Dropping. When you realize how big and how much of an effort now that the fbi is taking on in trying to sort of disrupt some of this. The American Public has to have confidence in the Voting Process in this country, josh campbell, and you say seeing all of those intel chiefs was a great step. Absolutely. We heard a lot of specifics here today. But theres also there symbolic effort which is so important for the American People to see. This united front. Seeing the intelligence chiefs standing there and telling the American People we take this threat seriously. Those of us who cover the Intelligence Community know they take it seriously but the public has to hear it. There are too many challenges they are focusing on. Physical infrastructure security, the voting systems, ensuring confidence in those systems. But then also countering these foreign influence Operation Sway her can y herculean task. Even if no vote is changed, if
foreign adversaries can persuade the American People that the
The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. The battle to save lives as President Trump sends a tweet about the fire that baffles even his own staff about the cause of it all. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. In the politics lead, rick gates, former number two on the Trump Campaign grilled right now about the plea deal by Defense Attorneys for former Trump Campaign chair Paul Manafort. Gates describing today in vivid detail of he says manafort engineered an elaborate scheme to avoid taxes. Prosecutors say manaforts own emails show him directing the money to multiple offshore accounts. Now, although conspireing with russia on the 2016 election is not officially on the docket, the sub text of it is looming over the trial. Gates says that manafort gave some control over a bank account in cyprus of a man of a
up until 2012 for consulting work for a ukrainian billionaire. Gates went into detail about how Shell
tightening! the frenzy surrounding the hinging on the word of his former attorney, michael cohen. if this michael cohen when evidence stands up, if michael cohen does stand up to this, this is a potentially huge, potentially something that could prove the president colluded, and that is an impeachable offense. laura: girl, max headroom! who could forget the goofballs predicting a story peddled by a porn star could topple trump? if it seems to be credible, that could bring down this presidency. laura: oh, donnie. throughout all of it, the media s massive heart pounding buildup of the mueller probe. we are seeing the collusion piece of this piece by piece starting to be built out. the president looks like somebody who is increasingly desperate. laura: the crisis cliches
laura: the noose is tightening! the frenzy surrounding the hinging on the word of his former attorney, michael cohen. if this michael cohen when evidence stands up, if michael cohen does stand up to this this is a potentially huge potentially something that could prove the president colluded and that is an impeachable offense. laura: go, max headroom! who could forget the goofballs predicting a story peddled by a porn star could topple trump? if it seems to be credible that could bring down this presidency. laura: oh, donnie. throughout all of it, the media s massive heart pounding buildup of the mueller probe. we are seeing the collusion piece of this piece by piece starting to be built out. the president looks like somebody who is increasingly desperate. laura: the crisis cliches nevere stopped. it feels like we are finally at a tipping point. the walls are closing in on
country wants to take this country through impeachment and i m sure that is part of the lens through which the speak are holds her responsibility. as you mentioned, i have asked for, called for an impeachment inquiry at the point that don mcgahn failed to answer a lawful subpoena. but the president thinking about it in terms of a political calculation or helping him win re-election, who would want to win re-election for the presidency on the damning evidence that is contained within the mueller report? i can t imagine it. if i do just comment on the collusion piece yes, i know. i almost got to the point of show me the page. page two. there is no on the report that says no collusion, that was my point to him. and if the president had taken the time to read into as far as page two, mr. mueller spells out very clearly that the purpose of his investigation was not to look for collusion because that is not a legally chargeable thing.