Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Gates, and said well, you couldnt have had manafort paying that those attention or you wouldnt have been able to steal so much money. That has to influence the jury. Thats a scary statement he made. Hes gone way beyond what anybody should have expected of a judge. In the meantime, jill, i notice your pin youre wearing, nixon lodge. That was from his first Unsuccessful Campaign for president. Today is the 44th anniversary of his resignation for obstruction of justice among other things, and while it may foretell the future, it certainly inspired my pin today to remember what happens when you obstruct justice. Well, let me ask you about that, because i know you must get asked all the time about sort of the way that these two may be similar and the ways that they may be different. What do you tell people . Well i actually think this situation is
Completely and utterly clueless dismissing the threat posed by the virus. Whats the mortality rate so far nationwide worldwide . Worldwide i believe under 2 . How much under 2 . Ill get you an exact figure. Ill check with cdc on their monitoring worldwide mortality rate and i can get that for you. But you dont know the mortality rate today . Okay. Whats the mortality rate for influenza over the last, say, ten years . Its also right around that percentage, as well. I dont have that off hand but its you sure of that . Around 2 , as well. You sure of that . Its a little bit. Yes, sir. Are you sure of that . Thats a good question because hes not. That is the acting homeland secretary, security secretary at the end of february. Not only could he barely make his way through that question, he was just flat wrong and way off. The mortality rate for seasonal flu is about. 1 . The strategy from the president of the United States has been to down play coronavirus by insisting it was just like the
Perhaps none is more constitutionally dire than the threat to the vote later this year. It goes without saying that voting in 2020 is going to be very, very different. This november, for many of us, it wont be safe to go to the polls. I am almost 89 years old. I am 83 years old. Im 93 years old. Im 98 and 2 months old and i dont want to have to choose between my right to vote and my desire to live. Luckily, there is a simple solution. Voting by mail. To do that, we need congress help. When were dieing to vote, we would much rather just vote and not die. For one thing, it is simply not safe. For huge swaths of our electorate to leave the safety of their homes, and to stand in long lines to vote. In this week democrats tried to do something about it, but as is so often the case, they met fierce resistance from republicans. On friday, the house passed sweeping legislation called the heroes act, which provides states with 3. 6 billion to boost election infrastructure and allow every americ
Was disclosed last friday. The timing just days before the election. Prompting a Swift Response from both sides of the aisle. A Bipartisan Group of nearly 100 former Justice Department officials joining with Senate Democrats and the Clinton Campaign all of them urging comey to release all the facts, but for donald trump the news is a boom to an embattled campaign that hopes to close the gap in the final sprint to november 8th. Cnns covering all the angles as only we can. Lets begin with evan perez, he has the latest on the fbi investigation. Good morning. Reporter good morning, investigators are beginning the work of reviewing thousands of recently discovered emails belonging to huma abedin. One of the Hillary Clintons closest advisors. Investigators believe that at least some of these emails are from an account on clintons private server. Including ones previously deleted. Thats the reason why theyre investigating whether it affects the case that the fbi thought was completed back in
Widely seen as a concession to his International Critics and his human rights critics trying to take some of the heat off of russia for hosting these olympics. People were very upset about their human rights record, their domestic oppression, their international aggression. Trying to take the heat off that. By just a few weeks before the olympics started, putin released some of the Political Prisoners who he was holding in russian prisons. Among the most high profile prisoners was a feminist punk band called pussy riot. I am such a prude, i still find it embarrassing to say the name. That is the name of the band. The thing they were most famous for when they were released before the sochi olympics and also the thing they went to prison for was what they called punk prayer. It was basically a Performance Art piece. It happened in a dhchurch. It was very directly critical of Vladimir Putin. Are the leaders of the band pussy riot were held in prison for 21 months before putin released the