Election meddling. What will it mean as the special counsel makes new demands of the white house . We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Wolf blitzer is off today. Im jim acosta. Youre in the situation room. We are following multiple breaking stories this hour. Hurricane maria regains strength and unleashes more destruction in the caribbean after pulverizing puerto rico leaving millions of americans desperate and in the dark. There is dangerous fooding from 30 inches of torrential rain in just 24 hours. Officials are warning that Puerto Ricans may not get electricity back four to six months with the power grid totally destroyed. Also breaking, President Trump orders an expansion of sanctions against north korea turning to diplomacy days after threatening to totally destroy the country. He says china is also taking a new step telling its Financial Institutions to stop dealing with kim jonguns regime. North korea is undaunted and is likening the tough
Want to be with the special prosecutor, this could buy him some time. I like the fact he is middle of this gigantic Counter Intelligence investigation about a foreign power undermining the United States. Yep. He manages to squeeze in one more consulting gig to get paid to work against the interests of the United States before he gets indicted. He is supposed to be doing the kinds of things you look at and you say, well, a man who would do that would never do that other thing. Would never do anything to hurt his country. He is doing a thing like exactly what hes suspected of maybe having done. Thats the way it is. Thank you. Thank you. Well, fresh off his humiliating and total defeat in trying to convince the senate to pass any form of repeal of obamacare, President Trump began his big push today in his next legislative crusade and proved why he is the worst possible partner the crime for Congressional Republicans and, of course, i mean the phrase partner in crime as a figure of speech.
This past december, december 2016, that protocol was broken was a very Senior Member of the emwroughty royal family, the crown prince of united ash emirates came to the United States in december in secret. He did not notify the Obama Administration, he did not notify the u. S. Government that he was coming and thats weird. That said, its not like he didnt get noticed, hes pretty high Profile International figure and u. S. Intelligence agencies picked up the fact he was here. And his visit and their surveillance of his visit presumably was way more intriguing to the Intelligence Community than it might normally have been under normal circumstances, specifically because he tried to sneak in. You see somebody doing something a routine thing, let you know in advance, you Pay Attention but you dont really pay that much attention. You find somebody sneaking in and trying to do something without telling the government hes here, theyre going to focus on that. This guy didnt tell the Obama Admi
Northern iraq wouldnt be the worst place in the world to hide out but, you know, maybe the kurds hook him i dont know. I dont know. I dont know. Maybe more time to think about how cooperative he might want to be with the special prosecutor, this could buy him some time. I like the fact he is middle of this gigantic Counter Intelligence investigation about a foreign power undermining the United States. Yep. He manages to squeeze in one more consulting gig to get paid to work against the interests of the United States before he gets indicted. He is supposed to be doing the kinds of things you look at and you say, well, a man who would do that would never do that other thing. Would never do anything to hurt his country. He is doing a thing like exactly what hes suspected of maybe having done. Thats the way it is. Thank you. Thank you. Well, fresh off his humiliating and total defeat in trying to convince the senate to pass any form of repeal of obamacare, President Trump began his big pus
Trump says the gop controlled congress is just days away from passing tax reforms. And that could mean savings for americans as soon as february. Likely attended a deal today on a compromised version of their competing tax bills. President trump seeking a quick vote and a needed victory after a stunning upset in alabama that will cost the gop a crucial vote in the senate. Also breaking Democrat Doug Jones says President Trump phoned him after his historic win and invited him to the white house. Jones describes the call as gracious. But privately a source tells cnn that the alabama results were devastating for the president. After endorsing the scandal taken by republican roy moore mr. Trump is trying to claim in a new tweet he was right about the race all along because he didnt back moore in the primary. And the Deputy Attorney general in the hot seat defending the special counsel he appointed as republican lawmakers accuse Robert Muellers team of political bias. Rob rosenstein telling