And dangerously close. A warship nearly collapsing with a u. S. Navy destroyer and why the game of chicken at sea . Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper and we are beginning with breaking news in the politics lead, and the claims are ratcheting up with the claims of iran and needed to justify the strike on iranian general soleimani, and now the President Trump is suggesting that not one but four embassies were to be targeted and the president has yet to provide any intelligence or evidence to back up this claim or any previous claims of imminent attacks against the u. S. This is coming amid a bipartisan criticism of the congressional briefings on the intelligence that led to the strikes. Secretary of state mike pompeo said that the lawmakers have been told of the embassy threats, but not one has confirmed it. And this is an issue for year, and then it prompted this tweet moments ago from justin amash, a former republican and now independent. When President Trump lies or embellishes anything this sensitive and then draws claims to his ire, it is a dangerous situation for our troops and the american people. As Kaitlan Collins reports, it is tough to keep track of the Trump Administrations shifting stories. Reporter without offering any specifics, President Trump now says a top iranian commander killed in a u. S. Air strike was plotting attacks on multiple u. S. Embassies. I can reveal that i believe it would have been four em bar b embassies. Reporter and earlier, the ek is tear of state dismissed criticism that the administration has not backed up the claim that killing can general soleimani was justified by an imminent threat. We had specific information on an imminent threat and the threats included attacks on u. S. Embassies. Reporter the questions of how immediate the threat was have been fueled by answers like this from pompeo. There is no doubt that there were a series of imminent attacks plotted by Qassem Soleimani and we dont know precisely when or where, but it is real. Reporter pressed to clarify the word imminent pompeo paused. Secretary pompeo, what is your definition of imminent. This is going to happen. American lives were at risk and we would have been culpably negligent if the president did not make the call, and as a result of it, americans are safer. Reporter and others say that they were not made revealed of the information at briefings. Not one word of that was mentioned. Reporter and to back up the authorization of force and without congressional approval, the administration is relying on the Intelligence Community that the Intelligence Community has attacked. In this case, they got it fundamentally right. Reporter the president s frustration was on full display at a Campaign Rally in ohio when he attacked the democrats for passing a resolution to limit future military action against iran without congressional approval. They are vicious, horrible people. Reporter but some say he is furious with some members of his own party after three republicans crossed the party lines to vote for the resolution. Now, jake, the president is claiming that four embassies were to be targeted and yesterday he mentioned baghdad, but we dont know the other three, and right now the white house are not saying which ones were and whether or not they were notified about this plot that the administration now says was under way. Kaitlan collins, thank you so much. Now, talking about this and a stark suggestion from justin amash in the tweet where he was saying that the president is either lying or embellishing and the apparatus of government is trying to back up the government that it is four embassies threatened and i am inclined to believe the worst about soleimani, but the problem is the messaging. Yes, the inconsistency of the messaging as we saw it unfold from last week, and not only that, but the different tone that the president has when he takes a aggressive tone in the tweets to iran and scales it back when he is talking in public, but are the cultural sites being targeted or not . How imminent is the threat . Are we withdrawing the troops or not . So we have seen mixed signals from the administration for this matter and causing concern on capitol hill where the lawmakers are not just pointing to the mixed signals, but the basic lack of information like the Embassy Information over the last 24 hours. One thing that is odd, josh, is that regardless of President Trump and the many lies that he has told this nation has been lied to before about matters of war whether it is benghazi or iraq or vietnam. I mean, there is an understandable skepticism. And this adminmation has a well earned credibility problem. That of course. And it is not giving you confidence that they can manage a crises when they say that there was an imminent attack taking place, and mike pompeo said days or weeks and it is not relevant and then he said specific information on the imminent threat including attacks on the embassies and including other stuff, too, and so you cannot point to the three statements and say that there is a consistent story here, and while the President Trump says crazy stuff all of the time, we rely on the people under him to tell the truth. And why are they defending the imminent thing in the first place, because they have destroyed the word beyond any usefulness. So they could have said eventually. Or they could have said that soleimani and the troops and the proxies have killed a american december 20th. Like you say, jake, it has happened before and a republican president who took us to war in iraq telling dod ing dod j ing d so president bush is an amateur compared to President Trump. And we know that he has said it is four, and then by monday it is seven and then by the end of the week ten. And then it is of course not trump who lie, but a administration of liars and gaslighters and mike pompeo say we dont know when or where it is going to be imminent, and the definition of imminent is