Nothing is off limits and cohen should expect to get questions from anywhere about anything. Todays hearing is a closeddoor session with the Senate Intelligence committee. Tomorrow well get to see cohen testify publicly before the House Oversight committee and on thursday he will go back behind closed doors to take questions from the house intelligence committee. At tomorrows Public Session there is word cohen will provide evidence the president broke the law while in office. Thats according to our corporate cousin the wall street journal. It reports the crime is related to a hush money payment to a woman who claims she had sex with the president. The president denies the affair and blames cohen for any problems with the payment and cohen has admitted lying to congressional committees in the past. Why should congress trust you now, mr. Cohen . The white house raised similar concerns ahead of the hearings. Press secretary Sarah Sanders said its laughable that anyone would take a convict
Aggression will be met with a strong response. Late last night, police in caracas dismantled the stage set up by a proguaido group. The stage was to be for a rally today. Meantime, residents are dealing with nationwide blackouts, it has been going on several days. Power has only been partially restored to some areas we know of so far this morning. Cnn correspondent paula newton is live in venezuela with the latest. Paula, what are you seeing . Reporter good to be with you, victor, christi. These due american leagaling pr getting under way. We have been here before. What is crucial is for each side to show that they have them behind them. Theres controversy with Police Taking down the setup for the opposition leader, juan guaido. He tweeted back saying if they think they can wear us down, if they believe they can intimidate us, we have a surprise for them on the streets today. The issue here is momentum. The problem is that the opposition is worried as are people supporting them like th
Im George Howell. The cnn newsroom starts right now. 4 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast and a developing story, we are following out of syria after intense fighting u. S. Backed forces could be close to seizing all of the last isis territory there in an enclave were following. Live to our Senior International correspondent ben wedeman on the front line, hes been covering the story for weeks. Ben, what more can you tell us there . Reporter what we can tell you is were about 500 meters from that encampment, that last bit of land, about a square, half square mile still occupied by isis and what we have been seeing this morning is intense bombardment, air strikes as well as mortar strikes as well. What we saw a little while ago was an ammunition dump, apparently, by the looks of it, that got struck. There was one big blast after another. But what we also have been able to see from here is that there we can still see people through our telephoto lens moving among some of the camps, despite