Supposedly best friends, maybe not but best friends. You look at picture file and you see hundreds of pictures and him and comey, and and with all of that and other things he wanted the fbi job. I dont know if anybody knows that, but as you know he was considered for the fbi job, wanted it, and the day after he didnt get it he became the special counsel. Cnn White House Correspondent abby philip is live at the white house. What was the original purpose of this appearance, and was the president expected to take so many questions or weigh in on so many of these issues . Reporter well, brainna, this was supposed to be an event about medical billing. This is a topic the white house wants to put on the agenda. They want to be proactive about this issue, but instead, as we all saw in the last hour, it was sort of like taking a a bottle of soda and shaking it up, and the result is the president really coming out with all of this information about how he feels about a slew of different issues
Headquarters in atlanta. We want to welcome our viewers here and in the United States and all around the world. Im George Howell. Cnn newsroom starts right now. At 5 01 here on the u. S. East coast in atlanta, georgia, it has been one week since President Trump announced american troops would pull back in northern syria. Now come the criticisms of betrayal. They led the Syrian Democratic forces against isis now a commander is slamming the u. S. President s decision to withdrawal troops. He said this to the u. S. Envoy in a readout obtained exclusively by cnn. He said, and i quote, you have given up on us. You are leaving us to be slaughtered. You have nothing for us. You are not willing to protect the people but you do not want another force to come and protect us. You have sold us. This is immoral. He goes on to say, i need to know if you are capable of protecting my people of stopping these bombs falling on us or not. I need to know because if youre not, i need to make a deal with ru
We begin right now. In the streets of tehran, grief turned to outrage after an about face from iran admitting that it shot down a ukrainian passenger jet by mistake. Listen. Iranian media report a vigil turned to a demonstration on saturday. Video of protesters demanding the Supreme Leader to step down and even death to the dictator. Most of the 176 victims on the flight were iranian and canadian. Of course, iran initially denied it shot down the plane but a top iranian general says the jet was misidentified as a Cruise Missile that came amid tensions with the u. S. , canada and ukraine say its good that iran came clean, but now they want tehran to cooperate with International Investigators and give the families of the dead justice. The protests on the streets picking up International Pressure on iran certainly in play. Cnns International Diplomatic editor Nic Robertson is following it all for us in our abu dhabi bureau. Good to have you with us, nic. If there was a sense of unity amon
Well hear from some of those survivors. Live from cnn World Headquarters in atlanta, welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Im George Howell. Cnn newsroom starts now. 5 01 on the u. S. East coast. Good to have you with us this day. We start with the devastation in the bahamas. Officials are ramping up Recovery Efforts in the aftermath of the deadly hurricane dorian. On the ground the destruction is you could say just overwhelming. Homes have been destroyed. Entire streets are gone. Debris is everywhere. 43 people have died. That number is expected to rise dramatically. And in one of the hardest hit areas, crews set up a makeshift mortuary. A cnn team saw at least two bodies in that area. Morticians say they are trying to recover more. Thousands of people who lost everything are trying to escape, scrambling to do whatever they can. Paula newton is in one hardhit area, abaco islands there, which is doing its best to recover. Reporter this is an area of