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His base like seeing someone fight back. the media can't beat up on a republican or anymore. but the president hadn't tweeted out about republican or anymore. not having tapes of then fbi director james comey and that he responds by leaking something to columbia university, which prompted a special counsel to be named, if that doesn't happen, the special counsel probably doesn't exist. that's the negatives of trump's tweeting. the positive is that he is 22.7 million followers and sometimes stories will get covered as a result of him pressing enough, such as the dnc or dossier story recovered p...

Kentucky, a member of the house oversight committee investigating the trump campaign's ties with russia, congressman, nice to see you, sir. >> thank you for having me. >> we want to talk to you because it's my understanding that you said you were skeptical about this memo about the conversation between the president and former fbi director. how so? >> well, i'm curious why, when the deputy fbi secretary testified before congress, he failed to mention this action and i'm curious as to why, if it happened in february, that james comey didn't bring it to the attention of the department of justice...

Welcome back to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. let's stick to the world leader. russia is standing in solidarity with syria and iran demanding that the united states take no further action against the assad regime because it is will have, quote, grave consequences for global security. let's get right to cnn's matthew chance in moscow for us. matthew, at the meeting today, the russians, syrian and iranian foreign ministers demanded an independent international investigation of the chemical weapons attack, but correct me if i'm wrong didn't russia vote against that exact thing at the united nation...

Where north korea and the mounting nuclear threat there will be the top topic of conversation. we understand they will be discussing all the options that washington is looking at when it comes to dealing with north korea, and, of course, jake, the military option, the one that pose the most concern here in south korea where the people here are depending on the u.s. for security and also fearing retaliation from north korea. >> alexandra field for us in seoul, south korea. thanks so much. over the past eight days the president and his military surprised the world with strikes in syria and the...

>> so you understand? >> i understand. >> what is it like as a director to step into these shoes of "star wars"? i mean, it's got to be somewhat daunting? >> to me they're masterpieces. to try to make a film that fits on your shelf like the others is a high bar. but a strange thing happens because i grew up like a lot of kids my age who watched "star wars" every day playing with toys, so you get on the set and then you just feel like a kid. and you feel like you've gone back home. and it is really a comfortable space to make a movie. >> when you got the call that you made the cut, you were goi...