Thats all the time we have. I hand it over to don lemon. 360 will be back tomorrow. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. The magnitude of this day is unbelievable. It is historic. It is a moment when our country is on the brink. On the brink of what could turn into a constitutional crisis and potentially on the brink of military acts in syria. A furious President Trump surrounded by grimfaced military leaders in what was planned to be a meeting of syria, his arms folded, blasted the fbi raid today on his personal attorney Michael Cohen. I just heard that they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys, good man,
and its a disgraceful situation. Its a total witch hunt. Ive been saying it for a long time. Ive wanted to keep it down. Weve given, i believe, over a million pages worth of documents to the Special Counsel. So let me be absolutely clear about this. The president is absolutely wrong. Nobody broke into Michael Cohens office. And nobody, not even the president , is above
although, we are in a brave new world. you can say a lot of things. seriously. could he come back to congress? maybe a senator? sure. could he run for governor? sure. anything is possible. he is only 48 years old. a lot of options. jackie, thank you. cnn has learned the president s national security team will meet at the white house today to hammer out a strategy on syria. uk officials are expected to do something similar in london. on wednesday, president trump tweeted get ready, russia, missiles will be coming. meaning toward syria. there was no plan in place for a response. here is press secretary sarah sanders defending the president s threat. we are maintaining we have a number of options and all of those options are still on the table. the president says get ready, russia, they will be coming. the missiles are coming. how is that anything but an announcement of pending air strike?
that is not the only option. cnn s arwa damon is tracking the latest from istanbul. at this point, it is not a question of if, but when. reporter: it really does seem that way. a lot of people were taken by surprise when it came to the president s tweet. especially given how contrary it runs to military strategy in terms of secrecy. there is a bit of diplomacy happening with trump talking to president erdogan. not a lot about what they spoke about, but the two remained in close contact as the situation continues to develop. turkey, of course, is in a unique situation in a sense it is a nato ally, but it has open communications to russia and iran. syria, itself, also und
get ready in the tweet. here is press secretary sarah sanders defending the threat. maintaining that we have a number of options and all of the options are still on the table. the president says get ready, russia, they will be coming. missiles are coming. how is that anything but an announcement of a pending air strike? certainly one option. that doesn t mean it is the only option or the only thing the president may or may not do. cnn s arwa damon is cracking latest from ice is tracking the latest from istanbul. how is that playing out? reporter: we just received news reported by turkey s state run news agency. they are saying president erdogan is speaking some point today with president putin. specifically how to stop the chemical massacre taking place in syria. turkey is in an interesting position. on the one hand they are a nato ally and they have been adamant
agenda and we want to get it done and we know it will make a difference. that is what we were elected to do. paul ryan rose to prominence as a sharp pencil deficit hawk. he touted his role in the tax cuts. he helped pass the tax cuts to balloon the deficit in 2020. ryan s departure is a real blow to republicans who saw him as a stable policy driven leader. the house gop faces a months long battle for leadership as it deals with the upcoming mid terms in november. among the contenders are kevin mccarthy and steve scalise. they both appeared alongside ryan with this photo tweeted out by president trump. thumb s up. big smiles. what a lineup. we have cnn analyst jackie cucinich. good morning. we heard paul ryan and he