Was on lockdown. It was a scary situation. The plane collided and spun across the freeway and burst into planes. The pilot and his passenger are injured but alive. This is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Welcome to saturday on your first day of july. Lets start with what President Trump is doing this morning. He is kicking off the Holiday Weekend in new jersey. He will be back in washington later today to honor veterans. He is scheduled to deliver remarks at a concert at the Kennedy Center. The president preparing for the g20 summit. He will come face to face with russian president Vladmir Putin. Will the president bring up russias interference. Will there be any chance to improve relations as both leaders hoped for back in november. Fallout from the president s disparaging tweets about a tv news host leading to claims of a tabloid hit story and questions about whether the president threatened to threaten the anchors over coverage. Did the white house use the Na
In a statement from his resort in new jersey, the president condemned what he called an ee geegous display of hatred, bigotry and violence from many sides. Many sides he said. As of now he has not mentioned the words White Supremacists, neonazi or ku klux klan, none of those words out loud, not on twitter. The question is why. We will discuss all of that, but first lets get out to the streets. Lets get to charlottesville and get a sense of whats going on. Cnn correspondent brian todd is there. Brian, what do you see . Reporter well, john, were near the scene of that car strike this afternoon. Some rain and lightning occurring now outside as nightfall has come here in charlottesville, but we have late information. You mentioned about a suspect being named. Cnn just got this information a short time ago. The suspect we are told is 20yearold james alex fields. He is from ohio. He was booked into theal albeme Regional Jail this afternoon. He it is believed was the driver of the gray sedan
Credentials has said through an official statement that the fbi has grave concerns about the memos accuracy. The memo alleges that the fbi abused his surveillance power. Lets go straight to the man breaking the news here evan perez. Evan, beginning with you, tell me everything you know. Reporter brook, i think what is happening is that the white house folks are getting a sense of the frustration from chris wray the fbi director. He certainly made that abundantly clear in his meetings with white house officials and certainly with the Justice Department because he believes that he obviously was picked by the president and yet his advice to the president to not release this memo certainly not in the version that devin nunes has prepared shouldnt be done and he believes that that is that his advice is being disregarded. In fact, the republicans are sort of casting this as some kind of partisan fight including sort of tarring the reputation of Christopher Wray. He has not threatened to resi
This comes on a day when the president doubled down on his demands for an apology from abc. The president making it all about him again tweeting iger where is my call of apology. Youve and abc have offended millions of people. They demand a response. How is brian ross doing. He tanked the market with an abc lie, yet no apology, double standard. The president ducking the point there. Roseannes tweet was straight up racist. Yet the president failed to condemn it. Why . Because he cant. His own words and actions are racist too. In 1973 the trump family Real Estate Company was sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination. They settled without admitting wrong doing but were required to take steps to prevent discrimination. 1991 in a book called trumped donald trump said black guys counting my money, i hate it. The only kind of people i want counting my money are short guys wearing yarmulkes. Racism and antisemitism in one quote. Trump took out this ad in 1989 demanding the Death
Legislation mirroring the president s suggestion to end the gridlock. It also established three years for dreamers and some asylum seekers, but that is a nonstarter for democrats and in a second you will hear why. Remember this, though, as all these bills pass each other like ships in the night, it has been ten days, ten, since the democratic leadership and the president of the United States have talked to each other according to aides. Hours from now, the payroll deadline will pass once again, meaning 800,000 federal workers will miss a second paycheck if no deal is done. So lets start the hour with cnns ryan nobles up on capitol hill for us. Before you talk to me about House Speaker Nancy Pelosis response, we have some breaking details about the president s state of the union, which is it still happening next tuesday . Whats whats the latest in the last 60 seconds . Reporter it depends on how you define what the state of the union is and the president and the white house have said th