Special counsel jack smith against donald trump. In an interview with cnn, maralago employee brian butler painting a painting a very specific picture of trumps inner circle, and how it operated more like a mafia family than anything else. With loyalty prized above everything. A world where fealty to the boss led to criminal exposure. Now, nbc news has not independently confirmed butlers identity as trump employee number 5 and he declined nbcs request for comment. In his interview last night, butler says he helped trumps codefendants, walt nowta and carlos move those boxes containing some of our nations most Sensitive National security secrets. Watch. He followed me. He pulled out, got behind me, got to the airport, i ended up loading all the luggage i had and he had a bunch of boxes. You noticed that he had boxes. Oh, yeah, they were the boxes that were in the indictment, the white bankers boxes. Thats what i remember. Did you have any idea at the time that there was potentially u. S.
Welcome back to the weekend, folks. Were here, and House Speaker mike johnson is proving he is actually really good at one thing. Kicking that can down the road. Congress now has another week to avoid a partial government shutdown. But none of this is normal, and we cannot say that enough. If congress was actually functioning like it should, this would have been a done deal back in september. So, joining us have to discuss this and all other things happening with the governments Transportation Secretary pete buttigieg. Secretary buttigieg, welcome to the program. You are still in washington, d. C. Your colleagues on capitol hill, most of them, have gone home. Theres a chance that were gonna be here this weekend, figuring out if they can continue to fund the government. They kick the can down the road. They bought themselves about a week. Can you just give us a sense form your Vantage Point of what is at stake with the government operating in this way, with Congressional Republicans con
greg: he s getting impeached for a border that s breached. the house gearing up for a vote on the impeachment of dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas and we could get that very soon. republicans accused mayorkas of failing to enforce the law and lying to congress. while republicans blame mayorkas, joe biden is now trying to place the blame for his border disaster on, you guessed it, trump. joe is pushing congress to pass the proposed senate deal for border security, that, as of right now, is deader than a hair follicle on jesse s scalp. all indications are this bill won t even move forward to the senate floor. why? a simple reason. donald trump. because donald trump thinks it s bad for him politically. he would rather weaponize this issue than actually solve it. frankly they owe it to the american people to show some spine. republicans have to decide who do they serve, donald trump or the american people. every day between now and november the american people are going to kno
summit. as ukraine is pushing to join the alliance, cnn is on the ground in lithuania where the president and key u.s. allies are preparing for their high-stakes talks. also tonight, new developments in the trump classified documents indictment. the trump team now facing a deadline to weigh in on the timing of the trial. this as the former president s co-defendant is accused of unnecessary delay by the special counsel. and parts of the northeastern united states are swamped by historic flooding, a once in a thousand-year rainfall swallowing cars in west point, new york. i ll speak with the new york governor, kathy hochul. this hour we ll discuss the state s emergency response. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, on the eve of a pivotal nato summit, we re learning that ukrainian president zelenskyy plans to make a personal appeal on ukraine s bid to join the alliance. he ll atte
multiple magazines in the vest and had a scanner and an ar-style rifle and handgun underneath his body. julie: mike tobin joins us live following the latest. so far the best description is a male in his 40s. no indication for what motivated this mass killing. plenty of indication the killer spent time preparing for it. police say the man was wearing a bullet proof vest, ar-style rifle. multiple magazines, sidearm and police scanner to listen to police traffic. bullet casings stretched over an eight block area. four people killed in the street. five fatality when police were called into the house where one of the victims fled. went inside and found the son laying on the living room floor unresponsive. immediately went outside where he saw the police officer, notified that officer. the officer notified medics. medics pronounced the 31-year-old victim dead on the scene. four dead are male between 21 and 59 years old. one male hasn t been identified. two kids were injured