my saturday morning weekly program is approaching its tenth year here on cnn. thank you for that. i can this a great privilege. i m grate ful for all the regulr viewers. a quick story. back in 2006 after i was appearing regularly on cnn as a legal guest, the network told me they liked my work but didn t know what to do with me. do you have any ideas, i was asked. i do. i think the network brass were surprise d when i pitched my idea. hosting a weekly book club. i envisioned an entertainment show featuring author interviews and discussion of the best in journalism. the network was intrigued and decided to go ahead and order a pilot. we filmed it beginning with me back at home on market street in philadelphia. i remember being so nervous and having to do many, many takes. headlines plucked from today s newspaper. when you add in drama, when you add in a wisecracking whip, when you add in a sexy, smart love interest, then you can gentlien transition from the hard news to the h
john berman is off. hurricane ian now churning in the caribbean with 75 mile an hour winds. the storm s path is uncertain and that has all of florida preparing for a major hurricane. people are waiting in long lines outside of stores. they are looking to stock up on supplies while they can. essential items like bottled water flying off store shelves. residents are prepping homes and business bes for the heavy rain, strong winds and storm surge expected to come their way. ron desantis already declaring an emergency for the entire state activate ing the national guard and a hurricane watch has been issued along the west coast of florida including the tampa bay area. carlos swau resident is watching preparations. we have chad myers standing by in atlanta. let s start with carlos who are is live for us near a sandbag distribution center. tell us about some of these preparations. reporter: good morning the storm preparations are well underway. schools have been closed through
posting this image of her hand hold ing an nfl football. what could it mean? hmmm. entertainment correspondent melissa knowles is with us now. this is huge. it s a global entertainment moment. because rihanna, good morning to you, ladies. rihanna hasn t released an album since 2016. fans are rabid for more performances and music. now they are going to get it. a lot of people are surprise d that rihanna has agreed to do the super bowl because in 2019 she told vogue magazine she didn t want to be seen as a sellout. she didn t agree with a lot of what the nfl was doing with some of their practices. what changed? she s a member of j-jay-z s rock nation and they are one of the executive producers of this halftime show. as they were last year when you had dr. dre, snoop dogg, kendrick lamar. rock nation produced that
walsh. as you can see we re awaiting the briefing. we will bring it to you as soon as possible. we have cnn counterterror analyst phil mudd who helped build the afghan government that just fell. phil, obviously it has been a sobering few days for you to watch. what do you want to hear the state department explain today? i want to hear the explanation, not today but in the future, of not why kabul fell so quickly. i think when you look at when the taliban first rose in 1995 we were surprise d, i was one o the analysts on that problem, we were surprised how quickly they moved through. we are surprised 26 years later. i think the question going down the road at the pentagon, the cia and ultimately at the white house, if we knew it was going to fall, whether days, weeks, months, if we knew it was going to fall why did we wait until the last minute? it didn t take us to have to be surprised this week. we knew this was going to
absolutely. they do not know, michael cohen and his lawyers do not know exactly what was seized. it was done on a no-knock warrant. they went into the safe-deposit box of his bank. they took his phone, his computers. it is an amazing amount of information that they have. and it s hard to say i would be surprise d if michael cohen himself and his attorneys could say with any certainty what it is that s on all of the multiple devices, the sources of information. remember, they went to his home as well as two offices, and again, the safe-deposit box, it s impossible to sort of really create a kind of defense when the other side is holding all the cards. in this case, the u.s. attorney is holding all of the cards. they know what they were looking for. they know what they have. and michael cohen is one reason you saw him on the sidewalk is if they take your computers and phones and they ve