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Of times. he has spoken with the president a number of times, including, as i mentioned, about taking the deputy attorney generals job, wolf. >> laura, thank you very much. laura jarrett reporting. joining us, senator richard blumenthal. he is a democrat who serves on the judiciary and armed services committee. senator, thanks for joining us. i want to get your thoughts on the new acting-attorney general in a moment, but lets begin with your reaction to the new bombshell report in the "wall st...

People who have direct knowledge of the events, or who have been briefed on them, as well as court papers, corporate records and other documents, unquote. president trump, of course, infamously said he knew nothing about the payments. that was clearly a lie, according to this story. and one incident newly revealed today, the president allegedly told his former fixer, michael cohen, quote, get it done. after trump learned of stormy daniels plans to talk publicly about their alleged affair. this w...

Charging document saying that the russians have essentially doubled their budget in the beginning of this year and into the summer in order to influence the election by a massive social media campaign and troll operation, the kind we saw in 2016. so this is just more of the same, essentially, but what it shows is that the russians have really -- if we thought that they were going to be deterred following the 2016 election then we were wrong. now we have not seen the kind of hacking that we saw d...

Tomorrow in the morning at the press conference. >> let me go straight to michael zelden, to you. with your legal hat on. we had heard from the attorney general jeff sessions earlier today that they would be filing this hate crime charge and that in fact they have in addition to a number of other charges. is that the most significant here? >> absolutely. the charge of violating the -- i think it was actually passed by congress in 1996 and signed by bill clinton. i think it was called the church ...

Charge a suspect in the synagogue shooting with federal hate crimes instead of domestic terrorism for now. cnn legal analyst and law enforcement analyst. justice correspondent evan perez. michael, based on the description we heard, do you see that the standard has been met with violence. >> the hate crimes statutes that have been employed in this charging document that was filed is sufficient to cover what it is that this fellow did in addition to the 29 federal charges, the state charged him wi...

The stand, and i think youd probably make special arrangements to drive that van right into the courtroom or get the jury, all of them to go out on a field trip and see it in the parking lot. what else? >> absolutely. that van is a roving play book for the crimes that sayoc was attempting to commit and did commit. all of that evidence is something that prosecutors and law enforcement are poring over and looking at to get inside the mind of sayoc. what was motivating? what was animating him behin...

Arrangements to drive that van right into the courtroom and get the jury, all of them to go out on the field trip and see it in the parking lot. what else? >> absolutely. that van is a roving playbook for the crimes that sayoc was attempting to commit and did commit. all of that evidence is something that prosecutors and law enforcement are poring over and looking at to get inside the mind of sayoc. what was motivating and animating him behind these crimes. if we look at the complaint which was ...

Stand and make special arrangement to drive that van right into the courtroom and get the jury all of them to go out on the field trip and see it in the parking lot, what else? >> absolutely. that van is a play book for the crimes that sayoc was attempting to commit and did commit. all of that evidence is something that prosecutors and law enforcement are pouring over and looking at to get inside the mind of cesar sayoc. what was motivating and animated him behind these crimes. if we look at the...

Significant that christopher wray kept referring to these packages, bombs, as i.e.d.s, 13 sent in total. and listening to the attorney general, jeff sessions, calling this utterly unacceptable and referring to as political violence. im brooke baldwin. thanks for being with me. "the lead" starts now. welcome to "the lead." im jake tapper. we begin with the breaking news. authorities charging 56-year-old cesar sayoc of florida with five federal crimes in connection to the 13 explosive packages d...

This guy down in florida? >> the fbi, the atf, the postal service police, they really do remarkable work these days in sort of teasing out every bit of evidence from this kind of scenario. when you have dna evidence that is likely going to be found on envelopes, it will be found on the seal of the envelope in the bad guy licked the envelope to seal it. they can run forensic text on the pre-printed labels of debbie wasserman schultz return address. they found these misspellings that are not a coi...