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Administration and the f.a. chl a. more on the latest part forfeiture jim acosta joining us now. jim, the president public mri praise ds acosta on the south lawn. is that the case privately? >> no, anderson, im told by a senior administration official gnat president had been stewing over this over the last this hours. anderson there are officials inside the white house who were concerned that there would continue to be disclosures in the jeffrey epstein days case and this was going to continue t...

Labor secretary alex acosta announced he is stepping down and a senior official said the president was stewing over his fate after he was dragged into the jeffrey epstein scandal but there may be another top official heading for the exit at the white house. the director of national intelligence dan coats, were told the president may be ready to make a change there as well. there wasnt much laboring when it came to the fate of alex acosta as the president walked the embattled secretary in front o...

Welcome to "the lead." im jake tapper. we begin with the politics lead. president trump on defense unloading at the white house as another cabinet secretary leaves the administration under the shadow of scandal, this time labor secretary alex acosta claiming hes leaving willingly to he is not a distraction but privately president trump was stewing over the unwanted attention to the trump administration and the president was worried about the steady stream of revelations to come involving the 200...

Today. 1st right brant i think you get the sense that the president has been stewing over these leaked diplomatic cables for a number of days and today he really doubled down with his signature weapon of choice which is name calling on twitter referring to the british ambassador as whacky calling him a pompous full saying that he was a very stupid guy and he didnt stop there that name calling also extended to the outgoing british prime minister the woman of course that president trump famously o...

There were no negotiations, there were no talks. kim was hinting he may restart nuclear testing at the beginning of the year if things continue to go unresolved. insofar as its better to be talking than not talking, and i do believe that, then this photo op may have been useful. i mean, after all, kim left hanoi, perhaps with a loss of face, stewing in that long train ride back to north korea. in this case the president invited him to meet him and it was the president who went to north korea as ...

We are doing very well. we are taking it billions of billions of dollars. companies are leaving china right now coming here because they dont want to pay the tariffs, and they are going to other countries. i can tell you china would like to make a deal very badly. they are getting hurt very badly by the tariffs, because companies cant pay the tariffs so they are leaving china. and the other thing you have to remember about china is that china will subsidize companies so our taxpayer is not payin...

That question, but the press keeps, what do you think of mccain? what do you think? not my kind of guy. but some people like him, and i think thats great. >> no one thanked him for giving john mccain the kind of funeral that john mccain wanted. now, keeping em honest, the president neglects to mention that at the time, he had to be pressured into flying white house flags at half-staff, even as the rest of official washington did, because, well, thats what you do. no one thanked him, though, just...

Pressured into flying white house flags at half-staff, even as the rest of official washington did, because, well, thats what you do. no one thanked him, though, just as no one thanked him or the white house for offering an official statement when the senator died and no one said thanks when he tweeted his condolences to the family, failed to praise or mention john mccains service to the country. but no one thanked the president. not that he cares, because he doesnt, even though he just brought ...

Further distraction, right, for the president because hes been stewing over michael cohens testimony. i mean that just is so under his skin. and now what may or may not unfold or whats impending this week is just further exacerbating for the president because hes are people who were all once close to him if not still to some degree. >> thats right. you can get from his tweets how fixated the president remains and has been since the beginning. theres never been any pretense he was somehow ignorin...

President in 2020. put that puppy to bed. there are, though, about a dozen democrats by our count who are it. that does not include oregon senator jeff merkley who announced hes not going to get into the race. theres in reporting that old grievances between the clinton and sanders worlds are bubbling up. politico reporting the former clinton camp is stewing over bernie sanderss 2020 campaign and is pointing to sanders flaws and vulnerabilities. im joined by a political analyst. its great to see ...