Torched, making the campfire, what it is called, one of the deadliest, most destructive in state history. The town of paradise hit hardest. Officials say 90 of the homes were destroyed there. Meantime, two other fires are wreaking havoc in the los angeles area, south of that first fire we mentioned. The entire town of malibu. Home to some of hollywoods biggest celebrities is almost completely abandoned. We have correspondents standing by in two areas seeing the most damage from these fires right now, dan simon is in paradise, in Northern California where the flames have consumed nearly an entire community. Dan, what is the latest . Reporter well hi, fred. The level and scale of destruction is unlike anything weve ever seen in the state of california. Where we are here, this kind of gives you an idea of the kinds of things were seeing. You can see cars that have just been discarded here. Take a look at this school bus. Makes you wonder if the driver realized that he was in danger and ju
Karen mcdougal, cohen acted in coordination with and at the direction of individual one, a. K. A. , donald trump. And now trump appears to be leading his own Legal Defense via twitter. In a series of tweets containing, for those who care, a spelling mistake, the president earlier today tried quoting something he heard on folks. Quote, democrats cant find a smoking gun tying trump to campaign, no collusion. I love this. As legitimate transactions saying, so now the dems go to a simple private transaction. Thats what he calls the payoff s to quiet the women. Call it a Campaign Contribution which it was not. It was done correctly by a lawyer and it would not even be a fine. Lawyers liability if he did make a mistake, not me. Cohen just trying to get his sentence reduced. Witchhunt. Thats how trump talks, especially in tweets. With multiple investigations into the president and his associates, the Washington Post writes today, trump is stepping into a political hail storm. Quote, rather th
A weekend thats support to represent the virtues of world peace. A report says donald trump not only knew about hushmoney payments to two women but was directly involved in the payments and process to get the stories killed. My client is tired of being called a liar. With each passing month we get closer and closer to judgment day. This is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Good saturday to you. President trump is in parsz right now in paris right now as World Leaders commemorate 100 years since the end of world war ii. He touched town and tweeted slamming the french president for calling for a giant eu army to handle threats from china and russia. They were all friends when they meet a while ago. President trump declaring cooperation between the countries saying they have much in common. Meanwhile, the wall street journal is reporting this morning President Trump was central to hushmoney payments made to Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougal, two women whom he alleged
Heather nauert is his choice to replace nikki haley as u. N. Ambassador. Unlike barr, nauert really has little experience in the field for which she has been nominated, but the shakeup might not end there. Two sources tell cnn that chief of staff john kelly is about to resign. Cnns abby phillip is live at the white house with the latest. Abby, where do we begin . Theres so much going on this morning. So much happening before even 10 00 a. M. This morning. And the president trying to set the tone for the rest of the day. Thats also going to be dominated by the developments in the Mueller Investigation by announcing two major posts that have been open, waiting for nominees. The first being the attorney general. After he fired jeff sessions, that post has been held by matt whitaker, who is the acting attorney general, but the president is now naming william barr, who is someone who was the former attorney general for president george h. W. Bush. He has a lot of experience in washington. A
Says after the testimony he claims it was questionable. The biggest take away is the former fbi director, james comey with regard to the two most important investigations into the clinton email matter and into the russia collusion matter said, as you noted, i dont recall, i dont remember, or i dont know, 245 times. That is stunning since the fella wrote a book about all of this. Arthel garrett joins us live on what we are learning from the transcripts. This lasted for nearly seven hours. So they covered a lot of ground. A lot of questions focused on the genesis of the trumpet rush investigation. The fbi was looking at for individuals connected to the Trump Campaign for alleged collusion with the russians. We know two of those are former Campaign Advisors George Papadopoulos and carter page. Two possibilities are Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort. There is also questions about surveillance warrants and using the steel dossier to obtain those. Comey testified the information the dossier wa