The next hour of cnn this morning starts now. Good friday morning. We are watching Hurricane Hilary this morning, a powerful category 4 storm as it barrels towards the west coast. It is supposed to weaken. Thats good news, by the time it reaches the u. S. It is expected to bring heavy rain and maybe flooding to the southwest over the weekend, as we learn fema is running out of money for Disaster Relief after an historic year of disasters. One of Donald Trumps close allies and codefendants was at the Capitol On January 6th with Conspiracisy Theorist alex jones. President biden about to hold summit at camp david to figure out how to counter the looming threat from china and north korea. National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby will join us live to preview this highstakes meeting. This hour of cnn this morning starts right now. Developing this morning, Hurricane Hilary a category 4 storm rapidly intensifying and on its way to the west coast. It is expected to weaken by the time it r
Politics the former president s pardon play. Donald trumps lawyers make a hail mary request for an april 2026 start to the 2020 Election Trial and try to make sure the case never sees the inside of a courtroom. Plus a game of risk. New reporting outlines how republicans plan to conquer a trumpless debate. How another republican warns his party appears poised to fulfill the textbook definition of insanity. President biden invokes the whole enemy of my enemy is a Friend Theory of Foreign Policy today pushing two neighbors to put aside a generation of bad blood and send a message to the country a couple blocks away, china. Im Phil Mattingly in for dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Were going to start with this up first. Two questions. Do you know what youre doing on monday . Do you know what youre doing in april, 2026 . The answer is no for me on both of them. Donald trump, though, has plans for both. More specifically mr. Trump knows where he wont be on monday
week getting worse. a trio of whistleblowers testifying on their experiences with bias in the bureau, they say all by design using scare tactics to silence opposing points of view. one whistleblower says he was forced to choose what he felt was right and feeding his family. i have since had to rely on charity, the fbi stopped paying me. you are stuck between a rock and a hard place. on one hand we want to try to get our jobs back because we are trying to do our patriotic duty. the other hand, we still have families to take care of. it s essentially a death sentence in the modern era. sandra: compelling testimony there. ben coming up this hour. welcome back as america reports rolls into hour two, i m sandra smith. john: i m john roberts. always great to have you here in d.c. sandra: fun to be here. john: kinda way to keep you here, siphon the gas out of your car. and adidas is selling a women s swimsuit by using a male model. critics say it s about so much more tha
to get her british citizenship back. we begin in moscow, where china s top diplomat, wang yi, has met president putin, and reaffirmed their close relationship. the trip to russia by wang yi comes just days before the first anniversary of moscow s invasion of ukraine. here s the meeting between the two. during their talks, mr putin said relations between his country and china were reaching new milestones . he also called on the chinese president xi jinping to visit. earlier, wang yi also met his russian counterpart sergei lavrov, where he said the relationship between the two countries could not be influenced by other nations. let s hear some of what wang yi had to say: translation: i look forward to reaching new agreements. our consultations on strategic security are highly effective between our two countries. they play an important role in strengthening trust and cooperation in a shifting international situation. much is being made of the seating arrangements for president
peter: good evening, bret. masks, vaccines, school closures, social distancing, the medical professionals who came up with rules that led some folks to go out you of business and others to stay home, the medical professionals that president told us to listen to now admits they were wrong. peter: as president biden golfs away from cameras there is a reason to revisit a comment he has made over and over. tell the truth. follow the scientists the science. poor the peter problem scientists admit they blew it rochelle walensky says in a statement cdc and public health have been preparing for covid-19. in our big moment, our performance did not reliably meet expectations. video of a maskless president biden coughing and shaking hands with lawmakers quickly went viral last night because cdc guidance is for close contact to covid patients like him to mask for 10 days but he is not to blame. an internal cdc review concluded covid guidance was both confusing and overwhelming. u