scientists and engineers and management matitions who made this happen mathematicians who made this happen. i m brooke baldwin. thank you very much for being with me here today. the lead with jake tapper starts right now in washington. 300 scientists and experts warn that we re in for a climate catastrophe. president trump says he s not buying it. the lead starts right now. president trump moments ago saying he does not believe a scientific report about the disastrous consequences of climate change, and this isn t the only thing he s doubting, deflecting, and ignoring from experts with potential life-or-death consequences. the crisis of his choosing. president trump today capitalizing and making new threats after teargas rains on migrants and their children rushing the border. plus, mississippi voting. the state prepares to pick a senator as the incumbent stumbles over her state s ugly past and fastens herself to
the secretary of state now take a tough line. and in europe, both the eu and night taking a very tough line on this. and why they are doing that, this is a big concern in eastern europe. the russians are expert at stirring up trouble just short of conflict really. they stir up trouble, they deescalate a situation. they upset everybody. then they withdraw. but yet they gain ground as they have in crimea. don t forget it was president trump who so strongly criticized president obama for not doing anything when the russians went into crimea which is the neighborhood we re talking about. so now the ball is in mr. trump s court. the russians have made their move again, and now what will the president of the united states do? jake? barbara, quickly if you could, could there be additional action besides the reconnaissance flights that have r being proposed? we are seeing the reconnaissance flights by the navy and air force, collecting intelligence, trying to determine what both sides ar
president trump who heads there right now to pull her across the finish line. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we begin with our politics lead and the president of the united states publicly dismissing the expert findings of his own administration. this afternoon the president said he did not believe the national climate assessment mandated by congress and quietly released by the trump administration on n a post-thanksgiving news dump. the report outlines the potentially devastating economic and environmental impact of climate change and states unequivocally that clancimate change is, quote, primarily the result of human activities, unquote. it was part of an investigation by national oceanic and atmospheric administration working with 300 scientists and experts with findings based on an assessment of the peer-reviewed scientific literature. moments ago president trump glibly dismissed the report. i ve seen it. i ve read some of it, and it s
and so that s where i want to get to. i want to get to the point where we actually talk about real things, let s be open, frank, and honest about how we feel and about the policies and how they work for people and you who they don t work. one of the things you were talking about because i heard your speech earlier, you were talking about how there doesn t seem to be a home in the republican party right now for minority voters, republicans are not taking minority voters into their hearts and homes. this is not obviously a new criticism of the republican party. it s obviously one that yeah that you and tim scott and will herd and others don t subscribe to. but do you think it s gotten worse under president trump? i think i think we can do better. it s certainly it doesn t help to have the president attack somebody who is, you know, a member of the same party, especially, you know, we worked really well together and bringing joshua holt home. i was proud of that. that was
all right, martin savidge, thank you very much. i want to get your reaction, simone, to the latest defense by the trump team, take a listen to laura trump, the president s daughter-in-law. this is nothing new. the democrats scream racism at a republican contender in any field across the country. so this is nothing new. listen, cindy hyde-smith apologized for the remarks. i think if you watch the way it happened, i think a lot of the takesen out of context and blown up out of proportion. i didn t realize that donald trump was moonlighting as a strategist. welcome she s works for the president s re-election campaign. interesting. look, i think the facts are here that we have a tape, and i know there are many folks in the trump orbit who like to deny things on tape. we have a tape of the current senator saying what she said about public hangings. we also have her track record where she has vote, she literally support policies against protecting those with