Watch. President trump granting a broad ethics waivers to top aides. How steve bannon might benefit to it the detriment of bannons enemies, even those enemies within the white house. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin today with the politics lead. The president s decision to take america out of the paris climate agreement not the only reason hes feeling heat today. We are now less than a week away from what might be the most anticipated congressional testimony since the Clarence Thomas hearings. On thursday the fired fbi director James Connelly will testify before the world about his private conversations with President Trump and whether the president s requests for information about the fbi investigation ever made him uncomfortable and just what President Trump said to him about dropping the inquiry into the activities of Michael Flynn. Comey is set to testify as to all that unless, unless, unless President Trump successfully invokes executive pri
That inflamed racial tensions. Last nights remarks so divisive, James Clapper publically questioned whether President Trump is fit to hold office. Lets listen to some key moments from the president s speech. I hit them with neonazi. I hit them with everything. I got the White Supremacists, neonazi, i got them all in there. Lets see. Kkk. We have kkk. I got them all. Theyre trying to take away our culture. Theyre trying to take away our history. And our weak leaders, they do it overnight. These things have been there for 150 years, for 100 years. Now the obstructionist democrats would like us not to do it. But believe me, we have to close down our government, were building that wall. I dont think we can make a deal. So i think well end up probably terminating nafta at some point. Okay . Was sheriff joe convicted for doing his job . He should have had a jury. But you know what . I will make a prediction. I think he is going to be just fine. Okay . Obamacare is a disaster. And think, thin
Have a ton of new reporting on the Mueller Investigation into the russia case. First off tonight, the Washington Post is reporting donald trump grilled his former acting fbi director about who he voted for in the 2016 election. According to the paper tonight, quote, shortly after President Trump fired his fbi director james comey in may, he summoned the oval office bureaus acting director for a get to know you meeting. Trump asked Andrew Mccabe a pointed question, who did he vote for in the 2016 election . Mccabe said he didnt vote, according to the officials. One person said the trumpmccabe conversation is of interest to special counsel robert mueller. More on that later. A reporter on the story for the Washington Post added this detail on this Network Earlier tonight. This comes in may of 2016 just after comey has been fired. By that point, the president has criticized mccabe pretty regularly on the campaign trail and once in office, but its interesting, one of the things were told i
In new york. This was day 369 of the Trump Administration and tonight we have a new report of the mueller investigation. We heard that trump asked his former fbi director about who he voted for in the 2016 election. Quote, shortly after President Trump fired his fbi director james comey in may, he summoned the oval office bureaus director for a get to know you meeting. Trump asked Andrew Mccabe a pointed question, who did he vote for in the 2016 election . Mccabe said he didnt vote, according to the officials. One person said the trumpmccabe conversation is of interest to special counsel robert mueller. This comes in may of 2016 just after comey has been fired. By that point, the president has criticized mccabe pretty regularly on the campaign trail and once in office, but its interesting, one of the things were told is that the president complains whether mccabe is in the room or not. The president complains, were told, on a nearly daily basis about andy mccabe. He seems to have a bit
Facing a massive civil judgment and four prosecutions, the former president would nevertheless be entrusted with state secrets if he takes back the White House.