canceled meeting the white house, no longer hosting israeli officials after prime minister benjamin the ten you publicly posted a video criticizing the us for withholding weapons shipments plus safety in the sky families of passage killed in to boeing plane crashes and whistleblowers pushing for more accountability as boeing ceo says, he s proud of the company s record. will speak to a whistleblower live, who says he got off a plane when he realized it was a 737 max. and extreme weather across the nation in new mexico, thousands of people are racing to escape to wildfires. at least one person has died in the number of destroyed buildings has just tripled in just a few hours hello, i m wolf blitzer in washington and you re in the cnn newsroom all that coming up. and let s begin with some breaking news. the weather system churning in the gulf of mexico, right now and it just got elevated to a tropical storm, becoming the first named storm of the atlantic hurricane season. n
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. It is now under way. The director of National Intelligence said in a recent speech that the Warning Lights are blinking red and the Digital Infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack. And here we see the incursions coming. Russian hackers have now already targeted at least three candidates in this years 2018 midterms. Reports one of the targets is missouri democratic senator Claire Mccaskill. So highway donald trump doubts much of this is even occurring, his pentagon chief does say there are secret actions now underway to combat it. What is the government doing to halt russian interference in the next elections . Yeah, im not at liberty to explain what were doing in that regard. Just rest assured there are actions under way to protect our elections or to exposeness
now the question is whether trump lied about the worst possible thing, not the pr afterward, but whether donald trump took actions or
Trump got updates on the whole of government approach his administration is implementing to safeguard our nations elections. The president has made it clear that his administration will not tolerate foreign interference in our elections from any nation state or other malicious actors. That kind of Paper Statement is a contrast to trumps actual words in helsinki where trump sided with the russian president over his own Intelligence Agencies on the question of whether russia interfered in the u. S. Election. That was the Press Conference where putin brought back an idea these two leaders had apparently talked about, a joint u. S. russian Cyber Security group to investigate Russian Election meddling. Sort of like having el chapo join up with the dea to fight drug trafficking. Now this quite absurd plan to team up with the only country whose own agents have been charged for 2016 interference first came up you may remember all the way last summer when trump wrote that he and putin discussed
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that are reasonable. donald is part of a group of people who think they re special. they re above the law. they don t have to play by these rules. the new york times points out there are echos of his father s tactics on taxes. the first criminal prosecution harkens back to fred trump s purchase of boilers in the 1990s which he had allowed other people to take a cut of as untaxed compensation and a whole bunch of corner cutting that was laid bear in the times investigation that appears to have been started long before donald trump took over the company. well, that s why it s important to recognize this is the first indictment. it is not the last indictment. and there are likely going to be others. and if allen was getting these deals, then what kind of deals were don jr. and eric and ivanka