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China announcing new tariffs on 3 billion bucks worth of u. S. Imports. And a teachable moment. More than 40,000 teachers in the state of oklahoma set to walk out of their classrooms this morning as educators across the country are saying they need more help. Im not walking out on my children or my students. Im walking out for my open in air waves. Reading a promo warning against the danger of fake news. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. ...

Going to pull out. A swift resignation. New York Attorney general Eric Schneiderman, a champion, outspoke en champion of the me o movement, resigning after allegations of violence against women. And the polls are open. Primary season kicks off with Contentious Senate races in four states. Gop hopefuls testing the power of the president s antiestablishment message. Im basically trumpier than trump when it comes to those policies. We begin today with the Iran Nuclear Deal. All signs now pointing t...

The democrats blew it. They had a great, great chance. Well have to take a look. Dana Sarah Sanders followed up on fox news earlier. The president made multiple offers on daca. He wanted to see something get done. Democrats refused to put something on the table or work with the president to get anything done. They wanted these Daca Recipients as political pawns. The president wanted to make a deal. He made two incredibly generous offers that went far and above even what the Previous Administrati...

Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Good afternoon. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with breaking news in the politics lead. The porn star continuing to plague the presidency, Stormy Daniels also known as Stephanie Clifford going after President Trump personally in a brandnew lawsuit. The defamation claim filed just this afternoon stemming from the president s tweet about the sketch of the man daniels said threatened her back in 2011. President trump writing, quote, the sketch yea...

Family may be pardoned next. Theres also the looming questions are these pardons meant as a message to people like cohen and manafort. Also the president reportedly pressured Jeff Sessions to take control of the russia investigation not once, not twice, but at least four times. The reporter who broke that story standing by. All that plus some actual perspective tonight from Doris Kearns Goodwin, on a thursday night as the 11th hour gets under way. Good evening once again from our headquarters he...

Welcome to the lead. Im jim sciutto in for jay. And the white house moments ago going the trumpy an route and refusing to apologize time and time again about a cruel joke a staffer made about john mccain dying of cancer. That is right, a joke about him dying of cancer and refusing to answer if this overall tone comes from the very top. We there is not a a tone set here. We have a a respect for all americans. And that is what we try to put forward in everything we do, both in word and in action. ...

Interest for the president to oversee the investigation through the white house. To have Matt Whitaker there is exactly the same problem. And i also note that under the vacatio vacancies act, its unclear if he could be in that position. He is not senate confirmed. And there is an issue about what position he has, would it qualify to be under the vacancy act. Do you expect mueller to act quickly with any possible announcements, now that the mid terms are over and the attorney general has been fir...

Evidence suggests immigration does not increase crime rates. In fact, immigrants are significantly less likely to commit crimes. Or the fact that the global outrage being directed at the United States is not merely a Public Relations debacle for the Trump Administration, its a humanitarian crisis that he and his administration created by seizing more than 2,000 children from their parents. Some of the kids are as young as a few months old. Ripped out of the arms of their moms and dads, put on pl...

Now over user privacy and political bias. Lets start with that high drama in washington, d. C. Over government funding. Nbc news learned in advance of her meeting with the president , House Speaker in waiting nancy pelosi has told her caucus democrats have the leverage and wont budge. That meeting happening between President Trump, pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer. Thats going to be any moment now. It is the first big meeting between pelosi and trump since the midterms. Possibly...

This is really something. Im going to be in congress meanwhile here in West Virginia, a trio of top tier candidates are battling for a spot against senator joe manchin. One of them, the attorney general Patrick Morrisy is trying to tie jenkins to democrat because he used to be a registered democrat. Jenkins is a liberal fraud. Evan jenkins spent 20 years as a career liberal democrat supporting nancy pelosi, john kerry, rallying for hillary clinton. As that information gets out, people know hes n...