East coast, President Donald Trump has a busy week ahead of him. On monday hes expected to take questions from reporters in a joint News Conference with the visiting Prime Minister of italy. Mr. Trump will likely be asked about his latest twitter rant against the Special Counsel, Robert Mueller. The president now claiming mueller has multiple Conflicts Of Interest in the russia investigation. In addition to that, there are still questions about the tapes the president s former attorney just released as well as mr. Trumps threat to shut down the government to get funding for his border wall that he said mexico would pay for but in fact he means the taxpayers will pay for. Cnns Boris Sanchez is traveling with the president , or he was in new jersey. He has more on mr. Trumps twitter tirade. Thats hard to say. Reporter cnn has reached out to the white house to get clarity on specifically what President Trump was referencing when he mentioned Business Conflicts with the Special Counsel Rob
With the coronavirus spreading the World Health Organization now calling the global threat level very high. And the u. S. President accusing democrats of a new hoax for criticizing his response to the crisis, as new Community Spread cases pop up across the United States. And we are just hours for what many hope could be the beginning of the end of americas longest war. We are live from cnn World Headquarters in atlanta. We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Im george howell. Im natalie allen, cnn newsroom starts right now. At 5 01 here on the u. S. East coast, surging coronavirus cases are prompting a new warning from the World Health Organization, saying the global outbreak has reached the level of highest level of risk now. That is meant to be a wakeup call for governments to prepare. Do you have the cavity at your hospitals . Have you got the ventilators . Have you got the staff ready . Have you got back up teams, because your staff are g
When the u. S. Senate reconvenes next week, it will take up new legislation to help americans impacted by the coronavirus. That bill easily passed the u. S. House a few hours ago. It aims to offset the unexpected costs caused by the pandemic spread in the u. S. We thought it would be important to show the american people, assure the american people, that we are willing and able to work together, to get a job done for them. So we thank our republicans the, who will be supporting the bill, we appreciate the president joining us with his tweet, but we are very excited about the prospect. Cnns manu raju explains whats in the bill and how locks were able to pull it together so quickly reporter after two eye days of intense negotiation between speaker of the house nancy pelosi and Steven Mnuchin a bipartisan deal was reached about the coronavirus all throughout the country. The legislation would deal with people who would need to get tested for this virus. It would assure that people wouldnt
Focusing on immigration and security as well as visas and refugees in the days going forward. Talking about terrorprone countries, syria and elsewhere, of course that he talked about in the campaign so much as well. First he made a claim to ban all muslims. That then he scaled that back somewhat. We are told this will be a scaledback version of that, focusing on refugees. That is expected to come later in the week. Today, the focus is on border security. Building that wall with mexico. The question is who will pay for it. The Campaign Rally anthem was always mexico will pay for it. Well, of course, we know mexico, the government said they will not pay for it. The u. S. Government will foot the bill and ask for a reimbursement as it goes through the week trying to get through all of the Top Priorities signing the executive actions to get his first 100 days quickly under way. John and christine. Theres more there. The border wall, the immigration positions jeff just mentioned. And execut
Joint u. S. South korean naval drills are under way against the backdrop of escalated tensions with the north. North korean state media is calling u. S. President donald trump a war merchant and a strangler of peace. And pyongyang says the military exercises create a hair trigger situation on the korean peninsula. The u. S. Secretary of state tells cnn no matter the rhetoric, the white house does prefer diplomacy. I think he does want to be clear with kim jong un and that regime in north korea that he has military preparations ready to go. And he has the military options on the table. And we have spent substantial time actually perfecting those. But be clear, the president is also made clear to me that he wants this solved diplomatically. He is not seeking to go to war. He has made it clear to me to continue my diplomatic efforts, which we are, and as ive told others, those diplomatic efforts will continue until the first bomb drops. In the meantime, iran is threatening to halt unannou