Senate candidate in alabama, democrats picked up elected offices in communities large and small especially in the commonwealth of virginia. And we saw several big headlines in the russia investigation. One of them involving his own son. He also comes home to a new poll that finds just 40 of americans view him as fit to serve as president. Thats a new low. 57 do not think he is fit to serve. And amid his complicated relationship with his own attorney general Jeff Sessions is back on the hill today testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on the president s favorite subject, russia. It was the first time under oath since the news broke on two Trump Campaign aides telling trump contacts new. And most recently George Papadopoulos said he told sessions about connections to russia during this meeting in march of 2016. Sessions had previously testified he was unaware of any communications between Campaign Officials and russians. Heres how he explained it today. I would like to address
The head of the Republican Policy Committee says he knows both chambers can work out their differences. Absolutely, there are some changes. They still need to be made in conference to work these things out. The other thing you havent mentioned, the big differences are the republican bill in the senate eliminates the mandate of obamacare. It takes obamacare from being a mandatory program to a voluntary program. And yes, i like the idea of making taking away the death tax entirely. Melissa peter doocy is live on capitol hill with more. I imagine its a very busy there today. Its picking up. And ten days from right now, a final tax bill could be on President Trumps desk. Thats according to republican georgia senator david purdue. The next big step in the next couple of hours is going to be when all house lawmakers come back from 6 00 tonight to vote on that motion to go to a conference for the senate bill in the house bill, which are different for now, will be streamlined. Its the one pack
Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with the politics lead. President trump and the white house going to war with special Counsel Robert Mueller over the russia investigation. The president lashing out today on twitter against mueller, a widely respected former fbi director and a republican, and lashing out against his team, as well, as mueller seems to be coming close to issuing his final report. Rudy giuliani telling cnn today that President Trump has been, quote, upset for weeks over the prosecutorial methods used on his former campaign aide, manafort, to get him to tell them everything he knows, and what giuliani describes as a perverse, overzealous desire to get the president. Muellers latest move against manafort, Court Filings alleging that the former lobbyist violated his plea agreement by lying to the fbi and the special counsel team after he started cooperating with them. Suggesting that manafort has shared extensive information with prosecutors and that prosecutors
Says President Trump did nothing wrong, but this time, theres no blanket denial of wrongdoing for those who were in his inner circle. And not sharing intel. Is the white house blocking the cia director from briefing u. S. Senators on the murder of a u. S. Based journalist by a Saudi Hit Team . And is the Trump Administration trying to shield the saudi crowned prince . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Breaking news. Cnn has now obtained draft Court Document which is may show the special counsel, Robert Mueller, is getting closer and closer to making a collusion case. The papers lay out moves allegedly made by longtime Trump Confidant Roger Stone in seeking information from wikileaks on democratic emails stolen by russia. Meantime, the Guardian Newspaper reports former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort secretly met with wikileaks founder Julian Assange around the time he became chairman of the Trump Campaign. This as the special couns
pressure, an area of low pressure that is right down south around fredericksburg and warrenton. let me slide out of the way and we ll put this in motion. you can see the heavy rain just off the coast right now down around north carolina but for our area again we re seeing some showers and we ll continue to see rain showers up until about midnight. after midnight it s drizzle for us. the same east and southeasterly flow will be staying with us for most of the week. the bulk of the rain right now those showers frederick, leesburg, dallas, warranton, around i-66 pushing west. more rain then headed toward hagerstown and winchester. wet it will be. again, do not put those rain boots or umbrellas away at all. our temperatures today sit in the 60s to low 70s throughout the area. 74 in d.c. 75 in charlottesville. nothing like the 80s we had this weekend. as far as your good night forecast goes, again, rain showers up until about midnight. after that we ll see some drizzle but take a