Informants so close to enemmys such as, say, Vladimir Putin. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. And we start in the politics lead. The president firing his National Security adviser john bolton. The two have a long, welldocumented history of disagreeing on matters up to today when the two had different takes on how bolton ended up on the wrong side of the white house fence. The president tweeting in part, quote, i informed john bolton last night that his sfrss are no longer needed at the white house. I disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions. According to john boltons tweet which came 12 minutes later, quote, i offered to resign last night and President Trump said lets talk about it tomorrow. The news came just before a White House Briefing that boltan was scheduled to attend. Secretary of state mike pompeo and Steve Mnuchin who both reportedly clashed with bolton behind the scenes were notably all smiles at this briefing. A source close t
Thought. I get that, im fine with it. If you can find the outlet to say i dont like what youre saying, im going to take it off, youre going to have a problem under the Legal Standard. Not if youre a private company, you dont have the right to say anything you want on a private website. But youll have a problem politically is what im trying to say. You have law and politics. Thats why i made both arguments here. This is action and under the law it triggers every consideration of what you want to protect against. You say whatever you want to say about me, but if you tell somebody else to hurt me and its reasonably calculated to make that happen youre going to have a problem, fighting words although technically there are no fighting words, no hate speech recognized under our law. Thats the test. Whats fighting words these days, you and i both know all too well things we dont want to say here about people trying to protect us, examining whats fighting words and whats not. Whats a threat an
Of play as the president gets red i do launch his Reelection Campaign this week. My colleagues here at cnn say the Trump Campaign has cut ties with several of its pollsters. This is a reaction that comes after the reporting. And the reaction to that took a little bit of time, but when it did, it was fairly certain. And the white house really essentially did not just try to get rid of the messengers in the situation. They also tried to get rid of the message as well. The president suggesting that these polls are fake polls, inaccurate information, his press secretary Sarah Sanders repeating the same line of message right out here in the driveway just last week. So it goes to show number one is the evidence continues to suggest that the Trump Campaign is concerned about the continued strength of joe biden. And it also tells you just a little bit about who gets fired in this campaign and who doesnt. All right. Joe johns at the white house, thank you very much. Want to bring in jane harmon
The caliban in the Afghan Government to talk about withdrawing 5000 u. S. Troops. Troops have been in afghanistan for almost two decades. It comes a few days before marking the 911, 18 years since 911. According to President Trump, this is a tweet he made the announcement to the public canceling this meeting. If they cannot agree to a ceasefire during a very important peace talks and would kill 12 innocent people than they probably dont have the power to negotiate a meaningful agreement anyway. How many more decades are they willing to fight . The suicide car bombing killed 34 yearold Army Sergeant and 11 others. The caliban put out a bold statement following the president s cancellation announcement. Some say its threatening and i want to read part of it. Americans will suffer more than anyone else for canceling the talks. The president cheap diplomatic, mike pompeo, was on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace this morning. Listen. Chris, theres those words, cooler heads i hope will pre
Joined by 2020 democratic contender marian williamson. We begin with the president making policy decisions without a security advisor. The president says he fired john bolton, john bolton says he resigned. The president has been reaching out to another former security advisor, john boltons predecessor for advice. Guest of the show talks about trumps management style. There is a pattern, i disparage you, i shanked you, i need advice, i miss you. Picking up the phone in months, john bolton could be on the phone. Let me start with you and focus on this. The staffing of the white house and this president s reliance on advisors. What do we learn about this chapter in the story . We learn yet again that advisors are not really what hes looking for. Sycophants is what hes looking for. There is a lot of press around john boltons advisors and how he wants this emthem to behave. Only those who are going to play the devils advocate and think things through. In no way do i feel like a love for bol