This is cnn newsroom live from los angeles. Ahead this hour in my experience the strongest person usually isnt the loudest one in the room. For the first time in this election former president george w. Bush hits the campaign trail with his brother, taking a swipe at donald trump. Plus president obama says despite republican objections he will nominate a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. And later this hour advances in southern syria just days before an expected cessation of hostilities. Hello around the United States and the world. Im isha sesay. Great to have you with us. Im john vause. Newsroom l. A. Starts now. Well, its turning into a family feud of sorts in the republican president ial race. Jeb bush is looking to his brother to help fire up support in South Carolina. Former president george w. Bush stumped across the state monday. This is his first major step back into politics since he left office seven years ago. South carolina has always been good to the b
Testimony. On thursday. Just this morning the president launching another attack on the former fbi director tweeting this. I believe that james comey leaks will be for more prevalent than anyone ever thought possible. Totally illegal. Very cowardly. This from the president. Well, this as politicians on both sides push the white house to release any tapes it may have of the president s conversations with comey by june 23rd. Another question that remains, who is telling the truth . The fired fbi director or the president of the United States . This morning on cnn state of the union Dianne Feinstein and Susan Collins both say they take comeys word over President Trump. Listen. At this point i believe the fbi director. I know him the best. Ive observed him the longest. I know he has his own band of integrity. Disagreed with him on the emails. Let him know that. But in this kind of thing, hes not going to lie. I found director comey, former director comeys testimony to be candid, to be thor
Testimony this week. President trump will dispute the blank blanket. This is a Major Development coming as President Trump had a short and cryptic mechanical for the former fbi director. Comey ahead of his testimony. I wish him luck. Gloria borger broke the story about the anticipated tm a few moments ago. The president of the United States came out and said jim comey told im not one time, not two times, but flee times that he was note under vegsz and you are learning much more about what comey will say. Dont forget, erin, the president of the United States wrote that in the letter in which he fired james comb. Said he was assured three times. Ive lrnld my colleagues jake tapper, weve all learned that in fact, comey is going to dispute the president on this point if he is asked about it by senators. We have to assume he will be. He will say he never assured donald trump he was not under investigation, that that would be improper for him to do so and one source hinted that the president
Includes Jared Kushners finance and business dealings. We begin with sights and sounds from the ballpark tonight. I want to thank members of congress, their staffs and members across the country for supporting tonights baseball game. Oh say can you see so proudly we hail that the twilights last gleaming whose stripes and bright stars through the perilous time gallantly gleaming and the rockets red glare bombs bursting in air proof through the night that our flag was still there oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave for the land of the free and the home of brave. In washington we have our disagreements. We all agree we are here to serve this nation we love and the people who call it home. Thats the source of unity. And more than ever we must embrace it so that on this special night i leave you with three Great American words that for generations have torn down barriers, built bridges of unity and defied those who have sought to pull us apart. Ladies and gentlemen, lets play bal
Called the jihadis next door . Good afternoon, everyone. And welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with our politics lead. For a second morning in the row President Trump threw a wrench into the plans of his own administration officials. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson was asked yesterday about the decision by six gulf states in the most to cut ties with qatar over claims that qatar supports terrorism. Tillerson suggested that the United States would not pick a side. We certainly would encourage the parties to sit down together and address these differences. This morning, however, seemed to overrule secretary tillerson suggesting that the u. S. Was siding with the sawed its, tweeting, among other things, quote, during my recent trip to the middle east i stated that there can no longer be funding of radical ideology. Leaders pointed to qatar. Look. Qatar is home to a u. S. Military base from which the u. S. Air force coordinates strikes against isis, so when President Trump twe