Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. This story about the russian bounty on american troops in afghanistan was obviously only going to grow from where we were last night, and it seems like the sources on this story, the sources were speaking to, the New York Times, nbc news and to others, are basically staying a step or two ahead of the white house. The white house comes one a position or denial for the president , and then the sources come out with more information to show how absurd the White House Position is as of that day. Thats what weve been living through, i guess, since friday night. Thats right. That all of the denials and the stepping around it and the trying to down play it has successively been defeated by the next round of reporting. As all this comes out in terms of the specificity of it, in terms of whether or not it was put in a written briefing, in terms of when that might have happened. All of their denials have now been beaten by the next round of facts. I
The sources on this story, the sources that were speaking to the New York Times, nbc news, and to others, are basically staying a step or two ahead of the white house. The white house comes out with a position or denial for the president , and then the sources come out with more information to show how absurd the White House Position is as of that day. Thats what weve been living through, i guess, since friday night. Thats right. That all of the denials and the stepping around it and the trying to downplay it has successively been defeated by the next round of reporting. As all this comes out in terms of the specificity of it, in terms of whether or not it was put in a written briefing, in terms of when that might have happened. All of their denials have now been beaten by the next round of facts. I dont know how long the president can keep avoiding talking about this. Or assuming people are going to stop covering it, especially as the story keeps developing. Were going to be joined by
Picture of trump on his plane talking on the phone with his running mate, mike pence, as adviser, former new york city mayor, Rudy Giuliani, the only major supporter of donald trump who made the sunday talk show rounds was also on that plane. Rnc chairman Reince Priebus there as well. All of this amid the extraordinarily upheaval created by friday nights release of that 2005 tape in which donald trump brags in vulgar terms about groping women. Trump then issuing that latenight apology hours after the video was elireleased, his apology posted online, but also lashing out at bill clinton in that video. This morning, donald trump taking aim at the dozens of republicans rescinding their support of him, tweeting so many selfrighteous hypocrites. Watch their poll numbers and elections go down. The rejection by fellow republicans kept coming today. I thought about years from now when my daughter kate is old enough to know what is in those tapes and understand what he is talking about, i want
Mechanical. I personally dont think thats even a question, personally. So well see what happens. Do you think it was shot down by accident . I dont know. Thats up to them. At some point theyll release the black box. Ideally theyll get it to boeing, but if they gave it to france or some other country, that would be okay, too. I think ideally that will be released. I have a feeling that its just some very terrible something very terrible happened, very devastating. Joining us now from tehran is Cnn Senior International correspondent Fred Pleitgen along with cnns Richard Quest from beirut. Tell us, fred, what else were learning. Reporter hi, brianna. We managed to get in touch with irans civil authority, and this is the first time theres been an official comment by an iranian official on this matter. We confronted him with this intelligence that weve been hearing about, that its potentially the shootdown on this plane accidentally, as it apparently is being said, by the iranians. Now, he
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