journalists. We had to go undercover and much of our filming was done covertly to avoid arrest. With some poor nearing starvation, the People Demand Change in violent clashes. Tens of lives lost. As desperation meets tear gas and police shots. Youve heard of the molotov cocktail, that would be too simple for a once safe gasrich state so this is the sewage bomb mixed with gas and ammonia for police who throw tear gas bombs at us worth 60 each. My country doesnt have food and we cant even protest peacefully. This is the daily standoff. The crowd sometimes attacks by progovernment thugs hon motorcycles who open fire indiscriminately. Gunfire takes at least one life this day. That of 27yearold miguel castillo. But it doesnt stop the daily battle to eat. Virginia has been doing this for 18 months to feed her five kids. She cant find work since she had this little one but here sometimes finds what she calls meat. Sometimes i find stuffed bread, rice, meat, beans, pasta. Some people are conscientious and put it in clean bags leaving it out. How has oilrich venezuela got so bad . Most countries, its the market that sets the price of lets say, for example, rice, but here in venezuela the government decides how much you should pay for most foodstuff but also what many peoples wages actually are, and since the oil price has crashed globally they have not been able to keep one up with the other. They have basically run out of money and now for rice like this you need to find three times as many notes as these, and thats about a months minimum wage. Wherever you look, repression and hunger haunt this once proud city. Jesus is a juggler, a magician for kids parties. Beaten heavily, he says, in the days protests and begging for food when we find him. I spend two days on the street, he says, and two days at home, and when i go home its because i have food. Before, i would get calls to do magic at birthday parties, but no, no. With the country the way it is, magic doesnt help. They mourn the dead, the anger kwai it, indignant, not belligerent. South america is looking to see if venezuela can fix its selfmade cries without major bloodshed, but they are falling so far, so fast, and the ground is getting nearer. Venezuelas government has repeatedly said its problems have been exaggerated by hostile northern media and the drop in oil prices and actions of opposition friendly tycoons have contributed to their problems but its still quite stag towering see how people try to live through that kind of crisis. Thanks for that report. Appreciate it. Youve heard of his multibillion dollar ponzi scheme that left thousand americans broke and desolate. Who was Bernie Madoff . Well talk to the Academy Award winning director about the man behind the mastermind. Perfec, our senses awake, our hearts racing as one. I know this is sudden, but they say if you love something. Set it free. See you around, giulia bring you more ways to helps reduce calories from sugar. With more great tasting beverages with less sugar or no sugar at all, smaller portion sizes, clear calorie labels, and signs reminding everyone to think balance before choosing their beverages. 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The original movie goes inside the decades long deception with oscar winner Robert De Niro starring as madoff in the hbo film called the wizard of lies. How do you now plead to count one . Guilty. He discarded me like road kill. How do you plead to count two . Guilty. He took our entire life savings. Count three . Guilty. Dad, how could you do this . Count four. Counterfive . Guilty. Have you no shame . Guilty. Guilty. And joining me now is one of my favorite director oscar filmmaker Barry Levinson who directed many things, including wizard of oz and diner. Heres a look at Bernie Madoff and his ponzi scheme. Im talking about getting you 100 million. Thats not going to do it. So whats it going to take . I have to do whats ethical. I cant let you jump the line. Im willing to go 150 if you help me. 150. 1757. Fully subscribe. 200. I wish i could. 225 . 250. 275. 300 million. How high do we have to go . If you go above 4 we might have something. 400. I can do that. Weve got a deal. Thats a great scene. Really suggesting there theres almost a jazz to what a conman he was in terms of his skill. Yeah. Its its the thing with madoff that made him different because he wasnt the kind of hustler kind of guy who was coming at you. He was very reserved. It was like i dont know if i want to take your money was part of the con that he would do. Im reluctant to take your money, and he was very quiet in that regard which is a different kind of con artist and thats what made him so successful. Was there something in particular that you and bob de niro worked on when it came to capturing thats pens . Bob is a brilliant actor and latched on to that character and in very small ways, you know, hes able to tell you a lot, and he can do that interior type of thing very well. Thats what makes him so compelling a guy. And one of the great performances in addition to de niro in the film is Michelle Pfeifer and ruth madoff remains contact with Bernie Madoff and shes generally known as a strong formidable woman and turning her into someone who is a little bit more differential. Totally different than how she s. In the movie it almost seems like she gets smaller and smaller and more and more frail, and i think shes a real surprise when you see her in the movie and very much like everything weve seen about ruth madoff, so shes sort of really took on that character. And it was the two sons. Madoffs who ultimately turned him over to authorities heres a clip about that. Its a fraud. There are no investments. What are you talking about . Of course, there are investments. I made them up. They are on every statement. I made them up. Ive seen the trades. They are fake. All fake. Basically just a big ponzi scheme. Whats a ponzi scheme . I took money from some people and i gave it to others and theres nothing left. Its supposed to be 50 billion. Theres absolutely nothing. Its all gone. I spoke to peter. I told him im going turn myself in next week. Madoffs son mark committed suicide. Andrew died of cancer. The film real seems to suggest that they were two other victims of this. Well, yes. I mean, you can imagine that youre brought up in this family. Heres your family. Hes the i they idolize him. He was extremely wellrespected in that world and all of a sudden one day he tells you this is all a ponzi scheme and none of this is real, which was devastating to the boys and to ruth, and we work inside of that, how he destroyed his family and, of course, thousands and thousands of people who invested the in him, know, lost in some cases everything that they had. And your son sam wrote the script for this. Was there anything from the fatherson relationship that im sure is more positive than madoffs, was there anything that you drew on when you were writing it . A great situation to have to have your own son involved in it to talk about all these ymptds i dont remember how all these ideas got put together but just the fact that we can talk about that and the dialogue can be where it doesnt sort of so confrontational and how he could operate and control his sons and this is a look at how he was able to commit this fraud. Im a huge fan yours. Its a real treat for me to get to meet you. It is one of the most highstressed jobs on the planet. Air Traffic Controllers. One airport says technology can do a better job. Its plan to replace people next. Whoa thats amazing. Hey, im the internet i know a bunch of people who would love that. The internet loves what youre doing. So build a better website in under an hour with. Gocentral from godaddy. Type in your idea. 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Welcome back to the lead. Now its time for the tech lead. Digital replacement coming to one. Uks busiest airports. Soon, no humans will sit in the air Traffic Control tower at london city airport. Instead, 14 hoydef cameras will watch planes come and go. Controllers will manage operations in a village about 70 miles away. The airport says the cameras can see what humans cannot. Two remote airport in sweden already have the technology, but this will be the first major airport to use it. This announcement comes just weeks after that huge cyber attack that paralyzed uk hospital officials and the uk says private backup lines should block hacks and other threats and the new system should be up and running in in 2019. Follow me on facebook and 2008er jaketapper or tweet the show theleadcnn. On sunday morning on state of the union by guests will be senators bob corker and rubio. It all starts at 9 00 a. M. Eastern. Im jake tapper. I turn you over to wolf blitzer in the situation room. Have a great restful weekend. Happening now, a real nut job. The New York Times reports President Trump told Russian Diplomats inside the oval office that newly fired fbi chief james comey was crazy and a real nut job and that the removal of comey would relieve great pressure from the russia investigation. Comey alarmed. At friend of the fired fbi director says comey told him of his concerns about trumps behavior and his attempts to avoid the president , including a failed effort to escape a public hug. Answering to the house. Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein who this week appointed a special counsel to lead the russia trump probe