Destroyed and concerns of toxic gas as the kilauea volcano remains a threat in hawaii. We have stunning images there from kilauea. Crazy stuff. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. Im christine romans. Monday, may 7th. 4 00 a. M. In the east. Good morning as you get your week started. Rudy giuliani generating startling new headlines in the defense of President Trump. Among them the new member of the Trump Legal Team did not rule out the president taking the fifth as the special counsel russia investigation rolls on. Are you confident the president will not take the fifth in this case . How can i ever be confident of that . When im facing a situation with the president and every lawyer in america thinks he would be a fool to testify. I have a client who wants to testify. He said it yesterday. You know, jay and i said, my go goodness. I hope we get a chance to tell him the risk he is taking. Worth noting, the president said during the 2016 campaign only the mob takes the
States largest political events. For some it could be a major opportunity to right the ship. But first, as hallie just mentioned, President Trump just wrapped up taking some questions from reporters in the oval office. Let us now go to kelly odonnell. Shes at the white house. Kelly o. , what did the president s say. Reporter he spoke for about 30 minutes addressing the whistleblower complaint. He called it ridiculous. He claimed the whistleblower is partisan and acknowledged he does not know the identity of the member of the Intelligence Community who lodged this complaint that an Inspector General has said is urgent and credible. The president also said that all of his conversations with leaders and counterparts on the world stage are appropriate. He also said that people should look into joe biden. That gets at the underlying question about was the president trying to find out information about joe biden, his son hunter biden, who had been doing work on behalf of an Energy Company in
Surfacetoair missile system. Officials are saying after analyzing satellite and radar data, it was a russianmade system, adding this could have been a mistake by iran. Of course, this comes at a very tense time. The iranianians are still disputing they brought down this plane. In the wake of the ukrainian plane crash, u. S. And allied officials tell cnn iran is believed to have brought it down with russianmade surfacetoair missiles killing all 176 people on board. Most of the victims from iran, ukraine and canada. We have intelligence from multiple sources including our allies and our own intelligence. The evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by an ukrainian surfacetoair missile. This may well have been unintentional. Reporter wednesdays crash came hours of the Iranian Regime launched over a dozen missiles at u. S. Forces in iraq. Officials believe iran possibly shot the plane down by mistake. This new video allegedly showing the moment the train was struck. Cnn has not veri
Many, and i hope it means a lot to you as well. You are our best and for good reason. All right, everybody. Im chris cuomo. Welcome to primetime. Heres the proposition. If its clear to the u. S. Military that briefed the president that iran intentionally shot down a u. S. Drone then why is this president saying he thinks it was a mistake . What is the truth . The house intelligence chairman is with us tonight. He was just at a classified briefing with the president hours ago about this incident. We need him for that. And to make sense of the just received full hope hicks transcript that is now in our hands. The stonewalling is clear 155 times over. Does yesterdays fiasco change chairman schiffs reckoning of what needs to happen next . And does joe biden have a problem in his party or not . Were going to ask a long time member of the Congressional Black Caucus. Theres a lot to figure out tonight so lets get after it. All right. So this president says that the United States will not stan
Drone then why is this president saying he thinks it was a mistake . What is the truth . The house intelligence chairman is with us tonight. He was just at a classified briefing with the president hours ago about this incident. We need him for that. And to make sense of the just received full hope hicks transcript that is now in our hands. The stonewalling is clear 155 times over. Does yesterdays fiasco change chairman schiffs reckoning of what needs to happen next . And does joe biden have a problem in his party or not . Were going to ask a long time member of the Congressional Black Caucus. Theres a lot to figure out tonight so lets get after it. All right, so this president says that the United States will not stand for the downing of one of our drones over international waters, but hes also apparently choosing to describe what happened as a mistake. Well, witch is it . And is the difference relevant to the response . House intel chair adam schiff was among the senior members of con