President Biden calls Vladimir Putin a crazy S.O.B. The lead starts right now.

The president unfiltered telling a crowd of supporters what he really thinks, not just about his

Russian counterpart, but also Donald Trump. The only person standing between Trump

and the Republican presidential nomination, Nicky Haley joins me this hour. Plus, the investigation now launched

into a widespread cell phone outage.

What cut service for so long for tens of thousands

of AT&T customers.

And days after his death, the mother of Putin critic

Alexi Navalny says she's finally seen her son's body,

but she claims the Kremlin is blackmailing her

and putting conditions on where, when, and how her son's burial can take place.

Welcome to the Lean, I'm Jake Tappar and we start today with our politics lead off

script, off camera, and amongst friends, Democratic supporters and donors.

It's where President Biden appears most comfortable,

leveling some of his sharpest and most direct attacks.

Speaking at a fundraising event in San Francisco last night,

the president

Vladimir Putin quote we have a crazy s-o b that guy Putin and others and we always

have to be worried about a nuclear conflict, but the existential threat to humanity is climate, he said.

Continuing the back and forth, the Kremlin fired back today criticizing President Biden for sounding like a quote

Hollywood cowboy, more specifically Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Pescov said

clearly mr. Biden is demonstrating behavior in the style of a Hollywood cowboy

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