Ominous news out of north korea as there is a demand from kim jongun. Why . Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. Our politics lead. President trump is under pressure both from the pending democraticcontrolled house and from potential moves by special counsel, Robert Mueller. So as the president does, when feeling the heat from situations that are often largely of his own doing, hes now seeking to blame others in his orbit as top officials at the white house and the Trump Administration prepare for a purge. Asserting this afternoon, the president is happy with, quote, almost all of his cabinet officials. The president has in recent days been talking to aides and advisers about possibly getting rid of chief of staff, john kelly. And department of Homeland Security secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen. But would that solve anything . As one Senior Administration official put it to me, quote, in this administration, there are arsonists and there are firefighters. The president is looking to get rid
From it. Now, some 2. 5 hours later, much of the upper portions of notre dame have been completely engulfed in flames. From the pictures that im seeing what youre seeing and have very Little Information beyond what one can get from our News Agencies and witnesses on scene. But, a large part of notre dame appears to be gone. Now on your screen is a tweet from the president , which we read in the last hour. There it is. That is a statement which goes without saying. President said so hard to watch this massive fire at notre dame in paris. Perhaps flying water tankers could be used to put it out. Must act quickly. That from the president of the United States said. It is a sinkening feeling. If there is any saving this building, you have to wonder now how in the world it could happen. The meaning of notre dame is our lady of paris known as its roughly 24 2400 feet high, this spire atop it, a catholic cathedral in the city of paris. And the spire that so many of us have looked upon for year
Lawmakers designating the u. S. Military a terrorist organization in response to the killing of top iranian general Qassem Soleimani. There are now reports the Trump Administration is denying irans foreign minister a visa to travel to new york ahid of a Security Council meeting on thursday. Cnn has not been able to confirm this. Huge crowds pack into his hometown for his burial this morning. President trump is standing by his decision to order the strike that killed soleimani. He should have been taken out a long time ago, and we had a shot at it, and we took him out. And were a lot safer now because of it. But questions persist over u. S. Claims that intel showed soleimani was planning an imminent attack on u. S. Interests. Joint chiefs chairman mark milly says very, very few people saw that intelligence adding it was imminent and it was very, very clear in scale and scope. A source tells cnn tough congressional leaders, the socalled gang of 8 are set to receive an iran briefing this
A senior Turkish official dismissed as mere allegation the use of a Turkish drone in a Hamas terrorist attack on civilian and military targets in Israel last year, claiming the government has no such information despite the manufacturer in Istanbul
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