washington. i think he has every right to go home to indiana and say i m not part man. a guy running to be the next joe donnelly as it were is phil bredesen, former governor of tennessee. he s running in tennessee against congresswoman marcia blackburn and a new shows the race essentially deadlocked, 45-45 and i heard from a republican source saying that s not so different from internals that republicans v.maybe blackburn gets a little bit of an edge, but that s a tight race, too, in tennessee. listen, phil bredesen was an incredibly popular mayor of tennessee and incredibly popular governor of step see and a great retail politician. marcia blackburn not as popular statewide. getting the trump bounce and bredesen is fighting his own because he s a great politician. what do republicans in the white house think that they are going to pick up seats in the senate, that it s going to stay the same, or do you they like at indiana and tennessee and say we might even lose a few seats?
intelligence officer with close ties to the prince entering turkey the same day that khashoggi disappeared. we should know he traveled alongside mbs throughout his visit to the united states earlier this year at m.i.t. and in houston. cnn s alex marquardt joins us live. a source close to the investigation say the man in the images played a, quote, pivotal role in the apparent assassination of the journalist khashoggi. reporter: that s right, and the same source tell us that mutreb was aware of the plot, as they call it, of that operation to kill khashoggi in istanbul, and now this news that saudi arabia is also thinking about ping all of this, according to the new york times, on a general named ahmed al asiri, a hoy-ringing adviser to the crown prince, those two ties going back to mbs who just met with secretary of state mike pompeo who told the u.s. that the saudis, quote, need to own this. back in washington after a
scheme to boost business at the trump hotel in d.c. new internal government e-mails released today show the president was directly involved in the decision to keep the fbi headquarters in washington, d.c. instead of the previous plans to move them to the suburbs. cnn s tom foreman joins us in our conflict of interest watch series. tom, the president s business interests are have led to court cases could. that happen here? reporter: it could. could certainly get very messy. congressional democrats are demanding a pile of papers from the trump administration explaining how this massive plan to build a new fbi headquarters suddenly changed course. who was behind it and who might stand to profit. overcrowded, outdated and crumbling, plans to relocate and rebuild fbi headquarters have been in the works for years with government studies showing how it could be moved from downtown d.c. to one of several possible sites in nearby maryland or virginia. the cost, $3.6 billion tax
dollars, but now a different plan is calling for the fbi s center to be rebuilt right where it is, even though it would be smaller than the suburban alternative, likely have security risks and be more expensive, $3.8 billion, so who came up with that? i m a real estate guy. i build buildings. reporter: a study by the inspector general of the general services administration traces a series of meetings in which the suburban plan was pushed aside by the trump administration amid claims that keeping the headquarters downtown would be cheaper. the ig report shows team trump s math is wrong though press secretary sarah sanders insists the president wanted to save the government money and also the fbi leadership did not want to move its headquarters. skeptics, however, suspect a hidden motive. for years donald trump had been all for freeing up that fbi land downtown for private
comfortable with pat sipaloni who has been acting as an adviser to them and the two have already established a rapport. i m told that this hiring comes down to one thing, that the trump white house gearing up for a partisan battle should the democrats take control of the house. new white house counsel will have his hands full, stepping into the job as the white house braces for potential legal storms following november s mid terms. the washington, d.c.-based lawyer was a senior justice department official during the george w. bush administration. when he was first being considered in august, president trump s personal attorney jay sekulow put out a statement praising sipaloni saying he s a brilliant attorney. i ve had the privilege to work with him and can attest to his skill and intelgy. that shows the white house is gearing up should the democrats take to the house which could