you know the time, and they cant say soon, days, weeks, hours, and they dont know. And this administration saying black is white, and now they are saying that the word imminent is not imminent. What do you mean on this . They have dug a hole over credibility over many instances and they could have said that he has killed an american, and he has killed hundreds before that, and we took the hit, but for that, i dont believe it is a largely a problem, because the American Voters dont want to be involved in the middle east, but they are not unhappy about the bellicose streak of him occasionally taking out a terrorist, and so if that is settled down and he does not want to be deeply involved with the nation building, they are largely okay with that. And american people, and trump voters who wants a tough voters with many of the trump voters are okay with it. And there was one american killed away from being in a real war and they took a look and look at how close we were to a serious war. 57 of americans said that america is not safer after the strike, and 1 in 4 believe it is making us safer. And this is not intended as a compliment, but a statement of fact, but he really does not care about the details of soleimani being imminent or whether or not it is months or whether or not the administration has shifting definitions or explanations for this. And it is drawing back to the fact that unless we are in a time of war and unless something serious happens, Foreign Policy is not at the top of the radar in terms the of what the voters care about and we may see it change, and particularly in the democratic primary as it continues and when it is coming to the president and the supporters, and you saw the support at the rally in toledo, ohio, for the actions, and that Little Details that we point out and the inconsistencies that it may not matter. 1 in 4 said they would bomb from disneyland as well. Well, to be fair, the lines are long. And now, this is looking like it is tailgating an american destroyer and coming dangerously close, and what is russia doing, and the breaking news of the plane crash story, and now a top official has heard the cockpit audio from moments before the crash. Stay with us. Im your 70lb st. Bernard puppy, and my lack of impulse control, is about to become your problem. Ahh no, come on. I saw you eating poop earlier. Hey my focus is on the road, and thats saving me cash with drivewise. Whos the dummy now . Whoof whoof so get allstate where good drivers save 40 for avoiding mayhem, like me. Sorry hes a baby everything your trip needs, for everyone you love. Expedia. For everyone you love. Robinwithout the commission fees. So, you can start investing today wherever you are even hanging with your dog. So, what are you waiting for . Download now and get your first stock on us. Robinhood. Women with metastatic we breast cancerers. Standing in the struggle. Hustling through the hurt. 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Well, he is saying that according to what he has heard, everything in the cockpit is fine, and that is according to the pilot which is another indication that it is a sudden and violent incident that brought the plane down, and the Ukrainian Foreign official has told our affiliate cnncctv is that the pilots were peaceful and everything was okay and as there is new investigation coming in, and there is new moment of impact and we have to warn the viewers that it may be difficult to watch. Reporter extraordinary new video of the cameras showing the impact of when the plane crashes, a bright flash of light and the debris is flying and the remnants of the boeing 737 scattered. All 176 people on board killed. It is important that we get to the bottom of it. Reporter today secretary of state mike pompeo joining canada and the United Kingdom in pointing the finger at iran. We believe it is shot down by an Iranian Missile. This is appearing to show that the russianmade missile struck the plane, and the u. S. And allied Officials Say it looks like a mistake. All of the intelligence today does not suggest an intentional act. Reporter in teheran the Civil Aviation chief denying that the plane was brought down by a missile and insisting it caught fire in the air and attempted to return to the airport before crashing. At the crash site a witness tells cnn all large pieces of debris have been cleared and that the area had been left unguard and a source calling it anarchy with looters removing items and many of the items needed to reconstruct the airplane are still missing, ukraine says, and they have to be tested for possible chemicals for explosives. He tells cnns Clarissa Ward that he is unhappy with the lack of security. We are unhappy when we saw that the locals were roaming around and picking at things, and touching things from the ground. Reporter iranian Officials Say that the black boxes have been damaged, but they will attempt to decipher them with ukrainian investigators on the ground, and they say it is a month or two to extract the data. The crash coming at a time of high tension following the u. S. Drone strike that killed Qassem Soleimani, and the canadian Prime Minister saying that may have triggered the events that led to the crash. Given the information that you have, how much responsibility does the United States bear for this tragedy . This is the evidence of the likely cause, but we need to have a full and complete and credible investigation. Now, we may get some answers as soon as tomorrow. Iran is saying that there is a meeting on saturday with the foreign investigators on the ground in iran to reveal the initial findings of the crash, and after that, according to staterun media the cause of the crash is going to be made public. Or their theory. Thank you. And 82 iranians were on that ukraine flight along with 63 canadians and 11 victims from ukraine and three swedens and three germans and four afghans and three british. But had a flight to go on the