Images as lava explodes from the earth and heads towards homes in hawaii. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Minutes ago speaking at the Nra Convention in dallas, texas, President Trump continued his attacks on the special counsel investigation into whether members of his team conspired in the 2016 election. The president informing the crowd of a judges statement about the Money Laundering trial of his former Campaign Chairman paul manafort. On cnn, they have a headline, judge in manafort case said muellers hame is to hurt trump. Can you believe. It that is the witch hunt. That is the president trying to battle various investigations at the end of the week where a president ial credibility gap seemed to become a credibility capital expenditu chasm after Rudy Giuliani undermined that trump knew nothing about a hush payment to a porn star to whom trump allegedly had a affair and it is stunning for those trying to support trump and with fox news anchors criticizing the president. Today
Publicly, against me for quite sometime. And i think they should understand by now that the department of justice is not going to be extorted. The department of justice is not going to be extorted. He said a strong and rather stunning message from the Deputy Attorney general presumably to the house of representatives and the United States. It is as the russia investigation is heating up with 49 questions that Robert Mueller wants to ask President Trump, being leaked to the New York Times. The questions range from collusion to obstruction of justice, to the president s businesses. Meanwhile, the Washington Post Fact Checkers have updated the tally of President Trumps false or misleading claims during his time in office. It is updated to 3001. When the post started the project of monitoring the president , he was telling five false claims a day, the number, the postsaid is creeping up and in the last months he has averaged nine false claims a day. This is a major concern for the presiden
Telling cnn the white house was caught off guard by the warning and announcement from north korea. We have reporters and Analysts Covering this breaking news around the world. Well start with Barbara Starr at the pentagon. And this sounds like a major wrench in the works. Reporter it does. At this hour washington is scrambling to figure out exactly what the North Koreans are talking about. Trying to translate news reports and accounts to get the exact language. I want you to listen very quickly to what the state Department Spokesperson had to say about all of this just a short time ago. I will say that kim jongun had said previously that he understands the need and the utility of the United States and the republican of korea continuing in its joint exercises. Theyre exercises that are legal and they are planned well in advance. We have not heard anything from that government or the government of south korea to indicate that we would not continue conducting these exercises or that we wo
Source would put the source anonymity and safety at risk. But over the weekend, the president took the unusual step of siding against his own administration, tweeting, quote, if the fbi or doj wassin fill fi was infiltrating the campaign for the benefit of another campaign that is a big deal. And the Senate Judiciary is asking for and can give the conclusive answers. Drain the swamp. The president responding to a conspiracy theyre thoo theorn individual implanted on his campaign to spy into his campaign. And officials tell cnn that is not the case. We learned the president aggressive move is part of a new strategy being pushed by a form of advisers outside of the white house and including steve bannon and Cory Lewandowski and david bossie and president of the trump hispanic Advisory Counsel and cnn commentator, steve courtes and part of a push to paint the president as the victim of a deep state conspiracy and convincing trumpfriendly media and president to make a more adversarial posi
Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. An it is 4 00 a. M. In singapore where in just hours President Trump and kim jongun will meet in an unprecedented moment in history. No matter the outcome. Never before has a sitting u. S. President met with the dictator of north korea. We now know President Trump and kim jongun will first meet oneonone with only translators in the room. That hased se officials, allies and experts given President Trumps impulsive style and declaration that he will not need to prepare ch for the summit. His aversion to details and insistence the success is about instinct than any spesive strategy. Despite the gravity of the stakes with the denuclearization and regardless of the barberism marking the regime of kim jongun and his family the dictator was applauded as he arrived at the marina base sands hotel in singapore. Kim jongun toured local sights and poised in a selfie adding to the other worldly dimensions, also arriving on the island today, former basketball sta