Cheney, mr. Spock for the death of Justice Scalia at age 79. Which president ial candidate added tin foil to the proverbial hat . Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Breaking news. Brandnew cnn polls laying out the state of the race in South Carolina as the republicans like to say, South Carolina picks president s. So if your name is donald j. Trump you might be grinning, four days before republicans vote in the palmetto state you have a big lead there. Hillary clinton also has a big lead, but with more than a week until South Carolina democrats flood the poll, so many undecided democrats, a sanders supporter, might, might see some evidence all is not yet lost. Dana bash with the poll numbers, ted cruz and jeb bush have been going after donald trump ever since his victory in new hampshire. But none of the attacks against him seem to have affected his standings of the polls in South Carolina. Not as of right now. This is a huge lead, to yoet qu the
Possible scenarios that might emerge with respect to terrorist networks that will give us a Good Opportunity to test those areas where we still have work to do and how we can strengthen our collective eve iive efforts these networks. So if i can ask the press to depart promptly, please. Weve been listening to president obamas opening remarks there, before what will be a closed session of World Leaders at that Nuclear Summit. The president making some public brief remarks, and then they go into closed session and he will be holding a press conference afterward, which we will also bring to you live. But we wanted to show you that. The president talking about what has been a priority throughout his second term. The reduction of Nuclear Materials around the world. As i say, well have more on that when the president reemerges. Now we turn, of course, to what is a hot day in president ial politics. Its felt often like the world versus donald trump. Everyone remembers the tough month of march
Researcher in belgium, hoping to build a dirty bomb. At this hour, one of the three men, seen pushing the suitcases full of explosives at the airports before the attacks, remains unidentified. A massive manhunt under way for him. And weve got updated numbers on the human toll of this tragedy. The Belgium Crisis Center confirms 31 people are dead. We do not know if the suicide bombers are in included in that particular number. 316 people were injured in the attacks. 121 currently hospitalized. 63 of those are in intensive care. And their condition has been described as very grave. 12 of the injured are american citizens but the state department does not believe they were targeted. We dont, at this point, have any credible evidence suggests it was targeting americans. James comey said the fbi has so far found no connections between the brussels terrorists and anyone in the United States. And attorney general Loretta Lynch says the United States is ready to help, where needed. We are comm
So republicans, donald trump, congratulations, you won the white house. Yes, Hillary Clinton won about half a million more votes, but he won for electors. And that means according to the u. S. Constitution, once the Electoral College meets and votes, donald trump will officially be the president elect. Let that sink in america. This guy is going to be the president of the United States. And the face of the country to the world. Automatically attracted to beautiful women, just like a magnet. And when youre a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the [ bleep ]. Great job, america. Now to the 60,265,8 60,265,858 o voted for donald trump, and those who donald trump his the republican party, which controls all three branches of government, they control the house, the senate and the white house. Now you have given trump a man ultimately described as vengeful, erratic, and unnit to be president. And thats what conservative republicans said about him. Youve give on him co
Open its doors and welcome into the party people who are prepared to fight for real economic and social change. [ applause ] how is the party responding . We will ask directly this hour with us dnc chair debbie wassermanschultz. She will be with us for a live interview. Jacob rascon is just out side where donald trump is meeting with the former secretary of state any minute. So much said about where donald trump stands on policy and just recently were hearing in an interview with reuters, said he would speak directly with north koreas leader, what are we expecting to come out of this meeting with trump . Reporter the meeting expe expected to take place sometime after 2 00. He has some interviewed scheduled at trump tower. When i left trump tower moments ago the motorcade was getting ready and should take place at some point after 2 00. As far as what there is to talk about, much of what trump has said over the past 9 and 10 months most controversial has been about Foreign Policy talkin