Me, its the white houses own guidelines that the president is encouraging protests against. The president s policy says you cant start to reopen under his plan until you have declining numbers for 14 days which those states and my state do not have. So then to encourage people to go protest the plan that you just made recommendations on, on thursday, it just doesnt make any sense. Doesnt make any sense indeed. Despite all this, as cnns nick watt reports, some states are now beginning to scale back restrictions. Reporter there are protests against stayhome orders now spreading, fanned perhaps by the president. There is some relaxation some places. South carolina expected to open stores and beaches tuesday, which were open all weekend in jacksonville, florida, with social distancing rules flagrantly flouted. I think that decision was reckless. It shows you how undisciplined the leadership of this country has been, because we do not have a consistent message. Reporter and there are hotspo
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating whether President Trump possibly tried to obstruct justice. Now, cnns reporting is different. Cnn says that we do know that the special counsel and his investigators have asked for information and will talk to the president s top sblenlgintellig chiefs. One might think because President Trumps own friends and advisers have explained to him how much his impulsive tweeting has hurt him in various ways, that he might handle this news by being cautious, by being circumspect. But one would be wrong. Just a few moments ago, a new tweet. Crooked h. Destroyed phones with hammer, bleached emails, and had husband meet with attorney general days before she was cleared and they talk about obstruction. The president also calling the fbi investigation a witch hunt and impugning the integrity of people well known for their integrity. Cnns Jessica Schneider is here with us and she has the latest on the investigation. Jessica, what has cnn learned about t
Misogynistic. The president unhappy about criticisms made about him on msnbc morning joe. Lashed out, i hear poorly rated go speaking badly about me, dont watch anymore. Then how come mika along with fike sew joe came to maralago three nights in a row around new years eve, and insisted on joining me. And after ivanka trump bemoaned how nasty washington and politics are. Theres a level of viciousness. I was not expecting. I was expecting the intensity of this experience. But this isnt supposed to be easy. White house said President Trump was merely punching back, fighting fire with fire since the hosts of morning joe have attacked President Trump. This is how President Trump sees that it criticism from the media or anyone needs to be fought back. Its been very clear ever since the campaign banned reporters from the Des Moines Register back in 2015 because mr. Trump didnt like the editorial the newspaper wrote that he has a problem with criticism. This president first came to political p
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
Will President Trump have anything to say to putin about it . Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. The world lead. President Trump Holding crucial meetings now with World Leaders at the g20 summit in argentina, but just one glimpse at his twitter feed makes it clear the president s focus is somewhere else entirely. Mr. Trump going after the russia investigation this morning, and trying to explain why its no big deal that he repeatedly lied to voters by denying any business or political ties to russia during the campaign, despite the fact there were some. He tweeted, quote, oh, i get it, im a very good developer, happily living my life. When i see our country going in the wrong direction, i decided to run for president and continue to run my business. Very legal and very cool. Talked about it on the campaign trail. Lightly looked at doing a build somewhere in russia, put up zero money and zero guarantees and didnt do the project. Witch hunt. Wow, a lot of falsehoods. President trump cle