Gave to his latest ethics scandal, his 13th investigation so far for those keeping score at home. Announcer thi cnn breaking news. Good afternoon. Welcome tothe lead. Im jake tapper. Well start with breaking news in the national lead, Stormy Daniels the saga brewing once again and suing her former attorney Keith Davidson andt tr fixer Michael Cohen in the lawsuit filed today. Stormy daniels claims that davidson, her attorney at the time, betrayed her. That he acted as a puppet for President Trump andichael cohen. Said that cohen hatched plan and tried to get her on fox news in january to lie and to deny having had an affair with President Trump back in 20 Stormy Daniels also claims that President Trump was aware that her old attorney Keith Davidson and Michael Cohen were colluding for President Trumps benefit whiledavidson was still her attorney, purportedly representing her and her interests. Right to m. J. Lee. And does Stormy Daniels, her attorney Michael Avenatti, Stephanie Cliffor
The new Stormy Daniels lawsuit alleging her first lawyer was a you. Ette for donald trump. Plus, is the president s latest grand of the clemency more practice for obstruction in plain sight. I dont want to talk about pardons for Michael Flynn yet. Well see what happens. And about last night the historic wave of women candidates fueling the backlash to trump. Tonight we made history. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The Environmental Protection agency appears to be imploding tonight under the astoundingly corrupt leadership of scott pruitt. Is he now facing a truly remarkable 15 ongoing federal investigations and the Government Accountability office has already found he broke the law by installing a 43,000 phone booth in his office which for the record is one of his relatively minor france greggss. Today, pruitt seemed to admit to an entirely different potential crime that he ordered a top epa aide to contact the ceo of chickfila about a franchis
In france. And thats where he was shooting the latest episode of his awardwinning show. Bourdain was an amazingly gifted storyteller, writer, traveler and chef. His death has come as a complete shock to his family, his friends, his fans around the world. I want to bring in Alex Marquardt for the very latest. Alex . Good morning, pamela. Thats right. This is just stunning news, terrible shock. He was really a giant, not just for those of us at cnn, but for what was a global following. They were drawn in by his storytelling that was unlike anyone else out there. He was distinct in every way. Truly was a unique character with a unique ability to connect and to tell stories that on the surface were about food, but very quickly scratched that surface, revealing whole new worlds to his viewers. Now, cnn did put out a statement in the wake of his death this morning, i want to read part of that. It says his love of great adventure, new friends, fine food and drink and the remarkable stories of
Corker, the Senate Foreign relations chairman, earlier this week. Clearly, wolf, this was a testy phone call that played out between the president and Prime Minister trudeau. Obviously does not set the table very well for this summit coming up this weekend, wolf. Yeah, certainly doesnt. Let me play a clip from canadas foreign minister. She was clearly appalled, as so many other canadians have been, the entire leadership over there, that the president of the United States, was imposing these tariffs on canada because of a National Security threat facing the United States from canada. Listen to this. So what you are saying to us and to all of your nato allies is that we somehow represent a National Security threat to the United States. And i would just say to all of canadas american friends, and there are so many, seriously . So what does this say, jim, about the state of relations between right now arguably the closest ally the United States has, certainly the number one trading partner
On the set we have National Affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc, Jon Heilemann stand beside her and guide her they could give him a prompter. Politics analyst for the daily beast. And the former aide to george w. Bush white house and state department, elise jordan is with us. New poll numbers from nbc news Melania Trump makes an appearance after a long absence. And the president has some interesting tweets about that. Interesting would be he was horrified that the thought that people were wondering. Joe scarbrough had an interesting repast. I liked it. It was brassy. Jon heilemann, it was shocking. Donald trump is correct. I mean john, who in the world would be so cruel, so hateful, who would be so despicable, who would be so utterly lacking in character, to suggest, to to make something up about someone having a facelift for the sole purposes of trying to damage or humiliate them. I know that i mean its nice to finally be able to agree with the president , this guy that ive known f