Witness. But who will have the final say . The jury or the president s pardon pen . Plus, cnn exclusive, misconduct allegations of President Trumps pentagon complaints of a top pentagon official that sounds swampy like scott pruitt swampy. Is this trickling down from the top . Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with breaking news in the politics lead and the ugly war of words between the president and omarosa getting nastier. The Trump Campaign taking legal action against the fired white house adviser claiming the new tellall book violates a nondisclosure agreement signed in the president ial campaign. This all comes as President Trump took to twitter today to reassure the world that despite her accusations hes never used the nword and the president said onmarosa is a dog. She invoked the moment last fall when the white house criticized wilson and the widow of Sergeant La David Johnson killed in niger. They were tag teaming by attacking the africana
Hes a murder ruous animal. The question is the type of tactics theyre using to sell this, by putting this ad out there. Theyre saying that is who democrats want in. The president of the United States tweeting it out, chris . And there was some kerfuffle, you know. Dont tie it to the president. Hold on, this is about a production company. Nope. Its made by his campaign. It goes out from his account. He owns it. He cant have it both ways. They try to do this. Theyre doing it with the 14th amendment thing, too. Oh, no, no, new york city he may have said that, but theres another position. New york city his words matter period. A source close to the white house said it was produced by james Town Associates for the Trump Campaign for the midterms. The source described the ad as well as trumps immigration push as changing the argument from family unification to invasion. Family unification, how his inlaws got here, by the way. Exactly. Exactly. Imagine that thanksgiving. As you know, i have a
Heather jumping into action after coast guard member faints on stage. Fox and friends first starts right now. Im on top of the world time for a lockdown breaking silence a rainy start to the day but feels like spring out there in new york city, not the case in other portions of the country. You are watching fox and friends first on thursday morning. Appreciate you starting the day with us. Lets begin in virginia. The state of virginia and political turmoil, the embattled Lieutenant Governor lawyering up to fight back against an explosive Sexual Assault claim in virginias attorney general is now under fire for admitting to wearing black face. Todd pyro joins us with new scandals rocking the state. Virginia. Reporter what should will drop today after a whirlwind day and the soap opera of virginia politics, the Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax responded to Sexual Assault allegations writing in part this allegation has been surprising and hurtful i also recognize no one makes charges of
Country feel about omar representing them in congress . You dont want to miss what our panel says later in the hour, plus joe d. Is back and his response to the latest in media malfeasance. But first, the radicalization olympics. Thats the focus of tonights angle. The first primary is 11 months away and yet the 2020 democrats are trying to stand out in a crowded field. First is Long Distance trump bashing. The country is polarized. That has a lot to do with trumps division and hatred. I see him as what happens when corruption invades the system. He has spread fear and hate and degradation across this country. There is moral vandalism tearing up the fabric of this country. A bully attacks a free press and undermines our democratic institutions. He keeps undermining the law in this country. Laura with the economy on fire most americans are feeling goodtr about that. The sprint to hit trump already a bit of a bore. If you want to see trump slammed just turn on cnn or msnbc any hour of any
President trump is trying to push past that making this pitch to voters. But you have no choice but to vote for me because your 401 k s down the tubes, everything is going to be down the tubes. And why is President Trump obsessed with buying greenland . Greenland is covered with ice and iceland is very nice. Its saturday, august 17th. The trade war continues. Germanys economy is falling apart. The stock market had its worst day of the year. For years every one of the worlds economies has been doing [ bleep ] great. Growing. Nobody, they said, could screw it up. Enter trump saying hold my beer. Joins me this morning is shannon pettypi. Lets begin with the latest news on Rashida Tlaib announcing she will not travel to israel. She planned to make that trip with two other members of congress, but israel under pressure from President Trump announced she and congresswoman omar would not be allowed to visit. On friday israel said tlaib could visit her grandmother if she limited what she would