congress to stop the bleeding of bad policy. then we venture into deep blue cities where independents are fed up with high crime, drugs flowing through the wide open border and sky high inflation. a hotbed of nt 4.0 protesters three years ago now gravitating towards a republican. she is here this morning to make her case. mitch mcconnell holding the purse strings. the polls titan anyway as even alaska s ranked choice has not stopped the alaska candidate to unseat the woman who often folds with democrats. the man democrats are really worried about. the celebrity who wants to be a politician. and we have seen how that goes. texas senator ted cruz on the democrats bringing out the big guns. barack obama one week ahead of the midterms as he goes all in for herschel walker. the texas senator this morning on the issues that matter. plus, the chinese communist party now inside the gates of america as another democratic staffer is exposed for doing the work of the chinese embassy.
i will save democracy. what would a second trump term look like? top trump ally j.d. vance of ohio is ahead. plus on the line. a split over foreign aid divides congress as world pressure grows over the civilian death toll in gaza. there s more that has to happen. does the biden administration have any conditions in its support for israel in the war? secretary of state antony blinken is next. and survival, world leaders meet to confront the climate crisis and consider phasing out fossil fuel, but will they go far enough? if there is an agreement to phase out fossil fuels, it will be a success. if there s not, it will be a failure. former vice president al gore joins me exclusively. hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is preparing for what looks to be a quite ugly 2024. we are closing in on a presidential election year in america already feels irreparably divided. late last night we saw former president donald trump leaning into his n
Volume 1, 193. He lied three times. Why didnt you charge him with a crime . I cant get into internal deliberations as to what or would not be you charged a lot of people from making false statements. Lets remember this. In 2016 the fbi did something they probably havent done before. They spied on two american citizens associated with the president ial campaign. George papadopoulos and carter page. Was carter page who then went to the g the fisa court. With mr. Papadopoulos they didnt go to the court. They used human sources. From about the moment papadopoulos joins the Trump Campaign you have all of these people All Around The World starting to swirl around him. Names like halper, downer, misfeud, thompson. Meeting in rome, london, all
kinds of places and the fbi even sent a lady posing as somebody else. Went by the name turk to spy on papadopoulos. In one of the meetings he is talking to a foreign diplomat and he says that the russians have dirt on clinton. That Diplomat Contacts the
Thank you. Volume 2, page 76, correct . Ill leave the answer to our report. So thats a yes . Is it true your investigation did not establish that any members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian government in election interference activity, volume 1, page 2. Volume 1, page 73 . Yes. Thank you. Although your Report States collusion is not a specific offense and you said that this morning or a term of our in federal criminal law and experience is, in the colloquial context are collusion and experience essentially synonymous terms. Youre going to have to row peat that for me. Collusion is not a specific offense or a term of art in federal criminal law. Conspiracy is. In the colloquial context, collusion and conspiracy are essentially synonymous terms, correct . No. If no on page 180 of volume 1 of your report you wrote collusion is largely synonymous of conspiracy and that crime is set forth in the general conspiracy statute. You said at your May 29th Press Conf
Gotcha sorry. [laughter] i wanted to ask you about public confusion, connected with Attorney General barrs release of your report. I will be coding you are in march 27th letter. Sarah, in that letter and at several other times did you convey to the Attorney General that the introductions and executive some summaries accurately i have to say the letter itself speaks for itself. And those were your words and that . Continuing with your letter, you are to the Attorney General that the summary letter the department sent to congress and released to the public late in the afternoon of march 24th did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this offices work and conclusions. Is that correct . Again, i rely on the letter itself for its terms. Thank you. What was it about the reports context, nature, substance that the attorneys letter did not capture . I think we captured that in the in the March 27th Responsive letter. This is from the letter. Im directing you to the letter its