Reporters were asked to keep quiet about the president s visit to Walter Reed Medical Center. The president decided to go to walter reed to get a headstart with some routine checkups. Thats all it was. Announcer this is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Good sunday morning to you guess what. There is a new frontrunner in iowa. Oh, yes for the first time mayor Pete Buttigieg is sitting on top of the latest democratic poll there. Joe biden and Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren fighting for second place in that state. John bell edwards won a second term ending republicans attempt to flip that state. Back in washington. The president made an unannounced visit to Walter Reed Medical Center to to get part of his annual physical completed, we are told. White house said he took advantage of free time yesteray to get the process started. So glad fto have you with u here. The new poll showing Pete Buttigieg surging ahead in iowa. Reporter there is a new frontrunner in the
Into the Office Following bloombergs tenure. I want you to listen to this statement from bloomberg earlier today. I got something important really wrong. I didnt understand that back then. The full impact that stops were having on the black and latino communities. Now, hindsight is 2020, but as crime continued to come down as we reduced stops and continued to come down during the next administration to its credit i now see we could and should have acted sooner and acted faster to cut the stop. I wish we had, and im sorry that we didnt. And now we have mr. Mayor de blasio here with us. Thank you for coming on in. First, i just want to get your reaction to this apology today. Do you believe it was sincere . Ana, you know, im looking at that and i just have to say people arent stupid. They can figure out if someone is honestly addressing an issue or whether theyre acting out of convenience. For years so many of us said when he was mayor of new york city this is hurting people, this is cre
know what happened on the several calls that morrison sondland claimed to have had with the president. but it s worth noting ambassadors don t typically have a direct line to the president. and there s a reason for that. even seasoned ambassadors their perspective has to be vetted by the national security counsel and ins grated that way the nsc can present the president with te full picture. we re learning that president trump relied on ambassador sondland who by the way was not confirm bide the senate to work on ukraine, has no background into anti-corruption and fiona hill said he went into his own meetings without getting appropriately briefed. but for some reason president trump prepped with sondland rather than his own experts. this really throws cold-water on the pez are s claim he was focused on the corruption of ukraine and rooting it out. hill and vindman both testified and both of them