those wobbly republicans into the arms of democrats, create a situation where democrats and republicans were going against the president. trump is facing backlash from conservatives as what they see his decision to hand speaker pelosi a victory. one of his hometown papers dubbed him the cave man after he conceded to pelosi. and the president is reserving the right to declare a national emergency, to tap into existing funds at the end of the three weeks if he doesn t get a deal legislatively. white house aides hold out hope they ll be able to reach a deal in congress in the next three weeks. sarah westwood for us, thank you so much. so what happens next? cnn politics senior report steven colinson is with us. thank you for being with us. after hearing that report, is there any indication dems are willing to move at all? no. the president is right when he says 21 days will go quickly.
a lot of people questioning why the university police did not do more. a moving tribute in salt lake city, for university of utah senior and track star, lauren mccluskey. there are no words to describe the pain and loss we re feeling a as a team right now. lauren was always a driven athlete. and gave 110% in everything she did. reporter: the 21-year-old was killed monday night, on the university campus. authorities say the suspect, 37-year-old melvin roland, took his own life, as police closed in. on thursday, the university communications office described the time line of events leading up to lauren s death, and it shows mccluskey told campus police earlier this month that she had received messages from reld or possibly from his friends, demanding money or they would post compromising photos of her and lauren online. lauren stated she sent a thousand dollars to an account as demanded in hopes of keeping
immigration announcement he will have next week but despite calling on americans to come together, victor and christie, the president is showing no signs of letting up on the intensity of his rhetoric head nag the last week before election day. when the president was asked if he should tone down, he said he actually could tone up. we will see if he does that over the next ten days. sara westwood for us at the white house, thanks so much. we want it talk about the investigation into the packages and what comes next as well. cnn white house reporter steven colinson and cnn analyst josh campbell and margaret talab, senior white house correspondent for bloomberg. thank you all for being here. we appreciate it. absolutely. josh, we know the dna fingerprints, we know that pings from the cell phone tower led authorities to this auto parts store parking lot in south florida. what do we know about what investigators are doing today with that, that van, because if that is where he was living
the washington post reports you can hear how he was interrogated, tortured and murdered. saudi arabia said they have no involvement in the disappearance & they arrived to investigate. ambassador, can you give us seconds to explain the view on the matter and what happened to him? just for two seconds? what is the view? we want to dig into this. we have cnn white house reporter steven colinson with us as well. the understanding then is from having video and audio evidence in the consulate. the consulate was bugged. that was the supposition. they were bugged and there was a camera in there. if there is a camera, if there is a microphone, if there is evidence of this, it s
still having successful going concern. with that table set, fred, we re going to get into the testimony of rick gates next week, and as laura said, it will be a question of was this just gates acting on behalf of the firm or was manafort dialed into this all along and aware of everything that was going on that s being alleged by prosecutors and some of the other witnesses. the inferences of birds of a feather is big here. matt, the president ran on the issue of draining the swamp. cnn steven colinson wrote this about the trial. for those outside the courtroom, it is a turning into an implicit indictment of the sleaze and greed swirling around washington itself and the culture of influen influence that cut contracts to counsel shady foreign autocrats. this case, this draining the swamp philosophy is widespread.