Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Good afternoon. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with breaking news in the politics lead. The porn star continuing to plague the presidency, Stormy Daniels also known as Stephanie Clifford going after President Trump personally in a brandnew lawsuit. The defamation claim filed just this afternoon stemming from the president s tweet about the sketch of the man daniels said threatened her back in 2011. President trump writing, quote, the sketch years later about a norn existent man, a total con job, playing the Fake News Media for fools but they know it. The lawsuit filed in the Southern District of new york by calling the incident a con job, mr. Trumps statement would be understood to state that mrs. Clifford Stormy Daniels, was fabricating the crime and the existence of the assailant, both of which are prohibited under new york law. And this asserts that the president used his audience of tens of millions of twitter followers to make a
Even nastier line on immigration. Over the weekend, President Trump said with no clear evidence that the countrys immigration policy is, quote, laughed at all over the world, saying, quote, we cannot allow these people to invade our country. Invade. Trump demand those believed to have entered the country without documents be deported immediately and without a hearing. And today refused to back down, placing responsibility, of course, on the democrats. We want a system where when people come in illegally, they have to go out. And a nice simple system that works. Sarah Huckabee Sanders drove that message home today. Theyve made it very clear that they dont want to work with the president , that they dont want to fix our immigration system, that theyd rather have open borders and rampant crime than work with the president to create solutions. Open borders and rampant crime. Thats the message. While offering no legislative solution, the president is pushing the new harder line seeing illeg