and so today he in fact took that step. but of course this isn t the first time. kristen, i want to pick up on what you just said, which is, we re talking about a real estate magnet here, he said this is valuable, this piece of real estate at the white house, i think the question here is whether this devaldeva devaled this property. reporter: and to some extent he may have, this voice in the white house, many people saw it as a stabilizing voice, gary cohn is a democrat, he s a free trade democrat, he s someone who s been a counter balance to president trump in so many different instances, someone who can say he disagrees with the president when it comes to economic policy. so there are real concerns about who will fill that void, steve mnuchin is not seen as filling that void, not having that counter weight to the president. and also ari, this announcement was made after the markets
deal. saw republicans back away from demands, thursday had a good meeting at the white house. yesterday we saw the white house briefing delayed beyond when the markets closed, when we heard jay carney essentially say they didn t like this idea from the house republicans, which was just a six week extension of the debt ceiling. by all appearances, it appears at this point substantive outreach to house republicans at least dried up, at least temporarily at this point. white house officials are insisting there are open lines of communication when it comes to the house and senate, but this also appears to be dealing with an appearance problem they had because president obama s whole we cannot negotiate or will not negotiate stance was making him look a little object stan and the. the white house didn t want that appearance out there. it is the senate that the white house is watching at this point as we are hearing different proposals that are being floated. and the fact that some senate re
his mother overcome with grief. fans asking if the game he loved contributed to his death. a hero throws a tackle in a walmart parking lot. the iraq war vet trying to stop a suspect with a knife who took a woman s purse. but up first, al qaeda unmasked. in just four hours, the world gets to see a massive stack of documents from osama bin laden s compound. for the last 12 months, the documents were analyzed by intelligence officials and this morning, at 9:00 a.m. eastern they ll be posted online. we re told the information includes digital, audio and video files, printed materials, recording devices and handwritten documents. nic robertson live in london this morning. nic, peter bergen previewed those bin laden documents. in them, osama bin laden says we need to extend and develop our operations in america and not keep it limited to only blowing up airplanes. it s terrifying. reporter: it s absolutely terrifying. one of those documents, he says, specifically to his sor
family and said he would decide whether fund-raising is strong enough to stay in the race at least through the iowa caucuses 35 days from now. steve grubs is cain s chairman, on the conference call this morning and is with us live to start the program from davenport, iowa. tell me your gut. does your gut tell you yes or no you ll have a candidate come saturday or sunday? i think we ll definitely have a campaign and a candidate come this weekend and all the way to january 3rd. the real issue is, you know, the impact on the iowa cam. . we ve got almost 900 precinct captains in place, working to keep them. today we added more, we lost a couple. for most part we added more than we lost. we re charging ahead, with a lot of effort i think we re going to storm the gates january 3rd. on the call this morning, i want to be clear, you were listening, mr. cain said he was doing a reassessment, because of the new allegations and within several days he would make a decision, is that c
anything but a holiday for americans reeling from extreme weather. lee is weakening to a tropical depression, but still a massive rain maker that could make travel across much of the country a nightmare. storms winds have helped fuel wildfires in central texas. at this hour, a thousand homes are in danger near austin. and later today, hurricane katia will unleash its first impact on the east coast. we re tracking this storm and tell you where that s headed in a moment. first, we want to begin with the flooding rains pounding the gulf coast since lee made la landfall in louisiana over the weekend. ed lavandera is in the city of lafitte this morning. what s it looking like where you are? reporter: they have shut it down because it is just after high tide here in southern louisiana. and that means that these floodwaters are going back up. many of the roadways in this area simply look like this. this isn t actually that deep but definitely treacherous enough for not allo