Down. Sounds seedy and weird, of course it is. Still not the strangest thing happening in washington right now. Tonight we have more on the ongoing saga of the trump dossier. Senators Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham have launched a probe into former National Security advisor susan rice. In the very final minutes of the obama administration, just afternoon on Inauguration Day 2017, rice sent herself an email on the white house computer system. In it she describes a meeting she had attended just two weeks before on january 5th. At that meeting were president obama, Vice President joe biden, fbi director jim comey, deputy a. G. Sally yates and susan rice herself. According to rice in this email, obama instructed the officials in the room to consider Withholding National intelligence from the Incoming Trump administration in case they were compromised by russia. In other words, almost two months after the president ial election, barack obama viewed trump not as his democratically elected
How can he serve all americans . This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Meanwhile trump insisting he was against the iraq war from the beginning and he says his interview with esquire magazine proves it. And in august of 2004, very early in the conflict, extremely early in the conflict, right at the beginning, i made a detailed statement in an interview to esquire magazine. Tonight the writer who did that interview tells me what else trump said. Plus libertarian candidate gary johnson finds himself in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. What would you do if you were elected about aleppo . About . Aleppo. And what is aleppo . Youre kidding . No. Will johnsons voters jump ship and who will get their support . I want to go to executive editor mark preston. Were doing to talk about that. What a stunning moment. I saw it happening live. Lets talk about the fallout from last nights military forum, a lot of backandforth attacks today. Does any of this change the state of this race . I think
This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Meanwhile trump insisting he was against the iraq war from the beginning and he says his interview with Esquire Magazine proves it. And in August Of 2004, very early in the conflict, extremely early in the conflict, right at the beginning, i made a detailed statement in an interview to Esquire Magazine. Tonight the writer who did that interview tells me what else trump said. Plus libertarian candidate gary johnson finds himself in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. What would you do if you were elected about aleppo . About . Aleppo. And what is aleppo . Youre kidding . No. Will johnsons voters jump ship and who will get their support . I want to go to executive editor mark preston. Were going to talk about that, but what a stunning moment that was. I saw it happening live. Lets talk about this fallout, lots of fallout from last nights military forum, a lot of back and forth attacks today. Does any of this change the state of this race . I think
but i m speaking to the vast majority of the american people, as well as to the press. we do not have time for this kind of silliness. we ve got better stuff to do. i think for a long time he treated those attacks as yet another example of how stupid politics could be, that politics is a game that, you know, it s filled with name-calling and insults. i think the birther stuff from trump got to him. i don t know if it made him angry, because i never really saw him get angry. my fellow americans. but clearly, when we were writing a speech for the white house correspondents dinner mahalo. we decided to make sure
our current president came out of nowhere, came out of nowhere. in fact, i ll go a step further. the people that went to school with him, they don t even know him. they never saw him. they don t know who he is. crazy. i heard birther this and i kept saying, what is birther, to people. like, what is this birther stuff? well, you know, because barack obama wasn t born in hawaii. what do you mean he wasn t born in hawaii? hey, guys, i got a whole 300-and-something classmates that we all grew up together to. people have birth certificates. he doesn t have a birth certificate. now, he may have one, but there s something on that birth certificate, maybe religion. maybe it says he s a muslim. i don t know. long ago, the president did release a certificate of live birth, which many nonpartisan watchdog groups say definitively