This is cnn breaking news. Here we go, hour two. All eyes are on the Financial Markets where stocks are once again in freefall, at one point the dow dropping more than 800 points, wiping out much of gains for the entire year. The dow is down more than 660 points. Driving much of todays deep declines, confusion over the status of the u. S. China trade deal. Catherine, yesterday investors were essentially cheering the news out of the china trump talks. Whats going on today . What happens is what often happens when trump decides to meet with foreign leaders. He comoes out declaring there i an incredible deal when there is no such deal. And this time around trump met with chinese president xi. He came out of this meeting declaring that the biggest deal ever had just been made. In fact, if you look at the announcement, the statement that came out of the u. S. Side of things and the statement that came out of the chinese side of things, they dont match at all. Its not clear that anything spe
Washington, d. C. What are we hearing . Reporter a guilty plea and a remarkable portrayal about how maria butina tried to infiltrate organizations at the behest of russian officials. They laid it all out saying this kicked off in 2015 when maria butina drafted a proposal and in that proposal she detailed how she would be a conduit between the russian government and important u. S. Political figures. They say at one point, alexander tortian, a Bank Official gave her 125,000 to attend important political conferences including those led by the National Rifle association and said how she worked with a u. S. Citizen to organize a Friendship Dinner where important figures would be there and they would discuss russianamerican policy and said as recently as 2017, maria butina went to the National Prayer breakfast and said the people there and she put it this way said they were coming to establish a back channel of communication. A remarkable portrayal about how maria butina operated. She said
This morning pope francis celebrated Christmas Mass at the vatican. Later in his messam in st. Peters square he also wished for, quote, fraternity among individuals of every nation and culture. Quite a message this morning. There is an extra reason to celebrate in iraq. For the first time in that nations history, the Iraqi Government has marked Christmas Day as a national holiday. Country is still home to some 300,000 christians. Merry christmas in england, Queen Elizabeth and the royal family spent their Christmas Morning celebrating mass. Newlyweds prince harry and Meghan Markle are spending their first christmas as husband and wife and they are set to welcome their first child in the spring and the queen is expected to deliver their christmas message to the nation in a tradition in the next hour. A bit of a tradition in australia and the southern hemisphere, for many christmas means a day at the beach decked out in santa hats and christmas cheer. Thousands spending the holiday in th
The president needs to sign a deal and schumer needs 10 votes. You are asking me will schumer move . I dont know that. I dont know his mind. Should he move . Absolutely. It wont be as far as where he has been before and it will be good for our country. More on the shut down standoff in minutes. The president parachutes into a war zone and leaves with controversy back to washington. The president in iraq at the air base forced the first visit to troops deployed overseas. The commander in chief shook hands and signed maga hats later in germany at another base. He took selfies with troops and the sight of an american president boosting the morale on the frontlines. A good look for any white house, but this morning the talk in washington is about the president using those troops as proxies in his political battle here at home with democrats over southern border wall. We want to have strong borders in the United States. Democrats dont want to let us have strong borders for one reason. You k
An american missionary killed by a mysterious tribe with bows and arrows on a far away island. Thats ahead. A development in special Robert Muellers russia investigation that could have huge implications in the russia investigation and possibly for the president himself. A trump ally named jerome corrsy announce hes entering a plea deal with Robert Mueller and his office. Corsey is a conservative writer that said last week that he expects to be indicted in the special counsel investigation. Corsey fits into this with his close ties to trump adviser, roger stone, that was also under muellers microscope. The special counsel is looking into whether roger stone played a role in the wikileaks document dump during the 2016 election. You might remember, the site released nearly 20,000 hacked emails, stolen from Democratic Party officials and the clinton campaign. A report from the National Intelligence found that with high confidence, russia was behind the hack attack. Stone denies involvemen