breaking precedent by criticizing a it sitting presid so soon after leaving office himself, some want even more of it. you have to call him out. when something is a lie, call it a lie. and i see obama has been doing that, which is great to see. reporter: for one voter here, this really barack obama s pres here influence your vote? i believe it is. reporter: we pick the hed he randomly, but when i asked her name, it sounded strangely familiar. francis gillum. and my son is running for governor about that. reporter: no? yes. all right o reporter: wait a minute. why didn t you tell me that to begin with? that is not yis not true. that changes everything. so what is your hope for how president obama will help your son? well, i know that he will
one of the president s cloefts allies in congress, mark meadows, found texts between the fbi and trump department of justice to harm the white house. he points to what he calls a media leak strategy. more from laura jarrett in washington. ro reporter: good morning. the latest controversy appears to be no exception. congressman mark meadows has seized upon a text exchange from strouk pa strzok to page in april of 2017 where he says to you, i want to talk to you about media leak strategy by the doj. it s troubling because it falls during the period of time when the washington post and other
hours delay that pushed everything back. cnn correspondent athena jones tells us what to look forward as this case moves forward. ro reporter: this after a week of damaging revelations. many of them coming from rick gates. the government s star weakness from the trial. manafort ple gates is cooperating with the government as he s trying to convict his former boss on 18 counts. this is the first of two trials his former campaign chairman faces in virginia and washington, d.c. the virginia case presenting the first big test for special counsel robert mueller. he is investigating the russian meddling of the 2016.
is young tie rant wants to imitate. is kim jong-un under threat internally? and if so, could that cause him to flex his muscles against the u.s. in a show of strength? kim jong-un s leadership appears to be solid. he has insulated himself and protected himself from any threats to his leadership, whether those be physical or political threats. ro reporter: analysts say it s possible the elites may move against kim if he keeps taking his country from one crisis to the other. but he keeps his generals under such close surveillance, it s tough to gather forces against him. interesting what john brennan said. he said he s a megalomaniac, and then that pause, i wouldn t say he s reckless at this point. that was last september. is he reckless now?
fake trump time magazine cover? is it a? is it b? or is it c? the answer is c. and you can see it hanging on the walls of at least four trump golf clubs. according to the washington post. it s very impressive looking. it s fake, totally fake. reporter: the exclamation points are a give away. the apprentice is a television smash. trump is hitting on all fronts, even tv. but there was no real time magazine issue dated march 1, 2009. the design is all wrong. if you know time magazine s design, you can tell for a bunch of different reasons, the thinness of the boarders, placement of the headlines. ro reporter: why would anyone bother inflating trump s press? somebody felt the need to guild the lily to add a fake extra thing on top of it. reporter: president trump has a love/hate relationship with time.