long as they want and he can t interve intervene. he has said to the jury on a number of occasions, if there s something going on, anything you want to tell me, you re being harassed, if there s tension, it s uncomfortable, they can tell him and then he can intervene and perhaps in some way move the process of coming to a decision more quickly. the other big point i want to make, remember, a lot of people out there have heard all the other allegations about bill cosby over the past couple years and they re wondering why this is taking so long for them to come to a decision of guilty. this is about one case, a case of 2004, andrea constand. there was a sexual encounter. cosby says it was consensual. she says it was assault. all those other cases having in to do with what was going on in the kroo. there was only one other alleged victim allowed to testify. that s another recent case or fairly recent case. the others, too much time has
incident. we don t know. parisians may not change how they live their lives, but akroo across the board, travel is down. people are concerned. i want to take you from paris to london back to d.c. a lot is happening in the white house this morning. in fact, right now, we are learning that president trump is meeting with national security adviser h.r. mcmaster. we know they are meeting. they re discussing a lot. they have a lot to cover. not just the comey testimony tomorrow. h.r. mcmaster in his national security position, he has a deep understanding of these risks. it is important for the president to sort of i know if you re mcmaster, he wants the president to stay centered and calm and not lash out like we ve been seeing. and not tweet until you know what s going on. but the president will be because he is with hr mcmaster, being briefed on this situation we re watching. the difficulty of things like this is we don t know. could be an isolated attack at notre dame. today, even
schuette says he is making sure the people of flint are not forgotten. there are some, i know, who simply wish that the problems of flint would just go quietly away. and there are voices out there that hope that the poison iing the water in flint could be swept under the rug. well that s not how i operate. that s not how we operate. flint deserves better. and the people of flint are not expendable. so to move on is unacceptable. people in positions of responsibility who broke the law must be held accountable. that announcement from yesterday brings the total number of officials who ve been charged in connection with this water kroo i sis to 13. officials in texas say planned parenthood will no longer receive funding from the state medicaid program. according to a legal notice obtained by the texas tribune the organization s medicaid funds will be cut in 30 days.
i m jack tapper. our politics lead yesterday you might recall i asked if you thought there were enough republicans running for president. you said that there with not enough. and voila, i told you that carly fee rethat and dr. ben carson threw their hats into the ring. do you think there are enough republicans running? still not enough? okay. fine. today mike huckabee heard your call. huk announced his candidacy in his hometown of hope arkansas. hope was the hallmark of huckabee s 30-minute speech where he laid out his kroo teak of the obama administration. we were promised hope but it was just talk. and now we need the kind of change that really could get america from hope to higher ground. let s bring in cnn s chief congressional correspondent dana bash and jeff zel zel la any.
center. family members of people on board. we know there were gem mans on board, spaniards on board as well. they haven t given us a full list of passengers or the nationalities that were on board. we re expecting some kind of press release from them in literally the next few moments. so far no further confirmation either of why that german wings flight may have left around half an hour late from barcelona s terminal 2 airport. it was due to leave, we re told around 9:30 local time and didn t leave until just after 10:00 local time. the weather has been bad in the barcelona region for a number of days now, but no indication at this stage whether weather was a factor in the delayed departure. but as i say, expecting a press release any moment now. in fact, i see the lady now heading towards us with a printed press release. if you are able to hold on that may give us some additional