And twitter says enough is enough for alex jones. Booted from the social platform. Also the nfl season got under way late last night. Super bowl champs opening defense. Welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. Im christine romans. It is friday, september 7th. 4 00 a. M. In the east. It is friday. It wasnt me. Repeated denials after the scathing anonymous senior official oped. Calling the oped sophomore and they were printed out and rolling in to the president. The white house closer to finding out who the author is. The administration has a dozen names on its list. Melania trump weighing in and calling it cowardly saying he or she is sabotaging the country. She cites the response of the free press. Senator rand paul offered this stunning idea. I think if you have a security clearance in the white house, i think it would be acceptable to use a Lie Detector Test and ask people if they are talking to the media against the policy of the white house. Smoke them out. Lib s libertarian rand pa
Hour also to discuss a new whistleblower emerging at the irs who may be reporting something about the president s tax returns. And at the end of the hour well take a look at how Vice President mike pences week is going as he is now sinking deeper and deeper into the mud of the investigation of his boss. We begin tonight with the president s solicitation of Reelection Campaign help from ukraine. The smoking guns are really piling up in that case. We already have a smoking gun in the president s phone call to the president of ukraine, the rough transcript of that in which the president solicited ukraines help in his Reelection Campaign by asking ukraine to investigate joe biden. Once again today, again the president publicly solicited help from ukraine by publicly asking ukraine to investigate joe biden. So thats a second smoking gun on the ukraine case. But each time the president solicits ukraine for help in his Reelection Campaign, he is actually committing a new crime. Its like robbi
It is friday, december 27th, im ayman mohyeldin, yasmin has the morning off. We begin with President Trump. Still lashing out over impeachment, while on vacation at the maralago resort, the president tweeted or retweeted 35 times yesterday, attacking democrats, House Speaker nancy pelosi, and the districts she represents. In one post, he claimed, quote, the radical left, do nothing democrats, said they wanted to rush everything through to the senate because President Trump is a threat to the national security. They are vicious, will say anything, but now they dont want to go fast anymore. They want to go very slowly. Liars. He also tweeted despite all of the Great Success that our country has had over the last three years, it makes it much more difficult to deal with foreign leaders and others when im having to constantly defend myself against the do nothing democrats and their bogus impeachment scam. Bad for usa. And on pelosis home state, the president said quote, california leads th
Days to the iowa caucuses. Breaking news overnight, more than a dozen People Killed in a crash in kazakhstan. 93 passengers and 5 crew members were onboard the bek air flight that went down just after takeoff. Nathan hodge is live in moscow. What do we know about what happened to this flight . Reporter abby, a horrific scene in kazakhstan, where the plane operated by bek air crashed after takeoff. The flight only stayed in the air for seconds, really, before it hit the ground. And fragmented and crashed through a concrete wall and hit a twostory building. First responders have been on the scene and have pulled them out and taken them to local hospitals. At this stage, 15 people have died, including the captain of the aircraft. And were getting more reports about how authorities plan to respond, including barring further flights by that company, bek air, as well as grounding the aircraft. Thanks, nathan. Also breaking overnight, the coast guard is searching for seven people on a missing
Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We start with the politics lead and the strategy of the white house and allies of spinning, dismissing and outright lying to the American People on full display today as the impeachment investigation expands. Democrats slap brandnew subpoenas on the trump administration. Today the three house committees leading the charge on impeachment, intelligence, oversight and Foreign Affairs subpoenaed both the president s defense secretary and his budget chief, not only demanding documents about his interactions with ukraine and his with holding of hundreds of Million Dollars in military aid for ukraine and also information on the Rudy Giuliani and the ways in which giuliani pressured ukrainian officials to investigate joe and hunter biden on behalf of President Trump. Kaitlan collins kicks off our coverage from the white house. Reporter as House Democrats ramped up peach tod the impeachment inquiry today, President Trump tried to turn the fire storm around o