Procedures not followed before the Texas Church Massacre . Plus, President Trump paging democrats, telling them that rich folks like them would take a bath under his new tax plan as we find out how much the middle class could pay. This is cnn breaking news. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Were going to start with breaking news in the politics lead today. A new cnn poll gauging what americans think of President Trump, with today marking, of course, one year since this nation voted him into the white house. This Progress Report comes one day after many voters showed up on election day to cast an antitrump vote, according to exit polls. Giving democrats key wins in several races. It comes with the president s longest International Trip yet. Stopping in china for todays high stakes. The factors at home that have Many Americans losing confidence in trump. Were going to go to cnn political director David Chalian at the magic wall. David, start with the big pict
Continue to pile up and george takei is the latest to be accused and how tinsel town will crack down. And President Trump is once again trying to pour cold water on the notion that russia meddled in the 2016 u. S. President ial election. Trump was seen speaking with putin while walking to a photo op at the asiapacific economic summit today. One of the multiple chats that Sarah Huckabee sanders said were informal on the way to hanoi, trump was asked by reporters aboard air force one whether he spoke to putin about u. S. Election meddled and he said, he didnt meddle. I asked him can, can you only ask him i can only ask him so many times. He said he absolutely did not meddle in our election. For more details about the meeting this morning. Lets bring in chris jansing. They were so close, the president kept carefully on message for a week and then in the past few days he views off script. Reporter well you would think he would be talking about trade which is a big message he had here. Mayb
Huh, all right. Trump style. Theres as we know, willie, Christmas Tree from comcast. Its all very moving. Always a tear or two in our eyes. But, you know, still, its something, yesterday, shock waves still over what happened in alabama with doug jones, people still talk to me about it. How it may same the election. You still got a tax bill thats up in the air. Donald trump, once again, strangely, embracing his, or actually his most reliable political allie Vladimir Putin. It was a twoway street yesterday. Vladimir putin gave that press conference, praising President Trump. He gave vlad sld a cal vladim putin a call. Dont fideutsche is with us. Senator at large lee gallagher, columnist and associate editor for the Washington Post David Ignacious and White House Reporter for usa today heidi pryzbilla. Mika has the morning you a. Joe, i want to go to a piece in the Washington Post titled newtonian physics. And joe, we have tim ryan, congressman tim ryan coming on in a few minutes. The Dem
The Virginia Governor, Democrat Ralph Northam is ignoring calls for his resignation by fellow democrats from the top to the bottom of his party. Demands that only intensified after the governor bizarrely changed his explanation about that racist photo from his 1984 medical School Yearbook page. Now northam insists hes not in the photo which depicts someone in blackface next to a person dressed in ku klux klan robes. I finally had a chance to sit down and look at the photograph in detail. It is definitely not me. I can tell by looking at it. That was a total contradiction of what northam admitted hours before when he said he was deeply sorry for the decision i made to appear as i did in this photo, unquote. Northam did reveal yesterday his vivid memory of wearing blackface on a different occasion that year at a dance contest where he dressed as Michael Jackson and colored his face with shoe polish. Marking the first time in american political history that a politician attempted to expla
Neck . Plus, tomorrow, super bowl will be historical in american gambling history. Thanks to a Supreme Court ruling, bets on the game are now legal in eight states and soon sports gambling could go nationwide, will this make sports better or worse . But first, i love our country. I am seriously thinking of running for president as a centrist independent, for tweeting and repeating that sent its, Howard Schultz the former ceo of starbucks received a remarkable public spanking this week. Just look alt these headlines. Instead of applauding the willingness of a 65yearold accomplished businessman and legitimate billionaire to enter the arena, he was lamb basted and literally heckled. At a book event this week in new york city, schultz endured this. You gotist cal billionaire [ bleep ]. R. He was peppered with questions, asked a ridiculous riddle about the price of cheerios in the hope he will be heckled out of the race, concern came from democrats that his presence in the race would lead t