Plus, look, they can Work Together. Republican rand paul, and ms. Harris talking to me about the issue bringing them together. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead snooch. Im jake tapper. So much going on in the white house right now. President trump just reacted to the vote on health care in the rose garden. He talked about his public humiliation to push out attorney general Jeff Sessions. Im very disappointed in the attorney general, but well see what happens. Time will tell. Time will tell. The president once again said sessions should not have recused himself in the russia investigation. Since early march, the president has been upset with sessions, one of his earliest key supporters after the attorney general bided by department of justice protocols and recused himself from overseeing the russia investigation. That was an action that came out that he had not disclosed meetings with russias ambassador during his confirmation hearing. President trump made it very clear that
Blindsided, the family who opened their home and hearts to the shooter before the rampage speaks out. Everybody seems to know we didnt know. We had rules and he followed every rule to a t. And before he moved into your home, how well did you know him . I had met him a couple times before. He had spent a night at the house, and he was very polite. He seemed normal. Cnn has learned that the parkland, Florida School shooter had obtained at least 10 firearms, all of them rifles, according to Law Enforcement officials in the year prior to the shooting. Meanwhile, President Trump may have found an opening to take action after last weeks massacre. Today the white house is signalling a willingness to talk, saying in a statement, all discussions are ongoing and revisions are being considered, and the president is supportive of efforts to approve the federal background check system. Its possible the president is is reacting to the Strong Language from the students at the margery sto ri stoery st
Firestorm over rob porter, the top aide who resigned amid allegations that he physically abused his two exwives. The president goes off script, praising porter and seemingly casting doubt on the entire me too movement. We have a lot to cover with all ofa Kaitlan Collins is at the white house for us. What are you hearing . Reporter it has been six days now since rob porter first resigned over the allegations. And the white house has still been unable to give us a consistent explanation as to who knew what and when about these allegations. And now another source of confusion is coming from inside the own white house with the president s own staffers questioning why he is expressing two very different sentiments over rob porter. Were told by aides that the president has been very critical of porter privately, but then publicly hes expressing basically the opposite sentiment because on friday you saw him in the oval in the oval office cite porters denials in maintaining his innocence and t
Briefing. Giuliani is also weighing in on whether the president can be indicted. Set the scene for us. Reporter wolf, he is, indeed. Rudy giuliani, who is the president s lawyer, hes been on the team about three weeks or so. He is trying to set the stage here certainly in a political sense and a legal sense as well on this oneyear anniversary at the beginning of bob muellers russian probe here. He is saying the president cannot be indicted. That, of course, is the word from the Justice Department, he says. And following the protocol that the Justice Department has had since the nixon administration. Saying the president cannot be indicted, trying to make the beginnings of the argument that if he cant be indicted, perhaps there is nothing to this investigation. But that doesnt mean the president would be out of the woods. He could still be in hot water, of course. The special counsel could make a referral to the house of representatives, he could make a referral elsewhere. So what Rudy
Foundation. Good afternoon, welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. We begin with the highly anticipated report from the Justice Departments Inspector General examining how top officials handled the investigation into Hillary Clintons use of a private email server. It just dropped like a bomb in the j. Edgar hoover building, assailing the decisions made by former attorney general Loretta Lynch, former fbi director james comey, fbi agents whosed biased antitrump texts the Inspector General finds deeply troubling. Repeatedly independentor general Michael Horowitz says he found explanations from the aforementioned to be unpersuasive and yet the top line here in this 568 page report, the ig found no evidence that political bias impacted the decisions leading up to the decision to not prosecute Hillary Clinton. Which is not to say the Inspector General didnt find a lot to criticize, concluding that former fbi director james comey deviated from the bureaus norms in giving that july, 2016, press