A recap of the days news. Worthwhile listening to. I appreciate it, chris. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. A big show ahead. Not only is one of the president s long time friends flipping on him. He had a secret safe full of evidence. Donald trumps friends name is david pecker. David pecker is a publisher of the National Inquirer, granted immunity by the feds. He knew about Donald Trumps Hush Money Payments to silence women who said they had sexual encounters with trump. A friend of the president is telling vanity fair, and i quote, holy sh and you can guess the rest. This is more bad news for this white house. The bare knuckle tabloid
reportedly kept a safe pull of documents on Hush Money Payments and stories it killed, thats according to the associated press. So just days after trumps former fixer and keeper of secrets Michael Cohen flipped on him, were learning that david pecker has flipped too. Can you imagine whats going through the president s mind right now . Is it any wonder
The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. That conversation obviously referencing david pecker, as well. We reached out for comment and we havent heard back just yet. Thanks so much. Lets chat about this with our experts. Another ally of the president s talking to authorities, the walls seem to be closing in a bit. It gives an indication of why the document was so thorough. They had the cooperation of david pecker. We dont know what more that means, how much and what other Information Pecker has that cohen wasnt aware of. A trump friend reportedly told vanity fair quote holy s, i thought pecker would be the last one to turn. I have to say this is a powerful guy and the fact that he is cooperating with authorities i
find it is hard to believe he is doing it out of the goodness of his heart. It almost makes you think they put their pressure on david pecker. He is a powerful guy. He is covered as a media organization. You could put up
It will be at the law school at nyu. Are you familiar with the idea of senioritis, like what happens to you when you have already figured out what you are going to do over the summer, maybe even next year and, yeah, you are still at school but you kind of have checked out . Today the eagle eyed cnn Robert Muellers office stakeout team caught Andrew Weissman showing up to work today in something unexpe unexpected. Seen wearing a tan suit to work today. The New York Times then tweeted this photo of andrew wi weissman picking up lunch today in washington, d. C. Looks pretty close to a tan suit. It is possible that Andrew Weissman was just celebrating the first day of spring today. It is also possible that this is senioritis. But in any case, you do you, Andrew Weissman. I know that people get upset about tan suits. I think that looks nice on you. Now it is time for the last word they dont just get upset about it. Do you remember when this was a week long scandal when barack obama wore a t
Now, turning attention to the ron johnson letter if i may. Yes. On august 31st, Senator Johnson is getting ready to travel to ukraine on September 5th with senator murphy. And he wanted johnson wanted the aid released, he calls the president , he actually sought permission to be the bearer of good news. Right. The president said, im not ready to lift the aid. And they had this Senator Johnson. He writes a ten page letter, very detailed. And he gives some remarkable deta detail. And id like to read it, its on page 6. I add this is Senator Johnson speaking, i asked him whether there was some kind of arrangement where ukraine would take some action and the hold would be lifted. Without hesitation Senator Johnson says, President Trump immediately denied such an arrangement existed. And he started cursing. And he said no way, President Trump said no way, i would never do that. Who told you that . And Senator Johnson goes on to say that President Trumps reaction here was adamant, vehement an
Democrats battle to take back the white house . We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I am wolf blitzer. Youre in the Situation Room. We are following major breaking news. House democrats drop the hammer, launching a formal Impeachment Inquiry as the outrage over the president s ukraine phone call reaches critical mass. Nancy pelosi making the announcement awhile ago, accusing President Trump of betraying the nation by asking ukraine to help them hurt his potential 2020 opponent, joe biden. Tonight, the president is firing back in familiar fashion, calling the impeachment probe a witch hunt. He failed trying to calm the controversy by releasing transcripts of a phone call tomorrow. All this as the person behind the whistleblower complaint that
set the scandal in motion wants to speak directly with congress. The House Intelligence Committee chairman says that could happen as soon as this week. Our correspondents, analysts, guests are standing biy as w