Welcome and a lot of experts and spark people and also to give a shout out to the ambassador martin. And whos a dear friend of ours and interested in history among other things and i note that we are having swift day onnovember 9. Something, a tradition we have longserved. This event is for our friend bruce hoffman. Bruce hoffmanmay have been the first expert on modern terrorism , period. He may have been the very first expert on modern terrorism. He surely was a valuable resource to me when he had rans office in washington and i was a member of the United States congress. Actually, with his bushy beard at the time, i thought he might be a terrorist. And i bought his job at grand might just be cover. Bruce tried to help me create a commission to make recommendations to congress on how to intervene before an individual who is radicalized, having radical views is protected by our First Amendment but how to intervene before a personwith radical views turns to violence. As we all know, vio
In the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. You are in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Were following breaking news on clashes between the Trump Administration and democrats investigating the president. The House Judiciary Committee chairman just responded to the acting attorney generals threat to skip his testimony tomorrow after the panel preemptivelpre having a subpoena for him. The president more furious at adam schiff tonight, because schiff hired officials who worked for the white house to help investigate the administration. I will get reaction from congressman rokana, a member of the oversight committee, one of the panels investigating the president. Our correspondents and analysts are standing by. First, lets go to laura jared. Did the Judiciary Committee chairman back down . Reporter i want to read to you the statement that was issued a few minutes ago. If you appear before the committee tomorrow morning, and you are prepare totd respond to ques
is that plausible? right. in the story we say that the analysis of that comment was that not he he didn t say literally they would shoot khashoggi with a bullet. very clearly, that the metaphor was meant that they intended to kill him if he didn t come back to saudi arabia willingly. mark, doing excellent reporting for the new york times. thanks so much. thanks, wolf. we have much more on all the breaks news right after this. [cell phone rings] where are you? well the squirrels are back in the attic. mom? your dad won t call an exterminator. can i call you back, mom? he says it s personal this time. if you re a mom, you call at the worst time. it s what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it s what you do. where are you? it s very loud there.
manafort probably would have been an important witness on this matter. he is one of the participants in the meeting that they are saying is very important. paul manafort went to trial, lost. tried to cooperate. continued to lie. also witness tampered and is no longer someone who is a cooperating witness who is going to testify in any court of law or anywhere else about this meeting on which andrew weissman placed a lot of emphasis. very solid analysis. preet bharara, thanks for joining us. thanks, wolf. we are getting more breaking news on a different subject, the killing of the journalist jamal khashoggi. potential evidence of the saudi crown prince s alleged involvement. we re joined by mark rosetti of the new york times. i went through your article. amazing stuff. what exactly did the saudi crown prince say? what was the context? give us the headlines.