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policies. i m going to vote for balderson. why? because he s a republican and i think trump needs more republicans in washington to clean up the swamp, basically. i m an angry republican. so i have to vote democrat this round. why are you so angry? big i think he s embarrassed us in front of the international community president trump? president trump has embarrassed us in the international community polls close in just under 90 minutes, the last special election before the midterms. let s go to my colleague mike tobin who is covering the primaries in michigan. hi, mike. thanks, kiersten. the president is throwing his weight behind a west point grad and combat veteran who flew apache attack helicopters in iraq. john jaynes has a lot of momentum behind him.
real clear politics average gives him a edge over his competitor sandy pendley. very much in line with
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the battle to save lives as president trump sends a tweet about the fire that baffles even his own staff about the cause of it all. good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. in the politics lead, rick gates, former number two on the trump campaign grilled right now about the plea deal by defense attorneys for former trump campaign chair paul manafort. gates describing today in vivid detail of he says manafort engineered an elaborate scheme to avoid taxes. prosecutors say manafort s own e-mails show him directing the money to multiple offshore accounts. now, although conspireing with russia on the 2016 election is not officially on the docket, the sub text of it is looming over the trial. gates says that manafort gave some control over a bank account in cyprus of a man of a
up until 2012 for consulting work for a ukrainian billionaire. gates went into detail abo
is not the truth. is that just misspeaking or part of a campaign of deception? it s time to go deep. let s get after it. in an on the record interview with reuters, the president says that he could run the probe himself if he wanted. all this coming after his biggest tweet storm yet about mueller and word that his white house counsel cooperated with mueller s probe more than trump might have known. here to discuss that and much more, former attorney general michael mukasey. judge, good to have you as always. good to be with you. so if you were to hear that the president has decided, i m taking over this probe. i m taking it over. what would your reaction be? i would shake myself and wake up. just a dream? yeah. can he, or should he not? i i have no idea whether he can. i can t believe that he can. he d have to fire mueller in the
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making a false statement to an fbi agent.
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he said that initially. they later reversed themselves and flynn was indicted for making a false statement to an fbi agent. but as point of fact, judge, he s told them things that were not true and things that he should have known and recollected in realtime. right. maybe he did. and maybe he did it because he thought there was some impropriety about having the conversation with kislyak. that s why sally yates, then at the a.g. s office, then went to don mcgahn and said you better figure out what s going on with this. i don t think there was any impropriety in that conversation at all. in fact i think flynn would have been committing malpractice if he had not had the conversation with kislyak. he is the guy who was going to be the national security then why did he lie about it? beats me. that s a good question, no? it s an excellent question, but i don t know the extent t
corey, the argument that you re forwarding is no one should ever sit down with anybody and ever answer any questions because they may lie and they may get caught lying so they should never do it? is that a standard for the president of the united states, our highest elected official, a man who is supposed to be the paragon of integrity for his people. now he ducks and hides? chris, the standard is very clear. you listen to legal counsel who has expertise in the field that you don t. donald trump is not an attorney. he s listening to his legal counsel. he says he knows better than the generals. he knows better than the intelligence community. but now all of a sudden some lawyers tell him don t talk to mueller, and he forgets everything he s ever said about candor and truth before. well, with all due respect, the think the president has been a little busy denuclearizing the korean peninsula how are we doing with that by the way? i thought the threat was over. chris, you kno