Holiday. The president bushed hard for it last night and middleclass tax cut that would put 4,000 into the pockets of middleclass families. One more for you. The Justice Department is confronting 7 sanctuary cities, obey federal law or lose federal funds. Last chance. With all these policy statements, whats going on with your money . Stocks will open slightly lower. Lets not forget after hitting the 56th record on wednesday the dow is just 127 points away from 23,000. We say it every day, could you believe this . Varney company is about to begin. Stuart the news from Northern California is grim, the fire still rage through wine country. 23 now dead. 3,500 homes and businesses damaged and the fire has burned, now 170,000 acres, its a very human tragedy. The fires concentrated around the vineyards. Ashley, do we have any handle of the Wine Industry . Extremely difficult to figure out what damage has been done to wineries. Two things, theres the wineries and vineyards, five win ris, the b
It looked like the trump tellall fiction at the bookstore might need another shelf. Donald trump will do anything and everything within which to win. The president s former attorney, Michael Cohens memoir, disloyal, coming out on tuesday. President trump and his loyalists are strongly pushing back on the atlantics report rg that he insulted americas war dead. Now a former Senior Administration official is confirming the story. Personally and institutionally, its deeply troublesome. Beautiful shot there of the statue of liberty as the sun is coming up on this sunday morning, september 6th. Good to know that youre with us today. Makes us feel good. Thank you for being here. Im christi paul. Im Martin Savidge in for victor blackwell. Breaking news from overnight. 224 people have been rescued from the raging wildfires in california. But more could still be stranded. At least a dozen people have suffered serious injuries from the creek fire thats burning north of fresno and the Sierra Natio
Campaign between Donald Trumps associates and russians known to u. S. Intelligence. Pamela brown and evan perez broke this story along with jim sciutto, manu raju. Pamela and evan are out front. Let me start with you, pamela. What are you learning tonight . Cnn is told the fbi refused a request to knock down media reports about communications during the 2016 president ial campaign, between Donald Trumps associates and russians known to u. S. Intelligence. Multiple u. S. Officials telling cnn the white house sought the help of the bureaus and other agencies investigating the matter, to say the reports were wrong and there had been no contacts whatsoever. Youll recall cnn and the New York Times first reported that just over a week ago, the reports about these contacts that were made during the campaign. Erin, so far the white house has not commented. This was a very significant report. Evan, this is not a typical request. Its pretty stunning when you hear it on the face of it. How did it
i m not sure we learned a lot about him. kaley, you were there. what was the reaction in the room? people started looking to each other and saying to each other, wow, steve bannon is really good. all the way from the ballroom, all the way out to the compactitaxi stand, steve bannon, steve bannon. he was a hit. people thought he was direct, he was smart. he had very pointed thoughts. i fully agree with the other folks in the room, he should be out more in a public forum. that would go against his whole m.o. which is that the media is evil. opponents of steve bannon paint him as exactly that, they accuse him of being a white supremacist, white nationalist. you see these again and again, quoting people like nancy pelosi to other critics. what we heard from bannon about what he s most proud of did not fit with that narrative at all. here is what he said. i think one of the most
message there s nothing to see here. we ll see, erin, if this harmony continues, especially since they re such vastly different men with vastly different policy prescriptions and approaches. sunlen, thank you. kaley mcnerney, normer senior adviser to the president, dan pfeiffer. dan, let me start with you. we never see steve bannon actually that s not true. we see the back of his head or a side eye, but he never talks. what was your impression on him on stage? i think this whole thing was performance art, two trump staffers interviewed by a trump supporter about how awesome trump is. it felt like they were protesting too much, no, no, we like each other, there s no dissension. it s hard to see the real steve bannon. if you want the see the real steve bannon go back to the speech in 2014 behind closed doors, read what breitbart has written about him.