A lot of news has broken in the last 24 hours. Lets get right to it. The 2014 Winter Olympics were held in sochi, that was controversial of course because all of of the things controversial about russia. You might remember right before the sochi olympics, just a few weeks before the opening ceremonies, Vladimir Putin made a concession to his human rights critics trying to take sam some of the heat off of russia for hosting the olympics, people were upset about their human rights, international aggression, trying to take the heat off of that. Just a few weeks before the olympics started, putin released some of the Political Prisoners who he was holding in russia prisons. And among the most high profile prisoners that putin released before the sochi olympics was a feminist punk band called pussy riot. I am such a prude i still find it embarrassing to say the name. That is the name of the band. The thing they were the most famous for before they the olympics was what they called punk pray
Age agencies have been saying for more than a year now, but now the special counsel has indicted 13 russians and 3 russian entities for meddling in the election, and this indictment details how they did it. An unprecedented scheme to influence the president ial race and one that is thoroughly research and plotted and executed over the course of years. Crime and justice reporter shimon peres has read through the 30page indictment, a and so this is going to show you that the russians were running the Shadow Campaign without the voters realizing it, because it was so incredibly sophisticated and research and they came here no the u. S. For recon, right . Yes, and the traveling and the trip okccurred back in june of 2014. So this is going to tell you how long this operation was ongoing, and how much time they had spent, and there is about ten states or so that the indictment says they traveled, california, illinois, texas and even traveling to new york. All in an effort to the gain intelli
Dont have clean Drinking Water or electricity in puerto rico. As cnn gets a rare and stunning perspective at the scope of the damage. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Were going to begin with the politics lead today in another jambacked day at the white house. A Bipartisan Health care deal that the president seemed to support just yesterday, he is now slamming today, seeming to effectively kill that deal before it really got off the ground. President trump is making a push for his tax plan, meeting with members of the Senate Finance committee this afternoon, all while deal with the fallout from criticism from a goldstar family that he dealt with them disrespectfully. Today, the president denying that he told the widow of Sergeant La David Johnson that the soldier knew what he signed up for, saying democratic congresswoman Frederica Wilson of florida who is close with the family and listened to the call on speaker phone fabricated the claim. Told cnn that t
Meetings, senate hearings, and nobody has asked us to do interviews anywhere. They have found no collusion, in fact, the other side even admits it, they come out of these hearings whether its senate or whether its the house and they say, is there collusion . Everyone looks like there is no collusion. Now, as you mentioned, several white house officials weve learned through sources have already met with Robert Muellers Team Including Reince Priebus and sean spicer, though there are still white house officials Current White House officials that have yet to meet with his team or at least that weve been able to confirm and met with him Team Including Communications Director hope hicks and chief counsel for the white house don mcguinn. At last we heard from one source, Robert Mueller was set to finish this wave of interviews with this first group of interviews with white house officials by the end of this month. The focus from what weve heard from sources continues to be the circumstances b
Three other teens when he was in his 30s. Several members of President Trumps team are calling on moore to step aside, but a huge caveat. They say if the allegations are true, but were not going to see any Law Enforcement investigation here. Where will the proof come from . The president promising an announcement on wednesday on trade and north korea as he wraps up this 12day asia trip. But the United States notably left out of the framework of asian nations and this morning conflicting accounts whether the president and philippine president spoke about human rights and the war on drugs. The government spokesman said we did not. Lets begin in alabama. Roy moore certainly indicating that he is going to be fighting back. This morning we are seeing that defiant and seeing more dig in his heels even deeper. May be growing criticism in d. C. And here in his home state of alabama being by some support. Completely false and untrue. Reporter roy moore defiant. Threatening to sue Washington Pos