you are live in the cnn newsroom. we begin with breaking news here at cnn. former president jimmy carter, the 39th president of the united states is now receiving hospice care at his home. that s according to a statement we have just received from the carter center. let s go live to priscilla alvarez. she is live at the white house. what else do we know about his condition? reporter: we re hearing from the carter center that said after a series of short hospital stays jimmy carter decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention. he has the full support of his family and medical team. jimmy carter is the oldest living president at 98 years old. he s kept a low profile since the coronavirus pandemic though he has spoken out about the rir risks to democracy. he and biden have a long-standing relationship going back to biden s days as a senator. and in 2021 carter did visit him and said the two ta
Stop his pursuit of nuclear missles. Now these two men with a talent for rankling the u. S. Had set to meet in moscow. What are they cooking up . And the National Lead. A truly tragic story after three tours in iraq he tried to hang himself twice. Last month, this veteran told friends he was going to the v. A. To get help to check himself in. Instead, a doctor gave him some drugs and sent him home. What happened next . Thats the subject of a cnn investigation. Good afternoon. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with our world lead today. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu of israel trying to mend a very damaged fence with the white house after netanyahu spent the past few months seemingly taking wire cutters to his relationship with president obama. Netanyahu pulled off a strong strong victory in tuesdays election. President obama and his administration clearly think that victory came at the expense of any hopes for peace between israel and the palestinians. Almost as stunning
Opened this investigation into flynn this month. We are also learning about newly declassified documents that the dia warned general flynn not to take payments from foreign governments three years ago. These revelations coming from the top democrat on the House Oversight committee. The Ranking Member here, elijah coup cummings lashed out. The white house a absolutely refused to produce even a single document, not a single document in response to the bipartisan document requests that i said we needed. Not one syllable. I watched sean spicer make all kinds of excuses about how hard it would be to comply with our requests. Come on, man. Obviously you do not understand why the white house is covering up for Michael Flynn. I dont get it. After the president fired him for lying. So the president fired him for lying about his communications with the Russian Ambassador and should be bending over backwards to help us. It does not make any sense and makes the American People think the white hous
Doubts about the meeting that could bring him a Nobel Peace Prize and where would that leave the nuclear program. Well talk with a correspondent inside of north korea. And explosive lava eruption and forcing evacuation on the big island. The video of the molten lava vaporizing everything in its path with the fears that a power plant might be next. Almost to the lead, im jake tapper. Well begin with the politics lead an the white house minutes ago addressing the president s maximum Pressure Campaign on the department of justice, breaking with norms and pushing for an investigation into the very people investigating him and his campaign team. This comes after the revelation that a confidential fbi source in 2016 had conversations with Trump Campaign staffers. The president responding to that news today saying, quote, if they had spies in my campaign during the campaign for political purposes, that would be unprecedented in the history of our country. Sarah sanders revealing that the meet
former staff member of the clinton administration and founder of one shared world. great to see you, jamie. what is the message, in your view, that voters gave from taiwan? well, this is a huge victory for taiwanese democracy, which is why the chinese communist party is so afraid. the thing the chinese communist party fears most is empowered citizens. their own citizens, the empowered scitizens of taiwan ad even of hong kong. the voters of taiwan are highly educated, fully aware of the issues. they knew the threat that china posed. they went to the polls at a huge number, way beyond the voter turnout we have here in the united states. they gave a message that, one, taiwanese democracy is here to stay, and, two, that the path of the democratic progressive party, the dpp, is, right now,