so many potential various sources for a vodka whose bottle caps may or may not have contained degrees from trump university. anyway, the president tweeted today, and i m quoting. that s right, the trump foundation gave away 100%-plus with zero rent or expenses charged and has been sued by cuomo and new york state for years. another part of the political witch hunt. just in case anyone is interested, clinton foundation never even looked at. okay. i m not sure where to begin. the trump foundation was shut down after the attorney general of new york announced just how shady it was. and when i say shady, i mean a washington post reporter literally won a pulitzer prize for exposing it. seriously, the reporting is so bonkers, you have to look it up yourself online. it s by a tremendous journalist named david farenthold. you can almost hear the president disparaging the bullet skb pulitzer prize.
ruled it would block a citizenship question, at least for now. elliot williams, harry litman are both back with me. you re shaking your head. why were you doing that? have you seen the simpsons movie where mr. burns is trying to block the sun. come on. you say the supreme court ruling is much bigger than just the census. why is that? yeah, because, you know, this is about this is sort of what we were talking about before. it s about whose voice is heard in society. it s about how people are apportioned, how people can cast their votes and you re gravitying on top of that questions of race and identity. this is actually a big idea. we think about the census being this thing we do every ten years for figuring out where the post offices are. this is about people s voice in our electoral system. in some extent this was a more political case than the gerrymandering one. it wasn t decided in the same way, but the issue at its core is fundamentally more political. harry, the presi
nightmare and led to a revolution. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we begin with the politics lead. president trump this afternoon capping off a wild tweet storm by reacting to newly unsealed mueller evidence that showed that his former national security adviser, michael flynn, aided the mueller investigation into potential obstruction of justice, offering evidence that members of the trump team and congress reached out to flynn in a way that mueller asserts could have affected both flynn s willingness to cooperate and the completeness of that cooperation. potential witness tampering. flynn even sharing a voice mail with the mueller team of a possible attempt to interfere with the probe. now, the president tweeted today, quote, it now seems that general flynn was under investigation long before it was common knowledge. it would have been impossible for me to know this, but if that was the case, and the me being one of two people who would become president, why was i not told
former personal attorney michael cohen s testimony, at least in part, for the collapse of negotiations with north korea last week. the president tweeted today, for the democrats to interview an open hearing as a convicted liar and fraudster come at the same time as the very important nuclear summit with north korea, is perhaps a new low in american politics. it may have contributed to the walk. never done when the president is overseas. chain. president trump initially blamed north korea for demanding too much in sanctions relief for the field deal. i want to bring and chief political anchor and anchor special report, bret baier, who was in hanoi vietnam for last week s summit. bret, first of all, welcome home. second, how much was discovered in vietnamese media and press? how much of a distraction was michael cohen when you were there? it was covered obviously by the u.s. networks, nonstop. but as far as bleeding into vietnamese perception and what was going on, there was a lot of
we know that they were in touch with the saudis and with other potential foreign bankers. with qatar, with the chinese. there s no telling how far that goes. senator blumenthal, appreciate your time. up next, his name was mentioned 25 times during the michael cohen testimony on wednesday. so who is allen weisselberg, according to a former trump organization employee, he s the guy who, quote, knows where all the financial bodies are buried. i ll speak with former trump organization executive barbara wrest next about her time working with allen wising brg and how important he is in the corporation. there is this place. it can t be found on just any map. a place miles from the beaten path. overcoming twists and turns. ups and downs. whatever life throws. a place to always strive for. for all the journeys that make us stronger.