Position as soon as the convention is finished. Pressure on her to resign began building earlier today, snowballed by the hour until a statement from her office confirming her plans to quit. And heres why. The stack of emails collected and made public by the antisecrecy website wikileaks. Some of those emails suggest that Democratic Party leaders, including Debbie Wasserman schultz, had already made up their minds about who they wanted to be the partys nominee and were actively working to scuttle Bernie Sanders campaign. Heres an example. In one email exchange not independently verified by cnn, a Dnc Communications staffer suggested they take issue with the cnn report about a hypothetical sanders presidency. Wasserman schultz blew it off responding, quote, this is a silly story. Hes not going to be the president. Jeff zeleny, our cnn washington correspondent is joining us. Jeff, there are many other emails very problematic because the dnc is not supposed to pick sides, is supposed to b
Effort of getting more states. They may capture more states than the democrats thought they could capture. Is jim jongunmaking a new rocket launch or some other flaws with the election . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news. After a shockingly nasty debate, the president ial candidates are back on the campaign trail today, and that president ial campaign has turned into an allout brawl. After downplaying the explosive video of his vulgar and sexually aggressive remarks, trump went all out in last nights debate, aggressively work to go keep his base, calling Hillary Clinton the devil and threatening to jail her if hes elected. Today hes picking up where he left off. But in the process, trump may have alienated even more mainstream republicans and independents. In a stunning move, House Speaker paul ryan today said he will no longer defend donald trump and will focus on protecting the gop majority in congress. He told colleagues they must do whats right for them an