The next president of the United States on wednesday. Cnns Shimon Prokupecz is up on capitol hill for us. Cnns Jeremy Diamond is over at the white house. Shimon, we get more information about the arrest of the virginia man. What it says about the scope of the potential threat here in the nations capitol. Update our viewers. Reporter yeah, certainly, wolf, it does do that. This man was trying to enter a zone and according to our cnn reporters is that when he tried to enter the zone, he was not authorized. Secret service, Law Enforcement police checked against a list and when they looked at the list, his name wasnt on the list, so he wasnt authorized to enter. What then happened was they found that he had a weapon in his car, a gun. A 9 millimeter glock and as you said, over 500 rounds of ammunition. So he was arrested and does not appear right now, at least, that its unclear what kind of threat he potentially posed. We dont really have much more information on what he was doing in the a
This is the cbs weekend news. Oliver good evening, im meg oliver, with a western edition of the broadcast. 21gun salutes will fire in cubas largest cities monday as the islandnation begins a weeklong, choreographed farewell to its longtime leader fidel castro. The communist dictator who wore his animosity towards america as long as his trademark beard died friday at the age of 90. Manuel bojorquez is in havana. Meg, cubans are grieving today as the death of fidel castro has started to set in. While a diswissiv divisive figu, here on this caribbean island, he was loved by many. As flags flew at half staff over havana, some cubans couldnt hold back their tears. No podemo. Victor manuel he felt he had lost a patriarch. The father of our family, the father of the revolution he said. Havanas normally bustling revolution plaza was quiet. Workers were busy preparing for two days of tributes to the dictator who led the country for half a century. Thousands of cubans will pay their respects in
American people will not pay for the wall. And ive made that clear to the government of mexico. The president of mexico and myself have agreed to cancel our planned meeting scheduled for next week. Unless mexico is going to treat the United States fairly, with respect, such a meeting would be fruitless and i want to go a different route. We have no choice. That was mr. Trump. Lets go straight to mexico city to layla santiago, can you tell us more what the president was thinking and if in fact this was a mutual decision . Reporter i can tell you that the mexican president is not backing down from his stance either. He too is saying were not paying for the wall either. Let me back up to explain how we got to where we are right now. Yesterday a group of senators called for the president to cancel this meeting after President Trump announced that he would be signing the executive orders to move forward with this wall as the foreign minister and the economic minister from mexico were on the
Investigation. Gina haspel not only offering to withdraw her nomination, but coming up with a backup plan if gina haspel falters this week. The Iran Nuclear Deal in the coming days. Newly reported accusations that trump aides hired private israeli spies to look into obama officials in efforts to undermine the deal. All that coming up, but first, President Trump came out swinging today against the russia investigation and the special counsel Robert Mueller. With the deadline this week to decide on the Iran Nuclear Deal and the upcoming summit with north korea, the president instead seems focused right now on attacking investigators, tweeting this the russia witch hunt is rapidly losing credibility. House Intelligence Committee found no collusion, coordination or anything else where russia. The 13 angry democrats in charge of the russia witch hunt are starting to find out that there is a court system in place that actually protects people from injustice, and just wait till the courts get
Documents regarding events that took place before the president became president. They cant have a privilege when he wasnt president. Vast categories win applicable to the privilege here so they are just stonewalling. Cnns Jeremy Diamond is at the white house for us. Another big week of subpoenas and deadlines for the Trump Administration and how might it all play out . Reporter thats right. The battle is certainly continuing between the white house and capitol hill, House Democrats who are issuing and handling a string of investigations into this administration, issuing subpoenas as well. This week we have a couple of key dates to look forward to. On tuesday a federal judge is expected to rule in theous overnight committees subpoena for financial records from the president s former Accounting Firm and then on friday that deadline that you mentioned for the Treasury Department and the irs to submit those tax returns, the president s tax returns to the house ways and means. As of now th