Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. Manhattan. He talked about Paul Manafort being one of the top five clients. They expect to call more vendors to the stand today. This is a fastmoving trial. Prosecutors told the judge they expect to wrap the trial next week. Dave. Jessica, thank you. Cnn jessica, thank you. Cnn has learned that tsa is planning to eliminating screening at 150 airports. They also say the proposal would come with a small undesirable security risk. A tsa spokesman saying the documents confirm a debate within the agency. Two of the September 11th Attackers first flew from portland, maine. A small airport there would be less secure. Cnns rene marsh has the latest
from washington. Reporter dave, this would be a major change for travelers and a shift in how tsa uses resources. The proposal, the agency is considering, calls for elimination of the tsa screening at small and medium sized airports that operate commercial plane was 60 seats or fewer
Zelenskys inauguration in may, i believe you testified it was one of the largest delegations . I believe it was. I cant be 100 sure. I believe it was the Largest National delegation. Okay. And included in the delegation was Secretary Perry . Secretary perry, ambassador sondland, myself, senator ron johnson was there and also the charge daffaires at the u. S. Embassy at the time, joe pennington. We talked a little bit this morning, but president zelenskys inauguration came together rather quickly . It did. I believe we had about three days notice in which to put the delegation together. Theres been some discussion whether the Vice President was going to be able to lead that effort and as it turned out he was not able to lead it. Do you have any information as to why the Vice President was unable to join . I dont. And mr. Morrison, do you have any information as to why the
Vice President was unable to participate in the delegation . No. Ambassador volker, you testified during your deposi
the deadlock over president trump s snoot impeachment trial is showing no signs of breaking this morning. partisan sparring continues. live in west palm beach florida where the president is vacationing. good morning, john. that deadlock showing no sign of breaking and president trump showing no sign of cooling off despite spending the day on his government course yesterday, president trump remained ranting on twitter. he slammed nancy pelosi, democrats and called his impeachment a scam. lawmakers in deadlock, the senate impeachment striel at a standstill as democrats demand to know the ground rules before speaker pelosi sends over the impeachment. it s hard to understand or determine what kind of floor managers you want to send in if you don t know the ground rules. president trump venting his frustration over the delay,
necessarily looped in on what he was doing. i just want to add one thing. i think i didn t convey myself clearly enough before. when i say they re confident, it s not because they re seeing these hearings and going, wonderful, this is a spectacular day of hearings and everyone is perfectly great for us. obviously that s not the case. and you saw trump venting his truf frustration. it s also been venting his frustration that all these state department employees are going and testifying. he wishes that pompeo could stop them all. what they re confident about is that it doesn t matter politically. and an example being, when i interviewed lindsey graham and he said, you know, if i saw something that amounted to quid pro quo, that would be really troubling. literally two days after the interview, mick mulvaney, the white house chief of staff, gets up on stage in the white house briefing room and jonathan karl says, just to be clear, that s a quid pro quo, and mick says, get over it, happens
and credible and passed it along to congress. if fox news is told there was never any move to fire atkinson, not even any serious consideration given to removing him. democrats in washington would rather pursue outrageous hoaxes and a delusional witch hunts which are going absolutely nowhere. at the economic club of new york today, president trump venting his frustration with democrats for pursuing impeachment over important economic issues like ratifying the usmca. if you had to vote today, i think most of them would actually vote for it but nancy pelosi, nervous nancy, has to put it out there. if she doesn t, she s doing her party at a tremendous disservice and doing the country a tremendous disservice. on the eve of the first public impeachment hearings in 20 years, republicans laying out their defense of president trump saying the july 25th phone call showed no conditionality or evidence of pressure on