What the president talked about today, the caravan in mexico and the asylum process rise to the level of a crisis that requires thousands of american troops to rush to the border . Or does a fastapproaching election have more to do with what he said today than slow walking Asylum Seekers . How you answer that question may depend how you view the president s truthfulness. Which is how we want to start with how the president views it. Have you always i do try. I do try, too. You say things about me that are necessarily correct. I do try, and i always want to tell the truth when i can. I tell the truth. Sometimes it turns out to be where something happens theres a change. But i always like to be truthful. That is the president of the United States telling abc news that he tells the truth when he can, which raises the obvious question when can he not tell the truth . For most president s, the answer is very, very rarely, usually safeguard some greater secret which might compromise national
Supreme court candidates. He is going to have a busy week ahead where he said that he would announce the Supreme Court nominee after Supreme Court justice anthonys retirement. The looming battle is already igniting a firestorm on capitol hill. Republican senator Susan Collins is going be a key vote for the presiden president , and she met with trump to discuss the vacancy and she says that she has some concerns. Are you comfortable with everyone on the list . No, i am not. Now, some of the people on the list, i have not vetted at all at this point. One of them i voted against years ago. And i would have to do a great deal more work on many of them. All right. Checkinging in with the cnn White House Correspondent Boris Sanchez in brooklyn heights, new jersey, and what can you tell us about what the president is examining while making a selection . Hey, there, fred. Yeah, right now the white house has only confirmed that President Trump has spoken to a couple of close advisers and allies
It was a dire threat and urgent one. The question tonight is, does what the president talked about today, the caravan in mexico and the asylum process, rise to the level of a crisis that requires thousands of american troops to rush to the border . Or does a fastapproaching election have more to do with what he said today than slow walking Asylum Seekers . How you answer that question may depend how you view the president s truthfulness. Which is why we want to start very quickly with how the president himself views it. Have you always been truthful . I do try. I do try, too. You say things about me that are necessarily correct. I do try, and i always want to tell the truth when i can. I tell the truth. I mean, sometimes it turns out to be, where something happens, its different or theres a change, but i always like to be truthful. That is the president of the United States telling abc news that he tells the truth when he can, which raises the obvious question, when can he not tell the
Investigation to report to you. The Washington Post is reporting the Trump Organization turned over phone logs to muellers team detailing multiple calls between roger stone and then candidate trump in 2016. Stone claims this list is not xrens skin since trump at times called him from other peoples phones. Were learning more about a joint Defense Agreement between the president s lawyers and notorious conspiracy theorist jerome corsi. Agreement allows them to share information with each other. Corsi recently rejected a plea agreement with the special counsel which would have required him to admit that he lied to federal investigators. Hes known for pushing conspiracy theories from birtherism to claiming explosives brought down the World Trade Center on 9 11. Cnn has exclusive reporting tonight about the written answers from President Trump he provided to the special counsel. Trump claims that he had no knowledge of any contacts with wikileaks. He also says he knew nothing about the 2016
Home. Pete domenici buttigieg unveiling details of his plan for Racial Justice which he calls the douglass plan named after abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Heres what he told anderson tonight. Everybody running for office right now, everybody running for president , has a responsibility to explain what were actually going to do when it comes to systemic racism in this country, not just describing the problem but actually talking about concrete Solutions Across the fields of housing, education, health, homeownership, access to capital and economic empowerment, criminal justice and democracy. These are all areas where its as though were living in two countries. And senator Kamala Harris slamming President Trumps attempt to put a Citizenship Question on the 2020 census saying this tonight to msnbcs rachel maddow. So what this president is contributing to is a faulty census that well have to live with for the next ten years. It is highly irresponsible because it is yet another example of