Firstterm congresswomen, President Trump and the republicans have sent the biggest sign yet that 2020 will be a racially divisive reprise of the strategy that mr. Trump narrowed captured the white house in 2016. He might be the only person in the political arena now and ever for whom a weeklong race scandal that ends in a congressional rebuke is better than the other headlines out there about him. Headlines like this one on his chummy relationship accused child sex trafficker jeffrey epstein. Nbc enurged footage of donald trump welcoming epstein in his maralago estate in 1992. Donald trump knew the cameras were there. In the video he makes a point to draw epsteins attention to them. The video captures donald trump and epstein chatting while watching a group of women at the party dance. Its not an image that matches trumps declaration that he was not a fan of epsteins. The other potential dilemma from the president , news earlier today that the Campaign Finance investigation out of the
Erratic conflictweary tweeter drawing conclusions from it than in chief. This former official points to we are. And there is no denying that Donald Trumps obvious disadvantage against an everyone who talks to him socially or comes in contact adversary like iran as trump is with him talking to him off the phone to lack any interest in record about his relationship policy as well as lacking a team with kim jongun, he is someone to carry out a coherent policy who is proud of the fact that he at a moment this fraught. Even the president s tweets on has not gotten this country into the topic which sound like part military conflicts. What he sees as the biggest news alert, part savor rattling and part differential to the mistakes of the last republican president. Here he was talking in the oval saudis confirm concerns about office on a related question. His ability to navigate this no. Flash point. I dont want war with anybody. Saudi arabia oil supply was but were prepared more than attacked
It is thursday, october 24th, im yasmin vossoughian. Ayman mohyeldin is out sick this morning. We begin with the wake of the escalating impeachment fight, republican strategy for defending President Trump, defending, growing more frantic by the day. On capitol hill yesterday a group of gop lawmakers stormed the secure room where a deposition was set to take place, a House Intelligence Committee official telling nbc news more than two dozen republican members participated. The testimony of laura cooper, the top pentagon official overseeing u. S. Policy toward ukraine was delayed by five hours, because of the outburst. House Intelligence Committee chair adam schiff suggested the demonstration was a response to ambassador bill taylors explosive testimony just the day before. Watch this. The testimony yesterday, they have been successful in stopping witnesses from cooperating. And so the president has elicited allies on the hill to see what they could do to stop the witnesses but we will g
War veteran and cnn contributor with a passion on the subject will join me this hour. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with the breaking news. Two of Rudy Giulianis socalled expert witnesses to find alleged corruption by trumps opponents were arrested today by the u. S. Department of justice for, quote, corrupt behavior. Led barnas. Said his ukrainian operation is to help his client, the president. They were arrested at Dulles Airport last night holding oneway tickets out of the country, according to two u. S. Officials, prompting prosecutors to today unseal this indictment that claims that they were funneling foreign money into u. S. Elections, which is, of course, a crime. In may 2018 they funneled 300,000 to America First action, the main protrump reelection super pac. They did so in a way that the vus Department Says was intend to, quote, evade the reporting requirements in federal election law. A white house visit for the now defendants soon followed. And just yesterd
Other peoples wars. I want to get out of the middle east. I think lindsay should focus now on judiciary. The people of South Carolina dont want us to get into a war with turkey, a nato member or syria. Let them fight their own wars. They have been fighting a thousand years. Let them fight their own wars. The people of South Carolina want to see their troops come home. You dont think the people is worried about isis . You mentioned earlier, some of the countries might hate isis worse than the United States . Oh, absolutely. Russia. Russia hates isis as much as the United States does. There is more. The president if that moment is being asked to a response earlier from senator lindsey graham, usually one of his staunchest allies, he rejected the president s insistence today the kurds are longtime allies overseas. He called them not angels. Listen to this. Hes making the biggest mistake of his presidency by assuming the kurds are better off today than theyre yesterday. That is just unbeli