Why the officer is not facing charges. And donald trump falling behind in the polls and proving hes not too proud to beg for votes. Please do me a favor, let me win iowa. Ben carson surges as the candidates take center stage at tonights big republican debate. Is he about to deliver a knockout blow or will donald come back . And we do say good morning, america, on this wednesday morning. Big buildup to tonights big debate. A lot at stake. But you have baseball, debate tonight. Lots of big showdowns. Well start with that world series kickoff. The royals take the mets in 14 innings, all kinds of ups and down ending well past 1 00 a. M. On the east coast and the few minutes of blackouts had fans everywhere in a frenzy. T. J. Holmes is at kauffman stadium. In kansas city. An unforgettable night last night for the right and wrong reasons. We had a classic here on this field last night. While people were focused on the power hitting and pitching we had an outage that left millions of viewers
Im erin burnett. We begin with the breaking news out front tonight cnn learning that there are now three people accusing former speaker of the house Dennis Hastert of sexual abuse while he was a boys wrestling coach. And tonight we know the name of one of the alleged victims, a woman has come forward telling abc news that her brother, steven line holdrin line holt reinholdt endured years of sexual abuse. I asked him when was your first same sex experience i mean he just looked at me and said it was with Dennis Hastert. Reinboldt dinded of aids in 1995. He was the equipment manager for hasterts wrestling team. Dennis hastert so far has been silent since the ugly charges have come to light, but that is about to end. Cnn was on the ground today in krorkville talking to people who knew both hastert and reinboldt. For years many held hastert in highest regard. Chris frates is out front live in chicago. What are you learning tonight . Reporter well, ill tell you, its another day and more vic
Samesex experience . He just looked at me and said it was with Dennis Hastert. I just i know i was stunned. I said why didnt you ever tell anybody, steve . He was your teacher. Why didnt you ever tell anybody . He just looked at me and said who is ever going to believe me . In this town who is ever going to believe me . And was it your sense this happened more than once . Uhhuh. I said, you know was it all through high school . He said yes. He said all through high school. I mean here was the mentor the man who was, you know, basically his friend who was the one that was abusing him. This stunning abc interview. This is the first name of an alleged abuse victim to emerge here since hastert lied to the fbi about trying to pay out some 3. 5 million in socalled hush money. Although Steven Reinboldt insisted that money was not given to her or her brother before he died. Scott, i want to talk to you about how this is resonating in yorkville. First, to be clear, we do not definitively know w
The fbi is investigating the hack which was uncovered during a security upgrade on that same computer system. Our justice reporter evan perez is here with me. What kind of information may have been compromised . How serious is this cyber attack . Wolf this is the mother of all Cyber Attacks here in the United States. Were talking about things that are sensitive enough that it would be of high value to a foreign intelligence service, things like security clearance information, that is stored in the office of Personnel Management Computer Systems and were told that, you know this affects as you said 4 million former and current workers of the federal government and the concern here is that it goes this goes beyond the office of Personnel Management that every single pretty much every single federal agency was attacked in this hack and that it is the same hackers who are behind a couple other hacks that weve seen recently Cyber Attacks against anthem which is a major Health Insurance comp
Friday good news. Take a look at this number. 280,000. Why does it matter . Because thats how many jobs were added in may. The fact of the matter is that when president obama came in eight years ago we were 2 million jobs down. They have added every month jobs to the private sector. Last month may 280,000. Thats a big deal. The economy is getting better. That means people can provide for their families. That means that people can live without the anxiety. Everywhere i go people are saying its not where we need to be but its getting a little better adding a little at a time, and that is why the republicans keep getting caught up in their web of denial. They are hitting obama on the economy. Listen to what jeb bush said this week. Its breathtaking. Its like our president is living in an alternative universe. People have just given up and hes saying that things are better. I take it you do not agree . Mark me down as no. Now, this is jeb bush the same jeb bush whose brother sunk the econo