Facing. This is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is your new day. It is monday, january 15th, 6 00 in new york. Alisyn is off. The one and only poppy harlow here. Thank you. Did you see the vikings last night . I did. A long time agonizing vikings fan. Is this your year . Yes, it is. Lets start with this. President trump declaring he is not a racist. He has a credibility problem. He is denying he referred to haiti and other nations using the shole word. Ive said the word enough. You know what he said. He clearly expressed a presence from brown people from hardhit countries. Now we have this sickening coverup with lawmakers in the oval office disagreeing with what was said. Some republicans first said they couldnt recall. Now they say they do recall and the president never said that. Please, dont be distracted. No one denies the comparison he made, the preference he stated. And that is the problem. The p
Investigation. The reality now dawning on the president and his legal team that trump would almost certainly be a target of that probe, if not for muellers apparent belief that a sitting president cannot be indicted. Those issues as well as questions of whether a president can be forced to comply with a subpoena could become the most significant matters on the Supreme Court docket during trumps presidency. Especially if trumps attorney Rudolph Giuliani gets his way. Will they subpoena him . Will it be a sconce toogsal fight . If so i think we win it. What happens if, for example, what happens if mueller decides he wants to take this all the way and subpoena the president of the United States . Well, we go to the Supreme Court and we find out if he can. Never been decided. If confirmed in a process that begins tuesday, judge kavanaugh would replace Anthony Kennedy who was known as the swing vote. Now kavanaugh could shift the Supreme Court toward trump on cases against him and several d
Here in new york day 634 of the Trump Administration, and the president is trying to keep the focus on his administration Hurricane Michael recovery effort, while capitalizing on his successes last week, as the midweeks approach. Yet International Outrage over the disappearance of a saudi journalist for the Washington Post has become the latest crisis for this white house. Jamal khashoggi also pronounced khashogg has been missing since entering the saudi consulate in istanbul, turkey, nearly two weeks ago he was never seen alive again. Turkish Authorities Say they are convinced he was murdered there. The sa tonight, nbc news is reporting d saudi arabias government now is discussing a plan that he was killed in the consulate, according to three people with l knowledge of the situation, andh we, quote, according to two of the individuals, the saudis are, putting together an explanation that would absolve crown prince mbs, mohammed bin salman, the punitive leader of saudi arabia, of respo
Secretary of state mike pompeo met with President Trump earlier this morning to brief him on his meetings with saudis and turks. He suggested waiting until the saudis complete their own investigation before jumping to any conclusions, wln to this. I told President Trump this morning that we ought to give them a few more days to complete that so that we, too, have a complete understanding of the facts surrounding that so we can make decisions about how or if the United States should respond to the incident surrounding mr. Khashoggi. Joining us are pamela brown. Pamela, secretary pompeo saying to wait and see, yet snooupd mn pulling out of the summit. What is the thinking at the white house . Weve learned from speaking to white house officials that there were a number of factors that were at play in deciding to pull mnuchin out of the saudi arabia conference. Chief among them was the fact that his european counterparts, particularly in france as well as the uk decided to pull out. So the
People were shot and killed in pittsburgh as they prayed. And last night two people were murdered in florida. The same state where the parkland shooting happened earlier this year. Kron correspondent Diane Gallagher has the latest. This was at a yoga studio, a class practicing hot yoga in tallahassee, florida. A gunman came in and shot five people and pistol whipped another before police say they believe he turned the gun on himself. Two of the women he shot died. 61yearold and a 21yearold. Authorities have identified the shooter as a 40yearold, scott beerley. They dont know the connection to the yoga studio at all. They know he went in and began shooting and that the women inside, students of yoga tried to fight back. Again, he did pistol whip one of the students as well. According to authorities three of the victims have been released from the hospital, the other two remain in stable condition. At the time, Andrew Gillum on the campaign trail, democratic candidate for governor in flo