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French President Macron supports Aya Nakamura's performance at Paris Olympics amidst controversy. Security concerns addressed ahead of the Games
Interview, go to the brooke clog, cnn.com/brooke. quick reminder, tomorrow's state of the union. jake tapper is on tap with that. thanks so much for watching. "the lead" starts right now. tomorrow night it is all but guaranteed, president obama will say the state of the union is strong but the state of things in d.c. right now, pretty damn dysfunctional. i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." in politics lead, this time when president obama gives his state of the union speech, congress will be put on notice, we're told. the national lead. we know his name. how he got his game. but we don't kno...
Of the tab has mysteriously disappeared. but vladimir putin says it's just the price you pay to do business in russia. billions and billions, miriam, allegedly siphoned off here. where exactly do we think all of that went? >> well, according to a new report that came out today by someone who has been investigating russian corruption for years, he says that it's been stored offshore so we don't know exactly know who the end participant is but the allegations that he makes in this report are friends of vladimir putin that he's had since childhood, the officials that he's surrounded himself since...
Russian disneyland project. what is it? >> this is one of my favorites from this report issued today. it's supposed to be sort of like a russian folk lore fairytale amusement park. it's not meant to be built until 2020. >> so -- okay. i would say why but there really isn't an answer beyond the -- somebody is going to make money off of it. one local mayor is getting a sweet new ride out of this deal. he has a $15 million helicopter? >> yeah, which is fine. officials are allowed to have helicopters but the problem is, when it was presented as part of the olympic budget it was presented as a medi...
Behind me, a cyclist was trying the village room and they were putting out a message to the world today very strongly. they are ready, they are ahead of schedule and although there is talk about budget cuts because england like most of the world is in recession, the government is looking for huge spending cuts and some cuts to the olympic budget. they are saying this will be a suburb olympics. the stadium behind me, they're calling it the big boy. the stadium behind me is pretty much ready on the outside they're just finishing off the tracks inside. take about another six months and also the s...