And sitting down to take a stand. Nfl kicks off more player protests during the National Anthem. Proballer Michael Bennet will explain what he is going to do and why. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead, i am jake tapper. Today, former president s george h. W. Bush and george w. Bush issued a statement condemning racial bigotry and antisemitism and hatred. They all felt the need to tweet condemnations of the racist hateful ideologies of the klan and neonazis and White Supremacists and altright on display in charlottesville within hours of President Trumps suggesting a moral equivalence between nazis and those protests nazis. I think theres blame on both sides. You look at both sides, i think theres blame on both sides. You have some very bad people in that group. You also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had many people in that group other than neonazis and white nationalists, okay, and the press has treated them absolutely unfairly. The president of t
Intelligence says he was in the meeting that included the president s son, his soninlaw Jared Kushner, and former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort. The lobbyist reportedly says the russian lawyer brought documents related to the Democratic National committee. These new revelations are only adding to the suspicion surrounding the meeting in the midst of the president ial campaign. It was arranged with a promise that the trump camp would get dirt on Hillary Clinton from moscow. Information trump junior says he never got. The top democrat on the House Intelligence Committee calls the new details deeply disturbing. Tonight, top Trump White House aides are at risk of being dragged into the special counsel investigation for their roles in crafting the administrations incomplete and changing explanation of the meeting. This hour ill get reaction from a democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, congressman deny heck, our courts and specialists are standing by. First to cnns Diane Gall
Mr. Trump is sharing doubts about russian ads on social media aimed on influencing election. As facebook turns over key evidence to investigate ors. Wolf blitzer is off today. Im jim acosta. You are in the situation room. Breaking news tonight senator john mccain says hes ready to do decisive vote. He says he cant support it without democrats. And estimate of the bills impact. One or no vote will kill the bill. And susan is expected to join. But tonight the white house says President Trump is not ready to give up. Earlier he tweeted thatny gop that voted no would be known as republican that saved obamacare. Also tonight u. S. Is on alert that they may do weapons test as kim jongun and trump trade bellicose threats. Kim jong. Mr. Trump is calling him mad man. This after said he would pay dearly. This war of words is raising fears of a real and potentially devastating military conflict with north korea upping the ante by claiming it might test a Hydrogen Bomb over the pacific. This hour
He wants, my friend across the aisle has shut down the government for hundreds of millions of americans. It all really stems from the president whose inability to clinch a deal has created the trump shutdown. I agree with majority leader mcconnell. The trump shutdown was totally avoidable. President trump walked away from not one, but two, bipartisan deals. And thats after he walked away from an agreement in principle on daca we reached way back in the fall of last year. If he had been willing to accept any one of these deals, we wouldnt be where we are today. All right, the president adding to the chaos with a tweet today suggesting it may be time for republicans to invoke the rarely used Nuclear Option, allowing the senate to change the voting rule to end this stalemate. Cnns ryan noticeabbles is on c hill for us. Ryan, where are we after the speeches, after the president s tweet. We know mcconnells office said, no, they dont want to change the voting rules for a simple majority, so
Mishandling of classified information. Purely draft said there is evidence to support a conclusion that secretary clinton and others use the private email server in a manner that was grossly negligent with respect to the handling of classified information. Fox news has confirmed fbi agent peter strzok made the edit removing grossly negligent and in july 2016 that was the language used by then fbi director james comey. Although we did not find clear evidence secretary clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing classified information, there is evidence were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive highly classified information. In another section, edits made to downplay that clintons server used for government business was hacked. The early draft read given the combination of factors we assess its reasonably likely that hostile actors gained access to secretary clintons personal email account. Reasonably likely was changed to possible. A letter from ron jo