This hour President Trump will meet behind closed doors with republican congressional leaders ahead of what could be a symbolic rebuke of the commanderinchief in just a matter of hours, House Democrats will vote on a resolution to condemn the president s racist go back where you came from tweets to four Democratic House freshman, all three of color and born in the United States and all of them american citizens. The vote will force House Republicans to support or opposition to the proposition that the president should be denounced for making racist commentsment mr. Trump responding on twitter saying those tweets were not racist. I dont have a racist bone in my body. It a con game and republicans should not fall into the trap and to which alexandria ocasiocortez of new york responded, quote, youre right, mr. President , you dont have a racist bone in your body, you have a racist mind in your head and a racist heart in your chest, unquote. Republicans are largely standing by President Tr
You are live in the ccnn newsroo newsroom. Im alex mar quaquardt. First, president s ousted ambassador total her story on friday. They ignored the wall of silence, and she said that the president wanted her gone based on what she found unfounded claims and a Concerted Campaign against her and questioned whether associates of Rudy Giuliani stood to benefit financially from her dismissal. New york times is reporting that Rudy Giuliani is facing an investigation, into whether he involvement violated election laws. The president after being somewhat cagey, saying he didnt respond when asked if giuliani was still his personal lawyer. He appeared a today to stick up for him on twitter. Even with his personal legal team intact, the Trump Administration is facing new woes, losing in federal court five times just on friday, in cases dealing with three matters releasing the president as tax returns, using emergency funding for the proposed border wall, and making it harder for lowincome immigran
Breaking news. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. We start with breaking news in our political lead, shocking news that the office of the u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york is investigating Rudy Giuliani who himself used to be the u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york. The probe deals with not only potential corruption, but also includes a counterintelligence investigation about whether giuliani helped wealthy foreign figures attempt to influence the white house. Joining me is cnns evan perez and sara murray who broke this story and former federal prosecutor kim whaley whose knew book how to read the constitution and why is out now. The fact there is a counterintelligence component, how stig is that. It is a big deal. Because this means that this goes beyond just runofthemill financial crimes, possible corruption. It means that there is a National Security component that there is that National Security threat component to the investigation and that is
Written by the whistleblower who first raised the alarm in which we learn tonight the white house official used the words crazy and frightening to describe the call. After that july 25th call, according to multiple sources a freakout ensues. National Security Officials began talking about whether the president had cross the a line. White house lawyers were notified and a transcript of the call was later put onto the highly classified server. Again this is new reporting that fleshes out what we know about the call and the efforts that followed. To secure what the key players either seem to know or had reason to fear was a quid pro quo with ukraine. Reporting that adds context to the Text Messages among the american players and their ukraining counterparts over what was specked of ukraine, namely investigating the bidens and a Conspiracy Theory about the 2006 campaign. And now tonight we know more about what went on at a kr crucial moment beginning to play out in the first of september s
He wants to fix loopholes but stresses that the nation has strong background checks and after saying he was weighing a payroll tax cut the president is no longer looking at a payroll tax cut. And k pop revolution. Fans around the world including north koreas kim jongun. But can the dictator stop kpop from luring away defectors. Wolf blitzer is off today. Im brianna keilar, youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Breaking news, President Trump goes off on an extraordinary rant, at times taking on a messy onic tone after re tweeting a conspiracy theorist who chosen one to take on china over its trade practices and attacks jewish democrats and slammed former president obama and using a choice insult for women the president called denmarks Prime Minister nasty for calling his interest in buying greenland absurd. The president zigzagged on guns and background checks and flip flopped on the economy saying hes not looking a tax cut the day after suggesting he was. Il