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Quickly. I was at the Justice Department yesterday afternoon. This is a significant move. This only happened once before in history. Without going into any of the recent events, the Deputy Attorney general really highlighted the unique circumstances we find ourselves in requiring the special counsel saying in part, my decision is not a finding that crimes have been committed or prosecution is warranted. I have made no such determination. What i have determined is based upon the unique circumstance and the Public Interest requires me to place this under investigation under the authority of a pe...

And more tinetime infusing their communities and local businesses with capital. Its also the start of Small Business week. Ivanka trump will be participating in the United States institute of peace. And the Vice President will deliver remarks at the national Small Business week awards Program Later this afternoon. Back to the president s schedule, after speaking with the Community Bankers members, the president had lunch with Vice President pence, Rex Tillerson and the secretary of defense as well as National Security adviser mcmaster before meeting separately with secretary tillerson. To disc...

Remaining. Also moments ago, the white house in its first oncamera press briefing in eight days revealed this about the president s part in forming said legislation. Has the president seen the draft of the Senate Health care bill . I dont know that. Thats i know that there was some chatter today. I know the president has been on the phone extensively with the leader and with key senators so i dont know if hes seen the legislation or not. But i know that extremely hard and the president has been giving his input and has ideas, feedback to them and hes very excited about where this thing is head...

A heavy price. Setting up a showdown with the syrian dictator and his chief ally, russia. I believe that the goal is at this point not just to send assad a message, but to send russia and iran a message that if this happens again, we are putting you on notice. And my hope is that the president s warning will certainly get russia and iran to take a second look. I hope it will caution assad from the fact we dont want to see innocent men, women and children hurt again. Critical care, has the republican plan to push through health care hit a wall after that scathing score from the nonpartisan cong...

Total political chaos, violence. A Police Officer going rogue, jumping in a chopper and firing at the Supreme Court as venezuela erupts. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Were going to begin today with our politics lead. Another stern warning on capitol hill today. Russia is the United States most dangerous adversary and russia, in all likelihood, will attempt to interfere in u. S. Elections again. This stark warning comes despite the fact that President Trump has often dismissed russian meddling in the u. S. Election as a democratic tool in an attempt to delegitim...