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Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. The politics lead. A u. S. Government official telling me today its like, quote, pulling teeth to get the white house to focus on the very real ongoing threat of continued Russian Election interference. Quote, in general, senior white house staff felt it wasnt a good idea to bring up issues related to russia in front of the president , the official told me. You might recall senior officials told Robert Mueller and his team that President Trump worries that ru...

In the wake of the growing ukraine scandal President Trump is demanding to meet the whistleblower and threatening to have house intel chairman adam schiff questioned for treason. In a series of tweets he posted like every american, i deserve to meet my accuser, especially when this accuser, the socalled whistleblower represented a perfect conversation with a foreign leader in a total inaccurate and fraudulent way. Then schiff made up what i actually said by lying to congress. His lies were made ...

Minipulated votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016 election. This was put out from a clinton supporter. Google should be sued. My victory was even bigger than thought. Bigger than thought. There is no evidence of that. There is no real evidence of that, i should say. His theory based off not a new report, even, but congressional testimony from last month, testimony that got little attention and was largely ignored until the theory appeared today on fox business discussing claims by a researcher who c...

Idea who Kamala Harris is. The one thing you know about harris is that she could very easily become the president of the United States. And you know this because been told it confidently again and again by the geniuses on television. The name of hearing now, there was a sheet of people sort of survey of prominent women in politics, number one name of people the person thats on peoples mind, Kamala Harris. The politician she reminded me of most than was barack obam barack obama. Kamala harris is ...

2020 chances at the same time . This week one of the president s lawyers go to prison while another refuses to go to the house. But the Judiciary Committee is angling for the attorney at the center of it all, Robert Mueller. For two years, hes been a sphinx like presence. Then came a memo from the attorney general, a News Conference from the attorney general. Hundreds of pages from the report itself, a letter from special counsel to the attorney general, and hours of testimony from the attorney ...

Trump to the senate. Its a Huge Development of course and a little while ill talk to a key House Democrat about what happened in the caucus today and what we can expect tomorrow. But first the turmoil in the democratic race as an unexpected battle between senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren over gender threatens the dynamic of the race two weeks before the Iowa Caucuses. It escalated yesterday after reports surfaced that warren alleged sanders told her during a december 2018 meeting a w...

Examine witnesses including former White House Counsel Don Mcgahn and to investigate the president s misconduct. Nadler acknowledged asking the court for secret grand jury material means they are looking at impeachment. The committee is exercising its authority to investigate all these scandals and to decide what to do about them which could include articles of impeachment. We filed that with the court. We are doing this not just as part of normal oversight but also because its part of our artic...

Job that he requested that he wanted very badly then he was appointed. All right. Lets start off at the white house. Theres a lot to unpack here. N nbcs hans nichols joins me there. The president is off in colorado but definitely felt a need to get something off his chest today. Reporter he spoke to us for a little more than 15 minutes before he left, ali. Its clear the president feels that Robert Mueller was out to get him, and while he claims to be vindicated by the report, he also says that R...

Trump world folks under fire, Steve Mnuchin who again refused to hand over the president s tax returns. And were also watching fbi director Christopher Wray talking spying now in his first testimony since the redacted reports release. And what about Robert Mueller himself . When might we see him in the witness chair . Here is what the white house is saying. The president said Robert Mueller shouldnt testify, but will he try to prevent him from of it something. He hasnt said that. I think his poi...

I guess that bar is so low. Russia interfered with your democracy and mine. The second thing we learned was that donald trump and his Campaign Team happily welcomed that, aggressively welcomed it. They were grateful for it. We also learned that when federal agents tried to investigate this, that one member of the trump team after another member of the trump team lied about those contacts. Then we learned from Robert Mueller that donald trump, the president of the United States lied about the rus...