Hello again. Thank you for joining me. Im fredricka whitfield. We begin with breaking news. A federal judge now ruling former National Security adviser john boltons book can hit store shelves blocking a Trump Administration push to stop its release. This as another legal faceoff is unfolding. U. S. Attorney general bill barr making a latenight announcement that Southern District of new york prosecutor Jeffrey Berman would be stepping down. But berman is disputing the claim saying he has no intentions of leaving. Bermans office has been in charge of prosecuting several of President Trumps allies. All of this just hours before the president takes the stage in tulsa, oklahoma, for his first rally in months. Crowds of people cramming together for his appearance, even as Health Officials warn it could turn into a super spreader event. Lets start with Kristen Holmes at the white house. President trump already lashing out over the bolton book release. Unsurprisingly doing so on twitter. First
Supposed to be speaking. There does not seem to be an overflow crowd on the outside. Six members of Donald Trumps staff have been taken ill or tested positive for coronavirus including two members of the secret service. According to nbc reporting they have been on the ground in oklahoma for a few days not social distancing and not wearing masks. I want to go to cal perry real quickly outside the bok arena to give me a sense of what is happening there. Reporter so we moved into the street, the one we were next to. On this end you have a very small contingent of black lives matter protesters along with the Trump Supporters who chose not to go into the arena. On the other side you now have a very large crowd of Trump Supporters waiting to get into the arena. They have shut the gate because we believe the president is arriving. That is standard procedure at these rallies. When the president arrives, they shut that gate. What happened a couple hours ago . There was a small contingent of bla
And his allies, putting his former personal lawyer in prison and investigating his current one. Well get to that ongoing saga, the conflicting versions of events today from trump and his own Justice Department, and questions surrounding what on earth could have precipitated such an extraordinary 24 hours of maneuvering. But well start in tulsa with the breaking news today. Nbc news has learned that six members of trumps team who worked on the preparations for tonights maga rally tested positive for coronavirus. At least two of them are members of the United States secret service. The Trump Campaign saying that quarantine procedures were immediately implemented, and a source familiar with the matter telling nbc news that Contact Tracing has already begun. But the source adds that the advance team has been on the ground in tulsa for about a week, that most of them havent been wearing masks, and that they were going out to restaurants and engaging with the tulsa community. This comes as o
Day 445 of the Trump Administration brings a bombshell that one trump confidante conceded was a true cause for alarm for the president. Today the fbi raided the Manhattan Office and hotel room of Michael Cohen. Hes Donald Trumps longtime personal lawyer and fixer, the man who paid porn star Stormy Daniels 130,000 in hush money. The New York Times broke the story late this afternoon. The washington soon followed. They both report that some of the materials seized in that raid is related to the payment to Stormy Daniels, but also that documents related to other topics as well as communications between cohen and his clients were taken. The Washington Post reports that cohens computer, his phone, and personal financial records were confiscated in the search of his law office and that hes, quote, under federal investigation for possible bank fraud, wire fraud, and Campaign Finance violations according to a person with knowledge of the case. The president was not happy about any of it. Sourc
Mueller, himself . Yeah. Fascinating day, gloria borger, appreciate it. More on the president s reaction tonight at the white house. Cnns jim acosta is there. Joins us now. Jim, just if you can just refresh our viewers on what the president said about these fbi raids. Reporter well, anderson, before i do that, i just want to tell you, i just got off the phone with a source familiar with everything thats been going on at the white house today who said that the president did not hear about this as we all heard about this earlier today when the news broke, that according to the source familiar with the situation over here, the president was informed of this raid on Michael Cohens offices by one of his aides earlier on in the day, and that these conversations as to what the president should do and how he should respond, that those conversations have been going on all day long. That we can tell you just some new information coming in to us here at cnn. Now, in terms of what the president sa