A veterans group. He collected this money earlier this year at a fundraiser and turned into a contentious faceoff with the press over their questions. I have to tell you, the press is so dishonest and so unfair. Ive give an lot of money and raised a lot of money for the vets. Thick when the press portrays it differe differently, the press is being very dishonest. I dont like that. I dont like dishonesty. Is this what its going to be like if youre president , covering you . Yes. Let me tell you something. Im a person it is going to be like this, david. The big reveal, trump raised over 6 million for vets. The real number is 5 5. 6 millio, distributed to certain various groups but trump fired back at the speculation when asked about a third party contender entering the race. If they do in indy, assuming its decent, which i dont think anybody with a reputation would do it because they will look like fools. What you are going to do is you lose the election for the republicans. Bill kristol
More. Thats all ahead on cnn newsroom. Thanks for joining me, im suzanne malveaux. We begin at the cincinnati zoo which reopened today to scores of people after a gorilla was shot and killed in order to save a young boy who slipped into the animals enclosure. That exhibit still closed gaid. Rachel crane is explaining how all of it unfolded. Reporter a day of panic and desperation at the cincinnati zoo. A 4yearold boy slips into the zoos gorilla habitat and over a moat wall. Suddenly the 17yearold 400pound dwor ril gorilla appre boy. His mother watches in horror at what happens next. Mom is right here. Reporter the young boy screams. The urgent calls to 911 can be hold on this bystander video. The family tries desperately to keep him calm as the gorilla takes him out of sight. He drags the boy around the moat and up a ladder for a total a f ten minutes. As the Response Team anxiously decides what to do next. The little boy himself had already been talking about wanting to go in, go in,
Underway for many hours now. We are expecting new information as authorities plan to hold a News Conference shortly. We will bring that you to live when it happens. Plus, we have new information on the terror attack here at the gay nightclub, the pulse nightclub which is just behind me now on the street. Authorities are focused on the killers wife. Officials tell cnn she admits to knowing he wanted to carry out a jihadist attack. She admits to accompanying him to two potential targets including the club which was the park where he massacred 49 people. She claims, authorities tell us, that she did not know of a specific plan of attack. So does this make her an accomplice . All that, plus new information about the killers connections and use of online gay chat rooms. Want to begin with new information. Joining me, cnn chief National Security correspondent jim sciutto and cnn legal analyst mark omeara who, by the way, is from orlando. Jim, we have new information on the wife. Plus, we hav
Where he kind of blind sided everybody by cutting a deal with nancy pelosi and chuck shumer with 30 day debt ceiling. The president really yesterday during that meeting weighed in there, wanted to clear the decks of any extraneous issues he thought were going to muddy the conversation about tax reform, so he could get congress to focus on tax reform. During the course of the meeting it became clear that everybody was retreating to their typical positions and it didnt look like bipartisanship was going to be possible. So the president basically stepped in when it looked like people were saying, okay, were going to agree to disagree. He said, wait, why dont we do this . It blind sided ryan, mccarthy and mcconnell. Chuck shumer very happy about it. We saw the picture of he and the president locked in a partial embrace. But now members of the president s own party saying, whats going on here . Is the president throwing us under the bus to get what he wants with democrats . And how much fur
Family. [inaudible] abby Hurricane Irma an hour away now from the eye of the storm making landfall on the west coast now bracing. Hundreds of thousands of the entire mayor. Sustained winds of 130 Miles Per Hour and could reach 15 feet in some areas. Others are forced to stay behind. Team coverage this morning. Pete with Griff Jenkins on the ground right now. Reporter in naples the wind is terrible. Its about 25 come in maybe 30 miles, but it coming and key west which is just minutes away from a direct impact with 130mile per hour winds are near to the west coast. They are hunkered down. Officials here describing it as a worstCase Scenario because you will have high wind combined with storm surge. The mayor telling me the biggest concern is storm surge. The west coast of florida will take the water row. Just behind me to bring it back in. Upwards of 15 feet above ground level search starts hitting here, it is going to absolutely flood everything and you do not want to be there. Thats wh