Good evening, everyone. Im erin burnett. Cnn has learned that al qaeda is in the final stages of planning a terrorist attack. The threat comes from al qaeda in yemen. The state department has issued a Global Travel alert to american citizens abroad and plans to shut down 21 embassies. Now this warning is broad, never heard of anything quite so broad before. How much more do you know at this point . Well, erin, what our sources are telling us here at cnn is that the threat centers around al qaeda in yemen. They have been watching a threat stream. And they call it not the usual threat stream, for several weeks and in recent days. It began to come together. And they really do feel that they have a very, serious credible threat from al qaeda in yemen. The question on the table, of course is, is it directed at a target in yemen, a lot of concern about the u. S. Embassy in yemen, but you have the broader threat that theyre addressing by closing embassies across the region. So a lot of concer
Meetings with top members of team trump. Translator our ambassador met someone. What did the ambassador have to do . Thats his work. Hes getting paid for that. He must meet. He must discuss current affairs. He must make agreements. With us to share their reporting, margaret, michael, yes, thats our version of the National Spelling bee and yak key kucinich. Follow the money is a trademark phrase from the watergate investigation now also courtesy of Washington Post reporting. Remember former fbi director james comey is set to publicly testify before Congress Next thursday. Issue number one for director comey will be conversation in which he says the president tried to get him to pledge his loyalty and then tried to get him to shut down key aspects of the russia meddling investigation. But its also a pretty safe bet comey will also be asked what he knows about a mysterious december meeting between president ial soninlaw Jared Kushner and sergei gorkov, a russian spy turned banker whos tig