Reporting tonight from carbondale, illinois, heres anthony mason. Mason and this is our western edition. Good evening. It was the greatest show on earth. The sun and the moon put on a celestial performance for an audience of hundreds of millions, a matinee that saw the moon upstage the sun and bring darkness to daytime. The sun was completely blocked for a couple minutes in a band 70 miles wide that stretched across 14 states from oregon to south carolina. It was the first coasttocoast total eclipse in 99 years, for Many Americans a onceina lifetime chance to witness and celebrate a wonder of the universe. We have a team of correspondents at key locations across the zone of totality, and we begin with mark strassmann. Oh, my god, its almost complete. Reporter across america, the clockwork of the cosmos turned day into night and then day again. And for one afternoon, millions of people looked up at the sky rather than down at their phones. Oh, my gosh. There it goes. Reporter 200 millio
Giuliani and his work. So lets get right to cnns senior justice correspondent evan perez breaking this for us right now. You have new details from the Justice Departments Southern District of new york, sdny. The office that prosecuted michael cohen. Remind everyone. What are you learning . Reporter this is an investigation that goes far longer and back further than we realized, and also that its much broader than we initially thought. One of the things were getting a picture of, a better picture of is this involves not only giulianis financial entanglements with allegedly corrupt ukrainian figures, but also counterintelligence angle is there to this and the idea that perhaps Rudy Giuliani and be some of his business dealings were part of essentially an influence operation, a foreign influence operation with a target being the trump white house. Now, theres a lot here to unpack, and we all know about the two charges, the charges that were filed last week against some of Rudy Giulianis a
Reports that the president s anger about being in essentially impeach innocent limbo. He tweeted, i want an immediate trial, exclamation point. Its apparent the president wont get what he wants before christmas. That specifically is to know the house will actually send the two articles of impeachment to the senate triggering the impeachment trial. Speaker pelosi made it clear she has not done that yet delaying the handoff expressing concern whether or not the senate would hold a fair trial. Heres more from the Senate Committee chairman lindsey graham. I just left President Trump. Hes mad as hell that they would do this to him and now deny him his day in court. The reason theyre denying him his day in court is because they know their case sucks. One scholar is speaking out about Nancy Pelosis delayed handoff. Harvard law professor noah feldman testified for the democrats during the impeachment inquiry saying if the house doesnt send the articles over to the senate that means the preside
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