Text, that is a joke. Is there a recall process for United States senators from wisconsin . Because people, not only around this country, but our enemies across the world heard a sitting United States senator say that he believed that there was a secret Society Inside the federal bureau of investigation that was planning a coup detat against the United States president. This thats big news. Its going to be very easy for us this morning to laugh at the stupidity of it all. Theres nothing funny about people using conspiracy theories to slur the men and women of the fbi. It used to be liberals that attacked Law Enforcement officers. Certain liberals. And we conservatives were proud to defend the c. I. A. We were proud to defend the fbi and the people who we believe defend us. Now it is republicans that are slandering and slurring the fbi at every turn. So with ron johnson, its clearly one of two things. Either he is of such limited intellect that he couldnt pick up upon reading those Text
This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. It is 11 00 p. M. Here on the east coast. Were live with new developments on the russia investigation. President trumps lawyer filing a defamation suit against buzzfeed for publishing the Infamous Trump dossier that included salacious details. That as senator feinstein releases closeddoor testimony of a man whose firm paid for the dossier. He testified that the former british spy who wrote the dossier worked at the fbi because wrote to the fbi because he believed there was a crime in progress. So much for the strategy of the president and republicans who have tried to paint it as a partisan political attack. Lets bring in laura coats, Ken Cuccinelli and john flannery. Good to have all of you on. Thanks so much. Laura, you first. Cnn is learning tonight that the president s personal attorney, michael cohen, has filed a defamation suit against buzzfeed for publishing the dossier. Buzzfeed says, its the subject of active investigations by congress and in
There, of course, is fever pitched speculation she will be a serious contender for the democratic president ial nomination in 2020. Shes in the middle of the immigration fight that led to the latest he said what nightmare involving this president. Senator Kamala Harris is live tonight in a couple minutes. Youll definitely want to see that. Today at the white house they tried to announce something about the Iran Nuclear Deal. They were trying to announce that President Trump will continue to certify the Iran Nuclear Deal for now but maybe not any more after this. And i say they were trying to announce that because they failed at it. They failed at actually making the announcement. They set up a call for reporters to call in to get this news from the white house on this very serious subject and we actually got a transcript of what happened when reporters called in for this call set up by the white house. Here is is hhow it started. Man speaking mandarin chinese. I am going upstairs to th
There is no question these comments are racist. This is so abnormal. This is a freak show. Is this offensive . Of course it is. But this doesnt move the needle at all. Howie is it fair for commentators to denounce those comments as racist. An explosive wall street journal article about the president that is generating strong denials. The media are swooning over oprah for president. Oprahs speech is fueling talk of a president ial run. She is an impressive woman, it was an impressive speech. I dont think her position has changed. I dont. I was talking to her very late last night. I do think she is intrigued by the idea. Howie why are the pundits giving so much attention to such a farfetched scenario. Why steve bannon lost his media platform. Ill be making a personal announcement about my latest prong. This is mediabuzz. Reports that President Trump privately told members of congress he warrants to limit immigration from hate tee and some african nations. The president made a mistake in
Announce that because they failed at it. They failed at actually making the announcement. They set up a call for reporters to call in to get this news from the white house on this very serious subject and we actually got a transcript of what happened when reporters called in for this call set up by the white house. Here is how it started. This is where the transcript starts. Man speaking mandarin chinese. I am going upstairs to the chicken shop. They have nothing down stairs. Everything has been sold out. Thats in mandarin. We got it translated. Next person says, cough. Next person says, how are you . Next person, im on a phone conference. I can show you the outlet. A womans voice says hello. Then a woman comes on also speaking chinese and says yes, of course. Then she told me so man speaking chinese at the start, woman speaking chinese a few lines in, that a man says we can get in trouble doing that sometimes. Then a different man says do you have a note pad . Just one note pad. Woman