Troops. How many more sparks can this powder keg take. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We start with the politics lead. It is official, secretary of state mike pompeo will meet with the president of ukraine this week in kiev. Arriving after the top diplomat there, bill taylor who testified in the impeachment inquiry was encouraged to leave his post. And as we learn new details about the white house efforts to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars of military aid to ukraine to at least in part push ukraine to commence an investigation that might help President Trump political has admitted in emails obtained by the New York Times mulvaney asked about with holding the aid nearly a month before that now Infamous Trump ukraine conversation and only to be cautioned by one to say expect congress to become unhinged and a known meeting with top Security Officials trying to convince him to release the aid arguing it was in the best interest of the United States, ome only to be rebuffed b
Outgoing adviser Kellyanne Conway says whats followed in wisconsin only reinforces trumps message. The more chaos and anarchy and anarchism and violence reigns, the better it is for the clear choice on who is best for public safety. Former Vice President joe biden accused trump and his staff of rooting for violence. The country will be substantially safer when he is no longer in office. After nba players boycotted games in protest President Trump criticized the nba as a Political Organization. I dont know much about the nba protest. I know their ratings are a little bad. I think people are tired of the nba, frankly. They have become like a Political Organization and thats not a good thing. Tonight trump is expected to say at no time before have voters faced a clear choice between two parties, two visions, two philosophies or two agendas. Earlier today the president said he delayed his speech after a powerful hurricane left a path of destruction but now he says hell visit texas and loui
Person to wisconsin for appropriate charges. Welcome. I am jake tapper. Youve been watching an update from officials in kenosha, wisconsin, giving an update on the unrest in us with following the Police Killing of jacob blake earlier in the week and violence afterwards. For the first time the chief of police spoke about jacob blake, saying he cannot talk about the incident. This comes as weve gotten brand new information in the last few minutes about the suspect taken into custody for separate shootings that occurred last night. According to the Police Department two people were shot and killed. Another one was injured. Cnns sarah sidener joins me on the phone from kenosha, wisconsin. What do we know about the suspect . Reporter its really interesting to note that so far we havent heard the police nor the sheriff of kenosha talking about the violence that erupted last night where two people were shot and killed and one Person Injured here. The have you had yo there is of one of the vid
Would call their own shots. The president tweeted that states run by three democratic governors should be, quote, liberated, whatever that means. He attacked new yorks Governor Andrew Cuomo by name saying that cuomo should complain less and do more. This was governor cuomos response. First of all, if hes sitting at home and watch tv, maybe he should get up and go to work. How many times do you want me to say thank you . Thank you for doing your job . This was your role as president , okay . Well kick off Cnns Kaitlan Collins live at the white house. Kaitlan, some of these protesters in states objecting to the guidelines that both state and National Health Officials Say are saving lives, theyre also challenging republican governors. Here is one protest against Ohio Republican mike dewine from earlier this week. But President Trump is only encouraging protests against three democratic governors and pointedly, theyre in states that he wants to win in november. Reporter yeah, hes made no m
Quarantine after she visited the white house last week. It is difficult to see but this is Vice President pence arriving at the white house today. He was not wearing a mask. A spokesperson for the Vice President said pence will not be in quarantine despite the fact that a different spokesperson for the Vice President katie miller is one of the two white house officials who tested positive for the virus. That is miller in this photo. You could see right now from thursday. This is at a virginia retirement home from before she tested positive. She is the only one in the picture not wearing a mask. A source tells cnn that the president has been expressing worry that these infections in his white house undermine the message that the pandemic is under control and states should reopen. Those white house cases are just a small part, of course, of the more than 1. 3 million who have tested positive in this country and at this hour there are 79,894 deaths due to coronavirus in the United States.