and activating the national guard as the storms gutted entire communities. she spoke about the destruction earlier today. i have had the opportunity over the last couple of hours to speak with both the homeland security secretary as well as president biden, who have offered a tremendous amount of support anything that arkansas need from a city county state and federal perspective, i would say that everyone is working in total lockstep and we re going to do everything we can to make sure that people of our state are back on their feet again. and more devastation in several other states, including indiana and illinois. people are waking up to their homes and businesses destroyed their neighborhoods littered with debris. but the threat is far from over. some 70 million americans are now bracing for more severe storms. today cnn has teams tracking all of the latest developments from these destructive storms. derek van dam is in wynne, arkansas. at this hour. derek to you first. w
reading of the indictment in court. that s what i would do. that option would come in and say we waive reading and let s move him in and out. we ve got security that i mean, do you get that detail? would his attorneys trump and his attorneys get that kind of de detail before entering the court. or you would make that motion then and say, you know, i just don t want to hear anymore. we don t get the indictment. i think they ll get the indictment ahead of time. they ll have a chance to go over with the client. they can tell the judge we ve been through the indictment will waive formal reading of the indictment. we simply want to interrupt. we have not guilty and, you know, escort them to give us a trial date will move on. this lets them control the narrative, as opposed to sort of reporting hour after hour about the specific charges that are made in a diamond use. we didn t carry the or at least contain all the facts and every piece of evidence that was used to present to the grand jury.
out into the open. so u.s. officials say this is why it was notable because to allowed the two leaders to have a private moment to discuss a whole range of things without the chinese having to play for the press. but of course one phone call is not going to magically resolve all the issue and there are so many contentious issues, but it is likely that it will help set a new tone for not only the overall relationship but also working level meetings. and u.s. officials actually have become increasingly frustrated over the lack of substance and progress in their communications with their chinese counterparts and mr. biden apparently understands this very well. and that is one of the reasons he got on this call because with xi jinping s power, one word from him could instantly change how chinese diplomats conduct themselves. and it is during these working meetings where a lot of these things are being discussed in de detail. and so from washington s
back and also it helps when you re not so concerned about the facts getting in the way because their line is a complete lie. part of it is for democrats again to have our message and continue to hit it back because again, we have been hearing the republican message now for a week and part of it is to kind of go back to here s what we re talking about, here s what we would do, here s our vision. i do think the other challenge, though, obama has to be seen to lay out a vision for the next term at the same time because romney was so scant with details, obama can sort of highlight that by what he does de detail and i think it makes romney look like an empty suit up against someone like barack obama. yet are we going to hear anything specific from the president regarding what he might do in a second term? specific is such an interesting word. last night they promised specific. mitt romney says i have a five-point plan, these are my specifics. one, get to north american
one neutral observer said he was obfuscating when asked whether or not he would tend the bush era tax cuts to all brackets. one of the sharpest exchanges was the health care reform bill that president obama signed into law. one out of four democrats have gone on record saying that they oppose obamacare, they realize that we made a bad mistake, and what this bill does is it gives a massive government control over health care. uncle sam has no business coming into the examination room, coming between you and the doctor, and that s exactly what this bill does. that s a great slogan. you toss it around everywhere you go. reporter: on foxnews.com, i posted a lengthy writeup, analyzing the debate in some de detail detail, where the respective manners of the two candidates are concern, i concluded that christine o donnell comes off as the approachable girl in high school, cheerful, optimistic but not entirely confident of herself, and chris coons, with his somewhat dire