Just one day. Thats how many online sales alibaba racked up, setting a new world record. Wow. 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. The cnn newsroom starts right now. At 3 01 on the u. S. East coast, we start in the state of california. Entire communities there have been burned to the ground. Take a look at this map. It shows the fires affecting both the northern and southern parts of the state. Many people will still unaccounted for. The death toll continues to rise. At least 31 people have died in the camp and woolsey fires so far. Take a look at this. Terrifying scenes when the campfire first sparked up in Northern California thursday. At least 29 people have died as a result of that fire, tying it for the deadliest fire in the states history. Its already taking the record for the states most destructive. In Southern California, the woolsey fire forced more than 200,000 people
What do you want to say the americans we have about 30 more seconds. 90 seconds. President trump im justsi honored because no matter where i go, it n is the same way. It is not just in ohio or indiana or just in missouri, i am so honored by it. There is something going on and it reminds me of two years ago when i knew something was going on and you knew it, by the way, and people that were with us knew it. They were looking at each other. I will never forget, twot antireporters looking at each other, as i t was making a spee, 32,000 people, that was a great time and i think this is going to be a great time. Sean election day, i actually called you, i said, you will get bad news at about 5 30, 5 15 p. M. That afternoon. You lost florida, pennsylvania, michigan, and wisconsin. And you won them, all. Poles dont mean anything. President trump i lost them based on fake news. Sean fake news. President trump two hours later, when they counted the votes, we won very easily. Sean the home of Ru
President S Immigration czar. We begin right now with breaking news. Cnn learning that special counsel Robert Muellers team is hesitant about him testifying publicly in front. House Judiciary Committee. Thats according to sources familiar with the matter. Now their concern is that mueller himself doesnt want to appear political after remaining behind the scenes while conduct his investigation for the last two years. Laura jarrett is at the department of justice and joins me right now. If mueller is reluctant to testify publicly, i guess one of the Big Questions now is what are some. Other options open to congress . Well, one of the options on the table, phil, is to have him testify behind closed doors, either in full or in part in some way, but big question is whether the democrats on the house skwlkt go for that. They have been eagerly talking about bringing him in. Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, jerry nadler, has talked about subpoenaing him if necessary, but we havent seen tha
Speaker nancy pelosi from democrats in her own party, democrats eager to start impeachment proceedings against this president. For now she is standing firmly against that. I know youve heard this word a lot, maybe getting sick of it, subpoena, but subpoenas do matter, part of the constitution, congressional powers to check the executive. That message jumping off the pages of a brand new ruling from a d. C. Federal judge rejecting the president s bid to stop his former Accounting Firm from turning over documents to the House Oversight committee, this is key in an Ongoing Investigation of the investigation. Manu raju is on capitol hill this morning. Lets start with mcgahn, the white House Counsel. What happens next with his absence and why is the panel so focused on getting him to testify under oath . Reporter well, he is a key witness who was a part of the administration for the first two years, a key witness in the mueller investigation, someone who spent 30 hours talking to the specia
Analyst. And abby phillip, white house correspondent. Rachel, give us color of what transpired behind closed doors, where the democrats began in a heated debate about impeachment. Yesterday was sort of a Tipping Point for a lot of House Judiciary Committee members, when they got news the white house was not going to allow don mcgahn to appear for testimony he was scheduled to give this morning at 10 00 a. M. Another example of stonewalling from the white house. They were fed up. In their traditional monday night leadership meeting, four House Judiciary Committee members, who are also part of pelosis Leadership Team, confronted her about this and said, look, its time to begin an impeachment inquiry. Itd help us get the documents, the witnesses, the testimony that the white house has been stonewalling. Pelosi and leadership, they basically pushed back. Pelosi said that if we do this, it could undercut other investigations were seeing in the house. There was some concern that voters dont