Good morning to warn and welcome to cnn this morning it is sunday, september 15. We just got into september and now on our way oh, my my gosh, time is like going like that by good to have you with us this sunday morning. Im Victor Blackwell and im Isabel Rosales in for Amara Walker well, the fight for Battleground States in heating up, Vice President Kamala Harris former President Donald Trump, and the respective Running Mates are set to crisscross the country in the final seven Weeks Sprint in the race for the white house. We are going in depth. Was the Moment Trump was asked about the Bomb Threats linked to Haitian American conspiracy you see theories in springfield, ohio and three americans including a purported Navy Seal, were arrested in venezuela in an alleged plot to assassinate the countrys president. What we know about the allegations and investigation ahead, we have that in a live report for you. And major Money Moves could happen this week as a Federal Reserve is poised, rol
Yet been released. The question is when will they come home, and what are we giving iran in return. Joining me now, National Security counsel coordinator for strategic communications, john kirby. Admiral, thank you very much for being with us. I know that we believe, the United States believes those imprisonments and trials and charges were not true. And were happy to have these individuals back. When will they be on a plane back and out of iran . I dont really know right now. Were still working out the details and parameters here about eventually securing their freedom, and when that will be, what that will look like. But we dont really know right now. Were just really happy that theyre out of evan prison because the conditions there were just intolerable. Theyre in house arrest, but still in iran. Theyre not home yet, and we still have a lot of work to do to get them there. Have we been in touch with them directly . Do we know what condition theyre . We have been in touch with them t
Its like an apocalypse. People are running for their lives. Wildfires, high wind, the danger we are looking at video in maui from raging wildfires on the island. Every single memory we had in that household, everything was gone in the blink of an eye. The most complete accounting yet can of the high life of Supreme Court Justice Clarence thomas shows much, much more than previously known. Its the idea that you are receiving gifts of this magnitude. Justice thomas has been living a life of extreme luxury for 30 years underwritten by at least four different ultra wealthy benefactors. Fulton County District attorney fani willis is expected to seek charges against more than a dozen people when she presents her case before a grand jury next week. Cnn has learned that willis received additional security protection. Its pathetic to think we have to have additional security because of a madeup fake narrative around an election. Its unfortunate and necessary. An Opposition Candidate in ecuadors
Likely. Were following the legal and political implications. Plus a warning to Donald Trumps legal team from the judge overseeing the election interference case, saying more inflammatory statements will require a quicker start to the trial. We are live outside the court. And the death toll as they have yet to even start searching the hundred of burned out buildings. Well take you live to maui. Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. Another controversial investigation that could have some pretty big repercussions for 2024 is escalating. Today a Special Counsel was designated in the federal probe of hunter biden. Attorney general Merrick Garland named david weiss to the role. Weiss has been leading this investigation. Yes, he has. Hes been leading the investigation into hunter biden for the past five years, in fact. This week he asked himself to be elevated to that role of Special Counsel. Were following that in realtime.
Products like coal and timber, but in not all restrictions have been restricted. Some remain on items like lobster and wine. I spoke to clive russell, who explains whats changed between beijing and canberra. The Centreleft Labor government was replacing the right wing government. That allowed a reset of relations between beijing and canberra which had been rocky. There had not been benefit for other party from the action china took. It cost china a lot of money to buy coal and barley from other places, so it wasnt really a win for them and it didnt hurt australia as far as australias miners were able to find alternate markets and didnt suffer that much at all. You said some tariffs remain but there are other sticking points in a relationship so is it possible they could go back to where they were or is a relationship on its way to recovery . China will always have difficulty with human rights and democratic freedoms and things like that. It is well understood by both sides who come fro