There. Plus, trump tv. Talking over chopper blades to virtually co hosting his favorite fox news show, the president feeling really chatty lately. Why the media blitz, and can it backfire . Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. We begin today with our world lead. The Trump Administration under intense pressure from congress to send a stronger, decisive message to saudi arabia for its alleged role in the disappearance and possible murder of a Washington Post journalist. A source telling cnn, turkish officials told their american counterparts theyre in possession of video and audio evidence, proving the execution of jamal in istanbul, turkey. This comes as were learning that prior to his disappearance, u. S. Intelligence officials intercepted Saudi Communications to capture him, according to the Washington Post. I asked the office of the director of national intelligence, if thats true, why did the office not warn him . I was told, no comment. U. S. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle ar
Christine blasey ford has not yet been contacted by investigators. This comes after fords attorneys told the New York Times they have not heard from the fbi despite repeated efforts to speak to them. All of this happening as the white house is placing the blame on lawmakers for any limits on the scope of the federal Background Investigation. They have free rain. Theyll do whatever they have to do. Whatever it is they do. The white house is not micro managing this process. This is the senate is dictating the terms. For more, lets bring in nbcs jeff bennett at the white house. Jeff, okay. So its been ever moving here. Question being whos on the list that we know about . And who is not on the list . Great to see you, richard. There are reports that the fbi spoke with Deborah Ramirez today in the investigation into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Nbc has not yet independently confirmed that. But we have confirmed that the fbi has not yet contacted dr. Christine blasey ford. It doesn
Pittsburgh, pennsylvania, where today there were funerals for three of the 11 people who were killed in the synagogue massacre on saturday. City leaders in pittsburgh and jewish leaders in pittsburgh had asked President Trump to please not come himself to pittsburgh today on the first day of the first funerals. City leaders had asked him to please wait until the city has buried its dead, at least. If for no other reason than the resources necessary to protect these funerals, having to be diverted to instead protect the president. They were not telling him he is never welcome in pittsburgh. They were just asking him to please at least put it off maybe until next week. Preserve Public Safety resources in pittsburgh so that the funerals can be protected in case any sort of, you know, copycat attacker decides to come out and attack the funerals. After the suspect in this case has killed these people in the synagogue in the first place. The president rejected all of those requests and showe
Up being of crucial importance when it comes to picking the next president of the United States. Florida, of course, a state won twice by barack obama and then narrowly won by donald trump in 2016. But florida and south florida in particular and miami in particular particular are home to a massively diverse field of voters, and that is also, i think, a key part of the calculation here. Miami, of course, has a large africanamerican population. Africanamerican voters have long been basically the key that unlocks general election possibilities for democratic contenders in general elections. But miami is also a majority latino city. 70 of the population in miami is hispanic. And that Spanish Speaking and latino population in miami is itself really diverse. And so the Democratic Party choosing to site their first debate for the 2020 campaign here in miami, its basically a de facto challenge to all these candidates to make sure they are competing for all different kinds of latino votes. And
Called for sending tax dollars to people who are unwilling to work so we asked him about it. If he said that one never appeared, it wasnt real, it was a right wing hoax. Watch. The unwilling to work thing was in her backgrounder, that has been absolutely confirmed. No, definitely not. Tucker the clip you just saw went viral over the weekend, so my covington post for the piece about how this show had been duped and then by someone delivering the facts. Alexandria ocasiocortez herself agreed on twitter. Turns out they were all lying. Especially. She knew, andnd we can prove it. More on that in just a minute but first, President Trump will make a case for a border wall at a rally in el paso, texas, time. Washington, talks to avert a second Government Shutdown have fallen apart over immigration. Re they want to increase ices capacity to hold Illegal Immigrants. Democratsgr want to place a capn how many ice can dictate so that more Illegal Immigrants without criminal records records c can e