Field, where players are protesting Racial Injustice. The President Tweeting about that. All happening as a former white house insider makes explosive, new claims about donald trump and the n word. Well share details in a moment. All going down one day before the anniversary of the deadly White Supremacist rally in charlottesville. A State Of Emergency already declared in virginia. Racists planning to take their protests here to d. C. Were talking with two women personally impacted by this violence. If mother of heather hire, the woman killed in charlottesville, will join me, as well as charlotsha charlottesvil charlottesvilles mayor. Also, the Manhattan Madame testifying today. Why the Special Counsel wants her and what she is telling our team this morning. Youll only see it and hear it here on msnbc. Our team is set up and ready to go on this friday. Were going to start with President Trump up add bedminster, putting himself in the middle of the culture wars again. Coverage of nation
Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Today had as much to do with the president but now that you have people that the Justice Department indicts, like congressman Duncan Hunter adopting the president s rhetoric, the chief Law Enforcement general in this country felt like he had to push back. We have to consider the context in which this is happening. The Justice Department has extracted guilty pleas or convictions for the president s former lawyer and fixer, his campaign chairman, his National Security advisor and Foreign Policy advisor. Indicted his number one Congressional Republican supporter and number two Congressional Republican supporter. He told the the New York Times that he had Great Respect for eric holder because in his view he totally protected president obama. We can debate the facts of that but it suggests the president views the role of Attorney General as protecting him primarily and he doesnt separate himself from the institution. Je
A recap of the days news. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. You want to Pay Attention to this hour. Weve got a lot going on. Its 11 00 p. M. On the east coast. Were live with breaking news tonight. A source tells cnn that white house staffers are stunned by todays news. The men who led the president s campaign for five critical months leading up to the election found guilty in Federal Court. Former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort guilty of eight Financial Crime charges. A victory for Robert Mueller in the first trial to come out of his investigation. While the president continues to push the lie that the case against manafort wasnt part of the Special Counsels original mission, i want you to look at what the Trump Appointed Acting Attorney General wrote. Mueller is authorized to investigate any links and or coordination between the russian
even his childrens telephones. Well, now he has stepped up to the line and he can now speak again and he feels liberated. How far is he willi
Storm surge warning here in gulfport, because of three to five feet of storm surge expected. The mobile bay has to watch out. Flash flooding with 6 to 12 inches of rain possible. Dont forget, this thing moves all the way through the end of the week, well be talking about whats left of gordon in the middle of the country. David . All right, we know youll be tracking it into the night and first thing in the morning on gma. Ginger, thank you. And as ginger just reported, gordon is expected to slam ashore right there along the mississippi coast, where schools, businesses, resort casinos have all been shut down tonight, and families are racing to protect their homes from rising water and, of course, dangerous flooding. Abcs Victor Oquendo is there tonight. Reporter tonight, the ominous first bands of Rain Slamming into the gulf. Gordon now closing in. Winds of 70 miles per hour, as much as a foot of rain threatening millions in the hours ahead. States of emergency now stretching from louisi
So this may be investors saying, oh, maybe you are okay with ending some of these trade wars. Well talk about this trade deal and what it means. Lets get to the white house where right now the president and first lady are wrapping up a meeting with the president of kenya and his wife. Geoff bennett joins me. I want to get back to senator mccain and the controversy over flags that are at half staff in congress and many other places in the country but not at the white house. They were at half staff and are now back to full staff. Reporter flags are lowered by president ial proclamation so its the president who decides who receives that honor and the recent tradition for senators who die in office have been to have flags lowered in their honor from the day of death until their burial. So during president obamas time in office, he had four Sitting Senators die. There was ted kennedy, robert byrd, daniel inouhe. John mccain under President Trump did not receive that
honor. He appears to be