the ocean. that s what i learn every summer. we re seeing them increasing in cape cod. meanwhile, there s a pattern emerge oging of the people president trump likes to attack and those he likes to leave alo alone. here s a hint. the one who is he leaves alone tend to be male and white. john avalon has our reality check. john, what is this about? look. if anyone s voked at the president s attacks on the congresswomen of color, they haven t been paying attention. it s a reflection of trump s long-time impulses. in october cnn analyzed his twitter feed and found he used the bully pulpit to attack 82 men and 22 women. but the top line stats don t reflect the frequency of his attack. reupping the phrase crooked hillary. but lately he s been trying to expand his self-selected face of
stick around. a lot more discuss. how impressed are you of my first edition? signed? he was here. have to wait for that. erica? breaking news overnight. two u.s. service members killed in afghanistan during an operation. right to cnn s ryan brown live at the pentagon with more of these breaking details. reporter: erica, details are scarce what exactly happened that led to the death of these two u.s. service members. this is the third and fourth u.s. military death in afghanistan in 2019. really underscores despite talks between the u.s. government and the taliban, talks that the trump administration has said has made progress, that fighting very much continues in afghanistan. they just celebrated its new year. a time when insurgents and terrorist groups attempt to mount attacks. again, the u.s. trump administration has considered drawing down the 14,000 u.s. troops currently in afghanistan. has considered drawing them down as these talks proceed.
can begin because if the would us wants to redact too many things because they say it would violate executive privilege, then we re going to have potentially a looming fight with congress as they fight to get access to this and make it public. so, john, it feels like we re a little in the fourth inning of this instead of the end of the road. the fourth inning, but it is a major inning in this case, given we ve been waiting nearly two years for robert mueller to wrap up his work and that could happen as soon as today. thank you very much for that report. joining us now, former federal prosecutor and cnn legal analyst and i have a piece of memorabilia here. this is my first edition original copy of the ststarr report. this is not what we re getting today under any circumstances. i think you re right, john. so i think that, first of all, if we learn something today it s going to be that mueller has sent the report over to barr. that s where the real
for partisan political purposes. the democratic chairman of three house committees firing back writing that the denial continues a troubling pattern by the trump administration of rejecting legitimate and necessary congressional oversight with no regard for precedent or the constitution. this is not normal, and to begin an effort to understand what were those conversations about, what documents exist that might record what they were about is perfectly reasonable. reporter: a former state department official told cnn in january that after a 2017 meeting with putin in germany, president trump took his interpreter s notes and told him not to share anything about the discussion. the new york times reports that all of the five meetings between president trump and putin have been handled in an unusually secretive way leaving many in the administration guessing what happened. there was no collusion. i didn t know the president. there was nobody to collude
when it detects the plane is pointing up at a dangerous angle. boeing s safety features in part could have helped the pilots detect erroneous readings. that s what may have caused that lion air crash back in october. what investigators are looking into. so according to the new york times, boeing will actually soon make one of the optional upgrades that could have alerted pilots to those faulty sensors standard on all new 737 max planes. but cnn, we have not been able to independently confirm this reporting and boeing itself is not commenting. this all comes, this report, as boeing is now working to roll out a software fix and federal investigators have, of course, opened a criminal probe into boeing, and sources have told us that subpoenas have been issued and boeing certification process could be in question here. so erica, federal prosecutors s