Just moments ago, the key question about the politics of all of this. Watch. How can the white house assure people that the case involving the president s son is being handled fairly . Anything that has been stated or said by hunters representative, ill have to refer you to his representatives. Thats not something that i will respond to. What i can say and i said it at the top, the Department Of Justice is independent. That is what the president believes. He believes this white house will not politicize the Department Of Justice. This was done under the leadership of a trumpappointed u. S. Attorney as you know. So im not going to add anything else to that. Martha id imagine well hear more along those lines. Carl rowe and general Tom Dupree Standing by with their analysis of this. First to david spunt live at Justice Department with the new developments here. Hi, david. Hi, martha. This is david weisss first full week as Special Counsel. Hes got quite a task ahead of him. Hes had a majo
itself as a sanctuary city and busts people to our country. it s only draining taxpayer resources from the families already here. this is incentivizing illegal immigration and does nothing to support the infrastructure on the hard working citizens. martha: a lot of backlash to this plan. the major s plan would pay for up to four months of food and shelter for 300 men that would move into a hotel in rockland and then another one in orange county. they are absolutely outraged by this plan. so really, you could see suburban towns in other places in america starting to feel the burden even more once title 42 lifts in three days. thousands are crossing every day. over five million think about it. we have about 320 million people in this country. over five million people have crossed the border and come in since the president took office. that s a lot of people who have now been let in with no process, no vetting. very little court dates. two years out for a court date. like co
of lying to pay off a porn star. duelling trump world figures, michael cohen, the star witness in this case, he was disbarred after he did time for multiple felonies. this man, new york attorney robert costello who spent over two years yesterday testifying in front of the grand junior saying that michael cohen, who he once advised cannot be trusted. watch. do you have anything on donald trump? he says no. repeatedly. i swear to god, bob, i don t have anything. then you know, you ve got a guy that probably doesn t have anything. it s a typical donald trump play out of the playbook. figure out how you can muddy the water as best as you can, denigrate the person, disparage them. martha: boy, this is a tangled web. first to john yu a former deputy atist about the attorney general, law professor at the university of california berkeley. great to have you here today, john. you know, it s interesting to see what s going on here. we watched robert costello when he came out. he
quote, it felt like armageddon. the lead starts right now. a new baby, one of the thousands of innocent people killed earlier today in that catastrophic 7.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked turkey and syria. the scramble to reach the people buried alive beneath crumbles buildings. then, we re learning more about china s suspected spy balloon shot down over the united states, including the concern that it may have had explosives onboard. plus, arrests in a neo-nazi plot to completely destroy an american city by targeting electrical substations. the details coming up on the wild conspiracy. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we start today with our world lead. the frantic search for survivors after the devastating earthquake that so far has killed more than 3,400 people. a number that tragically continues to grow, seemingly every hour. the earthquake striking turkey and syria earlier this morning. powerful aftershocks complicating the rescue efforts, making things
what a tragedy this is for everyone. being as deep in this subject matter as you are and knowing the campus as well as you do, having gone there, is there anything that could have stopped what happened last night? i think we don t really have the answer to that yet, right, because the fbi and michigan state police will do the background on this individual who did the shooting to see maybe if there were tells and science, and there were people who saw something and did not say something, which is kind of my biggest fear, of course. but i think overall, i think we have to use when we push together what everybody wants, which is the answer to the motivation for why this guy did this, looking for the motivation is really helping us to find the next shooter, before the strike, and that s why we want to continue to look for the information about why this guy did what he did, not because we can make him not do it but because we can make the next kind not do it. we don t seem to