. that s it for us. have a great weekend. the news continues. the source with kaitlan collins starts now. and tonight straight from the source donald trump weighing in after president biden is facing no charges in his classified documents investigation. the former president claiming that he cooperated with the feds, which he didn t, also alleging that biden did not, which he did. the white house is blasting the report as politically motivated and certainly a political headache. meanwhile, a potential trump raining mate tells me she would not have done what mike pence did on january 6th, you know, abiding by that thing called the constitution. the apparent new republican litmus test to the second in line to the presidency. also tonight israel s prime minister wants its military to have plans to evacuate rafah where over a million palestinians are sheltering as the white house is warning military action there would be a, quote, disaster. i m kaitlan collins and this i
good morning, top of the hour here in the cnn newsroom i m erica hill. i m jim sueciutto. the head of the epa is headed to ohio two weeks after a train derailment that leaked chemicals into the air and the ground and the water. why are people getting sick? everybody that came here the rail company norfolk southern abruptly pulled out of last night s town hall, citing security concerns we ll go live to east palestine in a moment. standing by for news out of georgia this morning. the fulton county district attorney is expected to release parts of a special grand jury report on former president trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. it is expected what will be released will be concerns that the panel had about witnesses lying under oath. we are monitoring that. we ll bring you those details as soon as it s released. let s begin in east palstein ohio. residents demanding answers in the wake of that train wreck. they packed a town hall meeting. railroad o
President s ongoing feud with the nations top Law Enforcement agency. Word that the trump and sessions nearly lost their new fbi director. We have learned that Christopher Wray threatened to resign because sessions was pruessurin him to fire or reassign Andrew Mccabe. The president has made mccabe a target over and over again, suggesting that hes biased, and questioning why sessions has not replaced him. Cnns Kaitlan Collins is covering the story from the white house. First, to our crime and justice reporter shimon prokupecz. What do we know about sessions speaking to the mueller team . We have been told this interview, the meeting with mueller and his team happened last wednesday. Lasted several hours. And presumably he was questioned about his knowledge concerning the firing of the fbi director and also the other key issue in this investigation, the contacts with russians. Remember, Jeff Sessions was leading the Foreign Policy team for the trump campaign. Members on that team have be
Working at his resorts, hotels or casinos. And Miguel Marquez is in las vegas, and not only one of the power names there in las vegveg but he and President Trump are close thereto and as long time rivals and Business Partners as the landscape of the wynn hotel right there, and the trump hotel just a few blocks from each other. Our jeff zeleny at the white house saying that the president was apprised at the situation with the rnc with steve wynn. It is the president , himself, who named steve wynn to the rnc and that they have accepted his resignation from that post. And just last week at a fundraiser, and the rnc fundraiser, for both the Republican National committee, and the donald Trump Victory Campaign Fund that the president was meant to attend, but he didnt, because of the shutdown, and steve wynn was the cohost, one of the cohosts of that event and he spoke on the president s behalf for about a half hour, liking him to abe lincoln, and talked about how close they were over the ye
Assault is in question tonight. Mitch mcconnell saying moments ago he and other republicans still have not heard from Brett Kavanaughs accuser, Christine Blasey ford or her attorney on whether she will appear before the Senate Judiciary committee on monday. Republicans quick to point out that monday is fords chance to be heard. Were looking forward to hearing what she said to say on monday. Shes going to have an opportunity to be heard monday. We hope she will take advantage of that opportunity and we can move forward with the process. Fb we hope she takes advantage of this opportunity. This opportunity. Susan collins, a key swing vote calling it puzzling that ford has yet to confirm if she will be there on monday, but democrats want more time. Theyre pressing for the fbi to reopen kavanaughs background check before any hearing takes place. We should not be rushing to judgment with a sham hearing on monday. Theres no reason to rush this thing to judgment right now. We all signed on to