He declined. Of course he did, they always do. Youve seen this before, but tonight we have something c different for you. He we have a democrat who says he has the smoking gun. Three months ago, we made this offer to congressman swalwell of california, a member of the house intelligence committee. Watch. If you have any evidence at all of collusion, any, and i dont care how small it is, i will give the floor to you, and i mean that. I want to wrap this up. Im sure you do, too. Tucker we offered the congressman a full halfhour live on the show if he could give us evidence, real evidence, of russian collusion of Trumps Campaign and to his credit, tonight he is taking us up on that offer. At theres nothing staged about this conversation, the one you are about to see. If the congressman has proved the trump people colluded with a foreign power, well be the first to call for indictments. But if he doesnt have that proof, if after all this time there is still no real evidence of collusion, t
With the midterms now four weeks away. Good morning. This is early start. Im joe jonhns. Im christine romans. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. We begin with breaking news. Florida panhandle bracing for Hurricane Michael. Hurricane michael is expected to strengthen to a category three by the time it hits the panhandle midday wednesday. States of emergency declared in florida and alabama. Emergency officials have ordered evacuations in ten counties. Some mandatory. Others voluntary. Florida governor rick scott strongly urging people to heed all warnings. Every family must be prepared. Remember, we can rebuild your house, but not rebuild your life. Take this seriously. Keep your family safe. Meteorologist ivan cabrera is live in the cnn weather center. Ivan, what is the latest on the storm . Christine, i have been watching this spin all night. At time it is looked like it would at times it looked like it would explode. It is still a category one. We will get an update at the top of the hour
Of events and where the emails were delivered by wickty leeks. Stone tease the them before they released. Trump delighted. Presumably rodger stone might have a lot to say about in including possible ties between the Campaign Wikileaks and russians. Later today we learned he wouldnt be cooperating. He is taking the fifth, invoking fifth amendment protection against selfdiscrimination. Refusing a request for democrats from the top democrat on the house judiciary committee. Claims hes done nothing wrong. The letter was sent shortly before the president tweeted this. Prufgt of stone. Saying i will never testify against trump. The said this statement was made by roger stone essentially stating he will not be forced by the rogue out of control prosecutor to make up lies about President Trump. Nice to know that some people still have guts. Stones attorney told cnn his client was im quoting surprised by the president s tweet. That may or may not be. Keeping him honest. This much is true. The p
Bush took great credit for, distributing this money. he sees it as a campaign asset for himself. was this trying to feed money into counties that would vote for him in his current race? that s mostly a question for democrats. certainly some of them feel like commissioner bush had let politics get in the way of his thinking when he his office decided to distribute that money. there will be a story published this week it was 11 days after he had initially announced that billion dollars last year that he announced he was running for attorney general and certainly, you know, wanted to do well among republicans in this primary. the election runoff is now. to be clear, i ve spent some time in the rural areas that did get some of the money and they definitely have infrastructure needs and could benefit by disaster preparedness. the ones on the coast ranked the