Out there of tapes. Refusing to say if he has recordings of conversations in the oval office. A lot to discuss now. I want to get straight to white house correspondent, athena jones. Political analyst, carl bernstein. Political commentator, David Swerdlick. National political reporter, maeve reston. Good evening to all of you. Athena, im going to start with you because this is a day after the former fbi director comey, his bombshell testimony, President Trump is fighting back. He certainly is punching back, don. After comey repeatedly called the president a liar during his testimony yesterday, the president now saying the former fbi director is the one whos being untruthful. The president arguing that parts of comeys testimony completely vindicate him, while other parts are lies. And hes also accusing comey of leaking his own notes. Watch some of what the president had to say in that press conference today. This morning on twitter, you were referring to the testimony of james comey vin
Russia probe and attacking comey, himself. No collusion, no obstruction. Hes a leaker. Hes saying he never asked for comeys loyalty at that now infamous dinner meeting. I hardly know the man. Im not going to say, i want you to pledge allegiance. So, dangling the possibility out there of tapes. Refusing to say if he has recordings of conversations in the oval office. A lot to discuss now. I want to get straight to White House Correspondent athena jones, political analyst carl bernstein, political commentator David Swerdlick, National Political reporter, mave reston. Good evening to all of you. Athena, im going to start with you because this is a day after the former fbi director comey, his bombshell testimony, President Trump is fighting back. He certainly is punching back, don. After comey repeatedly called the president a liar during his testimony yesterday, the president now saying the former fbi director is the one whos being untruthful. The president arguing that parts of comeys te
Says shes very satisfied with the governments response. Anybody else think that sounds a lot like heck of a job, brownie . Lets go right do our cnn exclusive. A twitter and facebook account disguised to look like they were run by the same black activist were run by russians. Part of the material being handed over to congress in its investigation into the russian meddling in the president ial election in 2016. The accounts, both called blacktivist posted i ha eed vid. This says watch another savage video of police brutality. We live under a system of racism and police are directly letting us know how they feel and where they stand. Our Senior Reporter for media and politics is dilan buyers and joins me right now. Also Mark Jacobson of georgetown university. Thank you all for joining us. Mark and dilan, welcome back to the show. Dilan, these posts were all designed by the russians to amplify racial tensions here in the u. S. Thats absolutely right, don. It gives you an idea what the russ
Blacktivist posted videos. This says watch another savage video of police brutality. We live under a system of racism and police are directly letting us know how they feel and where they stand. Our Senior Reporter for media and politics is dilan buyers and joins me right now. Also Mark Jacobson of georgetown university. Thank you all for joining us. Mark and dilan, welcome back to the show. Dilan, these posts were all designed by the russians to amplify racial tensions here in the u. S. Thats absolutely right, don. It gives you an idea what the russian strategy was, and also how well the russians understood the sort of political and cultural flashpoints for us. I want to bring up something about the russian motivation here thats significant, and something that many of your the experts you had on in the past hour alluded to, which is this. This is so much bigger than the 2016 campaign, although it certainly may have had ramifications for 2016 campaign. What this is really about is a rus
That in the wake of the worst terror attack in new york since 9 11 the president is back on some of his Favorite Campaign themes today talking tough on immigration and terror. We have to get much tougher. We have to get much smarter. And we have to get much less politically correct. So lets get right to cnns political reporter henderson, senior White House Correspondent jeff zeleny and david swerdlick. Good evening to all of you. Welcome to the program. Jeff, you have new reporting tonight about how muellers indictments and guilty plea are impacting trump and the folks around him. What can you tell us about that . Don, we do. We know the president , of course, is preparing for really the biggest and most complicated International Trip of his presidency. He leaves friday for asia, a 12 day trip across asia. Five countries, of course, north korea at the center of all of this, the Rising Nuclear threat there. So of course this week was intended to be one to, you know, give him briefings,