of a spy. we ll take you through it, what that would mean, what it would like like, why we don t have proof at this point. the fbi is preparing to minimize the fallout because they have concerns that the source s identity may be revealed. why? the man with the almost complete authority to do it is the president, and he wants to out this individual. we re going to talk about all of this with the president s lawyer, rudy guiliani. he s here in the next hour. so the leak of that inappropriate joke about senator john mccain by a white house aide has triggered changes in the communications office. an official tells cnn the white house is preparing to shrink their communications team. however, there is still no apology for what was said. here s a tip about political teams. it is not how many people you have. it s how much faith and loyalty is in that team. meanwhi meanwhile, president trump acknowledging the uncertain fate of his summit with kim jong-un with both carrot and stick.
meanwhi meanwhile, the syrian government says this now marks a new phase of the war and promises that sitter ythe syrian military will confront the attacks from israel. our or en lieberman is there. this was fired against israeli forces in golan heights. israel was on height alert, right? this is between iran and israel in the skies above as we watched it happen. israel was very ready for this to happen and has been for a number of weeks, if not months, now. that s because there were a number of strikes in syria targeting syrian and iranian forces that they blamed on israel. israel didn t comment on those strikes but prepared for a backlash. over the last couple days, the
competitive races in the past and ones that hasn t. the wave catches people who aren t used to running competitive races. of those seven you put up, most don t know they re in trouble because they ve never been in trouble. dana: maybe they do now because hopefully they will watch the daily briefing. colin reed, you re very skilled in figuring out the messaging for campaigns. do the republicans realize they ve got a good story to tell and are they out there telling it? yeah, dana, that s one thing republicans have going for them is that they are all united around their economic messaging involving the tax cuts they had last year with no democratic support. meanwhi meanwhile, the democrats had a lot going for them, but what they don t have is a message. they are squabbling about single payor healthcare. but have yet to circle around a coherent message. until they do that s one thing they don t have going for them.
he lets you know what s on his mind and he has a pattern of only talking about what he thinks is good for him. silence usually shows some kind of concern. that s usually not consistent with the oath. we ll see if he speaks about it today. thank you, gentlemen. thank you. the white house says the president continues to deny having an affair with stormy daniels and he does not believe she was ever threatened to keep quiet. meanwhi meanwhile, stormy daniels is suing mr. trump s personal lawyer for defamation. abby philip is live with more. president trump is usually not the one to hold back when it comes to twitter people attacking him. he has held back when it comes to this stormy daniels story. president trump a self-declared counter puncher remaining uncharacteristically quiet about his alleged affair with stormy daniels and the effort to cover up the story.
you take this latest step, abolishing the term limits. that means xi jinping could remain the president of china and head of state for the rest of his life. he occupies the head of state and occupies the general secretary position of the communist party. it really is unprecedented. all of that may seem like inside baseball and chinese politics. here is why that matters to the united states. xi jinping thinks china should be on the same level as the united states. expanding military and domina dominating world trade. they want to go toe-to-toe with the united states. the united states now knows it will be dealing with that kind of a leader, that ambitious leader, that wants china to rise on the world stage. meanwhi meanwhile, the u.s. is set with political strive that doesn t exist in china. thank you, matt rivers. high stakes privacy rights