bombshell cnn report. now the school system is suspending its entire police department. and a new strong jobs report showing more americans employed and earning more money. so might this set up another hike in your interest rates as the fed tries to tame rising inflation? welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. a bone chilling warning of armageddon tops our world lead. president biden made that assessment last night invoking the nuclear brinksmanship of the cuban missile crisis 60 years ago this month. as vladimir putin loses his grip on his bloody unprovoked war against ukraine and threatens to delay catastrophic weapons. senior u.s. officials were caught off guard they say. but by what some might characterize as inartful and perhaps in some views he is callatory comments they insist there is nothing that raises the threat level above where it is been but still president biden doesn t seem a clear off-ramp for putin and u.s. officials thinks even if he uses the smallest ta
than the ones he addressed last year. cnn s tom foreman looks at the new dynamics this president faces heading into tonight s speech. reporter: when president trump comes walking down that aisle, he is going to face a very different audience than he saw last year. back then, his republicans had firm control of the senate and the house but in the midterm elections, the democrats took the majority in the house and they brought in a lot more elected women, too. he ll be able to see all of that from his speaking position up here and he might feel it over his shoulder as well. republican speaker of the house paul ryan is out and in his place is democratic speaker of the house nancy pelosi who s shown she is willing and able to battle with trump over the budget and over his messaging and certainly over his plans for a wall on the mexican border. watch for her reactions throughout this. also watch this area down here. that s where the supreme court
think the biggest focus and the thing that most american care about has nothing to do with the inning augustral and everything to do with what the path forward looks like. cnn s kara ski nal is with me now. myriad crimes potentially here. that s right. it covers the gamut, conspiracy against the u.s., looking at mail fraud, wire fraud. there are a couple that you can read a little bit through the subpoena what they re looking at. this issue of straw donors. was foreign money coming into the campaign hiding behind individuals and that s something the subpoena touches on. it wants to know these benefits that people had, photos ops, private meetings, small group meetings. is that a way there was an influence to curry idea of a conspiracy? you know, looking at were questions paid directly by donors. were any donors asked to bypass
denying those allegations, they say the former employees provided their own false paper work in a statement to cnn, trump organization would institute quote everify at all applicable properties and take swift action where necessary. she has proof not only in her false papers but the process of how she obtained her false papers? she has explained to authorities how this occurred. she will continue to cooperate. with regards to that statement, i want to say one thing. if this was one or two employees in a major cooperation, maybe you would think, maybe couple of them were able to get false documents, but we are talking about a golf club with 100 employees, no more, and apparently half of them were undocumented. each club. now we see that there are five clubs, so now we see a pattern and practice here and that is why we are calling for a federal complete and thorough investigation of federal authorities. this is a criminal conspiracy. thank you very much.
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