Explain. He cant get damage control right. He makes a lot of excuses and people have to come back and explain for him. Its on and on. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Thank you so much for watching. Its hard to imagine that President Trump could have looked weaker than he did yesterday standing next to Vladimir Putin in helsinki. Well, that was until today when he couldnt even pull off damage control. It took more than 24 hours for the president to offer the weakest possible excuse for his unprecedented display of unamerican behavior yesterday. In a key sentence in my remarks i said the word would instead of wouldnt. The sentence should have been i dont see any reason why i wouldnt or why it wouldnt be russia. So just to repeat it, i said the word would instead of wouldnt. And the sentence should have been and i thought i would be maybe a little bit unclear on the transcript or unclear on the actual video. Not only does that defy logic it defies common sense. How dumb does this presi
But then there are these darker forces as well. And what we all have in common and all share is social media but also this poisoned environment. We have to look closely at the poison being spread sometimes on television, sometimes at the mouth of political leaders and oftentimes on ugly, dark corners of social media. So thats something were going to examine here in the hour to come. I want to make one more point before we bring in the panel, and that is to take a look at the suspect in pittsburghs post on gab. Gab is this version of twitter. Its an alternative to twitter. Its become very popular among hate groups and bigots because you can post pretty much anything on there no matter how ugly. He posted i noticed a change in people saying illegals, that now say invaders. I like this. Hes talking about the Migrant Caravan portrayed by far right wing media as an invasion. Five minutes before thet shooing he posted on gab again hias, it likes to bring in invaders, he says that kill our pe
You probably did not hear. Facebook did something great, and they purged thousands of hyp hyperpartisan pages, and facebook said enough. It technically said that it removed the pages because it was engaging in inflammatory behavior. And so good for them trying to make progress, but there is one problem. The president of the United States is the countrys biggest promoter of misinformation and he has been in a awfully chatty mood lately and awfully talkative and holding pressers and q as and chats on air force one. And he called in fox news one day this week and then woke up the next morning and called them again. So the result is pollution in the air and on the air. I wish it werent the case and the others werent working overtime for it. It is usually a good thing for press to have morep access to the president , but with trump, he is saying so many things that are untrue it sows confusion. And so that is what happened the other day this oped and that is what fox and friends did by putt
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Former Attorney Michael Cohen is ready to talk to special Counsel Robert Mueller and deliver a potential bombshell in the russia investigation. Cnns jeff zeleny is at the white house. This has been a whirlwind 24 hours. Start with the latest, this new invitation from president putin. Reporter no question. Good morning. The fallout from the helsinki summit is continuing with the back and forth between washington and moscow over will there be a second meeting. We are learning a few moments ago, Sarah Sanders said that President Trump is open to going to moscow if he has a formal invitation. They say they still look forward to having Vladimir Putin here in the u. S. After the first of the year. Of course, this is a walk back when he invited him here in the fall which many republicans were saying should not happen during or right after the midterm elections. This is all coming on the heels of the strong economic news. As you said, we saw the president in the south lawn of the white house r