He refused, threatened to resign and thats when President Trump backed down ultimately deciding not to fire the Special Counsel. But again, were seeing this new point of frustration from President Trump with these new attacks. Again, the most direct at robert mueller. The backdrop is important to point out. A few days ago, the president s former Attorney Michael Cohen spoke to a number of sources who then told cnn that he was ready to testify to the Special Counsel that President Trump approved that june 2016 meeting between russian nationals and his son donald trump jr. And other members of his campaign. So the president responding to that coverage. He also tweeted angrily at the media today we should point out. Yes, he did. He tweeted all over the place. Boris sanchez in new jersey where the president just head back to the white house. Thank you. A lot to discuss on this sunday evening. Joining us now is cnns senior
political analyst and Senior Editor for The Laatlantic and Washingto
some of them perhaps believable, some of them kind of crazy. rick gillespie obsessed about this mystery for 30 years. he now says with confidence case closed. i can t wait to hear all about it. what happened to amelia earhart and what is your effort? well, the case is closed but we re not finished with the investigation by any means. we have been, as you said, work forg working for 30 years. we have evidence from various sources that point to the same conclusion. here s what we think happened. the red line on the map behind me represents amelia s intended route to the island. she had trouble finding the island. in the last radio message she was heard to say while she was in flight, she said she was running on a line represented by the blue line. that line led her to another island. at that time it was gardener
island. there is an abundance of evidence she did lant there. artifacts that we found there. and radio signals that were sent from there and widely heard and believed. and bones that were found there in 1940, three years after she disappeared, that those bones now disappeared but the measurements taken were analyzed by world famous forensic anthropologist earlier this year who concluded that there is a better than 99% chance that the cast away of gardener island was amelia earhart. we re confident that we know what happened to her. the latest information that i read about this week was that the distressed calls seem to be a key piece of evidence. how so? that s right. that s right. we just released a new study of the radio distress calls that were heard for at least five
there was a plane wreckage site found about 800 miles off the coast, but that plane turned out to be the wrong plane. in 2010 way over here on gardener island they found bones and artifacts that may or may not have wronged to amelia earhart and her navigator. the bones were inconclusive. well, now over here 2,000 miles away on gardener island, look what at what a marine surveyor found. this is a picture, right? we re going to kind of circle what we re talking about. if you zoom in on that picture, what it is they believe might be the strut, right? the landing gear and the strut of amelia earhart s lockheed martin plane. keep in mind, they can t just go out there and check it out because the water levels vary so much, that strut can be underwater for months and months at a time, so in july they re going to search to see if they can find it. what they believe happened is that she may have crash landed, made it out of the plane and then got to gardener island and
they have lines you can call in before you take your kids on a trip. get me up to speed on the elderly. didn t they change? they did. we re talking limited screening, too. people over 75 at a couple of airports, four, can keep their shoes on, a light jacket, they can go through the metal detector or screening device to try to avoid that pat-down. this is part of eliminating the pools of risk as the tsa calls it. a kinder, gentler trip for the rest of us. thanks so much, lizzie. it s the top of the hour. i m ashley banfield. time to get you up to speed. several big developments in the investigation into the florida teenager trayvon martin. that case is going to a grand jury in seminole county, florida. and the department of justice and the fbi have opened up their own investigation into this case. last hour the martin family attorney said the teenager was on the phone with his girlfriend just before he was shot. the dots have all been connected. arrest george zimmerman