canada. Yes. 163 people, and almost all of them were coming here to rejoin the lives they were building, an brilliant lives which we will talk about. Jake, we are at a vigil here, and this is not just one, but dozens across the country. People come behind me and spontaneously break out into tears and why . It is the lyes lost and the people behind the tragedy. I wanted you to look at the pictures here, jake, of newlyweds here. He married her last week and she was supposed to join him in spring to build a new life together in canada. And then this is a man who lost his wife and 9yearold daughter, and he had to call to the school to explain to them that his daughter would never be back. Take a listen. I called her in absent and usually she is not, and i told them that, okay, she will be absent forever. That was a hard moment for me. Reporter and i can tell you, jake, from the office of the Prime Minister to living rooms across this country, it is people like that are really getting to people in terms of seeing the families lost here. I wanted to show you this woman who is an architect and two children 11 and 8 and by all accounts absolutely brilliant, and their father and husband left behind here in toronto to try to figure out how to repatriate the remains, and here is a man from ottawa who was brilliant and concerned about doing good work in the community. This is, jake, brilliant and hardworking canadians and iranians here building new lives from a government who did not have anything to offer them for the last four decades. It is a story that is resonating with so many canadians and so many new canadians and wondering what abo about what could have been. Our hearts out to our friends in canada. What a horrible story. Thank you, paula. And aggression on the high seas caught on tape. The pentagon showing a russian vessel approaching a naval destroyer in the russian sea. You can clearly hear that warning from the american sailors, though the russian vessel ignored it. It is the latest dangerously close call between the russians and americans. Barbara starr is at the pentagon. What is going on here . The minister of defense is saying it is the fault of the u. S. Navy, and they were in the wrong position, but when you are looking at the video, what the navy says happened, they vd a destroyer operating in north arabian sea, and the u. S. S. Far farragate and looking at the video, the russian ship moved to 60 yards which is quite close on the high seas of the u. S. Ship. And they sounded, the u. S. Sounded five blasts of the horn, and the ship still didnt move, and then they conducted radio bridgetobridge communications and eventually the russian ship moved off. The encounter between the two lasted 30 minutes. Has it happened before . Yes. There have been these aggressive encounters on the seas and the air, and the issue is that there is always some concern about miscalculation and this is heavy machinery and not always predictable obviously and how tons the of a warship may move through the waters and they would like to keep the u. S. Navy to stay far away from anybody else who is out there, jake. Barbara starr at the pentagon, and thank you so much. Ready, set, and wait for it, nancy pelosi has announced when she is going to make her move, but some others have their own time line in mind. Stay with us. Or here on a wifi hotspot. Lte Xfinity Mobile has more coverage to keep you connected to what matters most. 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She has been holding on to them for three weeks and was anything achieved . It does not look like she is going to get any concessions from mcconnell and she wanted to know what the process is going to look like and mcconnell rebuffed her and he said he would not show her what the trial and what would happen. What they want to know is what differences are going to be from the clinton impeachment procedure and the republicans have said they want to lightly follow that, but there will be changes around and the democrats dont know what changes those will include. We know that she is likely going to appoint adam schiff and jerry n n nadler to be house appointments. And what you say, we exposed what an unfair trial this is going to be and a sham Mitch Mcconnell is running. If you are looking at the polling, and the public have been paying attention, a big majority to americans want to see the witnesses and even half of the republicans want to see the witnesses, and they think it is hunter biden, and they have exposed the fact that it is a rigged trial. And saying on fox news they will be coordinating with the lawyer for the defendant, and people like Lindsey Graham saying publicly, they are not a fair or impartial juror, and they have to literally take a oath to say they will be a fair and impartial juror, and to borrow trumps word rigged. You look at the bill clinton trial, and they had new witnesses, and Paula Lewinski was call and others, and so i love that trump dig that she is the least successful speaker ever, but she has impeached a president , him. And there are others who want to get President Trump acquitted by the february 4th state of the Union Address and he could go before them and spike the football and say it is a witch hunt and now im free. Yes, with the time line that nancy pelosi tentatively tried to lay out today and that is possible. If she transmits the articles of impeachment next week, and if it is sticking to opening arguments and questioning and then the acquittal vote at the end, it is about a twoweek time frame and it could get you done before the state of the union on february 4th, but it would be a fascinating dynamic to see if the trial is going on, and i mean, bill clinton did decide to give his state of the Union Address while the impeachment trial was going on in 1999, and so it is going to be fascinating to see if he does the same. And now, the new york journal with this saying that President Trump after the strike said that