And germanys foreign and defense ministries are hit with a cyber attack reportedly launched by Russian Hackers the same group is false who have previously attacked the German Parliament and the Us Democratic party. And babs no more the International Olympic committee lifts is stoping ban on russia so does this mean the world is ready to trust russian powerful leads in competition again. Im brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show we start out this program in slovakia where the murder of a young investigative journalist has sparked protests in the capital brought a small about a thousand people turned out for a march organized by the conservative Opposition Party to on. Reporter. And protest against political corruption a twenty seven year old was shot dead outside his home last week alongside his fiance. While the news website he worked for has published his last unfinished article hours after it hit the web its explosive claims triggered fallout at the very highest level of govern
Hicks heads for the exit. The president says he backs stricter gun control but nra says the gun group and the white house are on the same page. Starting this saturday on the golf course where he spent 100 days of his presidency thus far at his private club. He is now heading back to washington. He also returns to d. C. With more questions looming about the focus of Robert Muellers investigation and the future of his administrations top officials, including his own soninl soninlaw, Jared Kushner. Jeff bennett is live at the white house. Before we get into all of that, there was an incident outside the white house a few minutes ago. Get us up to speed as to what happened. Secret service says Emergency Personnel responded to what they describe as a male victim who suffered a self inflicted gun shot wound outside the north fence line here of the white house. The man is, at the moment, still unidentified. It all unfolded shortly before noon eastern. Uniformed secret Service Officer came int
Its been more than a decade since a storm this big has hit the part of florida where Hurricane Michael is expected to come ashore tomorrow afternoon. The storm will first hit the Florida Panhandle. Again, landfall tomorrow afternoon. Its then expected to turn toward alabama, mississippi, georgia, and South Carolina, even as parts of South Carolina are still coping with what happened from the last hurricane to come ashore, hurricane florence. In terms of whose going to get it the worst, the area just sort of southeast of panama city on the gulf coast of florida looks like theyre going to get the worst storm surge. Something on the order of 9 plus feet of storm surge. Broadly speaking, thats a region that includes Tindell Air Force base. But in addition to that big storm surge, for a large area theyre expecting flash flooding and hurricaneforce winds that the National Hurricane center says tonight will extend, quote, well inland. Again, tomorrow afternoon is expected landfall. Right now
A lot of breaking news tonight and thats on top of even more big developments all day long. In just the last hour or so, new reporting on the president and his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, who he publicly shamed yet again today. According to the Washington Post, russias special counsel mueller is focusing on the first time the president did that, if you remember, back last summer, and whether it was or is part of an attempt to obstruct justice. Also the sudden departure of White House Communications director hope hicks, and late word on a president ial berating she got in the runup to it. A source telling cnn that hes furious hicks told the House Intelligence Committee that shes lied on his behalf, white lies shes called them, whatever that is. In addition tonight in an exclusive conversation with bob woodward and Carl Bernstein about what they are seeing in this white house and the inevitable comparisons with watergate and the nixon administration. They dont talk about it often. T
Welcome to the the lead, im jack tapper. Chaotic week for the Trump Administration struggling with one crisis after another now as the dow closed down more than 400 points at President Trump announced his intention to impose new tariffs on steel and aluminum. It was down more than 500 points earlier. The tariffs raising concern about a possible trade war. This comes as the white house grapples with another bomb shell report involving president ial soninlaw and Senior Adviser, Jared Kushner. The New York Times revealed the business received loans from companies totaling half a billion dollars amidst kushner in his capacity as a courthouse official meeting with the heads of those companies. The founder of Apollo Global management met with him on multiple occasions beginning in early 2017, three sources told the New York Times advising the administration, according to a cnn source familiar with the conversations, was also talking about a possible role with the white house. That was discus