Joining me is pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr and intelligence correspondent suzanne kelly. Welcome to you both. Barbara, this is really fascinating me. So general petraeus who has been at the center of this huge scandal tomorrow morning will testify at a congressional hearing about benghazi, and your information from a very good source, i think is really, really significant. Its basically, i have been listening to you for the last couple of hours, petraeus basically says he knew the moment this happened that it was a group called answar al sharia and that after that there was a stream of other intelligence saying it may be linked to the video we all knew about but his belief was always that it was this group and they had to rule out the other intelligence before they could officially confirm it. Is that right . Thats pretty close to it, piers. Very good source of mine who is directly familiar with what general petraeus plans to try and say on capitol hill tomorrow behind closed d
Voting much more widespread than we currently have and we can do that without using the post office. Usually at the end of the evening they say donald trump has won the election, youre not going to know this for months or for years because these ballots are all going to be lost and gone. Announcer this is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Good saturday morning to you. Live look across the city of atlanta. Top of the hour now and we begin with breaking news overnight. Robert trump, the younger brother of donald trump died at a hospital in new york. He was 71 years old. Also this hour, this week President Trump will try to upstage the 2020 Democratic National Convention Set to speak near joe bidens home town on the night biden is expected to accept the nomination. And some are calling for the post master general to resign and nancy pelosi is considering bringing the house back into session within the next two weeks to discuss the crisis facing the Postal Service. We
Mike baker is a New York Times correspondent, he joins me from there. Mike, you were there during these clashes. What did you witness regarding the shooting that occurred and do we have any information as of yet on the victim . Yeah, so the shooting occurred while there were a bunch of trump pro trump vehicles driving through downtown. As you guys covered there, there was a gathering in the suburbs of Trump Supporters and they were going to drive around the outskirts of the city, but a lot of them decided to come through into downtown where they met a bunch of protesters who were there wanting to confront them. And sort of during the hours of that happening, there were reports of gunfire, went over to the scene and the police had blocked it off. There was a man who had been shot in the chest, who was being treated at the time, and he appears to have been wearing a Patriot Prayer hat, a far right group here in the portland area. Tell us more about the clashes between these two groups, m
President Donald Trumps big week in the spotlight. Testimonials from those who know him best are expected around his Partys National convention. Those comments are normally preapproved and flattering, but remarks by his older sister are anything but. Retired federal judge Maryanne Trump Barry is heard bitterly criticizing her brother in audio secretly recorded by their niece mary trump a vocal critic of the president. Listen to this. Tweet and the lying, oh, my god, im talking too freely, but, you know, the change of stories, the lack of preparation, the lying, holy [ bleep ]. Those recordings were First Published by the Washington Post and the reporter who broke the story appeared on cnn earlier to describe some of the exchanges. Mary trump heard that her brother the president had said on fox news that maybe theyll have to put her, meaning judge Maryanne Trump Barry, she is a fireman jud federal judge at the time to the border because of the refugees coming into the united states. At
Early response. Good to have you with us. Well, here in the United States, the number of covid19 cases is accelerating at a record and troubling speed. A record high, 96,000 plus Covid Patients were hospitalized as of monday. And more than 30 of all cases ever reported in the u. S. Happened in the month of november. But thankfully, hope is on the horizon. American drug maker moderna is the latest company to ask u. S. Regulators to approve its covid19 vaccine for emergency use. Cnns nick watt has our report. Reporter modernas potential vaccine is, they say, 100 effective at preventing severe cases of covid19. It will allow us to go back to basically a normal life. And thats really what we want this vaccine to do. We want it to prevent people from dying. Reporter that vaccine became the second submitted for fda authorization. Next week, an Fda Committee meets to assess pfizers offering, does it work, is it safe. We could be looking at approval days after that. Moderna is one week behind