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Welcome back to state of the union. im jack tapper. this morning at floodwaters were rising in southeast texas, this was president trumps first tweet of the day, plugging a book by david clark, the sheriff of walk, wisconsin. a great book by a great guy, highly recommended along with the amazon link. president trump has also addressed the storm. moments ago he tweeted, wow, experts are calling harvey a once in 500 year flood. we have an all out effort going and going well. president trump says h...

>> including a life-sized cutout of the president in the living room which the listing says is, quote, a great companion for watching the news late into the night. >> the largest audience in the history of cable television. >> yes, of course, cable is included. thanks for spending sunday morning with us. im jake tapper in washington. cnns coverage of the affects of harvey continues next. thanks for watching. this is cnn "breaking news." >> grateful to have your company >> we begin with this br...

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But rather addressed the fundamental issue. >> so there is mr. bossert saying he didnt dignify by saying their names. after that, jack tapper who is the host of that program actually pressed him further. this is a bit long but i want you to listen to tim bossert -- mr. bossert, on the followup. please listen. >> these groups showed up looking for violence. >> what groups? >> i think its important for people to understand -- >> what groups are you referring to? >> the groups that -- i refer to th...

United nations 15-0 vote in sanctions on north korea. the lead with jack tapper was carrying on the exact time the president sent out that tweet, not only that, we talked about it at 11:00 yesterday and every other report. >> the u.n. security council unanimously approved the toughest sanctions to date, against the kim jong-un regime. >> rex tillerson says a vote slapping north korea shows the world is united. north korea vowing to retaliate against the u.s. over the new u.n. sanctions. >> the p...

Advice. and trump wasnt listening to him. and he be just said for the first time that he did not like the way that donald trump responded. not just apologizing, but he didnt say this, but this is obviously what trump ended up doing, going after bill clinton. that explains why chris christie canceled on jack tapper sunday morning, didnt go to the debate. it just shows how different his reaction was. he was not comfortable at all and receded to rudy giuliani whos also kind of been there in the mix...

Here, going straight at this as being electability issue for ted cruz, trying to raise questions about his background, get voters to worry about whether or not cruz is the strongest candidate to go up against hillary clinton. ted cruz, so far, not taking the bait. hes avoided trying to go back to donald trump on this issue. but has said this is a settled matter, theres swap theories out there but this is not something that should be a big issue in the race. >> we heard him to say to jack tapper ...

Leads jack tapper. >> mr. trump is not the type of individual that will make fun of somebodys disability. he wouldnt know this guy prior to this entire non-sense. >> we saw him do it. we just saw him do it. >> we was not making fun. he was being gesture and showing the kpas b exasperation and say something like oh, now i dont remember, now i dont remember. had nothing to do with -- >> and it just so happened -- first of all, he said was a nice guy, you got -- then he said you got to see this guy...

Of talking points delivered robotically without any emotion. they need tension. questions about morality are completely legitimate. questions that are intended to embarrass by that classic george w. bush, who is the president of india thing, thats a gotcha question. if you want to ask someone about, what are you going to do about isis, and you want to stay on the question and push hard, then the candidates have to be prepared for that. the debate moderator or panelist, neither jack tapper nor wo...

Jack tapper that the committee is out to get her. >> i think there is a big part of this investigation designed to go after people and an individual, hillary clinton. >> reporter: the clinton campaign fired back saying the benghazi inquiry has zero credibility left aiming for a different kind of credibility, clintons rival bernie sanders showed off dance moves on the "ellen degenerous" show. >> have you ever been in handcuffs? >> yes, i dont know exactly what you mean by that. >> joe biden was d...