Officials delivers a new warning about its threat of using a hydrogen bomb. Of President Trump will spend much of the rest of his day in texas but before he departed he lit up twitter with his remarks about his meeting with Senate Republicans saying outside of flake and corker was a love fest withstanding ovations and great ideas for usa. Both senators bob corker and jeff flake had made strong denuns yass of his character, of the president s behavior. Neither of them is running for reelection. A point the president emphasized in another tweet. The reason flake and corker dropped out of the senate race is very simple. They had zero chance of being elected. Now act so hurt and wounded. Our manu raju caught up with corker to ask him about the tweet while earlier on new day, flake had a message for the gop about the president s ongoing comments. I dont really care what comes out of the white house. Yeah. What do you mean. Well, there was no question when i decided not to run, i was in a do
Over documents on ukraine. He has ten days to respond. Now the New York Times is reporting a second potential whistleblower is considering filing a separate formal complaint. They say its an intelligence official with more direct knowledge of trumps dealing with ukraine than the initial whistleblower that sparked the impeachment inquiry. Lets go straight to cnns Jeremy Diamond at the white house. President trump targeting mitt romney for speaking out against him, and this while the president is enjoying a day at his golf course in virginia, right. Thats right, fredericka. Mitt romney has been one of the only willing republicans to speak openly about trumps conduct. Mitt romney in a tweet called the president s actions wrong and appalling and the president this morning is firing back. He wrote on twitter, mitt romney never knew how to win. He is a pompous ass who has been fighting me from the beginning except when he begged me for my endorsement in a senate run, i gave it to him, and wh
i know a lot of you disagree. what i want to do is be open and transparent about why i made this decision and so i wanted to tell you about it. as you know, there have been people called for impeachment for a long time even before i got into congress in january, and i have not been supportive of an impeachment inquiry up until now. that includes after april when the mueller report came out and when roper mueller came and testified for many, many months. frankly probably some folks in this room have been calling my office and asking me to call for an impeachment inquiry and i did not feel like it was the right thing for the country. but i will tell you that for me it did change and it changed based on the information that came out in the past couple of weeks. very specifically, the issue that got to me was this idea that the president, the most powerful man in the world, reached out to a foreigner, a foreign leader, and asked him to dig up dirt on an american.
don t see anything inappropriate about these meetings. right. look, a transition is supposed to tell the sitting administration when they are holding a meeting with foreign leaders that didn t happen here but that in and of itself that s not a criminal matter. i would agree. that doesn t seem something the special counsel would be focused on but there is something in the meetings with the individual that he wants answers about. i think it s interesting because i suspect maybe the money laundering trail is involved here and this is kind of a tribute to how secretive and proper mueller s investigation has been, that we re saying what could this possibly be about. but we do know he s been looking carefully at money laundering and contributions, not just the russians but other entities illegally, maybe to the campaign or other officials involved in the campaign. this remains entirely speculati speculative. it s not a casual interest. they met the guy at the airport with a sea
research. right. so keep in mind fusion gps, this company is hired initially by a republican client who during the republican primaries. at the time russia wasn t their focus. they didn t know what to focus on. there was a group of reporters doing their research. so initially looking at trump s business activities and that s what focused them on russia. . after the republican, whoever that person stops funding the efforts, after that, that s when chris tell, the former is hired by. the end product is the so-called dossier which is published. special assistant at one point. roper mueller now the special counsel. based on everything we know, so far, michael, is it your