he was under pressure to deal with general sole limani becaus of pressure. And that is under his wing anyway. I rarely agree with trump for more than a sentence at a time, and she should have sent it earlier, because it is selfdestructive to the cause. And it is a pause in the process to that he is a giant borrow a word to the process, and she has awareness of of the trial here, and i have leverage, and wait, no, but wait. And all of that was knowable, and now 25 days from the iowa caucus and people are stuck in the trial and it does not make any sense. I actually think that she should have done it longer, and she wanted a trade deal after the trial. And she should have dragged it on and way more impeachable offenses that should have been heard for. And now, others who are going to curb your enthusiasm from Bernie Sanders and what he is taking into the debates. Nt. One that covers health care costs, taxes, and any other uncertainties while still giving you the flexibility to make changes to your plan as often as you need. 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Lets talk about sanders for a second, and so, you like sanders and you think that he is a good candidate and he has raised 34. 4 million in the Fourth Quarter and more than any other democrat, and polls have him neck and neck at the top with joe biden, and i feel like he is not getting enough attention among the pundits that he deserves. You and i discussed a eed it weeks ago on the show that he has a chance of winning two or three of the first four primaries and he has not had a lot of attention and a lot of attention from warren and kamala harris, and physically with us but no longer with the race, and biden and buttigieg, but bernie supporters online are criticizing newspapers and others for not giving him the attention, but it has helped him, because they have not gone after him like Elizabeth Warren and popped up suddenly through the radar and he could win three of the four races, and that is a good position to be in. And warren is saying that she is the one who can unite the sanders faction of the democrats and the biden faction of the democrats and hashtaging that today. It is interesting, because you do categorize Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders over here and joe biden and beat put jej ther and Pete Buttigieg over here, and so i think that the Warren Campaign is seeing that as the electability argument and the policy and the progressive vision for a while, but now that so much of the attention is turning to who can beat trump and be the best candidate against this current president , and the warren people are starting to see the argument, and so if it sticks, we will see, but from the outset she has allied with sanders and careful to distance from sanders and calling herself as a capitalist at heart and not a socialist. Right. And the deadline to qualify for next weeks debate cnn is doing with wolf blitzer and abbey, and now this quote was released that the thresholds have systematically paved a way for a billionaire to buy his way on to the stage while pushing out the candidates of color from participating. What do you think, lauren . Well, he is raising a valid point and something that has caused a number of democrats to question whether or not next time around they should redo the qualifications for the debates or the way they run the primary to begin with, because another is New Hampshire continually going first and iowa and they are 90 white states and Julian Castro has raised the fact that in a way it is not making the system as equitable for candidates of color. And yang is not to make the debate stage next week, and so for the first time in the cycle, it is an allwhite debate stage. And so former vp bidens ad says that he is ready day one and this is a piece of it. We live in the most dangerous moment in a generation. The world is set on edge. This is a moment that requires strong, steady, stable leadership and we need someone tested and trusted around the world. Joe biden is a president with the experience to lead on day one. With the experience to lead on day one and the r50iivals ar saying that he voted for the war on iraq, and told obama not to go after obl. Yes, i see them as a much calmer version of the trump thing going on and come this direction and so that is a decent argument for the voters, but the problem is that you are scratching a little bit of the Democratic Base is not happy with what they see there, and first tom steyer is going to amount of money per minute of speaking on that stage is very, very high, so it did take a lot to get the guys on stage, and so i am not sure that plan worked out how they wanted it to. 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That is the thing, and the Justice Department was looking into whether or not Hillary Clinton did anything illegal and got any special treatment from the fbi, and looking at this Uranium Company called uranium one and whether she did anything illegal in the sale some time ago and what huber has done over the last couple of years is to look at all of those things that the president and the allies wanted a special kocounsel, and they did not get it, but Jeff Sessions wanted it looked at. While this is not officially closed and there is no formal closing of it, it appears that it is just that, a dud. So we will see whether finally somebody at the Justice Department is able to close this and give the president the bad news that there wont be charges against Hillary Clinton as a result of the investigation. And evan, cnn has reported that many of the allegations against Hillary Clinton came from the book clinton cash by peter schweitzer, and some call it Opposition Research book, and meanwhile the president and other republicans have railed against the fbi and the Justice Department using Opposition Research and investigation, right . Right, exactly in 2015 and 2016, the republicans were certainly fans of the fbi