forward accusing fairfax of sexual assault. she says he raped her while they were both students. cnn reached out to the law firm representing this new woman as well as the office of the lieutenant governor. joining me is ryan nobles. what can you tell us about this new allegation? well, this is the worst case scenario who have been worried for a number of days that there was a possibility that another woman could come forward accusing the lieutenant governor of sexual assault. that s what happened this afternoon. the woman s name is meredith watson. she details an encounter with lieutenant governor that she describes as rape. she says they were friends during their time at duke university but never had a romantic relationship and she claims that the rape was aggress
broke. we don t know a ton about them just yet. frankly he called her a liar. he called her a liar and try today smear her. i think that s i know him. i love him as a brother. some times you have to take on your adversaries as well. it is also a tremendous consequence with 800,000 federal workers. are there indications it will take this deal or force a shutdown with a normal trump caveat? he has shown so little public faith to the work of this congressional committee. he called it a waste of time. to me it was a signal he is really seriously contemplating taking an executive action to build the wall. we reported a cnn waand washingn post they are nearing a deal. it s not final yet. perhaps about $2 billion in
medical center this afternoon for his yearly physical exam as he appears to show new flexibility on his demand for a border wall. i don t think anybody questions his legal authority to declare a national emergency. one week before the government is schedule today run out of money again sources tell cnn republicans and democrats in charge of hashing out a deal have traded proposals which so far have included around $2 billion for physical barriers, far below what trump demanded. we are asking for 5.6. it remains unclear if the president would accept the latest numbers. after meeting with him at the white house thursday he sounded hopeful. we had a good positive meeting is all i can tell you. congressional negotiators hope to reach a deal by tonight but now those talks will likely
arabia s crown prince is responsible for the murder of khashoggi. is the trump team the law? sources tell cnn they don t believe he set foot in the white house fitness room despite his doctor s orders to lose weight. why does he think working out would be a waste of his energy? i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we are following multiple stories including a house hearing with matt whitaker often unresponsive as democrats grilled him for almost six hours about the mueller investigation. he testified he hasn t talked about it with president trump or interfered in anyway. also breaking federal
violent murder of the washington post which bezos owns. the said dudis called it false. they got an electronic copy about three weeks before it came out. today a top saudi official says he has no idea with adding it is like a soap opera and told cnn as far as he knows the saudis did not press to push public stories. the biggest of which was the expose on the extramarital affair. they trump and pecker have a well documented history. the tabloid paying a so called catch and kill fee months before the 2016 election for her story about her alleged affair with trump. pecker then flipped cooperating