Tantrum. Hes contradicting his sons original story about the Trump Tower Meeting with russians saying the purpose was to get dirt on Hillary Clinton. Well, if trumps lied about the purpose of the meeting once it became public, and just over a year ago the president himself dictated the statement to his son saying we primarily discussed the program of adoption of russian children that was popular and active with American Families years ago. But emails from donald trump, jr. Show the premises of the meeting from the get go was to get dirt on clinton. Now, the president admits the meeting was for Opposition Research and admits its no big deal. Hes wrong. Its a violation of federal law. Dana bash reporting that trumps advisers want him to stop tweeting about the meeting. Lots to discuss now. Cnn contributor frank bruiny and Global Affairs analyst max booth, a senior fellow on the affairs of foreign relations. A recap of the days news. Took the stand today incriminating really his former bo
A recap of the days news. The russia investigation, but i think in terms of optics as people watch all of this, it doesnt paint a picture of a group of men and donald trump is among them in the broader sense who play outside the rules, who bend rules when it comes to the financial stuff. Who are playing with players, oligarchs, that word thats been banned from the courtroom. And i do think it lends a general impression from the general public of people who have secrets to hide and those secrets coming out. What i think what was so interesting today is that rick gates also admitted that hes a liar, that he cheated paul manafort. Hundreds of thousands of dollars. Right, so how do you figure out that testimony which is very damning because Defense Attorneys are going to get up and say have you not admitted youre a liar . And unreliable. And is it all the best people i hired all the best people. People who are accused of Money Laundering, tax evasion. Theyre all the best people. I hire the
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kind of fgives you a keen idea f why republicans wanted donald trump to stay away in georgia. views of joe biden mainstream, 63% of americans say yes, his views are generally mainstream. well, compare that to donald trump, just 32% say that. look at the too extreme column. look at that. 68% of americans nationwide say that donald trump s views are too extreme, and that may be part of the reason why donald trump is losing momentum among republicans. and the only declared candidate so far. harry, thank you. thank you. joining us now, cnn chief political correspondent dana bash, and cnn chief political analyst gloria borger. as you listen to these numbers, and listen. we ve got a long time and president biden hasn t even confirmed whether or not he will run. we expect him to. how much is the white house digesting numbers at this point? i don t know how much they re digesting these particular numbers, the numbers that they re mostly looking at, i think, are things like the
republicans five to one. and this is an area that is traditionally republican. yeah, and it s not just trump. mit romney carried it by 10 points, almost the same as trump and as you or harry mentioned this was governor kasich s district. 35 years of republicans. so if you could have a district that switches, the last district before the election that switches parties to the democrats, i think it s going to have a major impact at least on morale on both sides. down for the republicans, up for the democrats. it s not far, harry, from the 18th district, but both districts largely white. they re suburban. democrats have a young challenger in danny o connor there like they did with danny lamb. is this the same play book here?