Hurricane is looming in the atlantic right now. Were tracking jose. And its potential threat to millions of people in the northeast. We want the welcome viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Breaking news tonight, britain is warning that a new terror attack may be immeant ins authorities track down those responsible for the bombing. The improvised device that went off this morning had a timer, thats raising fears that more explosives may have been planted and could go off at any time. At least 29 people were injured in todays blast on a very busy commuter line. The United States responding by beefing up subway security. New york citys Transit System is dploueploying additional officers, weapons teams and bombsniffing dogs. Prime minister theresa may is fuming at mr. Trump after he suggested the people behind the bombing were, quote, in the sights of scotland yard. May is dismissing that as pure specul
Recognizing israels capital. Lets begin with the apparent disarray with the president s legal team right now as the russia investigation clearly intensifies. President trumps personal lawyer sparking a fierce debate after suggesting that the president cant obstruct justice because he is the president. A white house lawyer contradicting that statement saying that wouldnt be his defense and insisting they would be relying on the facts to defend the president of the United States. Clearly there are dramatic developments unfolding in this investigation. That has been very, very apparent for sometime. It appears to be escalating. Joining us with excellent reporting on all of this, whats the latest . Ty cobb, the president s lawyer who is dealing directly with the special counsels office is saying what john dowd is partner in this. Saying thats not a legal strategy. We are not relying on the notion that the president is in a sense, above the law and cant be prosecuted for this. We will rely
The chronology is not favorable for the white house. Will the Oversight Committee be launching an investigation into this . We did last night. Harris chief White House Correspondent john roberts now on the north lawn, john . Harris, good afternoon to you. We are on day eight. Rather than things Getting Better for the white house they are actually, as you point out, taking a turn in a much more dramatic direction. We have known for the last week that there were serious allegations leveled against the former white house staff secretary rob porter. The most serious among them that on a vacation in italy, back in the early 2,000s, he allegedly, according to his first wife, punched her in the eye, giving her a black eye. The fbi yesterday came forward in the form of Christopher Wray at a hearing on the Senate Intelligence committee to challenge the white houses time line of events which then forced the white house yesterday to adjust its time line again. Lets listen to what Sarah Huckabee s
Russians, and he was talking with trump transition officials specifically about the fact that he was having conversations with the russians about them taking it easy on the issue of russian sanctions. Now, thats important because the white house has portrayed mike flynn contacting the russians about sanctions as some kind of betrayal, right . Remember, their line was that they had to fire mike flynn, they had to obtain his resignation because he lied about his contacts with the russians to Vice President mike pence. Yeah. Who could have known what mike flynn was really up to . It was such a betrayal. He lied. Well, that all fell apart last month when the New York Times published direct quotes from emails that had reportedly been sent among top transition staff discussing just exactly what mike flynn was doing with the russians. Quote, on december 29th, a transition advisor k. T. Mcfarland wrote in an email to a colleague that sanctions announced hours before by the Obama Administration
Both in high school says through her attorney that she is willing to testify before lawmakers. Offering more detail on exactly what she said happened that night. The reason she felt that he might inadvertently kill her is he had his hand over her mouth, and she was having a difficult time breathing. And he is larger, and he was pressing his weight against her. And so inebriated, he was ignoring the fact she was attempting to scream and having a difficult time breathing. She believes that but for his inebriation and his inability to take her clothes off, he would have raped her. Our Cnn Supreme Court reporter, Sunlen Serfaty is on capitol hill for us. Judge cavanaugh, hes putting out a new statement today. What is he saying . We just got this statement from judge kavanaugh. Let me read it for you. He said this is a completely false allegation. I have never done anything like what the accuser describes to her or to anyone. Because this never happened, i had no idea who was making this ac