List of those potentially on the chopping block growing even longer. I think this administration has been the most unstable that i have seen. Im worried about what i have seen further down the bureaucracy like in the immigration service. And hollywood Actress Felicity Huffman and a dozen other parents plead guilty in the College Cheating admissions scandal. President trump firing Agency Officials one by one by one as he tries to find someone, anyone at this point to blame for the skyrocketing number of migrants arriving at the southern border. He might want to consider blaming himself and his policies. I have a great team here to help us understand all of it. But first, i want to go through this because were now 54 days after the president declared a National Emergency to deal with immigration at the southern border. Now we know he has already fired or is reportedly thinking about firing most of the officials in charge of dealing with all of it. We have not seen an agencywide purge lik
Asked every president ial candidate so far, what is the best idea youve heard from one of the other president ial candidates. Now i know Julian Castro is not everyones president ial candidate at this point. No one is everyones president ial candidate at this point. If youre wondering where your president ial candidate is, they are all invited on, they will all eventually be on this program, but if you havent seen them here yet, it just means we havent been able to schedule it yet with the campaign, but they will all be here eventually. And, remember, eventually youre going to have to have an opinion about two candidates on the democratic side, a president ial candidate and a Vice President ial candidate. So youre going to want to give them all a very close look and listen. And we learned more today about Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosensteins discussions about using the 25th amendment to remove President Trump from office after the president fired fbi director james comey. Well have t
Welcome to the leid. Im jake tapper. We begin with the politics lead. The keeper of the Mueller Report, bill barr testifying publicly before congress for the First Time Since releasing his letter about muellers findings and now the countdown is officially on. Barr today announcing he expects to release the full Mueller Report, well, fullish, with redactions, within a week. Explaining for the first time his plan to provide reasons for each of the redactions, and saying that special Counsel Robert Mueller is helping him identify those redactions. But even though the attorney general answered a lot of questions today as cnns sara murray now reports, there was one question he curiously declined to answer, and that is whether the white house has seen or been briefed on the Mueller Report. And of course, mr. Attorney general, we could not hold this hearing without mentioning the elephant in the room. Reporter and address it, they did. Attorney general william barr telling lawmakers today he
We should just say no to releasing it. Meanwhile there was this Security Breach at President Trumps maralago estate in florida thats raising a lot of questions this morning. Federal investigators say a chinese woman carried a thumb drive with malware and entered the president s club to illegally access info of some kind. She was carrying two chinese passports and four cell phones. Who was she . The security incident is renewing concerns about protecting the president and classified info when he and his advisers are at his private properties which he is often. Lets begin with cnns joe johns live at the white house. Good morning, joe. Reporter good morning. I think you would say today is consequential. Today is the day the House Judiciary Committee is likely to start asserting its real power to try to find out all that is in the Mueller Report. Up until now, the attorney general has promised a redacted copy of the report. For democrats, they say thats simply not good enough. In a matter
Good evening. Its quite a day when milt sources say the president of the United States told Border Agents to break the law. Thats not the biggest story. Thats just color in a larger story. That is where we are tonight. We appear to be in the middle of what one senior official tells cnn is a near purge of the department of Homeland Security. Dhs secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is out. Her deputy has been bypassed by the naming of an acting successor. The director of the secret service, which is part of dhs, has also been fired. Two officials telling the New York Times the president had been making fun of him lately, calling him dumbo because of the size of his ears. Consider that for a second. The president of the United States is reportedly making fun of a man charged with protecting him and his family because of the size of his ears. We are not in kindergarten. That is also just kind of color. Officials tell us that senior white house advisor Stephen Miller is playing a key role in these f