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Informants so close to enemmys such as, say, Vladimir Putin. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. And we start in the politics lead. The president firing his National Security adviser john bolton. The two have a long, welldocumented history of disagreeing on matters up to today when the two had different takes on how bolton ended up on the wrong side of the white house fence. The president tweeting in part, quote, i informed john bolton last night that his sf...

And the Justice Department said thats okay because he has complete immunity from any kind of congressional subpoena. He points out that memo from the Justice Department isnt really citing case law so much as citing itself. Citing memos from that legal office over the decades. And chairman nadler points out that one of the Justice Department rules that is completely ignored in that memo is he says the Justice Departments own be longstanding policy is that executive privilege should not be invoked...

Correspondent and early start coanch coanch coanchor Christine Romans. White house officials are saying that they do not expect a deal today and what happens next . You know, its looking grim. It looks like it was not a bluff, jim and poppy. President trump jacked up tariffs on thousands of goods, dishwashers, frozen fish, baseball caps. Right now about half of the products china sells to the u. S. , about half of them now carry an import tax. So how did we get here . Three rounds of tariffs las...

Again. Tomorrow well bring you a special report how this is unfolding, what we can learn from it. That does it for us tonight. Well see you for that show tomorrow. Now its time for the lavender word with lawrence odonnell. I was so glad you had senator schumer on tonight. He was the person who really made the point of what was going on in that stunt at the white house today. It was simply that the president had no infrastructure plan on the day that he was supposed to have an infrastructure plan...

That just said that i was doing a cover up. I dont do cover ups. Im the most transparent president probably in the history of this country. Bottom line they said theres no collusion. No collusion with russia. The crime was committed on the other side. This whole thing was a takedown attempt at the president of the United States. All of a sudden i hear last night theyre going to have a meeting right before this meeting to talk about the i word. The i word, can you imagine . We can. Donald trumps ...

It is mpt daily. Good evening, im chuck todd here in washington. Been another wild day here. Its the norm sometimes. Today House Speaker nancy pelosi taunted the president on impeachment and moments ago, not surprisingly, he decided to fire back. Pelosi told reporters today that what really irks mr. Trump and the reason he stormed out of yesterdays meeting in the white house is she wont impeach him. The House Democratic caucus is not on a path to impeachment and thats where he wants us to be. Wh...

Between President Trump and ukraines president that has sparked the whistleblowers complaint. The white house ordered kupperman not to show up and so kupperman went to court, essentially asking a judge to decide if he should listen to the order from congress or the white house on this one. The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee leading the investigation none too happy this morning. Listen. If this witness had something to say that would be helpful to the white house, they would want hi...

And good day, everyone, im criter Andrea Mitchell in washington. A busy day. The secretary of state is signaling he will not let diplomats testify to key committees who are investigating the president. He sent a letter to House Foreign Affairs chairman eliot engel trying to block key figures in the whistleblower complaint from answering questions under oath. This as the president s private lawyer Rudy Giuliani says he may not comply with his subpoena. The investigation is widening to cover key f...

President s infamous july fon call. These arent good things for the president. Those major developments as two when we talked about the top of the show an hour ago eight associates of Rudy Giuliani stories that broke since 6 00. Related to find dirt on joe theres a common theme were biden have been indicted on starting to see emerge or common charges off if funnelinger foreign money into u. S. Players and this is where were election. Starting to pull out the threads they were arrested trying to ...

Laura it was great to see you tonight, sean. Fantastic show. Last night and tonight. Sean same to you, your ratings, by the way, huge props for you last night, great job. Laura thanks so much, great to see you. I am laura ingraham, this is to is the ingraham angle from new york city. Very sparkly here. You are looking live and members of the Judiciary Committee, look closely. Are they still moving there . Wait, someone just dusted off the congressman oh, no. They are making their cases for and a...