Diplomat. Cnns dan merica is not far from the maralago estate. Break down what this reporting means. Its really hard to believe, frankly, that George Papadopoulos, according to the New York Times, is really what set off this investigation. According to the New York Times and a story that is out today, George Papadopoulos was boasting in a bar in london to an australian top diplomat that the russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton. Two months later, when emails began to be appearing nline, that damaged Hillary Clintons 2016 campaign, those Australian Authorities passed along information that, according to the New York Times, set off the investigation into possible collusion between russia and the Trump Campaign. Now, why is this groundbreaking . Its groundbreaking because George Papadopoulos was somewhat of a bit player in the campaign. But the dismissals by republicans when George Papadopoulos name cropped up, this report throws some cold water on those on those dismissals. A number of T
All right. So theres the photoop. We know theyll hold a meeting in a little while at maralago, have dinner tonight. This is a twoday visit for Prime Minister abe. Well keep our eyes on maralago. Also watching closely for this ntsb briefing set to begin in mere minutes about what happened on board of that southwest flight 1308, took off from laguardia airplane, bound for dallas. That plane right there, still sitting on that philadelphia tarmac at the Philadelphia International airport. A woman weve learned is in Critical Condition after passengers say they were cruising along at altitude when they heard a loud explosion and the cabin became violently depressurized, shrapnel, portions of the jets left engine as it apparently blew up somehow came flying up, hit the fuselage, smashed into a passengers window. Weve spotlighted it here we go. Back to maralago. Actually, even before becoming president , its a, very very special country, special place with a very, very extraordinary leader. So
He kicked off his eightstate rally with election day just six days away. We have chief correspondent and special appearance today by john king. Welcome to you, sir. And here to discuss more on the breaking news this afternoon, cara scannel. President trump is blaming don meghan for the moral probe. So tell me what he said. In this final encounter between don meghan, he was focused on this cloud over the presidency. Meghan didnt appoint Robert Mueller but he did cooperate with his investigation. He met with him multiple times, answering questions about muellers desire to fire Robert Mueller himself, to want to pressure Jeff Sessions to recuse himself. So this kind of is part of this big tumultuous relationship that has continued between these men despite meghan getting two Supreme Court justices on the bench for trump. A weird way to end this relationship with mueller fixated on the investigation while hes having his final goodbye chat with meghan. John, you heard her sort of explanatio
House saying about his next steps . Reporter brooke, this is the most important part of a process that has taken many weeks of negotiation between republicans and democrats. Will the president actually sign this compromise that has been come to as of last night and what were hearing from a white house official and even from some of the president s allies on capitol hill is that they believe the president is likely to sign this bill . What else he might do is not exactly clear and whether or not he will make his decision known publicly is also not clear, but the president is clearly unhappy with what hes getting out of this. Its less than he would have gotten about a month and a half ago had he taken what the house and the senate had agreed to and passed but he rejected at the last minute and its less than the 5. 7 billion that he originally wanted. What is been happening behind the scenes here at the white house for several weeks now are preparations for President Trump to potentially
Hell have to serve. Thats after judge t. S. Eliot gave manafort 47 months for financial crimes last week in virginia. Now, manaforts attorney spoke just after todays sentencing as critics nearly drowned him out. Watch. Very sad thats not what she said liar sentence that is totally unnecessary. Manaforts attorney there calling it a very sad day. Cnns Kara Scannell and pamela brown are both outside the federal courthouse in washington where manafort just learned of his new punishment. Pamela, lets start with the sentencing, today, then well move on to the new charges hes facing. How did judge jackson arrive at this sentence . Do we know . Well, it was really a dressing down of manafort and his legal team by judge jackson. She did, at times, try to be balanced. She said at one point, look, manafort is not public enemy number one, hes also not the victim here. But she clearly stated time and time again that she did not buy in to Paul Manaforts arguments, that he, you know, accepted respons