You are watching cnn on this friday afternoon. Im brooke baldwin. Thank you for being with me. Heres breaking news in the russia investigation. An associate of the president s friend and longtime adviser roger stone is now in plea negotiations with Robert Mueller. His name is jerome corsi. He also knows President Trump. He wouldnt comment further to cnn about these talks. But corsis role largely revolves around the possibility he may have been an intermediary between stone and wikileaks in the days ahead of the 2016 election when wikileaks published emails damaging to Hillary Clintons campaign. Corsi is also a wellknown conspiracy theorist. But if a deal comes through, it would actually indicate that he was speaking the truth a couple of days ago when he predicted an indictment from the mueller team was coming. The entire negotiation discussions have just blown up, and you now i fully anticipate in the next knew daysfew days i indicted by mueller by some fuom or other of giving informa
Miami. This guy has quite the criminal history. The mug shot is from a previous arrest. The pictures are from the scene of todays arrest where authorities seized this van, among other items. You can see the van. It is covered in stickers, including huge images of President Trump, Vice President pence and a sticker that is critical of cnn. In just a couple of minutes, the Justice Department is planning to hold a News Conference. Live pictures there. Well of course bring that to you the moment we see them speak. But today, even more packages have been intercepted, including one to new jersey senator cory booker and another to former intel chief james clapper, which was addressed to us here at cnn. Authorities are investigating two additional suspicious packages to Kamala Harris and tom steyer. The president spoke at an event. He once again did not mention the people targeted by name. We must never allow Political Violence take root in america, cannot let it happen. Im committed to doing
What do you say, lets get after it. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. This breaking news is from the New York Times. A report that there could be a second potential whistleblower on ukraine. The times says its a second intel official, one who is also alarmed by president trumps dealings and may have more firsthand information about the situation. However, tonight we dont have to wait. We have the truth in front of us. It comes from the president s former special envoy to ukraine. He told Congress Nothing anonymous, he was there in person, he is real and bona fide. You havent even heard the president bad mouth him and he Gave Congress his testimony and the proof of the same, which all directed the idea of a Pressure Campaign for trumps political gain. The key aspect, apart from the text, kurt volker detailed how Rudy Giuliani, the president s personal lawyer, demanded ukraine release a Public Statement committed to investigating the 2016 election and the firm tied to joe bidens son.
A report that there could be a second potential whistleblower on ukraine. The times says its a second intel official, one who is also alarmed by president trumps dealings and may have more firsthand information about the situation. However, tonight we dont have to wait. We have the truth in front of us. It comes from the president s former special envoy to ukraine. He told Congress Nothing anonymous, he was there in person, he is real and bona fide. You havent even heard the president bad mouth him and he Gave Congress his testimony and the proof of the same, which all directed the idea of a Pressure Campaign for trumps political gain. The key aspect, apart from the text, kurt volker detailed how Rudy Giuliani, the president s personal lawyer, demanded ukraine release a Public Statement committed to investigating the 2016 election and the firm tied to joe bidens son. The key part is volker and a ukraine official both making it clear they think thats a bad idea for the country because i
Breaking news. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. We start with breaking news in our political lead, shocking news that the office of the u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york is investigating Rudy Giuliani who himself used to be the u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york. The probe deals with not only potential corruption, but also includes a counterintelligence investigation about whether giuliani helped wealthy foreign figures attempt to influence the white house. Joining me is cnns evan perez and sara murray who broke this story and former federal prosecutor kim whaley whose knew book how to read the constitution and why is out now. The fact there is a counterintelligence component, how stig is that. It is a big deal. Because this means that this goes beyond just runofthemill financial crimes, possible corruption. It means that there is a National Security component that there is that National Security threat component to the investigation and that is