Looked at the amount of time he would have to invest, the amount of money it was going to cost him and the toll, frankly, that it would take on him and his family, he decided to take the plea deal. Plea deals typically are struck to do this, but he would cooperate with the special counsels office, potentially testifying against Paul Manafort. The white house today through Mercedes Schlapp saying rick gates issue has nothing to do with the white house. Listen here. I just, i dont know how many times i have to say this. Theres no evidence of collusion. As we continue to be cooperative with special counsel. At this point, while there is gonna be those journalists who want to keep focusing on russia and this issue, we are going to be continuing to focus on the president s economic success. Reporter members of the senior staff for the australian delegation and american delegation beginning to file in. We are just a couple minutes away. The president s speech to cpac at which he talked at le
Right now. Consists of three people. The governor, attorney general and secretary of state john merrill. Theyre beginning to certify the results from the special election earlier this month. What had happened is republican roy moore filed a lastminute complaint with the Alabama Circuit Court to intervene and delay the certification based on new allegations of voter fraud and calling for a new special election. But just moments ago, montgomery circuit judge Johnny Harwick denied the order. That means that doug jones by the end of this hour will likely be headed to washington where he will be sworn in by Vice President pence on january 3 next week. Secretary merrills office spoke with me several times today as i tried to understand why this was occurring. Just a quick primer in Alabama State law. You have 48 hours after certification to petition for a recount. There were no circumstances, so moore did this lastminute effort. However, secretary of state merrills office, jon, told me they
Memo. What they did is said, look, you need to make some redactions and technical corrections here, and well get it out right away. Now, from that point, weve heard nothing but crickets. This is a president who puts his own personal interest above the National Security interest of the country. They claimed when they released the republican memo this was in the issue of full transparency and the white house people saying full transparency, well, apparently full transparency only goes so far. The white house maintaining it will release the document once the democrats make the necessary changes. The president is inclined to declassify the memo. It went through the same process, Legal Counsel and National Security team looked at it, and they feel that it needs reveals sources and methods that were not the case in the republican memo, so now itsing about it back to the congress, george, so that they can do what they need to do, so that the memo can be released. Ellison barber has the latest
The release of the democrats memo. What they did is said, look, you need to make some redactions and technical corrections here, and well get it out right away. Now, from that point, weve heard nothing but crickets. This is a president who puts his own personal interest above the National Security interest of the country. They claimed when they released the republican memo this was in the issue of full transparency and the white house people saying full transparency, well, apparently full transparency only goes so far. The white house maintaining it will release the document once the democrats make the necessary changes. The president is inclined to declassify the memo. It went through the same process, Legal Counsel and National Security team looked at it, and they feel that it needs reveals sources and methods that were not the case in the republican memo, so now itsing about it back to the congress, george, so that they can do what they need to do, so that the memo can be released.
He immigrated here from the fiji islands like my parents did and was definitely enjoying the american dream. Went to the police academy. William la jeunesse live for us in our Los Angeles Bureau. So, william, why are they releasing his photos and not his name . A lot of people asking that. Right. So police say the suspect is a heavy set hispanic male in the u. S. Illegally. Its not uncommon south of the border for a man to take both his father and his mothers maiden name. And when caught entering the u. S. , some migrants will try to conceal their identity by inverting or omitting one name or the other. So police tell me its possible his prints match different names. In this case police are not releasing his identity. But security cameras did catch him buying two 12packs of beer at the Convenience Store shortly before the shooting wearing a black jacket. Silver chain, black shoes. Moments later, the shooting happened. After officer singh stopped the suspect in his pickup truck with no