First off this hour, the tahoe airport. You probably havent heard of it but that is the site of the republican nominees rally tonight. Joe biden and Kamala Harris are keeping their things virtual with no inperson gatherings today, contrasting strategies from contrasting candidates with just 52 days to go. Lets bring in our team of reporters. Josh, lets start with you on the developments. Any other week and we say this every week this has been quite a bunch of days for the president at the white house. Reporter yes, it sure has. And now he is starting a Campaign Swing not at all the way he wanted to, richard. The president hoped to hole a pair of major, large rallies at the airports in las vegas and reno. That is not going to be able to happen because the event sites sawed they wouldnt do it. They wouldnt exceed the nevada restrictions on gatherings of 50 people or more. Theyve seen the rail its president has held in tulsa and phoenix and other places without social distancing, have not
Charges related to bank fraud, tax charges. So this is the moment where this courtroom will now finally be hearing from manaforts essentially his number two, his former right hand man, rick gates. And gates is the prosecutions key witness. He will be the next person to testify. Lets go first to cnns caris beganel. She is just outside the courtroom in alexandria, virginia. Tell me, when will this happen . Mere minutes . We have one more witness to finish testified today. Thats manaforts accountant. Rick gates is the witness thats up next. Many of thes attorney said that in court. This all came about as one of manaforts attorneys sort of dropped a bombshell alleging that rick gates embezzleled millions of dollars from Paul Manafort. He asked the accountant would that have been something she would have looikd to have known. She said she would. He teed all of it up by making
it appear that rick gates was the main person he dealt with. And he tried to suggest through his questioning of her
The Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell needs 60 votes to keep the federal government from running out of money at midnight tonight. But even some of the 71 republicans say theyll vote against this shortterm spending bill. What would a shutdown mean . Heres a closer look at some of those that would be affected. 9 million children covered under the Childrens Health Insurance Program known as chip. The shortterm spending bill does extend the program for six years. If it doesnt pass, chip would only be funded through march. Also, 1. 3 million active military duty personnel, they would continue working, of course, but they might have to work without pay since the military is currently paid only through february 1st. As many as 850,000 government employees, federal employees, could be furloughed as federal agencies are forced to shut down. Most of the Senate Democrats already say theyll vote against the current shortterm spending bill to keep the government open and running, and at least
his attorney, rudy giuliani added, this whole new storyline that okay, no not only was there no collusion, that collusion is not a crime. all right. now that we are all up to speed, this is where we are today. let me bring in cnn courthouse correspondent kate lin collins and seth barrons wag katlyn, to you. you, in addition to all of that you have new reporting today with jake tapper that trump is concerned whether his son, don jr., might have legal exposure in the special counsel s russia investigation. tell me about that. that s right, brooke. the president is growing increasingly concerned. that s why we have seen him ramp up his attacks on the special counsel which you have seen play out on his twitter feed calling out the special counsel robert mueller by name, something we did not see the president do six months ago, before. he would never go that far as to
that he did not tell his father about this meeting. the president maintains that on twitter. of course, brooke, as you pointed out, there are questions about the white house s credibility and the president and his family s credibility about this entire meeting because so far they have really thanked their story on multiple occasions and often the truth only comes out after it has been reported by another outlet. katlyn used the phrase by the books. seth, here s my question. trump says hey it s politics, everyone tries to get dirt on someone, everyone is doing it. let me point out federal law yolk makes it a crime for any person to solicit accept or receive any contribution or anything of value from a foreign person or for a u.s. campaign or for the purpose of influencing an election for federal office.even though seth they say they didn t get any dirt on hillary clinton was that meeting against the law, given that the intent was there? well, potentially, yes.