Fired but insists his now famous memo was not meant to justify the firing. Overseas mission. Is a the late controversy erupts, President Trump is headed towards saudi arabia, the first stop on his first overseas trip. The stakes and the risks. They are high, including an address to leaders of 50 muslim nations written by a leading figure by the president s travel ban. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news. President trump is on his way to saudi arabia this year, but he didnt get away from the kayiot her in washington. The that russian officials inside the oval office that firing james comey had relieved great pressure on him and the times says the president said he fired comey and im quoting him now because he was real craze, a real nut job, end quote. The white house is not dispuget account saying comey, quote, created unnecessary pressure on our ability to engage and negotiate with russia, end quote. That comes as the president begins a she highstakes foreign tr
And investigating the unending cycle of gun violence. Around here, you aint nobody until you kill somebody. All in starts right now. Good evening from chicago. Im chris hayes and we are 14 hours away from President Trumps high stakes meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin at the g20 summit. Tonight, inning has learned in a bre will have one official by his side. That will be secretary of state Rex Tillerson getting the russian order of friendship from putin in 2013 when tillerson was the ceo. Will he was standing next to the polish leader, a man who is restricted press freedoms in his own country. President trump blasted the u. S. Media, refused to back the u. S. Television could not xloogs russia enter veered in the election that made him president. Will you or wont you say that russia interfered . I think it was russia and it could have been other people and other countries. It could have been a lot of people interfered. I said it very simply. I think it could have been russia
Here, we can see that it is a substantial march thats taking place. I mean, its literally thousands of people that are marching here through central hamburg at the moment and i think the police want to allow this march to go forward but at the same time, they are cracking down very, very hard on people who are not following the ground rules that they have sort of set in place here. So, its a very, very tense atmosphere and its still quite light out. It does still feel like the afternoon. Its still very, very early going here. So we believe that these protests are certainly are going to take are going to continue for a very long time, brooke. Fred pleitgen, 9 00 at night, your time, the sunsets in just a about an hour. These are anticipated protests, right, protesters, thousands of them, anticipated some 100,000 over the course of the next couple days. Well come back to you, sir. Thank you. Jeff zeleny, on a perch above there in hamburg, where you can look down and sort of see where fre
York. Thanks for being with me. The president is spending much of this Holiday Weekend tweeting, and he says his tweets are not president ial. In fact, his words, they are modern president ial. Today cnn, this network, responds to trumps latest tweet this morning of a doctored video from his wwwe days suggesting pummeling cnn is what he would rather be doing. Slamming an opponent with the cnn logo there. Superimposed on the persons head. This is old video, but hes made it new again in his tweet. This comes three days before the president of the United States heads to europe ahead of the g20 summit. The president is at his golf club in new jersey. He took time out to honor veterans last night in washington, d. C. Before heading back to new jersey, but he also used that moment in d. C. To say this the fake media is trying to silence us. But we will not let them. Because the people know the truth. The fake media tried to stop us from going to the white house, but im president and theyre n
Up i see that, you know, a colleague of mine has been uninvited of something that he said he didnt even want to go to in the first place, you know, to the white house. Theres just something i cant stand for, man. The whole thing started when the president urged the nfl to fire Football Players who kneel during the National Anthem. Watch this. Wouldnt you love to see one of these nfl owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a [ bleep ] off the field right now. Hes fired hes fired President Trump just fired this zinger at the man in charge of profootball and i quote, Roger Goodell of nfl just put out a statement tried to justify the total disrespect certain players show to our country. Tell them to stands. Earlier the president turned his ooir to the nba. He disinvited the steph curry only after he turned down the invitation. Stephen curry is hesitating therefore invitation is withdrawn. Lets get to athena jones. What are you now hearing from nfl team owners . Rep