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What will oklahoma do next . The politics lead. Idiot, jerk stupid dumb are those words donald trump has used to describe his republican and democratic opponents or words voters in a recent poll used to describe him . The answer and a brand new trump interview coming up. Good afternoon everyone. Welcome to the lead. I am jake tapper. Our world lead. There is an old russian proverb, better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie. For president obama and his top military commanders that slap came this morning. Cnn reporting a russian general went to the u. S. Embassy in baghdad, iraq and warned america stay out of the skies over syria. Why . Well because russian fighter jets within the hour began bombarding targets inside syria, air strikes called in by syrian president bashar al assad. And were the targets isis . Think again. Lets get right to Cnns Barbara Starr live at the pentagon. Barbara, secretary of Defense Ash Carter finishing up a sobering press briefing. What are th
Calling attention to it . But then if you can turn it into a 2020 issue that you were attacked and they are trying to take this presidency away from you unfairly can you garner support and sympathy from your base that energizes them the way were seeing the democrats energize. I think thats what the president and his campaign will turn this. William barr and what hes doing is a little bit confusing for everybody. I think people want to hear more from him but he doesnt appear to want to come back to congress to talk. Abby, you say the attorney general is doing this you think because he has to. Yeah, i think President Trump has made it very clear what he wants to happen over at the Justice Department. He wanted an attorney general who looked further into where this investigation came from. The president has been repeating ad nauseam that he believes that the real crimes were committed by the democrats and i think that given that he fired his former attorney general Jeff Sessions and hired
penalty? at least two supreme court justices question whether the death penalty is constitutional raising the possibility the high court could revisit the issue. and interesting to note here justin briar was the only justice to come out today saying he would have granted the stay of execution putting that execution on hold. and also of course we ve heard from oklahoma s governor fallon who has said this execution should move forward. he was, she said in charge of the murder of this father of several children and this is the justice that he deserves. so very divide. this controversial method that has failed in the past is that going to be used to put glossip to death? right. in fact jake he is going to be the first person to be put to death with this controversial protocol including the medazalam at the center of the debate. pamela brown, thanks so much. appreciate it. coming up joaquin now officially a hurricane. experts predict it will strengthen more.
mind him coming back into the very place where he was a big problem. reporter: graham said the district needs to do more when it comes to gang violence. there is a lot of different facets of this. but first and foremost right now is making sure that we are tapping into the community. reporter: but according to ron moten, co-founder of the peaceaholics group, the money just isn t there. moten said he s had to layoff 70 employees who at one time would have been working to stop the violence before it happened. disputes he said are multiplying. 41 to 71 because the work is not being done, the communication with government and community is not there any more. reporter: moten blames the problem on politics. funding or not chief lanier said she ll take all of the help she can get. there are plenty of groups out there doing it without funding. so if you can prevent violence, i would ask that you prevent it when you can. reporter: the chief pointed out gang violence fuel