Good afternoon, welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. And we begin with the toll the Politics News and new stunning information about the trump tower meeting involve members of Trump Campaign. Natalia veselnitskaya has close tied to the kremlin. She disclosed to nbc news she was the source of information for russias chief prosecutor saying, quote, i am a lawyer and i am an informant, since 2013 i have been actively communitied with the office of the russian prosecutor general, unquote. In june of 2016 she met with officials of the Trump Campaign, jared kushner, Paul Manafort and donald trump jr. After they were promised dirt on hilling. They mailed a european move the House Intelligence Committee down played it as an act of poor judgment in the newly released report that the president is celebrating this afternoons evidence of no collusion between his campaign and the russian government. We have all angles of this story covered with the reporters from the capitol and lets begin on capit
Acquittal that was pushed and celebrated by President Trump. The president had been an outspoken defender of gallagher during the trial, ordering the navy to allow gallagher to keep his rank. Now witnesses that were once quoted in trial are speaking out, suggesting gallaghers misconduct was evil and toxic. Today, the weekly, a tv series from New York Times has exclusively obtained navy interviews with s. E. A. L. Team members that accused gallagher of misconduct in the first place. Kate snow has more on this. We want to warn you, what youre about to see is disturbing. I saw eddie take a shot at probably a 12yearold kid. Reporter this morning, tapes never before seen in public, members of the navy s. E. A. L. Team seven, speaking on camera with military investigators about their platoon leader, eddie gallagher. The guy got crazier and crazier. Reporter it is a trove of information, obtained exclusively by the weekly. You could tell he was perfectly okay with killing anybody. One after a