Over private plane use . Plus a racist attack at the prep school, prompting the attorney general to tlifr thdels message. And if you cant treat someone from another race or different color skin with dignity and respect, then you need to get out. Well have more on the speech that everyone is talking about today. Good afternoon everyone. Welcome to the the lead im jake tapper well again with the national lead. Crisis in puerto rico and growing division between the island and washington d. C. Its a chasm that almost seems to match the actual ocean and distance ta separates the two. In puerto rico this morning, some good news, some reports of progress. We have 36 hospitals that have been open that are either in power by generation or powered by diesel with the effort of hhs and leadership o fema, diesel has been able to be distributed to all these hospitals. We have been able in the last couple of days to distribute around the island over 2 million liters of water, and close to 1 million m
Well, the question this hour, did russian money flow into the 2016 Trump Campaign . Cnn has learned special Counsel Robert Mueller wants to find out and has been making aggressive moves to find out. Explain what youve learned about what mueller has been doing. Well, anderson, what weve learned so far is that muellers team is now targeting certain russian oligarchs and theyve actually stopped two of them when theyve landed in the u. S. On their private planes recently, in the past month. And for one of those oligarchs, muellers team had asked them for questions and also had searched one of their Electronic Devices. The other oligarch was also stopped, and weve also learned that one other oligarch, who is in russia, was asked to provide voluntarily documents and give an interview to special counsel muellers team. Were not sure if hes going to do that, but we do know now that as part of this investigation into whether russia meddled in the election and if there was any collusion with the
Well, the question this hour, did russian money flow into the 2016 Trump Campaign . Cnn has learned special Counsel Robert Mueller wants to find out and has been making aggressive moves to find out. Explain what youve learned about what mueller has been doing. Well, anderson, what weve learned so far is that muellers team is now targeting certain russian oligarchs and theyve actually stopped two of them when theyve landed in the u. S. On their private planes recently, in the past month. And for one of those oligarchs, muellers team had asked them for questions and also had searched one of their Electronic Devices. The other oligarch was also stopped, and weve also learned that one other oligarch, who is in russia, was asked to provide voluntarily documents and give an interview to special counsel muellers team. Were not sure if hes going to do that, but we do know now that as part of this investigation into whether russia meddled in the election and if there was any collusion with the
Around an hour or so after the governor asked for it. This was something no one could have possibly seen coming. This is again extraordinary reporting by jane mayier and ronan farrow at the new yorker. Jane mayer is going to join us in a bit to tell us how this came about. This raises big political questions in new york state. You referred to the notoriously insane new york city state legislature, which many would call a charitable description. And it falls to them now to choose the next attorney general. Thats right. At a time when attorneys general are always powerful jobs, important jobs, in new york state the attorney general position has been a high profile job, a stepping tone to the governor, and has a higher profile than usual because of the whats been reported as a cooperative relationship twine between Eric Schneiderman and the special counsels office. They could be pursued as a state matters and there was a question if that might happen through schneidermans office if the pr
Allegations in the last hour and a half or so and that resignation was delivered right around an hour or so after the governor asked for it. This was something no one could have possibly seen coming. This is again extraordinary reporting by jane mayier and ronan farrow at the new yorker. Jane mayer is going to join us in a bit to tell us how this came about. This raises big political questions in new york state. You referred to the notoriously insane new york city state legislature, which many would call a charitable description. And it falls to them now to choose the next attorney general. Thats right. At a time when attorneys general are always powerful jobs, important jobs, in new york state the attorney general position has been a high profile job, a stepping tone to the governor, and has a higher profile than usual because of the whats been reported as a cooperative relationship twine attorney gener between Eric Schneiderman and the special counsels office. They could be pursued a