Cnn BreAking News you Are live in the Cnn Newsroom. Im Jim AcostA in wAshington. We begin this morning with BreAking News. The suspect in the second AppArent AssAssinAtion Attempt on former President DonAld Trump is About to AppeAr in FederAl Court. This lAtest incident hAppened while trump wAs golfing At his club in West PAlm BeAch, floridA, A secret Service Agent noticed the Gun Sticking for offense And fired At A mAn in the bushes who then fled the scene AfterwArd. OfficiAls found An Ak47 Style Rifle with A scope And mAteriAls for A bulletproof vest. This since the Suspect 58yeArold RyAn routh, he hAs posted extensively on SociAl MediA About his politicAl views, including his criticism of former President Trump in meAntime cnns Josh CAmpbell And cArlos suArez, they Are covering All of this for us. They hAve new informAtion on this lAtest AssAssinAtion Attempt. I wAnt to begin outside with cArlos, outside FederAl Court in West PAlm BeAch, floridA. We expect the suspect to be there so
In as many questions as possible. It is my great pleasure to introduce todays speaker, philip gordon. He is a senior fellow at the u. S. Foreign policy here at cfr. For joining the council fill a special assistant to the president and white house coordinator for the middle east, north africa in the gulf region under president obama. He previously served the assistant secretary of state for european affairs. He is responsible for the relations of more than 50 countries in europe and eurasia along with nato, eu, and the organization for security and cooperation in europe. Phil has also had a distinguished scholarly career having written and coauthored numerous books on u. S. Policy and foreign affairs. Today we are here to recognize his newest book, losing the long game, the false promise of regine change in the middle east. Former u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Powers hails it as an examination of u. S. Regime change efforts in the middle east. The journalist robin whit
Is next on our list with 11 Electoral College votes to joe biden were also looking at new jersey i believe new jersey is our next state with 14 and then one more for the blue column at this stage it is rhode island with 4 so a bunch of blue states there projected for joe biden and a bunch of red states for donald trump 9 in alabama go to donald trump the state of mississippi as well with its 6 is with donald trump as is oklahoma with its 7 we will also look cat 10 a see 11 Electoral College votes will go to donald trump there as well so we can really going to be able to build the board up in a moment as well. We have gone to the district of columbia to bring in and that is to call it the stage actually but again that would be expected blue later on maine is too early to call with its 4 and remember those are not winner take all they would be split between the candidates possibly missouri is another state which is too early to call at this stage with its 10 Electoral College votes as is
The race to the point. Can trump survive these historic sent back until the job probably of what it takes to beat. Special coverage on just. A punishment or a redeployment the u. S. Decision to remove Patriot Missile batteries from saudi arabia is making the kingdoms leadership nervous they were supposed to protect riyadh from iran so whats changed and this poil politics at play this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im peter dalby the United States is removing its patriot and t. M. Missiles and other Weapons Systems from saudi arabia the us president on the trump says its part of an effort to scale back on a military presence that he says doesnt benefit the u. S. American weapons and fighter jets were sent to the kingdom last year after Saudi Aramco Oil facilities were attacked they were also intended as a deterrent as tensions rose between tehran and washington but the reduction in the u. S. Military presence is believed by some to be based on assessments iran no long
A punishment or a redeployment a u. S. Decision to remove Patriot Missile batteries from saudi arabia is making the kingdoms leadership nervous they were supposed to protect riyadh from iran so whats changed and this poil politics at play this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im peter dubey the United States is removing its patriot and t. M. Missiles and other Weapons Systems from saudi arabia the us president on will trump says its part of an effort to scale back on a military presence that he says doesnt benefit the u. S. American weapons and fighter jets were sent to the kingdom last year after Saudi Aramco Oil facilities were attacked they were also intended as a deterrent as tensions rose between tehran and washington but the reduction in the u. S. Military presence is believed by some to be based on assessments iran no longer poses an immediate threat to u. S. Strategic interests when asked about the decision President Trump stayed away from giving specific detai