Murder of a Washington Post journalist on tape. This is cnn breaking news. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. We begin with breaking news in our politics lead. Paul manafort appears to be in the midst of getting squeezed by special counsel, Robert Mueller. Pressure to cooperate further, pressure to tell the truth. President trump this afternoon sent a brazen message to manafort, loud and clear, telling the New York Post a pardon remains a possibility. President trump saying, quote, it was never discussed, but i wouldnt take it off the table. Why would i take it off the table . Cnns Kaitlan Collins at the white house with this breaking news. And kaitlan, this seems a huge signal from the president. And some people, democrats especially, are likely going to see this as potentially an obstruction of justice. They certainly are. Its also a change in tone for President Trump, who for the last several months, has down played his relationship with Paul Manafort, saying that he only worked f
Unprecedented levels. Cape fear is expected to inundate downtown wilmington. Hundreds of thousands of people remain without power at this hour. We have live coverage. Adam flock is in the extreme weather center. Good morning. Unfortunately well be expecting more rain. This has been up a slow mover. Even though its breaking apart. North carolina that rain will continue to be an issue. We have a tornado threat. But those would only be the quick spinup. The larger threat is going to continue to be this rainfall. An area stretching from portions of eastern South Carolina into North Carolina, still a possibility of seeing a few spinup tornado this afternoon. But huge numbers across huge portions of North Carolina. We saw a record breaker as we ran up to 30 ins in one location. So thats preliminary. When you talk about rain getting up to 20 or 30 inches. Eventually it has to go somewhere. We are still waiting for rivers to begin to crest. We are expecting to see some major require flooding a
Of places. It doesnt necessarily make him loyal to them. But you may get your answer, don, to be honest because id be shocked if the democrats dont try to get his tax returns. Yeah. Theres a committee that has that within their purview, ways and means. And ritchie oneill, the guy who was the congressman who we believe is going to be in charge of that for the democrats. Right. Hes going to become a really relevant guy all of a sudden. Yeah. Well, hes going to fight it, this president. Obviously hes fighting. He doesnt want to interview with mueller face to face. Hes going to fight democrats. Hes already calling them out, saying bring it on. Its going to be a standoff. Again, im paraphrasing, but thats basically what hes saying. Not easy to beat a subpoena from congress, especially for documents. Not at all. But what are they going to go . Im not a big believer in their value. I know i get beat up for a lot of this, you know, selling the Mueller Probe is not going to be that rev latory a
Hes going to become a really relevant guy all of a sudden. Yeah. Well, hes going to fight it, this president. Obviously hes fighting. He doesnt want to interview with mueller face to face. Hes going to fight democrats. Hes already calling them out, saying bring it on. Its going to be a standoff. Again, im paraphrasing, but thats basically what hes saying. Not easy to beat a subpoena from congress, especially for documents. Not at all. But what are they going to go . Im not a big believer in their value. I know i get beat up for a lot of this, you know, selling the Mueller Probe is not going to be that revelatory and lowering peoples expectations. Youre not the only one. I have so many people who are progressives and liberals who are like, mueller must have something. Im like, i dont know what he has, but to think that mueller is going to drive this president from office, i think is being a little bit naive. Lets just say that the president is impeached, right, which is the possibility
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