Martha thank you very much john and sandra pack a Beautiful Day here in lower manhattan. Good afternoon everyone in martha maccallum. Today the story is live outside the Manhattan Courthouse where former President Trump is standing trial in the Stormy Daniels case. I was inside throughout this mornings proceedings and i will tell you a bit about what we heard in their. Part of the business from this morning was the judge hearing the latest on the remaining gag order violations he is considering and later we heard some pretty hellacious backandforth questioning peer heated moments were interesting, it became an interested interesting witness in Keith Davidson. He brokered the deals for Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougall but he really got his feet help to the fire by both sides. So, also today on the other big story weve followed all week for you, today we heard from the former and current president. They addressed the chaos unfolding in the Early Morning hours at ucla and across the cou
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One 2020 candidate who now supports starting an impeachment inquiry. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with our politics lead and a shocking admission by President Trump that he and some of his allies are now working hard to pretend he did not say or mean. After years of insisting there was no collusion, that he and his campaign did not receive any damaging information about Hillary Clinton from an american adversary, the russian government, the president stunned the political world last night by saying he would be perfectly willing to collude in 2020. Mr. Trump directly saying, yes, if a Foreign National or Foreign Government wants to share dirt with him about a political opponent, he wants to hear it. Your campaign this time around, if foreigners, if russia, if china, if someone else offers you information on an opponent, should they accept it or call the fbi . I think you do both. You might want to listen. Theres nothing wrong with listening. If somebody called from a co
All the big headlines. The president s chief of staff allegedly directed the quid pro quo on ukraine. That is according to testimony released today from two key white house officials. Is there any way that Mick Mulvaney wasnt following the president s orders . Also tonight Rudy Giuliani arguing that is the president s personal attorney, is he helping or hurting his client . And were now just days away from the first public televised hearings in the impeachment investigation into President Trump. Were going to break down what to expect. Plus the president according to africanamerican voters today, his pitch focused on immigration, claiming democrats are fighting harder for Illegal Immigrants than the black community. And an anonymous author behind the new book called a warning claims that a group of senior Trump Officials planned a mass resignation last year but ultimately decided against it. Susan, you first. Hill and vindmans testimony clearly points a finger at Mick Mulvaney for dire
Thats a good one. Thats corny. I was laughing when you came to me because i had the picture of air force one backing up over rudy. Of the president throwing him under air force one. If someone said to me, hey, don, is chris still your friend . And he said, i dont know. I havent spoken to him. What does that mean . Nothing good. It doesnt mean anything good. Can i Say Something . People will get mad at me. Oh, nobody will hear. Can we please have a fireside chat . I want a fireside chat. What is the president s ability to read the whole transcript without pausing to comment . Youre reading my mind. It would be so amazing. Im laughing. And i say, i would like you to do us a favor. A favor. I didnt expect just a favor. Let me go on. What i meant when i wrote this book, by the way, i wrote 12 books and they were all great. It would be really amazing. Were laughing but its serious. When fdr did it, they would talk about fascism and all that. It was about galvanizing the country around the c