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The body. Now, thanks to the president s favorite news channel, hes wading in. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. We begin with the politics lead. With Close Associates being hauled off to prison, President Trump claims that crimes are not crimes while also changing the time line for a key aspect of the mueller investigation. In addition to his tweets about the, quote, russian witch hunt hoax, the president sent his attorney, Rudy Guiliani, to admit that then candidate trump had conversations ...

Says President Trump did nothing wrong, but this time, theres no blanket denial of wrongdoing for those who were in his inner circle. And not sharing intel. Is the white house blocking the cia director from briefing u. S. Senators on the murder of a u. S. Based journalist by a Saudi Hit Team . And is the Trump Administration trying to shield the saudi crowned prince . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Breaking news. Cnn has now obtained draft Cour...

About the bureau and has attacked the rule of law in his attempts to undermine the russia investigation. Comey, clearly fuming, after a second closeddoor hearing demanded by House Republicans before democrats take control. Once a registered republican, comey says gop lawmakers are being cowed into silence by the president , calling their failure to speak out an everlasting shame. Ill get reaction from Senate Democratic macy hrono. First, lets go to our senior Congressional Correspondent manu r r...

Crimes. They are suggesting that manafort is being railroaded because special Counsel Robert Mueller hasnt been able to prove collusion. Breaking, a top House Democrat is raising questions about why the president tried to hide his role in ordering a top secret security clearance for Jared Kushner, his soninlaw and senior adviser. Eli Elijah Cummings is asking about dirt that might have prompted intel officials to warn against gra granting him clearance. Our correspondents and analysts are standi...

Exonerati exoneration. It is a shame that our country had to go through this. This was an illegal takedown that failed. Reporter but on obstruction of justice, the attorney general quoting muellers report saying it does not conclude that the president committed a crime and it also does not exonerate him. Mueller ultimately leaving the question unanswered. Barr deciding trump did not commit a crime after determining the Justice Department did not have sufficient evidence that trumps actions were ...

We begin with our politics lead. White house Senior Adviser and president ial soninlaw Jared Kushner downplaying russian interference in the u. S. Election, suggesting it was just a couple of facebook ads, and the u. S. Investigation into that russian operation was worse for the country than what the russians did. Special Counsel Robert Mueller detailed in his report a massive multipronged operation by the russian government to undermine and sow discord in the u. S. Political system, in a, quote...

The next 12 to 18 months who they want the nominee to be. There will be plenty of time to do battle against donald trump by the time we get to the fall. Symone, do you agree with that . There were how Many Republican challengers to donald trump, all who thought they knew how to run against him, and they all failed. Its not clear to me that anybody since then has figured out what the achilles heel is or how to go about i mean ultimately its going to come down to beating donald trump. Yeah. But i ...

Not disclose sooner that mueller wrote to him and basically said he didnt support the way that barr had written out the key findings. In that letter mueller wrote, quote, the summary letter the department sent to congress and released to the public late on the afternoon of march 24th did not fully capture the context, nature and substance this have offices work and conclusions. You can expect that democrats are already preparing their questions to he can to us on that letter from mueller, but we...

Aggressive on policy . Too left to beat President Trump . Another rising star in her party is here. Cnns newest commentator Andrew Gillum joins us. What do you say . Lets get after it. All right, the 2020 candidates quickly jockeying for position to take on President Trump. Ahead of the heat right now, Kamala Harris. She got the big spot in the cnn town hall and you saw her last night making her case for why shes the best one to go toe to toe with trump. She laid out her left of center positions...

Will suffer subzero temperatures. We will tell where and when the snow, the ice, the bitter cold hitting the hardest. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. You are in the situation room. Top u. S. Intelligence officials are openly contradicting President Trumps assessment of some of americas most dangerous adversaries. The intel chiefs telling congress that isis is far from being defeated, that north korea isnt likely to give up its Nuclear We...