This author is quite frankly a crackpot fake news fantasy fiction writer. We have serious stuff to deal with. Instead, were caught up debating the Mental Health of the president. This is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is your new day. Its friday, january 5th, 6 00 here in new york. Heres our starting line. A brandnew New York Times report bringing to light a case for potential obstruction of justice in the russia investigation. And it goes all the way up to the president of the United States. The New York Times reporting that President Trump ordered a white house lawyer to stop attorney general jeff is sessions from recusing himself in the Justice Department russia probe. The times says special counsel bob mueller is aware of the president s unsuccessful attempt to lobby sessions, that there may even be written notes from Reince Priebus about the same. Would that, if true, be obstruction of justice .
Over. An axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. Last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that i believe will open the floodgates for special interests, including foreign corporations. Follow the money. Federal prosecutors in new york issue a sweeping subpoena for documents from the trump inaugural committee, investigating allegations of millions of dollars none documented donations, possibly from foreign contributors. Ive always thought that was the bigger problem for two reasons. One, because the Southern District of new york has no restrictions on their purview. Bob mueller has a task, its russian interference and potential collusion in the 2016 election. Southern district of new york is whatever the heck you want. And the waiting game. The governor of virginia trying to hang on amid mounting pressure, even as the Lieutenant Governor who would succeed him fiercely denies a Sexual Assault allegation from 2004. Does anybody think its a coincidence that on
Of the planet. Axelrod and the kid who saved the fourth with a double knot. I walked up there and he whispered, can you tie his shoe . Axelrod good evening. Im jim axelrod. This is our western edition. Jeffrey epstein had it all. His hedge fund made him a fortune. He fostered friendships with powerful people, including two president s, but tonight he stands accused of sex trafficking and abusing dozens of girls as young as 14. Epstein probably thought hed put his legal troubles behind him with a plea deal in florida 11 years ago, but as mola lenghi reports, federal prosecutors in new york now have a different idea. Reporter dressed in prison blues after spending part of the weekend in jail, multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein plead not guilty to charges that he enticed, recruited, and molested young girls at his homes in new york and florida. In a filing, prosecutors referred to epstein as an alleged serial predator. U. S. Attorney geoffrey berman. This conduct as alleged went on for year
Become the democratic nominee. As you know, there is no democrat in the white house today. Hillary clinton, barack obama, john kerry, al gore, no democrat incumbent, they won the iowa caucuses, they became the nominee. The results youre about to hear point to who iowas democratic voters like most right now, what they like most in their candidates, and even how they feel about the idea of impeaching President Trump. This is big. The cnn Des Moines Register poll. Lets go straight to des moines, iowa. Our political director David Chalian is there. David, there is a lot of data in your hands but we all want to know the big headlines. More than 20 candidates jostling for the democratic nomination. Who is leading . Ana cabrera, you set this up correctly. Lets get right to those numbers and just show the standings right now in the horse race here. You see joe biden leading the field in iowa 24 . Sanders follows at 16 . With warren at 15. Buttigieg at 15. Harris at 7 there. Just note, this is