Good afternoon and welcome to a special edition of the lead. I am jake tapper. We just got a statement from donald trump. We are going to go live to our reporter on the scene, sarah murray, to tell us what the statement says. I believe it is about the judge. Sarah. We are not ready for sarah yet. Were going to bring that to you in a second. But let us take a moment, exactly eight years to the day after ending her first bid for the white house, Hillary Clinton tonight will declare she has enough delegates to be the democratic partys presumptive nominee for president. We now have sarah murray. Lets go to sarah murray to tell us this breaking news from the Trump Campaign. Sarah, what does the statement say . Reporter you guys jake, its a pretty lengthy statement. So stick with me. Ill come with the first part here. It is unfortunate that my comments this is from donald trump. It is unfortunate that my comments have been misconstrued as a categorical attack against people of mexican herita
Arguably donald trump inarguably, donald j. Trump is a closer. Lets clarify, Hillary Clinton herself did not start this. Supporters of hers in 2008 talked about it but there is zero evidence she accepted the falsehood or perpetuated it at all. It was perpetuated and championed by donald trump. While we are going to wait for donald trump to take the stage, lets first, got a lot of people to talk about it. Lets bring in chief Political Correspondent dana bash, who is watching this. Brianna keilar is here with us as well. Dana, your thoughts this morning . What we know, where we stand as we watch general Michael Flynn warm up the crowd. What we know is after the campaign released that Statement Last night and despite the fact the campaign is insisting still that jason miller, his spokesman, speaks for donald trump, they understand quietly and privately that this is something that is bigger than his campaign spokesman, that this is a Conspiracy Theory that he has been peddling since 2011 a