using Opposition Research in the case of Hillary Clinton, but when it came to the Trump Administration and the Trump Campaign rather, and the use of the dossier which was the result of Opposition Research, that is what they have spent the last couple of years accusing the fbi and Justice Department of doing wrong, jake. So you see how things have changed when it is coming to this issue of the Opposition Research and the Trump Campaign and Trump Administration. Thank you. And now, looking at this, and maddie, med medhi, we should not soft pedal this, but it is shocking. And it is shocking bad and not shocking that, this is what trump does and he been impeached for nit in an international levl and we have laughed about how fox news is obsessed about it, and they talk about her as if she has won in 2016. And she is, too. And she is mad, but one serious point is that he is using it to go after his political opponents and he wont stop, and the obsession of trump is weird, because don jr. Pictured a face of her on the side of his semiautomatic rifle. And i find that disgusting. And taking a look at this beautiful montage. In exchange for signing off on the deal, some of the former owners of uranium one gave Clinton Foundation millions and millions and millions of dollars in donations. We had Hillary Clinton give russia 20 of the uranium in our country. As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton signed off on a deal allowing russians to take an increased stake in the Company Called uranium one. Now, a trumpappointed u. S. Attorney has looked into it and found nothing. Is that is going to end President Trump railing against her . Are any of the supporters going to say, boy, that is an actual witch hunt . It is not going to definitely not end the railing against her. I am gratified that it looks like the system works here and they did not take cash to fisa and get intel for hillarys gang and this is good news, and looks like in this case, nothing there. And so, now, washington post, your newspaper says that officials never thought that it would result in much, so, was this done to just please the president . Perhaps. But i think that clearly we have seen how the president has seen the Justice Department, the attorney general, and sort of his extension of his own personal legal team for a while and this is partially why he was so angered at attorney general Jeff Sessions of how his conduct in recusing himself from the russian investigation. I do think that what we are looking for now is that investigation being led by the u. S. Attorney from connecticut, john durham is the focus of the president is going to be, and we saw where the split would be when durham and bill barr did not agree with the findings from the a. G. For michael horowitz, and so we will be waiting for the results of the report. What do you make of it all . It is fitting with the pattern of trump expecting the officials to be loyal to him, and carry out the wishes and also to drop investigations when he asked them to, like in the case of comey that we have seen in the past. It is not that new. And as mary said, he is going the continue to talk about this on the trail. He has repeatedly gone against what intel has found when it comes to russia engaging in the interference of the election, and so when things have been proven to be false, he continues to repeat them on the trail. Thanks so much. Imagine an entire state being destroyed by fire. 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In our earth matters series today, 18 million acres of land and roughly the size of the entire state of South Carolina burned across australia as wildfires continue to rage there. 27 people have been killed. 2,000 homes destroyed. As many as 1 billion animals have been impacted be i the fires according to experts and millions of the animals killed. In sydney, australia, millions o of people are marching in a Climate Change protest. Reporter fighting for change. Tens of thousands spilled on to the streets of sidney. Australians living a fire nightmare and calling for the government to wake up. Heartbreaking, you know. It is our doing. We are killing mother earth. What have we got . Reporter some of the worst on record wildfires have many cities demanding drastic action and that the leaders do more to tackle Climate Change before it is too late. Australias devastation is only expected to get worse. The inferno is fueled by a historic drought and recordbreaking heat waive. Once you have measured the emitted greenhouse gases, we are likely to see the conditions once every eight years. Reporter many are blaming the Prime Minister scott morrison, an advocate for coal mines. This is here, and dont be afraid. Reporter but many are afraid in the intensity and the destruction and 2,000 homes in the hardest hit areas of New South Wales, burned. Nearly 30 people killed. Thousands more are fleeing to safety. Climate change is one factor, and 24 people are charged in New South Wales with deliberately starting the fires, and hot dry wind gusts are returning to areas where 137 fires are burning. On top of the human cost, nearly 1 billion animals are up in flames. This viral video shows a man driving along the road littered with the charred corpses, and carnage expected to get worse. Australias fire season does not end for months. Will ripley, cnn, australia. Thank you, will ripley. Tune into cnns state of the union where i will hahave gues secretary mark esper, and senator mike lee and and tom steyer. That is sunday at 9 00 a. M. Stay tuned for wolf blitzer and the situation room. And now, the president is claiming that Qassem Soleimani was planning to attack four embassies. Nancy pelosi is say that she is ready to send over the articles of impeachment to have a trial start very soon. And now, cnn is told that there is strong evidence showing that iran was behind the downing of a ukrainian airliner, and tonight, the dramatic video of the moment it crashed. And