I havent heard mueller say a word in a year. The lead starts right now twitter, pressure, President Trump calling on his Attorney General to quote stop the investigation into himself and his team. He may have given the Special Counsel all new evidence in the property sechlts a lead exclusive, something that may have been unthinkable the tsa considering ending security screening at 150 airports in this country to save money. Is this what President Trump meant by make america safe again . Plus from the target corners of the web to the trump rally who are the fringe theorists who call themselves qanon. Hello, im jake tapper, President Trump escalating the russia version going each further in his calls to shut down a Law Enforcement investigation into his team, far
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Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. The senator from maryland. Senator, good to see you. Thank you for joining us. What do you make of that quite unexpected News Conference today . It did seem Like Full Court press, agreeing with the fact there was interference, there is interference, and i wasnt as confident that we know exactly what were supposed to do about it, but it seemed like everybody in that room seemed to agree this is something we have to deal with. First, its good to be with you. Youre exactly right, it was very clear that russia interfered in our 2016 elections and it was acknowledged that it was mr. Putin, the russian government, that was behind that. They acknowledged that this campaign is continuing both in trying to influence how voters vote as well as we are concerned that they may even go into our election apparatus. No evidence that theyre doing that yet, but they are certainly exploring that. That was very clear. And they laid o
you realize there s actually a really broken there s a problem in the president s logic here. and, in fact, the logic of trying to decide to single out ukraine instead of russia. and it is this. okay. let s if if you re going to say it s ukraine that stole the dnc e-mails, then ukraine helped donald trump win the election, not russia. either way, it is an admittance that a foreign power helped defeat hilary clinton. because by doing this, you re acknowledging a foreign power hacked into the dnc. so there there s sort of a doesn t the president s defense here have a problem? absolutely. to the extent that you have the president saying that it is ukraine, not russia, that has assisted the republican side, it is very problematic in terms of why you have the united states president making that claim. we know that the russian president wants to foist this office, as fiona hill so clearly said. but when it was just the president saying russia didn t
the operation was of course two years before but documentary evidence she committed perjury. i have four witnesses who will testify that she personally turned down their visas because they were going to come here and give evidence either against biden were against the democratic party. there is no question that she was acting corruptly in that position and had to be removed. she should have been fired at the state department were not part of the deep state. laura: but i have a question, pompeo and i know you have an enormous amount of respect for secretary of state. you know, i certainly do. why doesn t the president go to pompeo, we have concerns. i want my own person. the president puts their own people and all the time, big deal. so why does it go to the president to pompeo and why does it go from you it didn t go from me to the president. the first one to go to the president was pete sessions, and a number member of congress who said he would be impeached. when i interviewed
years before but documentary evidence she committed perjury. i have four witnesses who will testify that she personally turned down their visas because they were going to come here and give evidence either against biden were against the democratic party. there is no question that she was acting corruptly in that position and had to be removed. she should have been fired at the state department were not part of the deep state. laura: but i have a question, pompeo and i know you have an enormous amount of respect for secretary of state. you know, i certainly do. why doesn t the president go to pompeo, we have concerns. i want my own person. the president puts their own people and all the time, big deal. so why does it go to the president to pompeo and why does it go from you it didn t go from me to the president. the first one to go to the president was pete sessions, and a number member of congress who said he would be impeached.