Takes the stand in the trial of former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort. Will the jury hear what rick gates has already revealed to prosecutors . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news. The governments key witness is now testifying in the trial of the former trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort. That comes as President Trump is urged to stop tweeting about that 2016 Trump Tower Meeting between his top advisers including manafort and several russians. A source tells cnn is president is told his tweets are only giving oxygen to the topic. That followed the president s stunning Weekend Admission via twitter that the meeting indeed was about getting dirt on Hillary Clinton which he insists was totally legal. Ill speak with congressman and
correspondents and specialists with full Coverage Lets First Go To Chief White House Correspondent jim acosta covering the president in new jersey. Hes letting his twitter fingers do the talking. Reporter absolutely, wolff of. The pre
Consequential revelation, bannon seeming to tell the books author he thinks that meeting between Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort with others who were billed as being from the russian government, that that meeting was unpatriotic and treasonous. The president apparently being told about that excerpt unloaded today. In an official white house statement blasting his former consignifica associate saying, quote, steve bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. And then the president got nasty. All these bomb shells and trump world an ick details are in the upcoming book fire and fury by Michael Wolff. Wolff conducted more than 200 interviews and this was all made possible, he claims, because he was able to take a semipermanent seat on a couch in the west wing. That idea was encouraged by President Trump himself, wolff says. My Political Panel is here with me to comb through all the details. Lets begin with cnns jeff zele
Despite the president s best efforts to stop it. Defending his reporting this morning the author of fire and fury says 100 of the people around President Trump question his fitness for office. Whats the suggestion there . Because that goes beyond saying okay, the president s not an intellectual. What are you arguing there . You say, for example, he was at maralago and didnt recognize lifelong friends. I will quote steve bannon, hes lost it. But wait, theres more. This morning the New York Times is reporting that the president personally ordered the white House Counsel, not his white House Counsel, the white House Counsel, to try to stop Jeff Sessions from recusing himself from the russia investigation. This goes to the heart of the obstruction of justice question and apparently hit a nerve with the president. How do we know that . Moments ago, he put out this statement, repeating his claim that collusion with russia is a total hoax. He called the book fire and fury not only phony but a
Chewing their rice crispy for a minute and hear about the greatness of those tough kids who are now they re grandfathers and to come away with the thinking that history is real reagan s speech took place when kids were sitting around the breakfast table at 8:00 a.m. before they went to school, biden speech is, of course, happening a little bit later in the day now, but i think it s safe to say that showing that history is real and is currently repeating itself is one of the raison d etre of biden being here today, wolff? yeah, important point. kayla. i guess a political question is this speech today by the president united states, intended more for us allies who will all be watching or us voters back home i think it s safe to say it s an equal part of both wolf and being here in europe, having met with president zelenskyy just this morning, meeting with a president macron tomorrow meeting with the g7 next week, and nato allies next month. president biden wants to show that americ
Militaries, but there are many, many parts of the world who don t necessarily buy america s narrative. let s say the global south which everybody talks about and lumps in one great big thing, the global south. but it s half the world does not, actually by the western narrative over russia and ukraine and sees some him hypocrisy in that. but nonetheless, these are the issues and challenges that i guess history brings up for the president, at least for now. and as as long as he remains in power, has quite clearly put his stake in the ground to defend democracy, which is how he started his presidency, his inauguration speech was all about that. his first trips abroad, more than two years ago, we re all about that and he s reiterating that. but most importantly, it was directed to the american people as well, saying, i challenge you to think today that these rangers who did what they did 80 years ago would allow us to do anything less in defense of our freedom and our democracy and our way