Putin and his hackers, both on the grid and off. Good afternoon, everyone, welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. Well begin today with the world lead, of course, with just about three weeks until president Barack Obama Joins the long list of u. S. President s who could not broker peace between the israelis and the palestinians today his secretary of state john kerry gave a speech that seemed focused on rebuking israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for undermining any hopes for a twostate solution. This comes at a time when the relationship between the two countries may be at its lowest point since the eisenhower administration, and with a president elect waiting in the wings tweeting, telling netanyahu essentially, just a few more days, bebe, i am on my way. Kerry stated today that a two state solution is the only path to peace. Defending a u. N. Resolution to condemning settlements. Something the Prime Minister called a shameful ambush. Elise labott is live for us at the state dep
Outspoken, performer national kurt Council Spokesman and long time cia analyst quits the Intelligence Agency and publicly blames donald trump. Ned price tells us why in his first tv interview. And cause of death, an autopsy shows kim jonguns brother didnt have a heart attack and no puncture wounds are visible. Officials suspect he was poisoned in a public assassination. Just how did he die and why . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. The Trump Administration is outlining plans for aggressively enforcing immigration laws. The white house says mass deportation is not the goal, and for now the president plans to keep protections for socalled dreamers who entered the United States as children. But Homeland Security guidelines show stepped up resources for a crack down and Officials Say a million undocumented immigrants who pose a threat will be the first to go. And then a new wave of bomb threats against Jewish Community centers and following des krags of Jewish Cemetery, Presid
I think yesterday we talked about the president s unf unfortunate statement coming out of the white house talking about president obama. Yesterday he righted himself, said what he needed to say, saying its my problem now, its on my shoulders. I think he heard the criticism attacking obama and how tone deaf it wasality the time. There are a lot of people, not only across the world, but a lot of people in america who im sure were heartened by the fact that this president wasnt going to say what every politician has said for the last five years, theres been a genocide in syria. That is, oh, its just too hard and thats really were sad and its a shame, and we cant help them over there, we cant do anything. I think the president said that his mind was changed and he was going to seek action. It can only lead us to hope that he will work in other arab country ts and work with our european allies and figure out some way to bring relief to the Syrian People. We in the west have ignored them for
Well, the breaking news, results coming in right now in a special Congressional Election weve been following. And many see it as a leading indicator for 2018. Its drawn the biggest dollar combinations of any house elections. Were talking about 50 million. Right now in georgias sixth house district, it is close. You can see the numbers there. Cnns john king is tracking the results. He joins us once again. Lets walk through the numbers. Still very close, anderson, but significant since we last spoke, georgia six now red. You see it right there. Jon ossoff had a minor lead. Karen handel now has a narrow lead, about 500 votes or so. How did this change . Lets switch maps to show you the three counties in this district. I want to pull it out. Fulton county is the largest district. The district im sorry to have to do this, but the votes come in from the county, so the entire county fills in, but the district is up here. And the thing that has changed is more votes have come in from the most
Below 40 , as he tries to pivot away from the russia story and defend his embattled son at the same time. Ive got a great team to help me break it all down. I want to start with Nbcs Kristen Welker who is live at the white house for us. Kristen, clearly this administration feels like it has to stay on offense when it comes to donald trump jr. Reporter theres no doubt, chris. And President Trumps outside counsel, jay sekulow, flooded the sunday shows over the weekend pushing back against this narrative that there was anything untoward about this meeting. He tried to make the argument that, look, there was nothing illegal. He underscored that donald trump jr. Himself has said that he would do things differently if he could go back and do it again, but that at this point in time theres nothing that has been proven to be illegal. Let me read you what the president has been saying about all of this, chris, tweeting about this over the weekend, trying to put the focus back on his former chal