To an american icon. The bipartisan tribute to senator john mccain. The world is smaller for his departure and we will remember him as he was, unwavering, unequalled. We never doubted the other mans sincerity or patriotism or that when all was said and done we were on the same team. Inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. Welcome to inside politics. Im phil mattingly. To our viewers in the United States and around the world, thanks for sharing your sunday. Two powerful absences cast a shadow over washington today. John mccain this afternoon heads to his final resting place, the hallowed green lawn in annapolis. A day ago three former president s, millions paused to remember an irreplaceable american. At Washington National cathedral the keepers of American Power all sang or hummed along to america the beautiful, a salute to mccain who, maybe more than anyone, his country loved. Two eulogies spoke to mccains and americas aspiration for something higher, a
Cnn tonight with don lemon starts right now. Thats okay because i was looking for the transcript in the woodward phone call where the president talks about, well, i dont even talk to raj. So you should be speaking to my secretary, whatever, when we were saying, hey, ive been trying to get you on this book. I dont know how much credible rog has but i think youre right, he should answer for it. I want to know why. You cant say, i have no idea who he is. Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced him and others at the hearing, guttenberg, about who he was and how he lost his kid. I dont mean to indict the judge. I dont know him, i havent learned much about him from his own mouth, we will get to that tomorrow. But how we disagree matters and we have to have decency. You have to have credibility. When youre caught in so many lies on tape and in person, it is hard to have credibility and im talking about the white house. Thank you. Got a lot to get to because you know we have to talk about what hap
Around the world. Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. Were following breaking news on President Trump lawyering up right now to try to keep his tax records under wraps. His new attorney just sent a letter to the Treasury Department responding to a Top Democrats demand for the irs to hand over six years worth of mr. Trumps tax returns. The lawyer arguing the request amounts to president ial harassment. A white house official says the trump team is willing to take this fight all the way to the u. S. Supreme court. Also breaking, President Trump visits the southern border with mexico after days of confusing comments about whether hed schett shut down traffic and trade out of mexico. The border is still hope after mr. Trump backed off the threat to close it as early as this week. Eye talki ill talk to a member of the house ways and means thats seeking the tax returns. And our correspondents and analysts are standing by. First to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. Ji
President to a mob boss . Very strange. And i dont do it lightly. And im not trying to, by the way, suggest thati ining legs a shaking down shopkeepers. Instead, what im talking about is that Leadership Culture constantly comes back to me when i think about my experience with the trump administration. And in a piece out today in the New York Times, garrett graft describes how pursuing trump world as a mob operation could take down trump and his entire empire. Writing, indicting the whole Trump Organization as a, quote, corruption enterprise, could help prosecutors address the thorny question of whether the president can be indicted in office. They could lay out a whole pattern of criminal activity, indict numerous players including, perhaps, trump family members, and leave the president , himself, as a named unindicted coconspirator. Such an action would allow investigators to make public all the known activity for congress and the public to consider as part of impeachment hearings or
This all follows the killing of general Qassem Soleimani. There are reports in the streets as well. Reports of hundreds of street protesters in tehran today. They are demanding the ayatollah step down as Supreme Leader. Now, they are mad at irans government for its late admission that its very own military mistakenly shot down a ukrainian passenger jet, all 176 people, most of iranian descent or iran citizens on board dying from that attack. Secretary of defense mark esper took to the sunday shows to explain the reasoning behind the killing of soleimani. When asked whether there was decisive intelligence of an imminent threat, well, he had mixed messaging. You believe the threat was real. Do you believe it was imminent nchts in my definition, yes. The attack was days away. He had a proven record of executing attacks and killing americans. It was going to be at multiple sites. What the president said was he believed there could have been attacks against multiple embassies. I shared that