Personal cell phone income of his rival on Live Television is trump breathing new life into a stale bit of politics . Nuclear ambition north korea rules out a Nuclear Agreement like the one with iran. It has no interest while it continues to build its stockpile. The u. S. Is dealing with one foe, could another amass as many as 100 Nuclear Weapons in the next few years . Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. The pentagon just announcing a major success with the death of a long time al qaeda operative. His death comes as the u. S. Led coalition is stepping up blomings of isis targets. Some shrouded in mystery. Were covering the breaking news and more this hour Cory Gardiner is standing by to join us live. And Mike Huckabee is standing by as well. Our correspondents and guests have full coverage. Our position correspondent Barbara Starr is joining us. Tell us what you have learned. Good evening, the pentagon announcing a short time ago, the leader of the socalled khorasan group, a
Oh, bank was out for blood. Was he trying to reenact home grown terror in americas history . We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Were following breaking news. President trump saying the words he refused to say for two days. He now specifically condemning racist groups and their role in the attacks in charlottesville, virginia. Mr. Trump sticking to a prepared script declaring that racism is evil and calling out the kkk, neonazis and white supremacist as repugnant. His remarks came at the white house after republicans as well as democrats have been expressing outrage over his initial response to the weekend violence in charlottesville when he suggested that many sides were to blame. Also tonight, the suspect in the deadly cara ta attack is be held without bond charged with Second Degree murder. James alex fields is accused of plowing his car into a crowd of protesters
Point overnight. As antihate dimmen straighters took to the streets. Protests around trump tower with the president s half hearted denunciation of the white supremacist march in charlottesville. Is the bar so low that were now celebrating giving a standing ovation to a president that condemns naziism . Can you stand for hatred or you can stand against it. You cant do both. Trump attacked the first ceo, ken frazier, the africanamerican head of merck on twitter yesterday. He did not call out the other three by name, underarmor, intel and scott paul, all of whom are white. This morning he tweeted, for every ceo that drops out of the manufacturing council, i have many to take their place. Grandstanders should not have gone on. Before that, he retweeted the man who pushed the pizza gate conspiracy theory. Then a fox news report about how he is seriously considering pardoning joe arpaio. And at one point an image of a trump train running over a cnn reporter. He deleted that tweet and an anon
Votes, this bill will fail. And barring a hail mary, the federal government will begin shutting down at midnight, that is less than two hours away. There is a last minute scramble right now to try to come up with an alternate deal that could keep this government open. But the clock is ticking. Its clicking down to 12 00 a. M. , and where we go from here is really anybodys guess, but we got you, and we have a whole lot of people who can help us get through this, were going to watch it all unfold live right here on cnn tonight with me. Lets get right to Phil Mattingly on capitol hill. Wow here we are phil, weve been talking all week, last night we said it was down to the deadline, you said the next time, when they gavel in, they had 13 hours to dry to come up with something. Doesnt seem like they have so far. Talk to me about these last ditch efforts to avert a Government Shutdown. To put it bluntly, not to bury the lead at all, theres no deal. Right now, everything theyve been trying to
Im yasmin alongside a minute who is in jerusalem for us and louis berg dorf in the studio. We start with three years still in his term, democrat al franken says hes going to resign from the senate amid allegations of Sexual Misconduct. The announcement from the senate floor came just a day after a chorus of democrats led by Kristin Gillibrand and other Democratic Women called on him to step down as yet another accuser stepped forward. Franken spoke 20 minutes yesterday. He did not admit wrongdoing, but he did call out republicans discussing the irony of his resignation. Lets take a listen. Over the last few weeks a number of women have come forward to talk about how they felt my actions had affected them. I was shocked. I was upset. But in responding to their claims, i also wanted to be respectful of that broader conversation because all Women Deserve to be heard and their experiences taken seriously. I think that was the right thing to do. I also think it gave some people the false im